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The Mini-Snow Plow plow is designed to fit on almost any wheeled motor vehicle, regardless of it being a passenger car, full sized truck, or emergency vehicle.
The idea is to plow the road for traction as you drive, but only where your tires are going to follow. There is a small channel for snow, and other debris,
I have developed a shell for androids and humanoid robots that includes working representations of most joints, and is easy to work with. In the present configuration, it is made from aluminum for ease of reconfiguring and to keep it light weight.
The idea behind this project is to give robot designers, educators,
This telescope design consists of a primary mirror shaped to a parabola along a single axis. Whereas a conventional telescope focuses light to a single point, the Single-Axis Telescope spreads its focus along a sensor the same width as the mirror.
I call this a scanning telescope because it is designed to be stationary,
The idea is cleaning an entire house in 5 minutes without manpower.
Consists of surface cleaning liquid, one emitter, and 4 collectors. To clean a room the emitter is placed nearby the center of the room. The emitter will provide us the electromagnetic force for the motion of the material.
In the process of internal combustion locomotion for most of the energy of the fuel is dissipated into heat energy.
The idea is to provide a radiator effect seebek that recovers part of the thermal energy dispersed into electrical energy to be conveyed, for example in hybrid vehicles, locomotion.
The Solar Power Tower uses several simple methods to harvest maximum electrical energy from solar photovoltaic panels, and a wind turbine.
The Solar Tower uses ranks of solar PV panels to create electricity and also heat the air inside the tower to create an updraft which spins a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) at the top of the tower.
LA to San Francisco in 160 minutes—GREAT! But ironically, as the size of cities and the speed in which we are able to travel great distances increases, we are increasingly more sedentary. In fact, we are sitting down more than ever before—9.3 hours per day, which is more time than we spend sleeping.
Migrating Floating Gardens is a sketch for a project that predicts the next location for green in urban environments. Historically, urban environments encroached upon outlying wilderness and green was detached from the city. Subsequently green was introduced first on the horizontal plane in the form of parks. Modernity and the development of dense,
The planter brick wall is designed to be a combination of traditional masonry units combined with units that can hold plants and vegetation. The plants matched with the bricks require little, if any, soil, but they do need water and nutrients.
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