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Humanity is on the verge of a water crisis.
Only the latest example is the state of California, where a multi-year drought is now threatening billions of dollars of agriculture, as well as residents' lifestyle.
There is no way to conserve out of this crisis -- Southern California has already drained several lakes,
Wheels eliminate friction because the contact point on the wheel and its rolling surface advance together. But boats displace water unless they plane or hydrofoil, which require high power inputs. So how is the wheel's efficiency made relevant for watercraft?
There's a surprisingly simple, two-step solution.
My Aquamatic Systems monitor the soil moisture in up to 4 locations and control the watering of the soil as needed. Sensors placed in the soil feed information to a controller operated by digital logic devices and determine amount of water to release.
Systems will operate with 24vac from household timers, a solar cell/battery or 110v DC Converters.
Revolutionary Digital Stepper Device
The Cerfite digital stepper device can travel at two or more speeds, precisely variable or steady, stop in place and hold position while power is off. It uses little power allowing it to operate wirelessly. Due to same material interface, there is no known appreciable wear. There are not any gears or chains required.
Development of an effective social power plant
An efficient power plant, boon to the rural society
A renewable power plant
A power plant with zero pollution
A power plant whose consequences doesn’
The Critical Problem:
According to 97% of scientists worldwide, being in complete consensus that mankind MUST make some quick changes to how we live, operate and reduce the harmful emissions and byproducts we generate. This includes air & water pollution, CO2 gas and excessive amounts of trash.
The primary source of our energy is fossil fuel.
Water tunnels have been traditionally used for flow-visualizations in aeronautical applications and more recently in bio-mechanical studies such as swimming of aquatic animals . Their use has been instrumental in understanding important aspects of fluid flows such as instabilities, vortex shedding, boundary layer stability and transition, and so on.
A Relief valve is a safety device used in fluid process systems to prevent abnormally high pressure that could cause danger to people, process and equipment.
When an abnormally high pressure develops in the system, the fluid force exceeds the spring force and so the valve opens to relieve the high pressure.
The present invention in general relates to a vertical and short take-off and landing aircraft(V/STOL) comprising a novel adjustable multi-dimensional propeller that is capable of vertical take-off and includes a fuselage without control surfaces, apart from the present day conventional airplane.
Multi-function PowerhouseTug & Barge (PTB) system is a novel design that utilizes electric propulsion in the barge and a tugboat with a set of generators as a power pack. The control will be onboard the PowerhouseTug.
This concept will have propulsion and operational advantage of a ship compounded with commercial advantage of a tug & barge system.
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