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enertree |
Page Views: 203 |
Sustainable Technology |
| David Breske, Blacksburg, VA US |
Votes: 4 |
10/21/2008 |
Most of the energy wasted in the typical home is the result of devices that are not in use. Things like TV's, computers, lamps, and overhead lighting are often left on and forgotten about, which contributes to environmental drain and expensive electric bills. Enertree solves this lack of awareness by notifying users of when and where a house is wasting energy and uses the metaphor of a tree to draw attention to the negative effects
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ECO Street lights |
Page Views: 275 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Guilhem Lamour, Plaisir, FR |
Votes: 12 |
10/17/2008 |
Cities consume a lot of energy into street lighting. Thanks to PV panels and little vertical axis windmills integrated into the design, this sleek urban furniture is going to produce its own energy requirements and a lot more. It is going to be pluged to the city grid and produce electricity night and day. Longlasting and efficient 100 W Led lights will provide light at night.
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Kernel Housing Prototype |
Page Views: 241 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Ella Stelter, New Orleans, LA US |
Votes: 10 |
10/17/2008 |
Manufactured housing, the most common solution to market rate affordable housing in the States, has many unique issues. They come with higher interest rates and shorter loan terms when compared to traditional housing, are subject to stricter zoning regulations and depreciate faster when compared to traditional housing. Modular and pre-fabricated housing has also been proposed as a solution, but shares problems such as lack of local contextualization and flexibility with manufactured housing. They also fail
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NEUTRAX: The High Speed Environment-Friendly Transport System |
Page Views: 268 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Balint Szent-Miklosy, New York, NY US |
Votes: 7 |
10/17/2008 |
NEUTRAX: The High Speed Underwater Transportation
NEUTRAX is a system that provides a new type of high-speed underwater transportation. Using the same technology we use for laying communication cables under the sea, we provide a coastal, underwater system to connect major transit hubs that are situated on major waterways. However, instead of communication cables, these tubes will be made to float under water with air pockets neutralizing the freight within the tube. Instead of traveling
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ECO-Accessible ICON |
Page Views: 181 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Gary Woods, Toronto, ON CA |
Votes: 3 |
10/17/2008 |
My creation of a new ICON was part of my ECO-Accessible Fridge that is entered as a Fridge invention.
But , the new ICON I want to use on my Fridge will be a Global sign for Consumers so they know the product is Green & Accessible which allows for most people to take part in protecting the Planet even from a Wheelchair.
The Green background is so people can spot it from a far
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LITROENERGY POWER CELLS - Electrical Power Generation |
Page Views: 34,105 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Michael Kohnen, Clayton, WI US |
Votes: 11 |
10/17/2008 |
Litroenergy Power Cells generate electricity reliably and constantly 24/7 over 20+ years (12 years half-life) without any waste byproduct or any other energy input. Utilizing Litroenergy in combination with solar cells creates a light weight solid-state long term low cost new electrical power source (Litroenergy Power Cells).
Our Litroenergy sheets produce extremely versatile, durable, abundant and long lasting light-energy (electricity when used in combination with solar cells).
Litroenergy when used as a light-source has applications
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Wind Scraper |
Page Views: 230 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Kurt Wedgley, Dublin, CA US |
Votes: 11 |
10/17/2008 |
This wind turbine design is my answer to the 3 major problems plaguing them.
1. They cause bird deaths
2. They are unsightly to many people
3. Large wind turbines can have oscillation problems
By enclosing several stacked vertical axis turbines in louvered structural upright supports, it will allow the wind to travel through the slots, and movement of the turbine cannot be seen from the outside (one of the unsightly things besides their size people complain about). Cyclone
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Self Sustaining Electro Magnetic Generator |
Page Views: 218 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Paul Gates, Westport, CT US |
Votes: 9 |
10/17/2008 |
The Self Sustaining Electro Magnetic Generator is a device that is meant to charge electric car batteries. The concept was to provide consumers with an electric car that would only have to be charged once. The main part of the device is a system of magnets that push off of each other creating electricity. When car battery is 50% empty the generator turns itself on causing the magnets to create power for the battery. While
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CONTROL OF SEVERE WEATHER STORMS |
Page Views: 119 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Michael Adrian, Lewisville, TX US |
Votes: 12 |
10/17/2008 |
CONTROL OF SEVERE STORMS
Problem: Severe storms (hurricanes & tornados) and their devastation.
Example: In August 2005 hurricane Katrina devastated the southern US coastal region and cost ~$110-billion in damages.
Solution: attenuate, redirect or terminate the storm by cooling down the warm airmass and by increasing barometric pressure.
Plan: Using transport aircraft for cooling hurricanes with dry ice. Using guided missiles for bursting tornados with explosives.
Experience: Those Storm Chasers have a lot of storm data and experiences flying
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Lightning Power Generation System |
Page Views: 143 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Albert Mathieu, Fall River, MA US |
Votes: 6 |
10/17/2008 |
As the world witnessed the price of oil skyrocket to record highs in 2008, the need for alternate sources of energy have never been more self-evident. The proposed Lightning Power Generation System (LPGS) provides a means to directly capture the energy in lightning strikes, potentially providing an immense amount of pollution-free power to the commercial power grid. An average cloud-to-ground lightning bolt bringing negative charge to earth produces a peak current of 30 kiloamps (currents
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Environmentally Responsible Off-Peak Power Generation Utilizing Potential Energy Storage and Kinetic Energy Generation Units(PEKEGU) |
Page Views: 115 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Richard Lusk, Oak Ridge, TN US |
Votes: 9 |
10/17/2008 |
Background
Capturing off-peak energy production from wind, solar, hydroelectric and nuclear-fuelled generation resources is a continual goal of grid energy storage. Finding new ways to harness, conserve and utilize the energy we generate is a fundamental and reasonable near-term energy strategy to pursue.
A recent Department of Energy study finds that “off-peak” electricity production and transmission capability could fuel 84 percent of the country’s 220 million vehicles if they were plug-in hybrid electrics.
Problem
A significant problem
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Sustainable crops and gardening |
Page Views: 117 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Shane Elwart, Ypsilanti, MI US |
Votes: 16 |
10/17/2008 |
Sustainable crops and gardening provide crop producers and gardeners the opportunity to grow crops year round and produce crops, fruits and vegetables at a higher rate than traditional. Then the nature of this methodology will also reduce the impact of CO2 on the environment. This will bring joy to gardeners during long winter seasons and additional economic growth in the farming sector. Furthermore, this will make healthy foods more readily available to consumers.
Crops, garden plants
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Electro Fuel Station |
Page Views: 106 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Metin Giousouf, Esslingen, NA DE |
Votes: 10 |
10/17/2008 |
Automobiles will be powered by rechargeable battery technology in the future. However recharging will always be a time consuming procedure. Further the economical aspects also are depending on how the electrical power is generated for recharging. So here, a complete autonomous recharging station is presented. The electrical energy for recharging is gained from the environment by using e.g. wind energy, solar energy or geothermal energy.
An automobile with used battery drives on an special stage. Here,
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Manually distill water at any temperature |
Page Views: 181 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Donald Hill, Camarillo, CA US |
Votes: 9 |
10/17/2008 |
Pressure-Vacuum water purification
Don Hill
Distillation systems have been known for centuries as an easy way to purify water. The process comprises the evaporation of salt or polluted water, the condensation of the evaporated water, and the collection of the precipitated water. Traditional distillation requires heating the mixture to approximately 100°C to develop steam. One cubic inch of water in solution is equal to one cubic foot of steam at that temperature,
Water evaporates at virtually all
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solar reservoir |
Page Views: 138 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Pervez Garg, Zuarinagar, NA IN |
Votes: 12 |
10/17/2008 |
Solar reservoir is a modular household appliance for collecting used domestic water to recycle and reuse it for multiple times. It also uses a UV technology to decontaminate water:
With this product, it is now possible to reuse dozens of liters of water which is a product of domestic activities, and which, otherwise, would go to waste. The product aims to recycle and reuse water which is extracted as a result of laundry, dishwashing, showering, etc.
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Intensity aware automated lighting systems for home and office |
Page Views: 132 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Shikhar Sachan, New Delhi, NA IN |
Votes: 10 |
10/17/2008 |
Present automated lighting systems are responsive to people’s actions, i.e. the system detects human motion and switches on/ off lights. These designs however do not take into consideration the light intensity already present in the environment. Our application builds on this concept to create a low cost light automated system that is responsive to the present natural intensity of light and thus accounts for further energy savings. We use Wireless Sensor Networks to sense and
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Lighting System Using Solar and Wind-Driven Power Coordination Generator |
Page Views: 97 |
Sustainable Technology |
| GREG WU, Madison, AL US |
Votes: 5 |
10/17/2008 |
The invention is to use the solar and wind-driven power coordination generator to provide the power for the lighting system. The system includes (1) solar cell, (2) wind-driven generator, (3) input and output circuit control system, (4) storage battery, (5) spiral leaf blade. The invention only uses solar and wind power energy and occupies small space. It can be used to replace the traditional lighting system and can reduce a lot of cost.
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Computer Aided REstoration: CARE |
Page Views: 73 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Rinaldo Sperotto, SCHIO (VI), IT |
Votes: 2 |
10/17/2008 |
Computer Aided REstoration: CARE
This application provides to use a set of tools for digital mapping of a pictorial image, its analysis and storage, its processing and, finally, the execution of the pictorial recovery, decided by the restorer.
It can be applied both to movable (table or canvas) and fixed (frescoes) paintings.
Even though it is easier to operate on horizontal flat surfaces, the application to vertical or variously oriented surfaces is evident: it needs only an adjustable
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New Soul |
Page Views: 86 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Xi Chen, West Lafayette, IN US |
Votes: 9 |
10/17/2008 |
The NEW SOUL is an eco-friendly personal computer design that utilizes the projection technology and communion server technology, focusing on lessening the impact on environment but still provide the necessary functionality of a personal computer. It has three main parts: a compact computing unit, a projector frame connected to the computer case and a modular projector group.
The uses of keyboard laser projector and VGA screen projector replace the traditional keyboard and display monitor, thus
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Universal Generator |
Page Views: 789 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Chris Natt, Chesterfield, NA GB |
Votes: 31 |
10/17/2008 |
Throughout the world millions of people live without electricity and the benefits enjoyed by those who can take the supply of this essential commodity for granted. Poor and remote villages within the developing world often have to burn valuable natural resources to create light or power. Providing these communities with a sustainable source of electricity would transform their lives.
The ‘Universal Generator' utilizes kinetic energy for just this purpose. Its versatile design enables it to
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