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The SOLAR THERMAL MODULE has been conceived to assist people favoring renewable energy and conservation in their search for an answer that not only helps protect the environment but streamlines HVAC and Solar Power installations without compromising well-being, comfort and safety.
This machine is based off of electrolysis that has been a known format of extracting hydrogen. We know about electrolysis and how it works. The question is have we done all that we can. I propose a different way of thinking about the process.
This device is intended to prevent people from falling or jumping into the train's way in the metro; subway, stations.
It consists in a retractile barrier of 1.5 meters in height which is deployed when the train isn’t in the station; and is retracted in the floor when a train is stopped in the station.
BreezeRite is an indoor air, modular filtration system that uses new or existing ceiling fans and attaches by interference fit eliminating the need for any mounting hardware.
Clothing Creator is an automated manufacturing process to fabricate clothing without direct human labor. The process can go from bolt of cloth to finished garment in a 45 second cycle. This volume oriented,
This project aims to reduce significantly the number of airplane crashes throughout the world. Considering the consequences after each crashing, we think it’s absolutely nonsense to let airplanes crash over a distance usually less than 2 kilometers when there is on board enough gas and electricity to permit the plane to travel over more than 10,000 km.
From childhood we have seen balloons filled with a gas lighter than air fly up into the sky. During independence day many of such balloons are released for peace.
Have we ever thought we can use the energy of these moving balloons?
The idea is to utilize the energy of balloon moving in the air to lift a weight.
Conventional crutches have changed very little over the past 5000 years, there have been many attempts to overcome the shortcomings of rigid stiff type walking aids, such as absorbent tips, spring's in the shaft, all with limited successes in storing energy. People with long term disabilities are limited to the range of travel with conventional crutches,
The problem with variable drive systems are that they tend to have a scrubbing effect, at any given speed the friction drive area is one to one in the center of contact but either over drives on one side and under drives on the other. This causes heat, power lose and premature wear.
Nuclear fusion is the energy source of the future.
It is the process by which multiple atomic nuclei join together to form a single heavier nucleus.
It is accompanied by the release or absorption of energy.
Research into controlled fusion, which aim is producing fusion power for the production of electricity, has been conducted for over 50 years.
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