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AN EXAMPLE OF AN 18th CENTURY WORLD FIRST
I introduce here a prominent energy scientist and engineer, who, little, if not at all having ever enjoyed the limelight in his or our present day quest for more efficient energy systems - one by the name of Oliver Lyle of the United Kingdom commissioned to write for the Ministry of Fuel and Power a report which was published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1947. Champion of Lord Kelvin, (who was at age 28 in 1852, already a Professor at Glasgow University and who endeavoured to get the world to recognise his "World First") Oliver Lyle's writings in 1947 are and always have been in the public domain but, however, have been chosen to be ignored by our present day mainstream engineers and scientists simply because the man was bold enough to embarrass them in their man-made assumptions of the laws of physics.
Oliver Lyle is to be highly commended indeed for his forthright and truthful findings. The erudition of his subject will leave the reader in no doubt whatsoever, as to what is and what is not the truth of things, particularly those who claim, with the aid of so-called modern day "Patent protection", the unclaimable which I suspect will lead a lot of us to hold our heads in shame. Just as it will, or should, no doubt, hopefully also now encourage others of a more visionary intellect to arrive at a not too soon reflective attitude of a more positive and responsible nature when dealing with the topic of present day alternative energy machination.
I quote three sections from Oliver Lyle's report to his Government's Ministry, section numbers 764, 768 and 769 thus :-
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"764. THE HEAT PUMP. In 1852 a young man of 28 who had been professor of natural philosophy at Glasgow University for six years, suggested that a reverse heat engine could act as a "warming engine". His suggestion appears in nearly every book on heat engines or thermodynamics, where it is almost always dismissed as a curiosity. Although Kelvin lived to the good old age of 83 he did not live long enough to see his warming engine put to practical use. Coal was too cheap. With coal at 1945 price, which may well be exceeded for many years, Kelvin's warming engine, or "heat pump" as it is more usually now called, merits serious consideration because, in favourable circumstances, there is no doubt that it would pay.
The subject has received occasional attention from time to time and some examples of heat pump have been built and worked, one at least on an ambitious scale. In 1930, Haldane read a paper to the Electrical Engineers on the use of the heat pump, primarily from the point of view of making electric heating economical.
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