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WarmSpring improves access to a valuable source of heat. Since 1989, a product has been available which utilizes attic space heat for warming a swimming pool. During the warm seasons, this product allows the roof and attic portion of a house to function as an effective solar collector. For this application,
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Porcupine Quill ceramic heat exchanger promotes both - free air circulation and maximization of caloric transfer capabilities. The ceramic has half the weight of copper and three-quarters the weight of aluminum and is resistant to most corrosive or abrasive effluents with caloric conductance of .375, relative to that of copper.
Solarsphere is a glass sphere bisected with a polished reflector, a photovoltaic sun/target tracking sensor wired to a rechargeable battery ballast that contains omni directional propulsion. The Solarsphere rests on a plenum duct with a circular cutout.
The Solarsphere is intended to be mass produced to keep component costs minimal.
On the Road Social Network
I thought of a system of easy communication between vehicles to report emergencies, anomalies, or simply to talk (social network on the car)
So if you're in the car and, for example, you see a guy on a car in front of you that has a flat tire, you don’t know this guy,
E-TAR or the Electric guiTAR with NO Strings, just buttons
The problem is that for every 1 good guitar player, there are 9 other persons who have tried and failed. I am one of them. I do not have any hand coordination at any level to play a guitar. I can find the notes, like the chart above,
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The invention addresses the technical aspects of electricity generating plants, specifically wind power plants.
One of the purposes of the invention described here is to propose a new architecture that reduces mechanical stress as much as possible by unifying all the torque and tip-over moments into a single bending moment along the vertical axis,
The idea is using plasma effects with low ratio steam fuels from widely free available waste fluids or plasma boosted reciprocating internal combustion engine with modified piston and low ratio commercial fuel.
The modifications to have the engine work are:
• modifying the piston of a reciprocating engine to be hollow,
Concept design of a piezoelectric mat for harvesting energy from vibrations.
Piezoelectric ceramics have the property of producing electricity under compression stimulus. This mat takes advantage of that property disposing piezo electric components in the weaving structure of the fabric in a hexagonal grid.
The case is presented in the configuration of a sail,
To create a new world, the advanced development of alternative energy sources is very important. There is plenty of heat energy available in solar radiation. Now we have some current technologies to grab the sun's heat. But improvements are needed for a sustainable future. In the solar field,
Robomotic is developing a product called EMMA (Elder Mobile Monitoring Assistant), a health care platform designed for autonomous monitoring of the elders.
Across the developed world, the demographic profile is changing: the proportion of the global population over 65 years old will triple between now and 2100, from 7 percent to 21 percent. For instance, in the UK,
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