Project Category: Climate Change Solutions

One of my earliest memories is of queueing with my father to collect a bucket of coal from Battersea Power Station. It was a bitterly cold winter, and in the aftermath of the Second World War, there was a shortage of almost everything.

When the design of the Armadillo™ was started, I had not envisaged the possibility of global linkage to improve and control the cooling everywhere, I was just looking for a solution in principle.

The ‘Armadillo™’ is basically a chimney surrounded by heat-insulating material with a controllable air-inlet at ground level, and a grid to prevent birds from being drawn in. As (almost) always, the low-level air is warmer and moister – and at a higher pressure – than the upper air into which it flows.

In 2023, Electricity is essential to the continuation of civilised human life on the planet. Not only does it provide lighting, heating, and cooling almost everywhere in the world – it is now used in really every field - medicine, computing, accountancy, home appliances, industry, policing, cookery, refrigeration, all sorts of travel, and communication, the internet and cell-phones…

We live in an era of unprecedented global warming, the effects of which we are already starting to feel. Our oceans, seas, and rivers have all become victims of this, with long-term health risks posed to their inhabitants.

Read more about the core technology behind all of the heat removal inventions here on our site.