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A heavy lifting rocket launcher using a 10,000' vertical shaft and a water reservoir.
The Kidd Creek mine in Ontario, Canada has reached a depth of about 10,000'. It is an active mine with about 10 to 20 years of life left. It started as an open pit operation and has continued as an underground operation.
Autonomous Quadcopter Launch and Retrieval System
Quadcopter drone technology exists that is capable of performing many tasks to assist people in everyday life. The missing element is to provide a hanger pod on a vehicle so that the drone is taken to and deployed from any location without physical intervention from the user.
Automated Highway System with private cars driven automatically through guided pathway has a clear benefit of offering convenience, reducing door-to-door transit times and better utilization of the transportation system. Also with the precision of automation, we can do platooning and pack more cars onto the highway without reducing the speed of the traffic moving through the pathway.
DASY X-ENGINE - the best engine configuration for 4-stroke diesel.
Double-Acting Scotch Yoke X-Engine (“DASY X-Engine”) - a new engine configuration for practical applications including stationary power, marine, locomotives, aircraft (planes and helicopters) and automotive (sports cars, luxury cars, trucks).
Executive summary:
1. Low Consumption cooling and Energy Regeneration from AutoLPG; CNG and LNG respectively.
2. Priority area: "Healthy individual". Negligible Emissions Green Cooling and Energy Regeneration
3. Names of Indian partner institutions: A) Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. (·).
4. Names of US partner institutions: Invention Awarded by IC² Institute,
* Our aim is to produce electric current using the magnetic repulsion force.
*The major disadvantage in electric car is ran out of electric charge in battery in few miles.
* To overcome this problem we need to charge the automotive battery in motion.
* Using the generator motor we are producing the electric current to charge the battery.
Application of the Biefeld Brown Effect
In 1923 Professor Paul Biefeld and his student Thomas Townsend Brown discovered this effect during the test of a new type of capacitor. Basically the Biefeld Brown effect is electro gravitation.
The African wise saying: “Decapitation is not the solution to a Headache” holds sway in the current global hues and cries in reaction to the environmental nuiscance being created by the single-use plastics and the clamour for outright ban on the use.
Nature gave us challenges and solutions to these challenges are not far-fetched.
Referencing Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey and 2012 National Research Council report entitled “NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities: Restoring NASA’s Technological Edge and Paving the Way for a New Era in Space”3, there is a need for large aperture, lightweight mirrors for future UV/Optical telescopes.
Bamboo, Banana stem, Coconut Husk (Coir), Reed Grass, Abaca etc have high sp.strength fibers, capable of competing with structural steel and glass fibers. A rough estimate is that all these vegetation fibers together form over 300 million T, worldwide. Currently not used for any engineered structural systems in a significant way, they are waiting to be utilized,
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