RAGNAROK ENGINEERING
WIND POWERED REVERSIBLE HEAT PUMP

Developing a wind powered Heat Pump, based on the Stirling Cycle, that is independent of electricity, and also is reversible – providing either background heating or cooling.   ...Non‑Electric Technology in Harmony with Nature.

What if Ragnarok is the legend of a real event that happened long ago, and will cyclically happen again?  ...there is supporting evidence to suggest this, and that it is connected to solar activity, which is also the real cause of global warming, not the CO₂ hype.   Pollution is always bad, but there are many half‑truths in science now because it is compromised by its funding and narrow scope.

Backup Against Electrical Infrastructure Collapse

Electronics has become a dependency, an addiction, and ever more powerful, but we need to get real. — Electromagnetic radiation is a double edge sword... useful to humanity but also very harmful.   Furthermore, it is solar electrical activity that drives the weather, hence the climate, but severe solar flares could also knock out the power grid and burn electronic devices, including the internet, GPS and vehicle electrics. This is named a "Carrington Event".   Today's society has made itself vulnerable!   ...Everything has foolishly become existentially inter‑dependent and reliant on electronic technology.   So either by natural events or human miscalculation, the whole system seems very likely to collapse.

Ironically, the rush towards electrification with "green" politics has left us even more vulnerable to health issues and solar driven climate change.   ...When the collapse comes, even transport and the means of repair will be down.

Limitations

This design is intended for Rural, Upland and Marine use, and in locations where there is typically sufficient wind.   Its function is to provide single unit heating or cooling.   On days when there is no wind, or too little wind, fuel will still need to be burned, but over time considerably less valuable fuel would be needed.

Ragnarok Engineering Survival Kit – Simple heating or cooling that continues to work without fuel or electricity – movable, modular and adaptable.   Off grid living by choice or compulsion.

EXPERIMENTAL MODELS

This independent engineering design incorporates a blend of old and new technologies in the development a reliable wind powered heat pump. It is also reversible, meaning can be set either as a cooler or as a heater.   The heat pump could be adapted to be water powered instead of wind, either by stream or tidal... For tidal power source, its simple reversibility could be employed differently!

The operating principle is the 'Stirling Cycle', same as a Stirling 'Hot‑Air' Engine, but backwards – the crank is driven and the output is a temperature differential.   It is therefore a Heat Pump without any chemical refrigerant, only hot air as the working fluid.   A storm force spring overload mechanism is provided.

The key feature is that it is independent of electricity, so it is unaffected by severe solar flares or corona ejections. It will continue to work when all else fails.

Stop trying to prevent 'climate change',
and start thinking how to survive it.
It is a natural solar driven event.
There will be panic ...don't get in the way.

EARTH SPIRIT  Nature can sometimes get very wild, but we must still live in Harmony with her. This is the only way to Survive.  It is an aspect of Gender Balance.

Science, Medicine, Agriculture and the 'Green Movement' have all become detached from the Spiritual, then exploited by big business. Alas it is we that suffer, and will suffer more. Electrification is a health disaster.   All deception is bad.

The photos show a small experimental model, the test rig for developing the idea.   The design of the full size machine has a 40 foot (12 metre) high tower, with a 14 foot (4.2 metre) diameter eight-bladed wind turbine.   The experimental device in the photos is all open, but operational machines will have fully enclosed Stirling heat pumps.

Insensitive to Electro-Magnetic Turmoil

The Stirling Cycle works by compressing and expanding a fixed quantity of air as it transfers around the engine between hot and cold sides.   It is very simple, there are no valves and no electrics.   Compressing air causes it's temperature to rise – likewise when air is expanding, its temperature drops. It works as a cycle, simple air going round and round.

Stirling 'Hot Air' Engines were a contemporary to the Steam Engine, but are actually thermally very efficient – though bulky.   Because they have no electrics they will still work when modern technologies don't!

Heat pumps must be considered as one component within the whole heat extraction – heat distribution, and insulation system for efficient working. This heat pump is mainly intended for ground or marine source heat input as it is more effective in winter.   It is safe and simple.   Buildings that have both high thermal capacity and good insulation will tend to even out the heat variations due to vagaries in wind speed.

The home built experimental models have been extremely useful in aiding the design development, but the project has now outgrown that stage. Collaboration with building full size prototypes is now invited. Contact

Due to it necessary bulk and wind requirements, it is intended for rural, upland and marine application, being economic in the present but continuing to work without fuel or electricity.   It is therefore a transition tool for continued survival, usable both now and post infrastructure collapse.

A specific rural solution to what will be a general problem!

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SURVIVAL OF YOUNG PEOPLE

Our society protects the young on the surface, but what is their future? ...There is a high probability that our technological society will destroy itself before the natural events of Ragnarok even begin to happen. A technology bubble waiting to burst.   Our young people feel the lies, deceptions, greed and inequalities of society, though there is so much pressure to comply. This is called cognitive dissonance. There is mental distress when fortitude would be needed.   Rogue A.I. technologies – the only way to stop them will be to destroy our own internet!   There is also the issue of survival if E.M.P. weapons are used.

Our society is therefore hopelessly unprepared to face "Ragnarok". The Young of today Are the future!   It is therefore all about helping the survival and skills transfer to as many young people as possible through these events.   Luck will play a big part... not being in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...But so will being a practical person and thinking independently!

This project is about developing a transition tool to help shelter from climatic stress, hot or cold, that will continue working after a 'Carrington Event' or malicious action, while still being economic in the present... A useful piece of kit!