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Renewable Phenolic Compounds - Another Product of EnerSysNet's Mobile Energy Conversion Systems
Background
The wood products industry always manages waste and cost with an eye towards expanded profitability. For example,
This system, based in a plastic cylinder inside a square area, allows in a minimum space, 1.20 by 1.20 m, height 2.40 to perform in total ergonomic protection, all functions related to personal care. While the user will stay in the cylinder, totally plain and without dangerous edges or right corners and volumes,
The Arachnid Vigor works by attracting and repelling alternating positive and negative magnetic poles. Thus creating the apparatus to rotate. As the machine rotates; the rod in the center of the apparatus will be equipped with a gearing mechanism located on the bottom of the rod, to match the gears of an attached electrical generator.
Many people use roller skates, skate boards or even ice skates. Traveling short distances with these devices is fun and good exercise. However, a simple device called WROOM BROOM would make longer distance travel with rolling foorwear a breeze.
WROOM BROOM takes up no more room in a closet or a corner than an ordinary broom.
Rail safety is everyone's concern. Whether we ride subways or high-speed trains, the possibility of someone or something on the tracks, or a possible derailment could bring trains to immediate halt if we ran a SCOUT ahead of the train.
The SCOUT is a small, light, air cushioned vehicle riding the rail before the train.
The fuel efficiency of CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) driven scooters is very poor (60% of geared bikes of same CC) in city driving conditions mainly due to higher engine operating speeds, slippage in centrifugal clutch and power lost in transient phase plus CVT efficiency. Still these scooters are popular due to ease of driving.
Solar energy is a dilute form of energy, to achieve temperatures above 90°C, the concentration of Solar radiations is must. Various types of concentrators are developed, namely Concave reflective, Convex transmissive, Fresnel lens based, Cylindrical line focusing or Spherical/Parabolic point focusing and so on. All these concentrators, depending upon the concentration ratio and overall system efficiency,
Innovation
Vibration energy harvesting (VEH) is the process of capturing available free energy from the local environment (e.g airframe structural vibrations) and converting it into an electrical form. While there are commercially available vibration energy harvesters, challenges such as low power density and a limited operational frequency bandwidth have prevented the widespread application of vibration energy harvesters.
Abstract
We invented a novel Monocular Hyper-Reality Display with wide 160 degrees viewing that consists of a dome-shaped wide viewing screen with a radius of 40 cm and 160 degrees, a mobile projector with ultra wide projection lens and LED light sources, as shown in Figure1. In this system,
At highway speeds, a large amount of energy is used to overcome aerodynamic drag. I believe we can make changes to our highways that can reduce that drag.
Currently one way to reduce drag is to drive slower. The force of aerodynamic drag goes up with the square of the vehicle’s speed, so driving slower reduces the drag.
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