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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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Recent events have shown the inefficiency of medical oxygen distribution in times of crisis. Oxygen production, whether local, regional or national inevitably leads to oxygen not being where it is required. SCOG (Shipping Container Oxygen Generators) is an attempt to solve this problem by putting everything required for oxygen generation in a standardized shipping container,
Sargassum is a natural, even essential, part of the Caribbean's ecosystems but these recent blooms are having a devastating impact on the region, both ecologically and economically. Many tourist areas and islands were inundated this year. It piles up on beaches, sometimes many feet thick covering a large area of shore waters, and begins to decay.
Recycled oil tanker into a solar and wind powered water desalination and aquaponic farm. Provide millions of gallons of fresh water and thousands of pounds of fish and vegetables daily worldwide without taking acres of land to create new plants. Relief to areas hit by natural disasters and drying freshwater sources while combating rising sea levels.
Low Temperature Green Energy Power Generation
Energy Source:
"Even if only 1% of the thermal energy contained within the uppermost 10 kilometers of our planet could be tapped, this amount would be 500 times that contained in all oil and gas resources of the world."
-U.S.
Driven by energy conservation and environmental protection, present-day engineering applications focus on the effective usage of fossil fuels.
Hence, industrial sectors perform extensive research on the light-weighting of structures to improve efficiency.
The aluminum matrix composite (AMC) is fabricated by reinforcing continuous stainless-steel (SS 304) fibers.
Post analysis, it is concluded,
Nowadays, the earphones are of a great importance in the daily lives of individuals as listening to music and various podcasts is increasing. This tool has become a norm in the routine and the basic necessity for us. However, in some aspects the earphones prove to be ineffective and annoying at some point.
Modern times demand a customized shopping experience for the time/budget savvy shoppers. A price check scanner is a common sight in many grocery stores/departmental stores. However in large consumer areas finding such devices and subsequently scanning the intended item is not exactly the most enjoyable shopping task.
However,
During the last decade, the commercial drone industry has grown exponentially. Even though the hardware has improved significantly during that time, drones are still limited by their battery life of 10-20 minutes. Such limited flight time restricts their use in many applications, such as search and rescue, delivery, and inspection.
The transition to a sustainable energy supply requires efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly storage technologies. Water electrolysis and the associated power-to-gas technology for regenerative hydrocarbon generation principally meet these requirements, but have conversion efficiencies that are poor compared to batteries.
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