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U-Fly Personal Flight.
Flight has been the dream of man since he first looked upward at the freedom of the birds to move effortlessly through the heavens. These notions of flight as a personal experience have all but been extinguished by the deficiencies of the current aviation industry;
Wind turbines generate power at costs comparable to fossil fuel electricity, which makes them ideal for substitution especially in remote areas. But current problems with the technology include high initial cost needed for mounting the wind turbines on a higher ground to capture higher winds. The model developed here is designed for the remote rural villages in India,
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currently developed product: "All Round Solar Wave Energy Antenna" an antenna for extracting and/or tapping the wave energy from the Sun day & night, in rainy or sunny weather, from the Earth's atmosphere. Fields of application are power energy generation, auto engine, anti-gravity propulsion drive. 3D solid model prototyped.
Sleek and minimal? Check. Large screen? Check. Oodles of tech? Check, check and check! E’llipse is a watch to end all watches. Why? Because it has a fancy processor and the latest algorithms in human-machine learning. Yes it learns you! It knows what you want and keeps you up to date. That’s not all.
The APET is a “magnetic levitation” public transportation system. It will transport commuters and their vehicles, via individual “pods,” long distances, to and from major cities, while their vehicles engines are off and expelling no emissions. This transportation system will radically lower the number of vehicles on freeways, thereby reducing vehicle pollution and traffic. In addition,
This device can be used to charge handheld gadgets. Almost everyone walks everyday and when we go out we bring handheld gadgets to communicate, entertain or even do some work. Sometimes gadgets runs out of energy and you're in the middle of nowhere where there are no available power sources where we can plug to charge our gadgets.
The oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico may never be completely sealed off - this oil capture idea is based on whale hunting behaviour using bubble curtains.
Imagine a fleet of tugboats dropping hundreds of 10,000 psig air bottles overboard in a large circle around the oil leak site.
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.
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