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2010
Sustainable Technologies

Aerial Wind Turbine

The universal rationale for the massive public commitment to wind power is that it is environmentally benign. But land based wind power has at least two major environmental problems—noise and the killing of bird populations that has begun to cause serious concern among mainstream environmentalists. As an alternative we propose an airborne wind turbine.

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Anush Badii
La Jolla, United States
Votes: 31
Views: 7757
Sustainable Technologies
Apr 6, 2010

AHGS - Autonomic Hydrogen Gas Station

AHGS is an idea to create a future system grid to substitute the actual distribution of gas for cars.

Hydrogen is one of the interesting future fuels besides charging batteries. So hydrogen is used in fuel cell-powered cars. To generate hydrogen autonomic AHGS is an approach.

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Markus Eichner
Nuremberg, Germany
Votes: 0
Views: 5784
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2010

AirWatt

This is a new concept in renewable energy production, called AirWatt. It can produce much more electrical power per unit area of land than solar, wind, or hydro power plants. Whereas solar works only during sunlight hours, the AirWatt power plant can usually run 24 hours per day in appropriate locations.

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Melvin Prueitt
Los Alamos, United States
Votes: 24
Views: 8826
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 15, 2010

Alair aluminum-air battery

Alair aluminum-air battery for sustainable electricity production

This device is intended as a standalone electricity generator for off-grid living, in either developed or developing countries. It uses the chemical reaction:

4Al + 3O2 + 6H2O ? 4Al(OH)3

to produce 12 VDC electricity which is then inverted to produce either 120 VAC or 240 VAC output.

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Michael Flora
Gulfport, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 18386
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2010

All Round Solar Wave Energy Antenna

HCT CAD-CAM-CNC Tech Support Ltd.

currently developed product: "All Round Solar Wave Energy Antenna" an antenna for extracting and/or tapping the wave energy from the Sun day & night, in rainy or sunny weather, from the Earth's atmosphere. Fields of application are power energy generation, auto engine, anti-gravity propulsion drive. 3D solid model prototyped.

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Michael Frank
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Votes: 16
Views: 4821
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 27, 2010

An African MicroUtility

The MicroUtility will provide modern utility services to rural sub-Saharan Africa at a low capital and operating cost, using easily maintained, low-tech equipment. The services that the MicroUtility provides are: (1) wastewater treatment; (2) potable water supplies; (3) high-protein animal feed; (4) fertilizer; and (5) gas service for lighting and cooking.

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George Marchetti
Western Springs, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4898
Sustainable Technologies
Mar 17, 2010

An energy storage system

Storage of electrical energy is a growing problem.

This concept is based on the well-known pumped storage, which is a type of hydroelectric power generation. The method stores energy in the form of water, pumped from a lower elevation reservoir to a higher elevation. Low-cost off-peak electric is used to run the system pumps.

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Jan Olsen
Nordborg, Denmark
Votes: 0
Views: 4194
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2010

AnchorCharger

Ships have propellers which are designed to fling water relatively rearwards in an efficient manner. Tidal power is one area of ‘alternative energy’ which seems as if it has some chance for being cost effective.

My invention is therefore to combine this information and create a simple source of renewable energy.

Take ships which, due to economic conditions,

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Patrick Andrews
Crieff, United Kingdom
Votes: 1
Views: 4232
Sustainable Technologies
Apr 18, 2010

Augmented oil-eating spill response

Spills of oil from drilling and transportation operations will continue to cause environmental degradation and economic losses.

Millions of tons (annually) of sustainable (U.S.A-available) resources can help reduce the impact of the environmental insult of uncontained oil. Poultry feathers are being incinerated or disposed into landfills instead of being used as a renewable resource.

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Jeffrey Short
Malvern, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4424
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2010

Available Carbon Sink

The US Interstate Highway System consists of about 47,000 miles of highway. Dividing the highway is a median strip that average about 40 feet in width. Thus, Interstate Highway median strips constitute about 9.93 billion square feet, 228,000 acres of land.

If this land were used to grow biomass whose primary function was to act as a carbon sink,

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Randall Noon
Brownville, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4002
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 28, 2010

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