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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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This device (see illustration) is a free-standing, completely self-contained, electrical power generating unit. It utilizes a ruggedized heat exchanger container for the nuclear waste, cooled by CO2 which drives a low-pressure, low-temperature turbine coupled to a generator. All of the above is permanently contained within a hermetically-sealed, radiation-shielded steel container.
In most geothermal reservoirs, i.e. North German Basin, fluid flow is mainly controlled by the permeability of fracture network. Permeability of an individual fracture is proportional to the cube of its aperture, and fractures that form their own pathways are mostly vertical. In this study, dip-slip fault, to be more specific,
The backlight in laptops consumes a lot of power and is often not bright enough to compete with sunlight when viewed outdoors.
When inside, the traditional backlight is used. However, when used outside, the top light-cylinder guide is used to gather sunlight and funnel that into the light guide, creating tremendous backlight illumination.
Nitrogen Release Capsule
NRC is a new concept to aid humanity in reducing or totally wiping out the threat of the devastation caused by a hurricane.
Facts:
Hurricanes increase in strength with tempatures above 85 degrees and decrease below 85.
Hurricanes will usually draw air from the five o clock area.
Robot Lazarus. Designed with emergency services in mind, this is the second prototype, the final system is to be ruggedized for emergency services and wiil include the ability to operate in hot, cold, wet, toxic and dirty environments.
Current onboard systems include a video transmitter, a CMU tracking eye camera, laser, pitch role yaw digital rate gyros,
We use a pen drive to transfer data from one system to other system. My idea is if the data is in one USB and if we want to transfer it to another USB there is no need to transfer it to your personal computer.
Most currently available security seal technologies have been in use for decades. Frighteningly, the majority of the tamper seals on the market currently are easily defeated or counterfeited.
BeaconSeal's engineers in conjunction with tamper seal industry consultants developed a set of design goals necessary to address the shortcomings in existing tamper seal technology. 1. Simple to install,
Electronics technology is the basis of most products we manufacture and use today. Yet very few people understand the basics of electronic circuitry. It is essential that electronics technology be taught early in our schools to ensure that the next generation can understand how to use, maintain, build, and engineer, the products of today, and the future.
Energy Generating Autonomous Sailing Craft (EGASC), unlike other wind energy conversion technologies requiring high stress resisting materials, generates pneumatic air/oxygen compression and electricity by the fast kinetic movement of the planing sailing craft with much higher components reliability.
EGASC moves with the wind and has ability to find and follow
the most favorable wind conditions in the ocean.
M-Fuel is a post refinery fuel technology that processes hydrocarbon-based, heavy oils (HFO) (kerosene, diesel and bunker) in a proprietary, patent applied for device that employs an electro-mechanical means to generate an H2O emulsion in sub-micron fuel particles. Emulsions are dispersions of two or more immiscible liquids.
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