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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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As far as this writer is aware, Cruise ship wastes are kept on board or possibly discharged far out at sea for no cost. To keep costs down for operators, certain marinas or nations could offer a barge based or mangrove/marina based bio-processing garden or off pump station.
The engine shown in Figure 1 is an external combustion type engine which has two air ports, working in a way similar to a two stroke internal combustion engine.
The hot air goes to the burner and is used for improving its efficiency.
With the dashboard you find in all new cars these days, more features are becoming integrated around the stereo and navigation systems. Well for a car audio fanatic, these complex dashboards make it extremely expensive, if not next to impossible, to install an after market speaker system affordably.
Imagine a renewable energy source that can produce energy at a cost comparable to natural gas or hydroelectric generators using fewer resources, while being environmentally friendly. Lux Wind Turbines are expected to cost less than 1/2 of conventional turbines and can be spaced closer together to extract more power with less land.
In the last half-century, humans have set foot on the moon and, as a result, deep space travel seems to be within Humanity's reach. However, there are many issues that must be resolved before space travel to other objects in the solar system can become a reality. Examples of these issues include radiation in space,
The efficiency of solar cells depends, among other things, on the angle between the sun and the solar cell. The efficiency of such solar panel can be thus increased by tracking the sun path and minimizing the angle of incidence. Nowadays, similar systems are actively controlled by coupling sensors,
This is a technology for generating hydro power by extending an enclosed pipeline in to the head waters from a hydro power turbine. This hydro power development is based on the fact that the flow through a closed conduit (pipe) will be greater than the free flow through an open channel.
Unoccupied flying vehicles have had a huge impact on the modern battlefield. The technology to fly a combat aircraft from a ground based "flight deck" thousands of miles away is happening everyday. There are issues, however, with these vehicles, especially when it involves flying aircraft over peaceful, densely populated areas; or if it involves flying passengers. To aircraft operators,
The Problem: The technology to do the above already exists, but all the components of the system have to be utterly safe and reliable. One of the critical components in such a system is the servo-actuator that operates the controls of the vehicle, unmanned or not. Currently,
Tens of thousands of people die each year in automobile crashes and accidents are counted in the millions. Anytime a driver takes their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road, they introduce the risk of something occurring that they can’t prevent.
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