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The Path to Net-Zero through Ground Source Heat Pump System and Solar means generating enough extra power to have zero energy cost at the end of a year and/or provide extra energy for your neighbors.
I am a Conceptual Designer & an Inventor/Innovator, my latest innovation and Invention is a Cat Litter Disposing Tray Design which comes in 3 almost identical tray parts. All trays are of identical size and they insert into each other firmly.
The Beacon Safety Light ( BSL) is being developed to aid in the evacuation of a structure fire. The statistics are staggering. Every year over 3000 people are killed in fires, many as a result of smoke inhalation, Another 17.000 are injured.
Abstract :-
As far as my project is concerned , it is a wireless controlling droid which can be used to give the virtual presence of any human being at any place across the world. Let us take an example to give a better view of my project,
A caster where the swiveling portion is internal. There are two vertically disposed, horizontally spaced-apart rollers located on a horizontal roller axle mounted in a yoke attached to the bottom of a central shaft. The central shaft has two bearings supporting it with two central core spacers.
Walker for Paraplegics
What is proposed is a walking device for paraplegics wherein the person is supported on the chair portion and stabilized with waist straps. Two of the legs are hinged at the knee. As the person shifts their upper body weight backward,
Inductor Jet Engine
A jet engine with no moving parts. Compression is achieved by extracting 60% or more of the exhaust energy and injecting it directly into the incoming air stream to induce and compress the intake air.
Top Ten Leaders
#1 with 182 votes!
Puncture Proof Burst Proof Tire#2 with 173 votes!
CAP Exoskeleton#3 with 150 votes!
CoAxial Engine#4 with 139 votes!
Sensorless Angle Of Attack Indicator#5 with 132 votes!
Cybernated Farm Systems (CFS)#6 with 130 votes!
Self Chargeable Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV)#7 with 120 votes!
Development of a Non-Surgical Circulatory Support Device for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure#8 with 110 votes!
Piezoelectric Generator#9 with 96 votes!
Anti-Collision Technology For Automobiles#10 with 88 votes!
Future Solar TrainThe Runners Up
#11 with 82 votes
High Voltage Piezoelectric Power Plant
#12 with 78 votes
nCbC ( no Cash but Communication )
#13 with 65 votes
ProjectMQ
#14 with 62 votes
Kerrison Rongeur Rescue
#14 with 62 votes
Design & Development Of A Novel Flapping Wing Mechanism For An Ornithopter (tie)
#16 with 57 votes
Guide to Insulin Administration
#17 with 56 votes
Active Baggage Handling System
#18 with 51 votes
Vortex Energy Recovery To Power Aircraft Inflight System
#19 with 50 votes
Tele Semi Humaniod Robot
#20 with 49 votes
The Intelligent Cradle (I-Cradle)
#21 with 46 votes
Tongue Controlled Mouse Pointer: An Asssistive Technology For The Disabled
#21 with 46 votes
Nanoelectrofuel: An Advanced Battery Concept For Electric Vehicles (tie)
#23 with 45 votes
Portable Sugarcane Harvester
#24 with 44 votes
Automation In Coconut Powder Making: A Concept
#24 with 44 votes
Self Charging Battery (tie)
#24 with 44 votes
Stackable Tumbler (tie)
#27 with 42 votes
Universal Reader for the Blind
#28 with 39 votes
DAVID: Digital Anatomic Visual Informatics Device
#28 with 39 votes
Automatic Paddy Transplanter (tie)
#30 with 37 votes
ECHY: Solar Lighting With Fiber Optics
#31 with 36 votes
Design And Development Of A RC VTOL Unmanned Aircraft
#32 with 35 votes
Train Aerodynamic Brake System
#32 with 35 votes
Application of the Biefeld Brown Effect (tie)
#34 with 33 votes
SPoSER
#34 with 33 votes
Digital Air Brake Stroke Measuring Gauge (tie)
#34 with 33 votes
Smart Relief Valve (tie)
#37 with 31 votes
3D Printer to Aid Visually Impaired Consumers in Their Daily Life
#38 with 30 votes
Fueled Power Generation For An Electric 2 Wheeler
#38 with 30 votes
Universal Alert Assistive Device for Hearing Impaired (tie)
#38 with 30 votes
Radially Asymmetric Dual Arc (RADA) Profile (tie)
#41 with 29 votes
TOTALLY Solar Electric Powered Hospital Boat
#42 with 28 votes
Low Orbit Satellite
#43 with 27 votes
Commercial Aircraft Emergency System Deployed to Save Lives
#44 with 26 votes
L- GEN
#44 with 26 votes
Flowing Last-Mile Logistics (tie)
#44 with 26 votes
the SARM Project nbsp; (tie)
#47 with 25 votes
Eros Outer Atmosphere Settlement
#47 with 25 votes
Mype - Expand Urban Space Through An Interface Design (tie)
#49 with 24 votes
Hurricane Control Using Space Solar Power Satellites (SPS)
#50 with 23 votes
APS - Automatic Protection System
#50 with 23 votes
Free Standing Flexible Capillary Made From Silicone Elastomer For Medical And Soft Robotic Applications (tie)
#50 with 23 votes
UAV-UGV Collaboration For Disaster Relief And Rescue Missions (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Double Layer Chamber
#53 with 22 votes
NIRVAPANA (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Liquid Propane to replace 100LL for piston engine aircrafts (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Enhanced Meal Experience with Airborne Lightweight Systems (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
In-Door Positioning and Guidance System for Visually Impaired Using RFID Tactile Paving (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Real-Time Interactive Sonic Boom Display (tie)
#53 with 22 votes
Portable And Automated Sickle Cell Disease Diagnosis And Patient Monitoring Using Magnetic Levitation (tie)
#60 with 21 votes
Nanolaser Cancer Therapy
#61 with 20 votes
Fingerprint Based Smart Pay And Accident Alert System
#61 with 20 votes
Automatic Water Flow Control Shut Off System (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
Gyroscopic Multi-movement Ducted Propellers For Aircraft
#63 with 18 votes
Reduction of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) in Power Inverters (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
Multi Stage Aerospace Enterprise (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
Gearless Bi-freewheel Differential (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
Wideband Metamaterial RF Absorber (tie)
#63 with 18 votes
The prevention of theft of car components and bicycles (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Basketball Pick-Up (BP) Machine
#69 with 17 votes
International Flag of Freedom, Free-country, Love and Peace (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Real-Time Fiber Optic Sensing System (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Advanced Side Impact protection system for passenger car (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Volare Dominus (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Riscram™ Rocked Ignited Supersonic Combustor Ramjet. Propulsion system for hypersonic aircraft with supersonic combustor. Mach 0 to 30 - Earth Sea Level to Space Exosphere (tie)
#69 with 17 votes
Flexolar: Ecological Flashlight (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Use of Aerodynamic lift to reduce fuel consumption of heavy vehicles
#76 with 16 votes
Autonomous Highway Lighting System (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Ejectable Crew/Passenger Compartment For Aircrafts/Helicopters/Aerospace Vehicles (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Mobile robot leak detector in a metal pipe (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Green Roof with Collection and Purification Capabilities of Rainwater (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
Integrated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (iTMS) (tie)
#76 with 16 votes
A Photosynthetic Bio-reactor That Produces Bio-fuel From Carbon Dioxide (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
Replace That Plastic And Gasoline With Paper!
#83 with 15 votes
Simultaneous Production of Potable Water and Hot Water (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
Impulse Type Dynamic Wing Turbine (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
World's First Green Human Robot (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
A Novel Method For Self Regulated Coil Winding Machine (tie)
#83 with 15 votes
Tire's Coefficient of Friction measuring Device (tie)
#89 with 14 votes
Conquer Cancer and Hard To Treat Diseases
#89 with 14 votes
VARTAK (Variably Applicable, Reliable Transporter & A Knight) - Intelligence Aimed at Better World (tie)
#89 with 14 votes
Doubling Output From Solar PV Panels (tie)
#89 with 14 votes
A New Technology To Amplify The Power Of A Solar Panel By 200 Times While Simultaneously Storing The Energy In The Form Of Hydrogen (tie)
#89 with 14 votes
Solution To Overloading Vehicle (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Continuously Variable Transmission with Hydraulic Energy Recovery
#94 with 13 votes
Econect: An Improved Green Taxiing System Focused Around The Landing Gear (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Progressive Flow Turbo Compressor Recirculation Valve (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Planot: Boxless, Full Range, Omnidirectional Speaker (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Tube Squeezer (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
A New Way To Learn Electronics Technology (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
Firefly Rural Electrification System (tie)
#94 with 13 votes
CertAlert Medication Pendant (tie)
Top Ten Leaders
#1 with 341 votes !
IoBike#2 with 295 votes !
Slosh Reduction Using Linear Actuator In Liquid Propulsion System#3 with 174 votes !
The cerVIA System - Automated, Accurate and Accessible Cervical Cancer Screening#4 with 173 votes !
Solution for Airplane Crashes#5 with 166 votes !
The Robotic-SixthFinger: An EMG Controlled Supernumerary Robotic Finger For Grasp Compensation In Chronic Stroke Patients#6 with 154 votes !
Remote Control Switch Board#7 with 132 votes !
Solar Charged Laboratory Bench Power Supply#8 with 126 votes !
Hyper4 High Efficiency Engine#9 with 123 votes !
Smart Split Shoes#10 with 120 votes !
Black Box For Car AccidentThe Runners Up
#11 with 113 votes
Automated Software System For The Simulation Of Arcing In Spacecraft On Board Power Electronics Equipment
#11 with 113 votes
Torch-It Torch For The Visually Impaired (tie)
#13 with 107 votes
Halbach Propulsion System
#14 with 103 votes
GSM Controlled Robotics
#15 with 90 votes
GSM Based Flexible Calling System For Coal Miners
#16 with 87 votes
Generic Semi-actuated Upper-Knee Prosthetic Leg
#17 with 81 votes
Universal Service Bed
#18 with 77 votes
Fundamentals Of Nonlinear Theory For Semiconductor Lasers
#19 with 74 votes
PremieBreathe: A Low-cost Breathing Aid For Newborns In Low-resource Settings
#20 with 73 votes
X-Drive: Powered Wheel Chair Conversion
#21 with 68 votes
Highly Fuel Efficient Dedicated CNG Engine Technology
#22 with 66 votes
Pressure Injury Reducing Footrest (PIRF)
#22 with 66 votes
AKS Skyscaper (tie)
#24 with 62 votes
Waterless & Odorless Toilets For Rural Areas
#25 with 57 votes
Electrical Powered Treadmill Bike
#26 with 56 votes
Pipe Support That Mitigates Corrosion
#26 with 56 votes
Ichthyophylic Hydroelectric Power (tie)
#28 with 55 votes
GermiTube, Automatic Air Disinfection Unit
#29 with 54 votes
SIMTRA Cables
#30 with 53 votes
Inorganic Catalyst Support Material
#31 with 52 votes
Emergency Rescue Water Craft
#32 with 50 votes
Dustbin to Sustainable Techbox
#33 with 49 votes
Voice Based Email System for the Blind
#34 with 47 votes
Power Generator Speed Breaker
#35 with 46 votes
Algae Biodiesel: A Futuristic Fuel For Power Generation
#36 with 45 votes
Smart Glass Guidance (SGG)
#37 with 44 votes
Bi-layer Circuit Tracing Technology
#38 with 42 votes
Thigiri - A Thermal Based Wrap Around For Myalgia And Arthralgia
#39 with 39 votes
Supercharged Engine Design
#39 with 39 votes
Flat Plate Solar Stirling Engine (tie)
#39 with 39 votes
EasyPET - A Simplified High-performance PET System For Preclinical Trials (tie)
#42 with 37 votes
TWEAKY - The Selfie Back Cover
#43 with 35 votes
Economical, Full Functioning 4-Axes Pick & Place Robot
#43 with 35 votes
A Highly Efficient, Compact And Affordable Engine For Use With Diesel Or Natural Gas (tie)
#43 with 35 votes
Structural Health Monitoring Using Smart Sensors And Mobile Devices (tie)
#43 with 35 votes
Bio-Grid Pure Vapor (tie)
#43 with 35 votes
Digital Dentistry Space (tie)
#48 with 32 votes
Design Of A Prototype For Measuring The Tibia Torsion Angle
#48 with 32 votes
Card On Guard (tie)
#48 with 32 votes
On-Board Laser Debris Removal System (tie)
#48 with 32 votes
Autonomous Submarine Vehicle (tie)
#52 with 31 votes
Desalination Of Sea Water With Solar Power Enabled RO-UV System
#53 with 30 votes
State Of Health Prediction Of Electrical Vehicle Batteries
#53 with 30 votes
Wheelchair On Power (tie)
#55 with 29 votes
SchoolBuddy – Smart Sensors To Avoid Back Pain
#56 with 28 votes
The AMOCATIC Generator
#56 with 28 votes
3D Printable Portable Slit Lamp (tie)
#56 with 28 votes
Touchless Tattoo Power Supply (tie)
#59 with 27 votes
Technology Application Of Pesticides Using Electric Knapsack Sprayer
#59 with 27 votes
Linear Hydro Impulse Energy To Torque Converter-fabrication (tie)
#61 with 26 votes
Mitigate The Threat From An Active Shooter
#61 with 26 votes
MountainRim Coffee Sleeve (tie)
#63 with 25 votes
Transforming Waste To Wealth
#63 with 25 votes
TULMan Electronic Counter (tie)
#65 with 24 votes
A Zero-Emission Transport Airship that Reduces Freight Costs for Remote Communities and Resource Developments
#65 with 24 votes
K-Control Kinematic Control For Concentrated Solar Power (tie)
#67 with 23 votes
Robotic Automated Erosion Coating System
#68 with 22 votes
Total Heat Recovery Engine - TOHRE
#68 with 22 votes
Driver Warning System In Hill Road Bends For Safer Journey (tie)
#68 with 22 votes
FirstTime Technologies (tie)
#71 with 21 votes
Aquapredicto - Freshwater Quality Management System for Lakes
#71 with 21 votes
VentiFresh (tie)
#73 with 20 votes
TooLution, A WoT(Web-of-Things) Based Machine Tool Management Solution For Production Lines
#74 with 19 votes
Shape Memory Alloy Based Safety Latch
#74 with 19 votes
Smart Coal Management (tie)
#74 with 19 votes
Infrared Optical Lens Protection Technology (tie)
#74 with 19 votes
Flexible Circuitry for Damage Detection in Intelligent Sensor Systems (tie)
#74 with 19 votes
Fabrication Of Ebike (tie)
#74 with 19 votes
Fire Mash: A Nanotechnology Solution to Forest Fires with Fast Ecological Restoration of Affected Areas (tie)
#74 with 19 votes
Incorporation of Fuel Display Sensor in Automotive Vehicles (tie)
#81 with 18 votes
Solar Assistant to the Farmers
#81 with 18 votes
Egor V.2 Autonomous Robot-Animatronic (tie)
#81 with 18 votes
KneeBooster (tie)
#84 with 17 votes
CopperPak
#85 with 16 votes
Wind Technologies For Air Travel: Eco-airplane Using Wind Turbines
#85 with 16 votes
‘LifeRoll’ For Safe Drinking Water In Disaster Areas (tie)
#85 with 16 votes
ATOM 1.0 Humanoid Project (tie)
#85 with 16 votes
Design Of A Headlight Circuit To Reduce Power Consumption In Automobiles (tie)
#89 with 15 votes
Low Cost 3D Time-Of-Flight for Vision
#89 with 15 votes
Car Parking App (tie)
#91 with 14 votes
LA-95 Next Generation Aviation
#91 with 14 votes
Autonomous Health Care Robot (tie)
#91 with 14 votes
Improving Efficiency of ORC Power Generation (tie)
#91 with 14 votes
Automatic Light (tie)
#91 with 14 votes
New Wing Design Exponentially Increases Total Aircraft Efficiency (tie)
#91 with 14 votes
Two stroke oil (tie)
#97 with 13 votes
HHO
#97 with 13 votes
Electroactive Material for Wound Healing (tie)
#97 with 13 votes
Arterial Oscillography (tie)
#97 with 13 votes
Design And Fabrication Of A Lever Propelled Alternating Center Of Gravity Wheelchair (tie)
#97 with 13 votes
Design and Development of Multi-purpose Controller for Crop Processing (tie)
#97 with 13 votes
The Quatron Transistor - A Room Temperature Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (tie)
#97 with 13 votes
Automatic Dipper Giving Cars (tie)
#97 with 13 votes
Enduralock (tie)
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