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2013
Sustainable Technologies

Recycled Concrete Sound Barriers

Recycled Concrete Sound Barriers

Road traffic is the biggest source of noise pollution in the UK . The noise generated by traffic on urban motorways can be disturbing for the occupants of dwellings along the boundaries of the road reserve. Currently, in urban areas, reflective solid noise barriers or special absorptive barriers are used to reduce the problem.

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Kerry Mcmanus
Melbourne, Australia
Votes: 0
Views: 5322
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 7, 2013

Renewable Phenolic Compounds

Renewable Phenolic Compounds - Another Product of EnerSysNet's Mobile Energy Conversion Systems

Background

The wood products industry always manages waste and cost with an eye towards expanded profitability. For example,

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Jim Colthart
Bath, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 5650
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 17, 2013

Renewable Power Generation System for Offshore Operations

A system for generating electricity in the offshore oil and gas industry comprises a wind turbine that can easily be moved along with a drilling rig or marine platform. The system provides a renewable and alternative to generating electricity, in the form of wind, and addresses portability demands by industry without using petroleum product to operate offshore.

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Matt Hunter
Houston, United States
Votes: 9
Views: 5768
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 25, 2013

Repurposing Automotive Li-Ion Cells for a Residential Home Energy Storage System

Those who have ever experienced a power outage understand the major headaches associated with losing electricity; figuring out how to keep food from spoiling, how to get water, plumbing, lighting, and heating & cooling to name a few. Some of us may have sworn to never have to experience that again,

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Todd Alexander
Zeeland, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4463
Sustainable Technologies
Jul 1, 2013

Saving the Honeybee: Low-Toxicity Integrated Pest Management Product

Studies at UC-Davis in 2007 have demonstrated that parasitic infestation(s) are a contributing factor in the onset of ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’ in honeybee populations, natiowide. According to the USDA, domestic honey production is off by 16% for the year 2012. CCD and recalcitrant infestations by the varroa mite (V.

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Joseph Resnick
Lenoir, United States
Votes: 26
Views: 10671
Sustainable Technologies
May 2, 2013

Scalable Water Purification

Known Problem:

Clean water is becoming a scarcer commodity, even near large bodies of water. Desalinization processes are expense to implement and very expensive to maintain. Scaling current designs is difficult.

Solution:

Using hydrogen fuel cell technology, we can develop and implement a very efficient design providing ease of deployment, ease of maintenance, and great scalability.

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Jeff D'arco
Austin, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3657
Sustainable Technologies
Mar 23, 2013

Sea Wave Energy Converter

It is an innovative sea wave energy converter.

Although there are many systems for converting motion of the waves, this device is innovative because the particular mechanism adopted allows the conversion into electrical energy of the waves in any direction. The machine is comparable to a buoy immersion is environmentally friendly and easy to build.

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Paolo Ferri
Ascoli Piceno, Italy
Votes: 7
Views: 4296
Sustainable Technologies
May 22, 2013

Self Irrigation Container

Self Irrigation container ( SIC-A)

Water is life. As we all know, all ancient cultures rose near water resources. They started agriculture, building dams and water reservoirs. Big reservoirs and dams built on rivers, not where there was little rainfall and flat zones. As civilizations develop and upgrade, that means more water consumption, for domestic and agricultural use.

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Raad Khaleel
San Diego, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4131
Sustainable Technologies
Apr 12, 2013

Simple Method of Electricity Generation from Sea Waves

Wave energy extraction is complex and many device designs have been proposed. All types of sea waves electricity stations are expensive.

This device is simple and can be made by every handy man. The device is suitable for yachts or ocean research vessels. Main part is permanent magnet alternator (Fig. 1), pendulum is attached to rotor shaft,

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Zdenek Jedlicka
Repiste, Czech Republic
Votes: 0
Views: 3541
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 28, 2013

Smart Energy Load Centers (SELCs) for Stable and Competitive Renewable Energy

Renewable energy developers face many challenges today. Three main challenges are: (1) no power grid in the vicinity, (2) no willing utility to buy that energy, (3) prohibitive stabilization costs of unstable renewable energy.

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James Stalker
Las Cruces, United States
Votes: 4
Views: 4592
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 29, 2013

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