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2014
Sustainable Technologies

Salter-McCloskey Wave Energy Conversion System

Salter’s Duck is a wave energy conversion device invented by Dr. Stephen Salter in 1974 at the University of Edinburgh. The device is unique among wave energy conversion systems in that it uses both the vertical and horizontal motion of the wave. It has a pear shaped cross section that “nods,” rotates around its center,

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Christopher Barry
Edgewater Beach, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5821
Sustainable Technologies
Jul 1, 2014

SkyChickenHouse, SkyPiggyHouse and SkyFishHouse

There is high demand for food on the Planet.

We need to produce a lot of grains and meat for the developing countries. Usually the ground in such countries is poor or there are deep forests everywhere.

To solve the task we can use the SkyChickenHouse, SkyPiggyHouse or SkyFishHouse. The idea is simple enough: if we can live in 

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Oleg Kolesnikov
Donetsk, Ukraine
Votes: 0
Views: 3558
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2014

Small Scale Methane Generation

Biogas digester technology can provide energy needs of local government operations by producing methane. About 1.7 cubic meters of biogas equals one liter of gasoline; the manure produced by ONE cow in one year can be converted to the methane equivalent of over 200 liters of gasoline. Cattle,

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Kevin Moore, Pe
Houston, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4676
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 16, 2014

Small Scale Solar LED Lighting

I have a design that uses a solar panel to convert sunlight into electricity that is stored in a sealed lead-acid (SLA) battery. The power from the battery is then used in the evenings to power LED lighting. LEDs and solar power go well together.

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James Jackson
San Antonio, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 3861
Sustainable Technologies
Mar 6, 2014

Smart Aquaponic Greenhouse

Our mission at CFS is to provide a sustainable agricultural production system, using Systems Engineering and Integration practices (as used by NASA and other technologically sound entities) to develop highly automated Smart Aquaponic Greenhouse facilities that are Off-Grid and infrastructure independent. Our design will be clean energy powered and largely computer controlled,

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Douglas Mallette
Portsmouth, United States
Votes: 68
Views: 11491
Sustainable Technologies
May 12, 2014

Smart You

‘Smart You’

"There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people - and the environment - suffer badly."

--- World Water Vision Report

Urban dwellers don’

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Mala Patel
Gandhinagar, India
Votes: 4
Views: 3468
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 20, 2014

Soap Salvager

The Problem:

When people get down to the last stub of soap it is discarded. This can result in wasted matierials and in turn a loss of money for the person throwing it away. Imagine if you stacked up all of the unused soap stubs from just one year!

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Royce Buckingham
Bellingham, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 3731
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2014

Solar charging port for Electric car charging

INTRODUCTION There is an urgent need to curtail the use of crude oil in any form as India is completely dependent on imported crude for all forms of transportation energy. This results is our country and our people being very poor due to the import of all energy sources like crude oil and coal.

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Winston Jesudas
Chennai, India
Votes: 1
Views: 3626
Sustainable Technologies
Apr 16, 2014

Solar Dome

The Solar Dome is the ideal in Regenerative Architecture as its an atmospheric generator with an otherwise useless interior, its interior however can be used as any other dome would be - and it's scalable.

Designed to work in arid regions, the solar dome combines updraft, vortex, and downdraft dynamics to create, capture and convert hot air into electricity.

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Mathew Whitney
Enfield, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4624
Sustainable Technologies
May 16, 2014

Solar Panel Chimney for House Ventilation

For reducing global warming, many efforts have been made to create new green reliable devices that can be used for the life of people. These devices normally use the power from the natural resources such as the sun, rivers, lakes, ocean, rain, geothermal activity and so forth. In addition to generate electricity,

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Songhao Wang
Tainan, Taiwan
Votes: 0
Views: 3815
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 20, 2014

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