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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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Reaction less Space Propulsion, by Dual Magnetic String Physics of the Anti-Maxwell Magnetic dip around a wire
The New physics of Rigid String Theory called “Quantum FFF Theory”, is a base for new understanding of a strong deviation of the Maxwell magnetic field distribution around a wire.
Many models for estimating solar irradiance exist and there are still more software packages utilising these models. The majority of these models simply look at total irradiance and do not consider the influence of the spectral distribution. More sophisticated models use a single standard spectrum for the whole year.
THE DCCM
- Direct Contact Condensation Motor-
(Newcomen's atmospheric engine re-borne)
Direct Contact Condensation occurs when water and steam meet, causing a violent interaction.
From Pop-Pop boats to BWR Emergency Core Cooling Suppression Pools, DCC has the potential to both delight and destroy.
When making a panel of carbon fiber, as a general rule to finish the process, these panels have excess measures or need special operations of numerical control. These operations are performed with a numerical control (NC) machine. In these NC machines it is necessary to fasten the panel in a suitable way to machine it.
If we fix a compressed spring or air filled balloon in awkward shapes at the end of a lever bar long enough to multiply any minute unbalanced force and capable of rotation about an axis at the other end and hold the lever bar perfectly parallel to the horizontal the bar exhibits unidirectional motion not explained by ideomotor effect
Keep out of reach of children, almost every cupboard contains something that states this warning on the label. Whether it is for the child's safety of the sanity of the parent; medication, paint, blenders plastic bags or a vast array of other things need to be kept safe from children while still readily accessible to adults.
This machine is designed in such a way that all the three processes:
Roasting of groundnut, Separation of groundnut shells from the groundnut seed, and the oil extraction is done in a single unit without any human interference.
The machine components are:
bowl feeder, crushing rollers, conveyor tray, vibrating tray, hopper and extracting chamber.
Here I have attached a file which speaks about automotive nail striker. As it's simplified construction, everyone can understand its function easily. As per the law of electromagnetics induction motor can give mechanical output which is further converted into translatory motion.
If the efficiency of a wind turbine is increased, then more power can be generated thus decreasing the need for expensive power generators that cause pollution. This would also reduce the cost of power for the common people. The wind is literally there for the taking and doesn't cost any money.
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