Engineering

In the late 1970’s, when working on his diploma project (for upper secondary school, or high school), Rudolph Draaisma noticed something interesting. Using a simple setup, water in a container sitting outside on a cold but sunny winter’s day, could…
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Many years ago, back in 1999, Rudolph Draaisma got the idea for how pressure resistant hulls for submarines could be constructed. Think of how vaults (arches) can support the weight of the construct above them, like walls or ceilings. Something…
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In late 2014, Rudolph Draaisma responded to a challenge to come up with a design to accommodate large payload landings on Mars. He came up with a “pneumatic lander”, that does just that. – Curator Download PDF on Mars Pneumatic…
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In 2013, Rudolph Draaisma, presented his ideas for the atmospheric heat pump (AHP), offering a vast improvement over commonly used heat pumps today. – Curator Apart from a lower COP at moderate temperatures, the AHP beats the very expensive regular…
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In his professional career, Rudolph Draaisma constructed a soil brick press. It worked fairly well, but could be improved upon. As it happened to be, the company he worked for abandoned the project, and the press was not perfected. In…
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