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In Indian society, the main concern of the people living in urban areas is to store and minimize the wastage of municipal water supplies to households. This storage is regularized with the help of overhead tank attached with motor and submersible pumps.
This is an attempt to lift water by using a piston cylinder assembly beneath a speed breaker on road. The ‘IN’ line of the cylinder will be connected to a reservoir on ground and ‘OUT’ line will be connected to a reservoir at a particular height with respect to the ground. The piston head will receive the vehicle tire.
This entry follows a similar one from my participation to the First Edition of CreateTheFutureContest.
The original concept of safety of travellers is the driver but the implementation is different.
BASIC CONCEPT
The basic concept is to identify trains,
Motor vehicle theft for the relevant parts is a multi billion industry across the world. The insertion of electronic chips into the component parts would stop this level of theft as the components chip could be codified with the engine number. Similarly, bicycles could be facilitated with similar electronic chips.
Firefly is the world’s most advanced solar powered device for light and mobile charging where there is no power. Thus, Firefly is a better and safer life for rural dwellers.
Firefly has three different parts to provide the basic necessities. The central “brains” of the system is the main Firefly box.
Wet buildings are a serious problem in the architecture. Many methods are offered to improve the situation, with insulations though the wall, the sides of the walls, heat protection and so on. Following the problems for more than 40 years, and trying a lot of methods, there remained one very simple solution,
DMLS manufactured titanium corner pressure vessel. 3D printed with no support structure. Only one secondary machine porting operation needed using standard t-slot clamping devices.
Pneumatic Tire Valves are provided by Diverse Sales and sold commercially or directly to the US Military. These parts are used in the Automotive industry.
Poor man HVAC is a system of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning designed for homeowners to increase the quality of life in an eco-friendly way. The poor man HVAC is a low cost system that can moderate the temperature in the home living space while reducing the energy cost for comfort.
Solving propulsion problems by not using external thrust drives.
Benefits include no drive wheel cars, no props or jet boats or aircraft, no emission space.
It is novel because it is the only controlled kinetic energy propulsion system.
This is applied to all moving craft to make all other propulsion systems obsolete.
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