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A folio and writing surface for drawing or writing pad, which opens 360 degrees, allowing for ease of use in the field as well as compact desk use. It provides a new and elegant alternative to the messy appearance and extra use of hard-to-recycle metal or plastic spiral binding;
Hand Dryers Use up large quantities of electricity in small amounts of time. Heat coils aren't efficient, and are not meant to be efficient in the first place. Hand dryers use up at least 1100 watts of energy.
I had a an Idea to design and develop new transportation system, which involves vehicles and road sensed by satellites. Each vehicle will not have steering, data will be entered regarding where to go and at what speed.
This is an intelligent bend machine for steel rod and wire that detect the bend error (spring effect) and automatically makes the correction.
The machines have a wireless system that can communicate with all the computers in the factory, sending and receiving information about the process in real time, and instruction of the work and the dates.
This project evolved from a study of convective flow I was aware of in the Navy, NASA's conquering of the Moon, an interest in MHD and the building of the ISS. It combines all these into an ambitious power plant concept that utilizes resources available on the Moon with minimal upport to transmit power either to Earth,
Current prototype for a lighter-than-air tethered wind turbine use a horizontal axis for its generator. This kind of mechanism (as on the majority of land/sea based wind turbines) has high dependency on wind direction. The turbine has to be facing toward the air stream to get its optimum rotation.
But, as on land/sea based wind turbines,
This Advanced Key and System allows to prevent Key locked inside the Vehicle. It is normally very frustrating and difficult when door is locked with the key inside. This system uses sensor in Key and Vehicle Door. The system uses Logical programming which is as follows.
1.When Key is not inside the Vehicle door works normally as any another vehicle.
Vehicle propulsion systems are the integration of energy storage (diesel, gasoline, batteries etc) with energy transformation (chemical to mechanical, chemical to electrical to mechanical, etc) systems. For an electric (core technology) based vehicles, electric storage in batteries has been limiting.
A radioisotope direct-charging battery, also known as an atomic battery, can normally be compared to a parallel-plate capacitor with a self-charging plate. Electrically-charged particles, such as alpha or beta particles,
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