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Farms provides foods for cities.
Cities are becoming ugly conglomerate of people and concrete.
My proposal is to integrate cities and farms to have local food, more work and a liveable city.
Currently, we have crowded cities and far away farms.
Irrigation technology permits food production in a variety of climate conditions. The best optimization form of irrigation are Circles.
JULLS appears as single form-factor of Light-set that could be equipped with interchangeable lights and other equipment of standard size for different goals.
Form-factor and design of JULLS could provide more efficiency and economy of resources in processes of prototyping, producing, supplying, exploitation and repairing or changing of vehicles lights and of vehicles, equipped with JULLS.
While technology is constantly giving us new ways of doing things, there are some things that inflexibly stay the same. Take the good old cardboard box, for example: 90 percent of all products shipped are still sent using some type of cardboard packaging.
As we all know, mosquitoes are carriers of all sort of undesirable things. Don’t need to remind you of the latent possible comeback of Sika virus to our lands as temperatures get warmer and the vector population increases. Hence we should fight back with all we've got and if we don’
Exciter
The "Exciter" is an unlimited high density power source, ( not a power converter )... for application where electrical energy is required. The design may be used for home heating , water purification , electricity production also to motivate an electric automobile that will provide unlimited range and "on demand" service.. ( no battery charging ...
State of the Art, Novel Technology, Featured Project Development / Space, Satellite and Habitat, Power-Plant, Generator, Self-Feed Unit; H2O=>HHO=>H2O=>HHO=>Etc... *4 Systems All in One Unit, One By One, Plus Four-4 Projects added One to Other; *·1-Gearturbine, ·2-Imploturbocompressor, ·3-Dynamic Generator, ·4-Electrolysis System:
·1-GEARTURBINE; Rotary-Turbo-InFlow Tech,
The total farm system is an integrated, regenerative system of production designed to turn towns and city districts into socially and ecologically sustainable autonomous units of production. It is a farm, factory, power station, reservoir, waste recycling plant and education/research facility with all its functions interoperating as a closed loop system.
I hold the IP portfolio surrounding the space of GPS/LBS enabled keys, also trademarked "SafeKey".
SafeKey is best understood as "OnStar on your keys." SafeKey places a GPS personal locator panic button on the common key, at an enterprise/supplier level - it is instant safety at everyone's fingertips.
Motivation:
Heat pump systems are super efficient compared to most other heating systems such as electric resistance heating. The coefficient of performance of heat pumps is usually 2~3 while that of electric resistance heating is 1. In the era of electric vehicle, the goal of vehicle thermal management is not only keeping the cabin at suitable temperature,
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