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Creating a cleaner, healthier, safer world where you may never have to buy gasoline or diesel fuel again, where you could get a check from the electric company instead of a bill and where nuclear power will be unnecessary. Sustainable economies without pain or sacrifice.
Our patent application has been published,
The Photo Opportunity Device would allow those who are unable to operate a camera due to physical limitations, the ability to do so. This device is extremely portable at a lowered height of around fifteen inches with a diameter of around four inches.
We must remove some of the circuits in the Television, the power supply, tuner, audio, speakers, input/output components, and the IR receiver. It is no longer a TV, it is a display device. Now we will build the basic tower. It will be approximately 8 inches deep and 8 inches wide.
In all aeroplanes there are no cameras being installed inside the cabin. My idea is by providing the surveillance cameras inside the cabin and in the cockpit, the pilot and also the air traffic control team can monitor and survey the movement of the passengers inside the aircraft.
VORTEX ENERGY REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
ABSTRACT
Implosive energy apparatus FIG. 1 utilizing multi disciplinary concepts comprising super low pressure ducted fan vortex turbine engine 10 attached to canard nacelles airfoil structures 17 comprising asymmetric shaped ducted sleeve intakes 35, 36 rear outlets 15,16 FIG.
Re-Volt-Gen.
The invention comprises an eclectically powered electrical generating power plant having dual rotors driven on a single common shaft.
ElectroCeramics Energy and Propulsion
Acoustio-optical resonant refrigeration in self-oscillating ceramic waveguide structure.
The dominating factor in realizing ambient superconductor technology lies mostly with the technique of cooling a selective and predetermined recipe of ceramic materials.
This design idea started with the studying of the basic principle of the electrostatic engine developed by Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Gordon, which works by the attraction forces existing between electrical charges of different sign. Also, the study and development of this design idea has been based on theories like Ohm law, Faraday law, Coulomb law,
Salamander Research And Development's latest idea concerns the worldwide demand for potable water.
Most distillation devices require replaceable filters or sophisticated wiring or plumbing. My device is scalable from 1/2 liter on up; it can be made from clean scraps and it (in the small volume ranges) is entirely portable.
Endangering the world, nuclear power generation’s vulnerability to natural elements is now so visible in Fukushima, Japan. Yet, for more than 50 years the US Navy has operated safely nuclear submarines. While nuclear submarines have been lost at sea, no one of ours has ever contaminated the environment. The reason is simple: submersed in the sea,
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