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Conventional power-trains for aviation are expensive on initial cost, operation and maintenance. Power-trains for vertical takeoff encounter even more challenges because it is difficult to satisfy propelling power efficiency for both low speed vertical takeoff (thrust due to air mass) and high speed cruise (thrust due to jet speed).
Problem: Huge fueling costs of semi trailer trucks due to low fuel mileage.
Proposed solution:
The heavier the vehicle is, the more energy it needs to get moving. Reducing weight is a very effective way to improve a vehicle’s efficiency. As shown in fig 1, currently when a container full of cargo is loaded on a semi trailer,
Nowadays various water-sport boards (including surfing and kiting boards) gained wide popularity.
We developed a special design (new hydrodynamic design, first of all) of advanced planing board (“Superboard”) that could quickly pop up out of water and cut hydrodynamic drag by half.
The RHINO SAFE eyeglasses frame is a non-invasive alternative for patients subject to rhinoplasty, turbinoplasty or other maxillofacial procedures, during their postoperative care stage. It was ideated as a solution for people that require wearing glasses for their daily activities, but cannot do so given it is strictly prohibited a 3 month period after the surgical procedure,
Nature has many times given us precise answers for many problems. The flower is a natural designed solar collector which optimizes the solar rays receiving area.
For that purpose our proposed solar collector and generation system is denominated solar flower.
The surface facing the sun is covered by a thin transparent PV film,
The principal benefit of a Scotch Yolk mechanism in an IC engine is to provide the pistons with a connecting rod attachment that eliminates ALL angular thrust between the piston and cylinder wall. Additionally, an engine design would no longer require the fabrication of a forged, cast or billet crankshaft to provide drive to the output shaft(s).
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become ill with ovarian cancer. A large number of malignant forms are caused by a virus that alters the metabolism in the infected cells. The virus promotes the release of specific proteins stimulating the dividing of the cells.
How it works.
The Saucer-Kush and Mothership-Jedia, shown in Figs.1&2, are a New Flying Object (NFO) propelled by the External Magnetic Field-Propulsion System (ExMF-PS); based on the Universal Energies (UE), derived from the new fundamental physics (). The detail characteristics of Jedia mechanism is shown in Fig.3, it consists of external bismuth 1 of the propellant mechanism,
A fixture is a device used for holding the workpiece during the machining operation, more versatile to work as specialized machine tool even with the advancement of manufacturing industries. There is a continued use of fixture either in same form or other, either independently or combination with other system in machining fixture,
The use of water coolers has increased and become an important appliance in the world of global warming. Most of the coolers are electrically operated. In this study an experimental setup of evaporative water cooler using solar energy is designed and developed. It works on the principle of heat transfer using evaporation of water.
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