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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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Tractor overturns are still the main cause of fatalities on farms today. In most of these cases, the tractor was fitted with a foldable rollover protective structure (foldable ROPS). Although foldable ROPS should be returned to the upright position immediately upon exiting a low clearance environment,
The gradual increase in the rate of use of fossil fuels and natural gases are not only decreasing the underground balance, but also are polluting the nature, eventually depleting the environmental balance. What we need is a source by which we can decrease the pollution level and create an ecofriendly nature.
There are 4 billion tires in the world today. Thermal energy is released mainly from the rolling resistance and is comparable with all the useful energy from power plants on the planet. Into the atmosphere tires release tons of dust and soot.
I present the design and theoretical substantiation of wheel properties.
The loss of life in the case of a home fire can be quick and devastating. Often pets or children are involved and often the fires start at night and in the winter or due to foul play.
As far as this writer is aware, Cruise ship wastes are kept on board or possibly discharged far out at sea for no cost. To keep costs down for operators, certain marinas or nations could offer a barge based or mangrove/marina based bio-processing garden or off pump station.
The engine shown in Figure 1 is an external combustion type engine which has two air ports, working in a way similar to a two stroke internal combustion engine.
The hot air goes to the burner and is used for improving its efficiency.
With the dashboard you find in all new cars these days, more features are becoming integrated around the stereo and navigation systems. Well for a car audio fanatic, these complex dashboards make it extremely expensive, if not next to impossible, to install an after market speaker system affordably.
Imagine a renewable energy source that can produce energy at a cost comparable to natural gas or hydroelectric generators using fewer resources, while being environmentally friendly. Lux Wind Turbines are expected to cost less than 1/2 of conventional turbines and can be spaced closer together to extract more power with less land.
In the last half-century, humans have set foot on the moon and, as a result, deep space travel seems to be within Humanity's reach. However, there are many issues that must be resolved before space travel to other objects in the solar system can become a reality. Examples of these issues include radiation in space,
The efficiency of solar cells depends, among other things, on the angle between the sun and the solar cell. The efficiency of such solar panel can be thus increased by tracking the sun path and minimizing the angle of incidence. Nowadays, similar systems are actively controlled by coupling sensors,
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