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The expansion of the Panama Canal is impressive, but global trade is expanding at a greater pace than the locks can accommodate.
By 2013 the Canal will be able to accommodate ships carrying 18,000 cargo containers,
The navigatorscope can be defined as a smart navigating wire with optical capabilities to inspect difficult-to-access-to areas in medium and large size pipes. The navigatorscope design resembles a flexible borescope.
Standard reflective lane markers do little more than irritate weary drivers. Perhaps countless dollars and lives could be saved if lane markers did more than passively rumble under wandering tires.
Build a 100 foot tall tower near the ocean, far enough back to minimize the visual impact, or, build the tower near an existing local water supply viaduct.
THE NEXUS CONCEPT CRAFT
Premise
The Nexus Concept Craft is one approach to bracing for a future where urbanization would leave many of the urban airports paralyzed by confinement and airlines faltering from diminishing fossil fuel sources.
There has always been the problem of aircraft sound,
As noted by other entrants, vast quantities of water is wasted as a result of flushing toilets. Not that I recommend not flushing your toilet!
The basic idea is that the much of this water can be saved by replacing it as the carrier medium with a hydrocarbon alternative.
The 2000 presidential election debacle revealed serious flaws in U.S. voting systems. Ambiguity in a “butterfly” ballot design caused many voters to select Pat Buchanan by mistake. Ambiguity in partially-punched chads led to tedious, inconclusive recounts. The “remedies” instituted since then are often no better,
The BiModal Glideway (BMG) project is a new incarnation of the 60 year old possibility of bimodal transportation. Bimodal transportation involves vehicles that can operate on conventional streets and highways and on separated guideways. In the former they are driver controlled;
Vehicles have started to be equipped with multiple cameras, radars, parking sensors, etc.
Sensors information shall be represented efficiently in a non-distractive way to the driver.
Nowadays, the drivers are usually well isolated from sounds of the outside world. Well enough - for my innovation.
A battery powered pusher to turn your vehicle into a HYBRID vehicle
The market already has many fine hybrid and all electric vehicles for sale, but the price for the average person, who already has an adequate conventional vehicle to travel in, is more than most can afford.
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