2012
Sustainable Technologies
My idea came to me as I was leaving home for work on June 20th. I looked at my house as I pulled out of the drive way and noticed my roof exhaust fan spinning away and I thought, too bad we couldn’t harvest the energy it wastes.
This device is a solar water distiller for producing ultra-pure drinking and cooking water using a new operating principle involving a spray water feed which flash-evaporates, yielding high efficiency and the ability to tilt the unit toward the sun throughout the year.
There is an overlooked and extremely powerful alternative energy source that is renewable and that has been available since at least the formation of salt water oceans: the electrostatic fields of like-charged solute ions.
Escalators (moving stairs) are widely used in public places.
Many a times only a single person is present on the escalator and the entire thing has to move i.e. many vacant stairs. Even vacant stairs have weight, owing to the fact that they are made of steel. So this design tries to obviate the motion of such vacant stairs;
What does every industry want? A lighter and stronger material. I have that answer...
Compressed Polystyrene (CPS) is made using a unique process on expanded polystyrene (EPS) also known under it's common name as Styrofoam.
Compressed Polystyrene is lighter than aluminum by 150 pounds, weighing in at 8 to 13 pounds per cubic foot,
Instead of seeing labels on products such as 'green' or 'sustainable' or 'made from recyclable materials', this analysis tool allows for a points system to be placed on consumer products and industrial processes. A consumer, designer or engineer can then make quick and yet informed decisions when purchasing or implementing products and/or processes. Much like nutritional value labels,
This design is inspired by Texas-born Vincent Justus Burnelli. Early wind tunnel and flight testing of this design showed superiority in most areas compared to the tube and wing design. With new materials and design available today, this plane could be the final word in stusatainable flight for the next 100 years.
The Integrated Off-Shore Wave Powered Turbine Shaft (OSWPTS) solves the problem of un-tapped energy and wasted spaces. OSWPTS does so by utilizing un-tapped space within the shaft that supports an off-shore wind turbine and using it to maximize energy output by integrating the wind power technology with wave power technology.
I envision an oceangoing ship the size of a modern container ship laden with a hydroponic farming operation. The ship could be moved to whatever temperate zone is required for the crop being raised. It could be owned and operated by hunger relief organizations so as to provide fresh food rations to natural disaster areas of the world.
This is a simple method of capturing the energy of waves in places where the pressure head is low but kinetic energy of the water is significant. On sea shores, lake shores or banks of rivers,
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