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Existing devices for hashing, crushing, separation, acceleration of heat transfer and other technological processes of vortical, vibrating, planetary centrifugal and other types have a number of serious disadvantages.
Wide application of the power stations based on use of renewable sources of energy, and the further working out of such technologies became very actual as a result of :
- Reduction of stocks of fossil energy carriers
- Growth of world power consumption
In the world The great number of various types of wind power stations,
UAVs can carry a huge range of tasks. So now more than 250 companies in the world are developing UAVs. But they have serious disadvantages:
1. Airplane type UAV:
- small value of the lift force per unit of engine power;
- difficult takeoff and landing;
- low mobility, including inability to hang on the spot;
Mixer is one of the most popular kitchen appliances, and its main purpose - is to mix and churning in the home. A large number of designs mixers for use in the home. Basically it is mixers, creating fluid rotation using rotary working bodies various types.
However, the existing mixers have some serious drawbacks: they are short-lived, noisy,
This invention involves controlling the unwanted acoustic noise inherent in a highly concentrated flame by modulating an electric arc embedded in the flame. The purpose of the arc is to generate an inverse modulated signal, which will inhibit the unwanted noise, generated by the combustion gases in the flame.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
This is a program designed to introduce Electric Vehicle Technology to Trainees in an Auto Service Shop environment. They will learn all aspects of building, servicing, and repairing electric vehicles (EV) by retrofitting an EV drive train into an existing production (used) vehicle.
Finding life in the Universe entirely different to the one evolved on Earth elsewhere is plausible. This is a significant constraint for life-detecting instruments that were sent and may be sent elsewhere in the solar system, as how could we detect life as “we don’t know it”?
How about a solar mobile charger at price half the conventional one. Buy a 2 watt solar panel, plug in this charger anytime during the day and get you mobile phone charged for free anywhere. You need no plug in charging now.
1. Its portable, rugged and easy to use.
2. This is available for less than Rs.
“Is it possible to generate a patterned surface which is microbe friendly?”
The idea deals with production of easily degradable bio fertilizers using a patterned microbial surface. Fertilizers used in crop cultivation today are synthetic in nature. These synthetic fertilizers are harmful for ecosystem as they result in soil pollution and increase in synthetic chemical concentration of the soil.
The futuristic technology for the colonies on Mars.
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The Planet Mars has been an issue of scientific curiosity for centuries, not least because Mars is the only terrestrial planet whose surface can be directly observed in detail from the Earth. Although Mars is smaller at 11% of Earth's mass and 50% farther from the Sun than the Earth,
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