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Enviromental and economical issues render the need for highly efficient universal source of mechanical power most urgent. The most efficient way to convert thermal energy to useful work is to fuel inside engine's cylinder, and highly efficient and clean thermodynamic processes for producing hot high pressure gases, like detonation,
This invention is a training device used to teach military personnel, SWAT teams, firefighters, and other emergency workers how to safely embark and disembark from the skid of a helicopter. It provides the safest and most economical means of teaching this valued skill.
One of the most expedient way to transport law enforcement, SWAT, emergency responders,
3D Technical Prints company is honored to present its new product.
In this year we will start production of housing of railway signalling.
Novelty in that type of product is use of FDM 3D printing.
Our company created project of high-performance large format 3D printer.
It allow to apply 3D printing technology to production.
This continuous combustion 6-cycle engine is a modification of an existing 4-cycle air cooled diesel engine. It operates on the Brayton/Joul (turbine) cycle. Air is ingested and compressed by the piston and transferred to an integral but separate insulated combustion chamber where fuel is added and combustion occurs.
Of the trillion dollars that we lose each year in wasted energy, as an architect I miss the following product as roofs are primary heat and cooling loss in our country:
Sandwich panel of R=80 with solar PV as integral part of surface.
Sandwich made of nailable rigid panel on top equal to 5/8" plywood,
The problem
The higher power consumption in a home is for heating. According to recent survey about 60% of energy use in an average home is for heating water and for space heating.
Of the 38,000 level crossings (Rail-Road Intersections) in India, 50 % are unmanned. There is a steady increase in the number of accidents (about 35 per cent of the train accidents) occurring at unmanned level crossings (ULC). Apart from disrupting rail and road services, loss of lives, vehicles, properties, and other materials,
SOLAR-POWERED STRUCTURAL PRINTING USING IN SITU DESERT SAND
PURPOSE
Barren desert landscapes are difficult venues for construction due to low water supply, elevated temperatures, lack of a stable building foundation, and accessibility issues.
A low-cost, self-sustaining, solar-powered system is proposed, which automates large-scale 3D printing of roads and other structures, transforming sand, in situ,
My idea is to develop an electrically powered rail collision avoidance drone. The drone would precede the main locomotive by a sufficient, speed and grade dependant, distance to initiate an emergency stop in advance of an imminent collision or derailment. To achieve the solution would require a fast acceleration rail-borne electrically powered drone.
We are Orbital Composites. Our goal is to 3D print satellites on-orbit. The orbital manufacture of satellites will save over 75% of the cost for launching satellite missions. Most dramatically, one can go from mission concept to operation within days.
Orbital manufacturing has a few more advantages.
Size: Satellites may become 1000 times larger.
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