Innovations

Your #1 topic for 21st Century Innovation is "Energy Conservation," and the comment by Jigar Y Patel of Bangalore addresses a concern I had in 2005. I have a US Patent (#7,685,817) on a technology that is not the "all encompassing answer" because there is no such thing. But, it was designed to solve a problem with an untapped resource technology.
Question: what would happen to the US energy problem if 10% of the residential homes that used air conditioning during the 3-months of summer did so without the need of local energy providers? Solution: We would not have brown outs.
Question: what would happen to the US energy problem if 25% of the residential homes that used air conditioning during the 3-months of summer did so without the need of local energy providers? Solution: The US would have surplus of energy, and could export that energy to neighboring countries. The US would be energy rich.
Question: is there a energy resource that has unlimited recharge potential and does not present an environmental issue? Solution: Nuclear Control Rods (e.g., Hafnium-72, etc) absorb photonic energy from nuclear reactors like a battery, yet when discharged can be reused over and over. But, instead they are buried with other reactor resources.
Comment: General Motors invested US$138.3 million to support increased production of the Ecotec 1.4-liter engine used in the Chevrolet Cruze. The US government invested around $1 billion into the Volt. Yet, it is impossible find investment funding for a 4 phase development program, at $5M each, to develop a production engine that supplies a 2-3 month continuous 1 Amp of 18 - 24Volts.

My concern about energy security and global warming of this world. We have coal that last may be for 100 years. We have oil that last may be for 40 years. Ok we can survive on coal and oil for 70 years easily. But the problem with coal and oil is global warming. So what is the solution. It can be solved be by solar, maybe by wind. Still solar and wind has many limitation. So basically we want something that works like I.C Engine and Steam Engine without pollution. We can use it in car and also we can generate electricity with it like power station. So basically we need to solve problem by engineering. Another thing I am writing is there is no meaning of increasing efficiency up to 10% or even 20%. Because people will drive more. Up to here I write something of no use. Now I come to point. I am independent Researcher mechanical engineer. I try to solve problem with my own way. We can utilize stationary force to do work. I know it is against to law of energy conversion. You go through my full paper , you will get to know exactly what I want to explain you. Pl visit http://www.energyefficientmechanism.blogspot.com/

The solution to climate change Proven (stolen) Replacement technology for Fossil Fuel Powered Electrical Generation. Dennis Baker dennisbaker2003(at)hotmail.com http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/010/0001/0001/0012/0002/0008/s7_e.htm Wednesday, March 27 1996 The radiolitic decomposition of organic materials generates hydrogen gas. Hydrogen gas is a very useful energy course; burns clean with water as the emission by- product. Humans generate a phenomenal amount of organic waste. The United Nations is very concerned about oceanic contamination by organic waste. Human organic waste could be treated to prevent methane generation, then exposed to nuclear waste to generate hydrogen gas. The potential solving of three issues with one action. http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/010/0001/0001/0012/0002/0008/s7_e.htm NUCLEAR WASTE UPDATE A free service from Nuclear Waste News | January 14, 2008 First Plasma-Waste Treatment Facility Slated for Romania An Israeli company has announced plans to build Romania's first plasma-waste treatment facility. Under a $30 million, 25-year build/operate/transfer (BOT) contract, Environmental Energy Resources (EER) will build a plant that uses plasma gasification melting technology. The system — developed by Israeli and Russian scientists at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology — sorts municipal and solid waste in a reactor, where metal particles are separated by magnets, with the remaining waste broken down by high heat. That organic material is converted into gases, and the remaining waste becomes black gravel suitable for use in infrastructure projects. EER said the system also can break down medical and radioactive waste, thereby providing a waste treatment solution for nuclear power stations. EER's shareholders include Urdan Industries Ltd. (TASE: URDN), Shrem Fudim Technologies Ltd. (TASE:SFKT), Makoto Takahashi's Tokyo Financial Group, the Canada-Israel Opportunity Fund, Leon Recanati and Shlomo Nehama. -- because I think what you are doing is very essential for the survival of the planet, and anybody who is hindering that needs to be pushed aside.

1- "Internet for Everyone" - grid computing by paying owners for gaming console processing power 2- Free, fast, efficient transportation for everyone - complex design of ski-lift cables and gondolas combined with lighter-than-air cable suspension 3- High-speed, heavy-capacity overseas cargo transportation - Wing-in-ground aircraft combined with super-cavitating hydrofoils 1- First, specifically because Vint Cerf mentions his hopes for "Internet for Everyone", I believe the following business model could serve to answer one of the primary concerns for each of these engineering grand challenges: computing power (the original focus of the DARPA grand challenges, from what I understand). Recognizing the incredible capacity of PS3 consoles in the Folding@Home project, I believe a business who pays console owners for their excess processor time (in cash, rebates, or other incentives) stands to gain -at a cost lower than the costs for purchasing, operating, maintaining, and upgrading supercomputers- the largest virtual supercomputer on the planet -one that will be surprisingly homogeneous, will continually upgrade itself, and will pay for its own purchase, housing, power, and maintenance costs. I believe the gaming console provides the most attractive 'home server' opportunity, where inexpensive thin-client devices and/or mobile devices bring users the same familiar desktop and files that were stored on the console (serving as a 'home server') and if a paid-contribution grid computing program such as this were developed to help console owners deal with the initial costs of the latest technology, maybe we will see the internet for everyone. And maybe even without the advertisements. Yeah right. 2- My second proposal is the one that I think would literally change everything if it were carefully considered. In the 60's and 70's, loggers in Washington and Oregon used cabled 'logging balloons' to move log loads efficiently from remote locations. While I don't find the most commonly used designs applicable, one design in an easily overlooked patent (3807577 "Aerial load lifting and transporting method and system" by John L. Bell) is the one I believe has much more potential than one might expect. By exchanging balloons for high-powered kites, exchanging single point-to-point transfer systems with continuous-motion ski-lift type systems, or changing static systems with more modern electronically controlled systems, the cabled system may demonstrate an incredible degree of versatility in three-dimensional spaces, much like the CableCam and SkyCam systems commonly seen above the quarterback during football games. Initially, such a system could be used for ship-to-shore cargo movement where ship still in deep water could exchange its cargo with a parking lot beyond the breakwater (looked into by the U.S. Navy in 1974, but using a very archaic system). If small-scale application proved acceptable, several systems could be attached to each other, spanning longer distances, much like bridges do today, except these systems might be able to stretch much further than any bridges we conceptualize today.. and with the possibility of much lower costs. Added complexity in the mechanisms of continuously moving ski-lift type systems could lead the devices to be able to switch cargo (in three dimensions) between multiple destinations - allowing the system to supplement or replace ground vehicle based transportation. With the development of more advanced flight stability systems, high-speed travel over the system might be possible, allowing it to directly compete with ships, trains, automobiles, and even aircraft. With proper development, I believe this innovation could become extraordinarily important, especially in the development of third-world economies that await road, rail, air and port infrastructures that could allow them to compete in the global economy. Because of the opportunity to transfer mechanical energy efficiently via moving cables, the system could also play an important distribution role in green energy initiatives focused on the generation of energy through central sources. As nano-technology continues to demonstrate to possibility that thin, powerful cables might one day be possible (and cheap), this system becomes more and more possible as well. And, as with the mobile-based Internet, I believe this system could become free through advertising once more robust individual-focused advertisement mechanisms are in place to place ads in front of travelers passing by destinations advertisers would like them to know about. 3- Wing-in-ground (WIG) aircraft have been under development since the 30's, but has never seen production because the ability to land on water at aircraft speeds has required the hull of the vessels to be far rigid and heavy to become more efficient that existing high-altitude designs. The Pelican concept under development at Boeing is designed to land on dry land only, but this will significantly restrict the amount of airstrips it can use (it weighs 6m lbs, and should be using only large airstrips located right next to the ocean). Patent 6439148 "Low-drag, high-speed ship" by Thomas G. Lang shows a 'super-cavitating hydrofoil' design that can be used for a takeoff and landing device especially for WIG aircraft. With an amphibious, high-capacity vessel such as this, the WIG could easily take over the current cargo ship design and provide an extraordinarily large leap forward in the global economy as containerized goods take hours instead of days or weeks to reach their destinations. The massive wing structures required for these aircraft may prove much more useful for the transfer of cargo to and from shore at facilities in less developed areas.

1 Virtual reality the quality of lucid dreams. We are nowhere near the sensory quality to fool the brain. Perhaps it will happen when we can make the brain generate the data and not push it from the outside through the senses. 2 A reliable way to induce lucid dreaming.

I had an idea .That is if we want to type anything on the monitor we are useing the keyboard. Instead of using the keyboard the words which we want to type on the keyboard if we pronounce that words that should appear on the screen.

To partially reduce landfill by eliminating very large amounts of broken concrete, would it be possible to construct a device (like a large bin) that would be filled with broken concrete and then charge the bin with sound waves or a frequency that would take the concrete back to its origninal components. This could then be available for reuse at a building site or similar aplication. It would be enviornmentally friendly, sice it would be inert and open for other uses.

Ignorance is the first thing to address...We cannot make progress without world-wide education...With that addressed, we can balance energy needs vs. food needs... I personally feel that population control is essential. We need to depend on technology rather than dooms-day theory, religious tripe, and the unreasonability for man to see the negative as outweighing the positive. Cold fusion may be viable, alternative energy is viable...it is ignorance, superstition and some religions that make these things seem impossible to us. I also think that developing nations need to look to future answers not past ones as there salvation. The US should lead by biting the bullet and learning to live within their own means...not those of others.

i want to commend engineers all over the world. i want engineers to find a solution to the depletion of the ozone layer. they should also see to the production of less ozone(o3). pls send more information about this problem to my mail.

if we want to cool a room, there is a one technique that there should be gap between the one wall, and the wall should be open at the top and like a window it should be open in the room, by which air can be flow from top to in the room and it will be cool.