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We all know what a pain it is to not only install but to the change the batteries in our smoke alarms two times a year. With the Alarm Arm® No Ladder Smoke Alarm Mount you can easily install, maintain,
For reduction of environmental pollution we have to look for solutions how to reduce the amount of parts concerning consumer products. Here, a plastic bottle is presented, that does not need a cap for closing it.
Methane gas is too precious to be released into the atmosphere when there are possibilities to harvest it.
Many organisms are producing methane (biogas), from bacteria to companion animals like cows.
In recent time methane is also a subject of many discussions concerning the global earth warming.
Here, an idea is presented to collect the gas from the stomach of an e.g.
In a multiple speaker arrangement, it is usually easy to parallel connect speakers (many cabinets have dual jacks); 2 parallel connected cabinets, will HALVE the load presented to the amplifier.
However, cabinets do NOT provide the capability to SERIES connect the speaker(s), which DOUBLES the impedence presented to the amplifier.
Exhaust gas from any IC automobile engine is cooled and then using a battery operated mini compressor is passed through a series of chemical solvents housed in FRP Chambers. Suitable solvents in different chambers remove different pollutants such as oxides of carbon including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and oxides of sulphur.
IndianOil's Refinery at Panipat, with its newly commissioned Motor Spirit Quality Upgradation Plant, is many things to many people. It is among one of the refineries to achieve Euro-III norms. It shows that industrial development is compatible with the ecology. it represents the succesful collaboration with international technology.
Exhaust gas from any IC Engine of automobiles is cooled and then using a battery operated mini compressor is passed through a series of chemical solvents housed in FRP Chambers. Suitable solvents in different chambers remove different pollutants such as oxides of carbon including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and oxides of sulphur.
When the wind blows at 10mph it has eight times as much energy as at 5mph. At 10mph, traditional wind generators generate approximately twice as much as at 5mph. There is a lot of energy in the wind that is not utilized.
This generator (patent pending) consists of a hemispheric stator and a rotor with a number of hinged arms.
Phantom Power, nominally +12 to +48 Volts DC,
is used to power Condenser Microphones.
The "Phantom" aspect refers to the presence of the voltage
on both signal pins (2 & 3, with pin 1 the ground reference) of the balanced line pair of the typical 3 pin XLR-style microphone connector.
Dynamic microphones can tolerate the phantom power,
Non-transparent vertical posts on each side of the front windshield of automobiles,and on each side of the rear window of automobiles, obstruct the view of drivers when going forward and when backing up.
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