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2012
Sustainable Technologies

A Diferential Light Amplifier Applicable to a Solar Locator and Tracker

A design of a special differential light amplifier has been designed to detect direct light and filter out the reflected light from the sky. The primary function is to orientate a solar collector to face the Sun, with AZIMUTHIAL tracking of 270 Deg and ALTITUDINAL 90 Deg .

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Panagiotis Stefanides
Kifissia, Greece
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Views: 7708
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 24, 2012

A Home and Small Business Electricity Micro Generation Unit

Primarily aimed at the domestic and SME market, Senical Ltd has designed a micro-generation unit with modular components allowing these components to be “swapped out” to maximize the usage of natural resources with minimum footprint. The main housing has an interchangeable top component which can be either a solar collection unit, a wood burning unit or a barbeque.

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Steve Nicoll
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Votes: 0
Views: 8189
Sustainable Technologies
Jul 1, 2012

A Rotary Wing Aerial Wind Turbine

A rotary wing rapidly deployable aerial wind turbine

This design is an inexpensive and rapidly deployable alternative to installation of wind turbines. Although wind energy is the least expensive of all the alternative energy sources,

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Anush Badii
La Jolla, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 8150
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 25, 2012

Advanced Baggage Handling System

The idea for this advanced baggage handling system  was inspired by frequent travel made by the author.

Travelling with heavy baggage is a hectic experience. Most of the people who use air travel may know how difficult it is to bring all the baggage to check in at the airport and for families,

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Gobithas Tharmarajah
Athlone, Ireland
Votes: 0
Views: 7433
Sustainable Technologies
Apr 3, 2012

Amplified Mechanical Energy

The idea is to use as source of electrical energy an amplified force exerted over a small distance at one end of a lever generated by exerting a small force over a greater distance at the other end.

Initially, the motor that drives a flywheel with an attached lever via an axle is powered by an external power source.

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Porferio Eliang
Taguig City, Philippines
Votes: 0
Views: 7002
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2012

An Air Conditioner = A Mini Power Plant

Of a city’s total electricity consumption, more than 25% of the power is just consumed by the very basic need for air conditioning–to keep the temperature inside offices, homes,malls,shopping complexes,hypermarkets,cinema halls, factory complexes–at an ambient temperature for comfortable working, living and leisure.

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Nakul Jain
New Delhi, India
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Views: 14384
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 27, 2012

Aquaback Water Purification System

Aquaback is developing a highly efficient, low cost, low maintenance, compact, modular vapor compression distiller to be the water processing module in a wide variety of water processing systems to clean incoming water or reclaim waste water.

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E. Andrew Condon
Tewksbury, United States
Votes: 17
Views: 15486
Sustainable Technologies
Apr 30, 2012

Arachnid Vigor

The Arachnid Vigor works by attracting and repelling alternating positive and negative magnetic poles. Thus causing the apparatus to rotate. As the machine rotates, the rod in the center of the apparatus will be equipped with a gearing mechanism located on the bottom of the rod, to match the gears of an attached electrical generator.

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Eric Lowery
Winston Salem/ Kernersville, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5051
Sustainable Technologies
Jul 1, 2012

AutoMicroFarm

AutoMicroFarm is like solar panels, but for your food.

What if you could grow 90% of the food essentials that your family needs--vegetables, fruits, fish, nuts, and beans--in an area the size of a two-car garage? What if that food kept you healthy and skinny?

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Andrei Shindyapin
Cary, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5403
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2012

Canute Power

We convert energy from waves into a potential energy ready for transportation or storage. Compressed air with which we can generate electricity. The by-products of our system are fresh water and cold air.

We have a design for a Simple Low Tech Rugged Portable Wave Energy Conversion Platform. The ocean is a very hostile environment,

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Roy Wagner
Gainesville, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5852
Sustainable Technologies
Jul 1, 2012

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