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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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The Integrated Off-Shore Wave Powered Turbine Shaft (OSWPTS) solves the problem of un-tapped energy and wasted spaces. OSWPTS does so by utilizing un-tapped space within the shaft that supports an off-shore wind turbine and using it to maximize energy output by integrating the wind power technology with wave power technology.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a disease which can begin from a small part of the body like a finger of the hand and start spreading to other parts. The muscle movement of such patients deteriorates continuously affecting the entire body. Hence gradually the patient loses the ability to talk and move.
Based upon an arched decussate (shaped like an X) form from which the chassis is suspended, this is a motor vehicle in which all components are sprung members. This enables a flexible and extremely light-weight bed upon which to mount a propulsive system. As part of the design, passenger loading will never impart uneven stresses upon the vehicle.
In the mid 80's we found in Peru a new material with interesting contents of Gold and Platinum Group contents that had metallurgical difficulties, only to find after long time that such contents were in the form of silicides in the crystal structure of naturally occurring Iron Silicides in hard rock ores and black sands.
Today, the assessment of body composition by estimating the percentage of body fat has a central importance in health. The percentage of body fat is a relevant parameter for assessing the nutritional status of an individual, in the evaluation of growth, in analyzing disease impact,
It takes much more energy to accelerate a car than to keep it moving down the highway. Everyone knows this, but to accelerate an automobile you need lots of energy in a short period of time.
I envision an oceangoing ship the size of a modern container ship laden with a hydroponic farming operation. The ship could be moved to whatever temperate zone is required for the crop being raised. It could be owned and operated by hunger relief organizations so as to provide fresh food rations to natural disaster areas of the world.
This device allows consumers to control the infestation of potentially dangerous insects in areas such as barns,storage buildings,hunting/fishing camps and blinds,boats,power and communications control stations and anywhere spiders, wasps etc. may congregate.Serpent and rodent repellant materials could also be deployed.
Using a programmable timer/controller and readily available aerosol insect foggers,
THE CONCEPT IS SIMPLE: WE USE SOLAR POWER TO PRODUCE ENERGY TO CHILL WATER IN A WATER TANK TO BELOW DEW POINT. FROM THE TANK, THE CHILLED WATER FLOWS IN A CLOSED CYCLE (WITH THE HELP OF A SMALL PUMP) IN BLIND PIPES, PLACED IN PARALLEL NEAR THE PLANTS, ON THE SOIL AND NEAR THE ROOTS,
Of a city’s total electricity consumption, more than 25% of the power is just consumed by the very basic need for air conditioning–to keep the temperature inside offices, homes,malls,shopping complexes,hypermarkets,cinema halls, factory complexes–at an ambient temperature for comfortable working, living and leisure.
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