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Research we conducted in the city identified that most petrol and diesel based vehicles are used for shorter distance travel. Automobiles running on petrol and diesel vehicles contribute more than 70% of the world's overall pollution. The scarcity of these non-renewable sources of energy led to an increase in petrol and diesel prices and, as a result,
As more and more organizations aim to be Zero-Net-Carbon (ZNC) by 2030, we wanted to share what we have found successful and reiterate the praises we have been singing since 1946 - the power of a clean fossil fuel.
Our team has over many years developed a double acting fickett-jacobs cycle internal detonation engine that boasts pure isochoric constant volume heat addition, giving it the world's highest efficiency for a given stroke to bore ratio. Instead of conventional engine architecture, we have modernized the scotch yoke with new technology.
This is essentially a large tube, as are biological whales. These will be deployed into the Pacific garbage patches gyres where they will swim (drift) along in the top 2 meters of water ingesting everything their mouth can swallow. The material will be concentrated and oxidized of power to propel & operate the devices.
Right now, I'm currented working on a desktop model of my Photographic APRO ( Artificial Parallel Reality Orb).
As the name states, it is photographic in nature, but is also the low-tech counterpart to my high-tech ideas in the geometry of invisibility and holodecks, as they would pertain to light-field optics,
Nowadays micromobility has become a leading trend in our society. The number of electric bikes, scooters, and skateboards are increasing exponentially. Following this trend, we have invented an electric baby stroller (EBS). The main disadvantage of the usual baby stroller is that to keep the stroller moving it must be pushed forward constantly. Sometimes this requires enormous effort,
In 2020, over 7 million public-facing touchscreens were impacted by concerns about pathogen transmission from shared surfaces. This is a small subset of the 85 million connected displays currently deployed globally with the potential for touchless interactivity.
Freetouch lets anyone safely interact with public displays via the one screen they’re comfortable touching… their own smartphone.
A briefcase-sized e-kit (comprising lithium ion battery module, motor and electronics – patent pending) is designed to be easily attached to the wide variety of non-motorized vehicle types (vehicles that are pushed, pulled or pedalled). It can be applied to vehicles in several applications, such as agriculture, healthcare, urban mobility, warehouses and campuses, etc.
In order for a jet engine to become multistage it must have a multistage afterburner or a multistage combustor. In order for a combustor to become multistage it must actually operate through the combination of uninterrupted and pulsating combustion. Uninterrupted combustion in stage 1 and pulsating combustion in higher stages through pulsating fuel feed.
Metabolic towers are unmanned facilities located in in an urban environment . Their functions are as follows:
Collect differentiated waste (paper, glasss, plastic, metal, other) for processing and recycling
Collect organic wastes for incineration process to generate energy
Collect sanitary water from neighbouring buildings for decontamination,
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