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This IoT tool has for objective to quantify for a specific period, all the costs involved during the operation and maintenance of on grid streetlights based on LED or conventional technologies.
Absolute, unlimited power generation.
Under the laws of physics, to produce electricity, a magnetic field must be inserted into the wire box.
Movement of the paddle in the vacuum does not stop because it does not have air resistance.
If we move the pendulum through the vacuum to the magnet and wrap the wrap around the pendulum,

Bottles of water and aluminum/paper cans are inserted into the machine, shredded by blades and collected in a local area to be used later for recycling. The raw material is made up of bottles and cans in the streets and houses and trash cans. This machine consists of two parts: mechanical and electrical,


We have combined all aspects of small space, low energy usage, effective operation, minimum consumables and working in microgravity for designing our new system and inspired by human digestive system to design our “Space Waste Digester.”
The strut channel bar clamps (figure 1) utilize a commercially available structural member (strut channel) that for years was used for hanging HVAC, pipes/conduit and other industrial components. The two parts of the strut channel bar clamp are the force imparting component herein known as the “clamp block” and the force supporting structure known herein as the “clamp stop.”
Hello! It hurts me to see people die in car accidents. Sometimes there is a fire in an accident. And inside the car there are people. They can't open the door to get out. And unfortunately, they die inside the car. Because of this, I came up with such a rescue hatch.
The proposed “Urban fly and ride taxi system” is composed by:
Flying modules, that are multicopters having propulsion pods, each with one or two (in tandem configuration) electric motors, each motor driving a single or multibladed rotor. They are equipped with battery and or fuel cell power packs, and a control unity being capable of flying in autonomous,
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