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Bottle and Jar Opener QT-1
Technical field of Invention
This Bottle and Jar Opener is an original tool used to open jars or bottles in a different way than any product found currently on the market.
Having attended many baseball, basketball, and football games over the years, it always bothered me that the soda and beer vendors had to lug beer and soda up the many stairs of a sports park complex with tubs of ice and soda or beer.
If you sit on a plot of land and have enough surface area to tap into this wealth of free warm water, you just need to circulate and store the glycol somewhere temporarily. For office buildings the ideal place is on the roof,
The Photonic Space Engine Driver or P.S.E.D is the future solution for deep space transportation and energy needs. Potential benefits include low cost accelerated transportation of resources from mining operations,
Fencing Automation Machine(FAM)
Machine for Erecting/Fixing Paling Planks to a Pre-Erected Wooden Fence Frame
My proposal is to Design & Build a machine or “Automation/Tool – The FAM” to help & aid a fence builder, Construct Paling Type Fences in quite varying terrains.
To give one hundred percent free energy means it's worth everything. As today we are faced with Climate & Environment problems plus with that we are also facing Energy problems as today we have lots of new inventions in energy but still we lack to give 100% pure energy.
Importance of the work
Waste disposal is a crucial problem in developing countries particularly in India due to heavy population. Presently in India, sanitary workers are using the oldest devices like brooms, iron plates and bamboo baskets for primary collection of solid waste.
Deep Ocean Benthic Sampler (DOBS) possesses a unique capability to the fields of deep sea microbial ecology and natural products biotechnology: the ability to obtain a contamination-free benthic boundary layer sediment core samples and preserve in situ conditions of pressure and temperature upon retrieval to the ship.
This system would comprise of several diversion facilities to store the flood waters. Each facility would include an open pit (4 to 5 miles square and 100 feet deep), an electrical generator (driven by the entering flood waters) and a system for emptying the pit.
Hydrogen plays a major role in future fuel needs. There is not much difference between an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) that runs on hydrogen, compared to an ICE that runs on petrol/gasoline in terms of functioning. The main advantages would be better efficiency and low emission levels, provided,
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