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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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Chemo-Electro-Deposition Mining is a collection of technologies that exploits the acidic properties of Acid Mine Drainage to get electrical energy by means of ionic exchange. In principle it uses zero valent iron that is dissolved in AMD and displaces toxic metals such as Cadmium or Copper in AMD solution. These displaced metals are deposited on the cathode,
Wind energy systems won't be popularly accepted until they are economically competitive with conventional electrical generation. Current wind generated power costs about three times that generated with coal or natural gas.
Drawbacks to current wind turbines include:
High cost.
Little power generated in low wind.
Birds killed by rotors.
In the last decade organic crops are gaining momentum in international markets due to increased public awareness about the harmful effects that common pesticides have on the human body and the environment. These crops have to deal in new and innovative ways with the different kinds of insects and microorganisms that attack them, for example,
Featuring a newly-designed renewable energy turbine for use in wind or water.
The B N Balance Energy Solutions turbine is designed for capturing energy from slow moving open-system fluids, such as wind or water, for the production of electricity, pumping or conversion for hydrogen production.
In current testing,
As we know natural energy resources are limited in this world. Everyone is thinking of non-conventional energy resources. A single non-conventional energy resource can not fulfill the whole need of this vast world. We have to produce or convert energies where we get even a little chance.
Around the world, water shortage is increasing in severity. Many large population areas are located close to seas and oceans. This invention utilizes solar energy to distill water from sea water or even brackish and dirty water sources, such as polluted rivers and lakes.
This invention allows one to locate frequently misplaced items such as a key, that one sock, the remote, etc. It uses a ubiquitous technology, namely, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Passive RFID tags (those with no battery) are now in most products we purchase. They are very small and their cost is ever decreasing,
The submitted motor-generator for an electric car has many rotors. But it differs from usual that radiuses of rotors are various. This difference of radiuses allows to use energy of centrifugal acceleration for reception of superfluous capacity.
During start all rotors work in a mode of the motor.
My main aim was to have a project that has an equal involvement of hardware and software. Also we decided to take up a project that is visually appealing and ended up concentrating on the latest display technologies. Finally we decided to do the project on persistence of vision (POV) displays.
Our recent development relates to a Micro-Plasma Surgical Scalpel (MPSS) having the capabilities of being used to perform a broad range of surgical procedures such as but not limited to the following:
• Incision: The separation of biological tissues - surgical cutting
• Ablation: The removal of tissue - excision of tumors
• Coagulation: The thermally induced clotting of blood
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