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Firefly is the world’s most advanced solar powered device for light and mobile charging where there is no power. Thus, Firefly is a better and safer life for rural dwellers.
Firefly has three different parts to provide the basic necessities. The central “brains” of the system is the main Firefly box.
Wet buildings are a serious problem in the architecture. Many methods are offered to improve the situation, with insulations though the wall, the sides of the walls, heat protection and so on. Following the problems for more than 40 years, and trying a lot of methods, there remained one very simple solution,
DMLS manufactured titanium corner pressure vessel. 3D printed with no support structure. Only one secondary machine porting operation needed using standard t-slot clamping devices.
Pneumatic Tire Valves are provided by Diverse Sales and sold commercially or directly to the US Military. These parts are used in the Automotive industry.
Poor man HVAC is a system of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning designed for homeowners to increase the quality of life in an eco-friendly way. The poor man HVAC is a low cost system that can moderate the temperature in the home living space while reducing the energy cost for comfort.
Solving propulsion problems by not using external thrust drives.
Benefits include no drive wheel cars, no props or jet boats or aircraft, no emission space.
It is novel because it is the only controlled kinetic energy propulsion system.
This is applied to all moving craft to make all other propulsion systems obsolete.
With the recent development of low-cost means for harvesting water from the ambient air, more widespread implementation of such technologies is needed, especially in areas that typically do not receive much rainfall. The existing technologies typically rely on wired electricity or other power sources to be implemented.
In this fast and furious world, we have forgotten to introduce ease in transportation. Therefore Intelligent Mobility Systems (IMS) introduces you to applications that can solve your daily problem of movement and simultaneously help your earn money as well as reduce pollution. A combination of different products make the solution viable.
This proposal wants to provide a sustainable building system with the following:
-Components to be manufactured by 3D printing process with materials from recycled waste (PET bottles) filled with as alternatives, cellulose (from paper recycling), sand, water.
-Cost to be in the order of 15% of existing construction costs (150 US$ sq mt)
- Panels will include piping, ducts, equipment, furniture,
I started this project by selecting a common environment for restricting the "sustainability" theme, and be able to focus the home wasting issue.
So then I've done long research in food over-wasting issue in home, and I analyzed this problem in four categories, which were "sale," "conservation," "preparation," and "consumption.
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