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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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Many wind turbine gearboxes suffer from overload problem and frequent maintenance and the inability to start at low velocity wind speed condition (called as cut-in), in particular due to the inertial due to structural significance.
The “Sub-0 Home Freezer” is an occasional use, domestic, counter-top flash freezer. All commercially frozen food is flash frozen today. Clarence Birdseye discovered how flash freezing preserves the pristine qualities of fresh food by minimizing formation of large ice crystals, and thus preserving the taste. This technology has not been available to the consumer, until now!
In response to climate issues, there is a significant growth and improvement of electric cars including their market. On the other hand, the long charging time can be the downside of electric cars. To tackle this challenge, Charging Shoe can be the solution. The Charging Shoe and the Automatic Charging Station are inspired by the railway industry,
Problem: Heat generated from carbon-based fuel combustion or nuclear reactions consumes limited resources, and creates waste products harmful to the environment and to living organisms.
Innovative
Solution: An unprecedented development reveals a method that creates heat inexpensively by efficiently releasing the energy stored within water molecules. Water as a fuel presents a readily abundant, low cost source of heat energy.
“PolyBat provides power when you need it most, its rugged, lightweight and instant on”
Uses:
A user can be a professional tradesman, emergency worker, camper or a home handyperson, anybody that needs a large capacity power supply. It is for devices other than normal Power Tools such as 12V lights, portable fridges, small 240V appliances, USB devices etc.
NEED. Today about 5 billions people (or 70% of the world's population) live without centralized water supply. According to statistics, in developing countries thousands children die daily due to diseases, which are associated with poor hygiene. One of some negative factors is the problem with hands washing. Besides, from time to time natural disasters happen,
About 4.5 million premature deaths are caused by outdoor air pollution. 50% to 90% of the air pollution is caused just by the vehicular toxic emission. This research is about a design of series of processes which might create a fuel cycle in an internal combustion (IC) engine setup. This proposed fuel cycle consists of separating oxygen from
USA alone produces 254 million tons of trash and only 34.3 % percent of that is recycled. Maximum amount of the trash is dumped in Landfills, of which only few are left and that too with a life of 5-10 years. Moreover, in USA,
In the history of transportation, electricity has always replaced fossil fuels when a commercially viable technology was available. Historically, major manufacturers have invested in electric trains and cars and it’s clear that electric aircraft are next. However, none of the current solutions for electric planes provide engines that are adapted for large scale commercial flights.
Expulsion is the molten metal ejected from the nugget under pressure, burning in the air with bright light and loud noise. Because the loss of liquid metal from the nugget expulsion always produces poor quality weld and it also consumes more than three times the energy needed to make a low temperature solid state weld.
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