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2011
Sustainable Technologies

50% Water Saving in Agriculture

Most countries face a very severe water supply problem, which has already become a food supply problem (which could unfortunately lead to wars and conflicts).

We acquired the original application patent from Nestlé R&D and further patented the first auto degradable liquid mulch for the agriculture in areas suffering from water scarcity.

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Laurent Selles
Begnins, Switzerland
Votes: 1
Views: 6174
Sustainable Technologies
May 31, 2011

A Building as a Living Body

An intelligent building is a building that is able to monitor and control its own functionalities, according to the building structure, indoor and outdoor environment. The functionalities and their characteristics are directly related to building scope (the activities accomplished by the occupants), but usually are the same. Most of the necessary functionalities have been already determined,

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Catalin Bujdei
Brasov, Romania
Votes: 0
Views: 6962
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 27, 2011

A Comprehensive Approach to Hydrogen Fuel

Changing the fuel source for motor vehicles requires a comprehensive approach because of the already established infrastructure and supply of petroleum based fuels. In addition to the lack of infrastructure, it is recognized that hydrogen fuel will not be commercially viable unless competing against gasoline of well over $4.00 US per US Gallon.

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Stephen Brown
Woodbridge, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 5181
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2011

A Device for Stopping Explosions at Nuclear Plants

With recent explosions of hydrogen in Japanese nuclear plants there is a need for a device that will stop an explosion of hydrogen/oxygen in an enclosed system regardless of the magnitude of the explosion. A Detonation Flame Arrestor (DFA) is designed to extinguish a flame front resulting from an explosion or detonation of a gas in a piping system.

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Dwight Brooker
Chiefland, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 7555
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 22, 2011

A Lightweight Composite Panel Building System

Background

Today most all traditional structural floor, wall, and roof assembly materials are present in various forms that have been used individually or in combination with each other being categorized into the following basic categories:

1. Concrete

2. Masonry

3. Steel

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Peter Anthony
Clemmons, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 9744
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 15, 2011

A Radiation-Doubler Sunshine Concentrator

A RADIATION-DOUBLER SUNSHINE CONCENTRATOR.

Units of “solar radiation concentrators” of this design are maintained in an orthogonal attitude vis-a-vis incident sunshine - by conventional technical means.

The plane-wave solar radiation that enters a unit's capture-window sees (due to optical for-shortening), a pattern of squares and trapezoids,

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Gerald Hantusch
Mielan, France (includes Monaco)
Votes: 0
Views: 5311
Sustainable Technologies
May 13, 2011

A Self-sustaining Mosquito Larvae Killer

Described herein is a design for a self-sustaining electro-mechanical mosquito larvae killer.

As is well known mosquito infestation is one of the leading killers of the indigenous population in many countries. Many chemical solutions are available for treating the local area but for various reasons are not used.

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Mike Tripoli
Wichita, United States
Votes: 8
Views: 6595
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 29, 2011

A Simple, Very Low Heat Loss Window

There are three principal methods of heat loss through a window. These are radiation, conduction and convection. Radiation losses may be greatly reduced by means of an IR blocking (low E) coating applied to the warmer side of the window.

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Alan Kaplan
Rockaway, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 6588
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2011

A Small Scale Hydropower System

The problem that exists today that prompted the idea for this device is that there is a declining availability of fossil fuels and other “non-clean” energy sources. Scientists and engineers around the world have developed means of harvesting “clean energy.

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Cory Raszeja
Birmingham, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 5425
Sustainable Technologies
May 2, 2011

Accelerating the Solar Transition

SunPax– The Mass-producible, IT-integrated, Solar-Energy Appliance

Solar energy systems need to move from custom-engineered installations to a mass-produced modularized energy appliance containing all related electronics, storage and monitoring functions within a single, UL approved, energy appliance. The SunPax system will do just that.

The rapid deployment of solar energy is inhibited by several issues.

1.Today,

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Jonathan Cole
Honokaa, United States
Votes: 27
Views: 9244
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 23, 2011

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