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Cover For Your Car Rolled In Rear Spoiler

2010-10-27T08:58:00.000-07:00

Can anyone design and develop a spring loaded nylon (or similar material) cover for a family car that is encased in a cassette spool that itself is housed in the rear spoiler or rear bumper.

When drawn out, the cover should go over the top of the vehicle and hook on to a catch in the front bumper.

Neat, clean, functional are keywords here for the project.

The material is bound to wear thin in time and it should be easy to interchange worn parts with new replacements.

The covers should be available in multiple colours.

The cassettes should be of different widths to accommodate use on family vehicles of all sizes.

Neat, clean and functional - a concept brought to fruition and your vehicle is protected against the weather when not in use with very little effort.

Social Change - Self Sufficient Village

2010-03-06T20:17:00.000-08:00

A great number of persons from villages are migrating to the cities for sake of 'a better life' or 'a better life style'.

And if you look at the cities, for example in India, they are turning out to be one big garbage dump, full of rubble left over from shoddily 'completed' civic works. There is evidence of squalor everywhere.

Would it be possible for NGOs to 'adopt' one village at a time and try to make them self sufficient. Show them audio visuals of the poor workmanship and squalor in the cities in comparison with near perfect execution of work and civic sense in other parts of the world and convince the people to instead of migrating to the cities, contribute by systematically making their village a self sufficient model.

Show them for example, that it is important when laying out a new path or road, to ensure that the product is planned well and as importantly, executed well (exact monies worth, eliminating corruption in the form of monetary compensation for ignoring shabby work or simple laziness in cross-checking by concerned authorities). The concept is to have the villagers imbibe a feeling that since all are either beneficiaries or sufferers, all are responsible for the public jobs being completed well. The path or road has to be levelled, banked, under and over surfaced well and then maintained in a clean and neat manner.

How, by growing a few high yield potted vegetables like tomatoes, the monies saved contribute towards monies earned.

The sky is the limit for suggestions and methods for fine tuning the 'way of life' in the village to make its inhabitants self-sustaining and enjoy a far better life style than the growing squalor in the big cities.

See the article below for examples
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/30-year-old-MBA-grad-Chhavi-Rajawat-quits-job-to-be-sarpanch/articleshow/5657304.cms

What say you?

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'Pipe' sunlight half-way across the globe ..

2010-02-22T08:32:00.000-08:00

How much would it cost to 'pipe' sunlight half-way across the globe?

Harnessed concentrated sunlight enters the optic fibre train and at the other end distributed to, farmland clusters.

Far-fetched? or ahead of the times?

What do you think?

Useful Tips - Pepper Up Your Salt

2010-02-05T22:45:00.001-08:00

Save time and energy (and a little bit of plastic or glass) ..

Mix Salt and Pepper into one cruet in the proportion that you would most like. Say 1:1 ratio.

While on the topic of salt - understand that salt water can clean soiled cooking utensils more effectively than plain water.

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Useful Trivia - Dreams A Powerful Table Top

2010-01-07T00:34:00.000-08:00

Watched an absorbing program on Public Television -
The gist of one salient point of the topic (which was about dreams) was that if one has a vexing problem, one should think about it just before sleeping and PROMISE ONESELF TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR IT.

The theory is that during a dream, the brain actually knows that it is dreaming and therefore is at liberty to 'thrash out' the problem from all angles without fear of causing inadvertent harm.

According to the program hosts & guests, Lo and behold! the next morning, one could very well come up with a feasible solution.

Concept Sample: Hot Water From Waste Heat

2010-01-06T21:40:00.000-08:00

For sake of clarity parts shown are minimal. 'A' - is the gas stove ring burner.
Around the burner is a copper piping at a diameter such that it just touches the outer edge of the full flame.
The piping has an inlet port and an outlet port. The inlet port is fed via a throttle valve from the cold water supply.
The outlet port leads to hot water storage tank situated above the height of the cooking apparatus.
You can get water at about 70 degrees Celcius For 'FREE'.

This is certainly not my original idea but perhaps a little adaptation of an idea posed by a colleague.

At the cost of a little 'ugly' looking cooking apparatus (but worth it when it comes to a restaurant kitchen), one can get a huge volume of hot to near boiling hot water just from the wasted heat of the gas ring burner.

Your comments about feasibility and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Concept Sample: Wind Chute in a tunnel

2010-01-03T22:18:00.000-08:00

Concept is to utilise trapped air in tunnel that has to be circulated to do so via a wind chute. The resistance ahead of the train should reduce because of the wind chute and the pressure behind the train should increase.

Circulation should be achieved. A measurable increase in speed should be achieved.

But would it be worth the cost? What do you think? What would be needed to 'fine tune' this concept?

Concept Sample: Traction Mat to Free Electrical Energy

2010-01-03T20:57:00.000-08:00

Reduce> Reuse> Recycle > Rethink> Repair

Traction Mat to Free Electrical Energy-
Having been thinking about this on and off over the last two decades...

If the drivers of vehicles cruising down a slope chose a lane with a traction mat that transferred pressure on its surface to a sort of ratcheted recoil, which in turn on achieving its threshold, released stored energy to drive a dynamo, we could harness quite a bit of electrical energy for 'free'. Vehicles driving over the 'traction mat' lane could accumulate points redeemable at service stations state-wide (of course, this would need the associated legislation).

What do you think? Is this doable? What are the variations to this concept? One that comes to mind immediately would be 'Speed bump -> Electrical Energy'