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2011
Sustainable Technologies

Solar Water and Air Purification Balloon

Balloon materials used, like nylon or dacron, withstand great amounts of heat, and a material of this nature that is clear and magnifies heat, could allow UAV water purification and distillation within the balloon envelope, much like a solar still. The solar still relies on sunlight to warm and evaporate the water to be purified. The water vapor condenses,

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Kristina Honeycutt
Huntsville, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5412
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2011

Solar-Brayton Generator

The system shown here is miniature Gas Micro Turbines with target peak output of 10 KW, employing an unusual CPC tubular Collector as the heat source and Sodium Nitrate as the heat sink which is used later as heat recovery during no radiation condition to provide consistent electric flow.

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Pradip Thapa
New York, United States
Votes: 10
Views: 5504
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 27, 2011

Solstore

Solstore is a low cost eco friendly solar water heater cum storage system.

Solar water heaters are relatively low-tech systems, which have been unnecessarily enhanced with space age coatings, use expensive, scarce materials and consume considerable power in fabrication thereby increasing the cost.

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Ishan Topre
Nagpur, India
Votes: 15
Views: 5871
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 24, 2011

Stirling Engine as Application of THE DOT Project

A Greek Laboratory, highly specialized in Pure Mechanical Systems, has developed an Innovative Transmission Mechanism with many significant applications.

This Transmission Mechanism (DOT: Distributive Oscillating Transmission) interconnects, in the most effective way, a plurality of Elements with a main Shaft, said Elements and Shaft rotating coaxially around a common axis with different but completely programmable angular velocities.

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Panos Zaraphonitis
Sparta, Greece
Votes: 2
Views: 19555
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2011

Submarine Solar Desalination Plant

Around the world, water shortage is increasing in severity. Many large population areas are located close to seas and oceans. This invention utilizes solar energy to distill water from sea water or even brackish and dirty water sources, such as polluted rivers and lakes.

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Philip Panicker
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Votes: 1
Views: 6217
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 25, 2011

Super insulation for buildings

There are a lot of old buildings out there that waste a lot of energy. My idea for creating jobs is to insulate them to levels previously unheard of. The concept is to use vacuum insulation panels (VIP) instead of traditional insulators like foam, fiberglass batts, and the like.

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Stan Rusek, Pe
The Woodlands, United States
Votes: 19
Views: 5450
Sustainable Technologies
Apr 19, 2011

Sustainable Solar Cookers

Globally, more than 3 billion people depend on biomass to meet their basic energy needs for cooking, boiling water, lighting, and space-heating. The use of these solid fuels on open ?res or inef?cient stoves results in large amounts of a range of health-damaging pollutants, often under conditions of poor household ventilation. It primarily affects developing countries,

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Sathis Kumar Selvarayan
Denkendorf, Germany
Votes: 22
Views: 7286
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 28, 2011

Synergistic Magnetic Drive System

"Synergistic Magnetic Drive System"

Inventor: Dr. Thomas P. Walker, Jr of Bogosh Walker Technologies

Electronics Engineer: Francis Flexer, Jr

Fabrication Engineer: Brian Dougherty

Purpose:

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Thomas Walker
Tamaqua, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 5292
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 27, 2011

Terra-Joules Electrical Plant

A 1350 MWe saturated steam Turbine-Generator power plant utilizing the naturally occurring heat generated from the Earth can be built with existing hardware. It will consist of a tunnel to access the Earth’s heat and a standard power plant on the surface to produce electricity.

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William Avery
Mentor, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 4504
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 21, 2011

The Combined Aero-Hydro-Turbine and Propeller

The combined turbine is in 3 times more effective than the already existing. This effect is reached by that, between vertical blades of the turbine horizontal propellers are located (free or rigidly), which force air into the space between blades. Between these propellers in the center of the turbine is located a turbodetander.

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Jacob Bizehr
Tbilisi, Georgia
Votes: 2
Views: 10688
Sustainable Technologies
May 5, 2011

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