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No more draught…

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

North eastern Australia scarce much in water and many projects were launched to improve the water level of this area but non was fruitful.Of this the importance was given to a  mechanical process called reverse osmosis. What this process does is the desalination of salt water which is much abundantly available in those areas.But this process requires the cleaning, replacement  etc of the semi permeable membrane through which the salinated water has to be passed under high pressure.Another method uses electric field to drive ions across membranes.But all this measures didn’t worth much and owing to its high cost couldn’t make an impact on water scarce areas. So resembling the latter technology a new technology was introduced named CDIs technology ie the Capacitive read more

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Wild Wild West

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Seems like a Hollywood movie ??? No its real a machine spider built as part of festival conducted in Liverpool during the month of September.At first the big arachnoid took the breath of many for a moment,children yelled out of terror.The huge 15 m terror wandered the streets for two days accompanied by a group of musicians and other artists.It was built by a French company named La Machine. The spider has got a steel body with wooden frames and controlled using 50 hydraulic actuators.It required more than a dozen of operator and a wheeled crane was used to move its entire body.And it may be the most expensive spider to buy and it costs about £2 million.Rumours were spread that the spider would appear in many cities in the coming year. read more

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Is Self Healing of a Material is possible???

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Can a material could heal itself ? sounds phony ? then not,the self healing material do exist and the automisation of self healing is on its final stage.Think of a world with bikes,cars and all which automatically repairs its body on a crack..mmmm really interesting right. The present developed self healing material is a boat say a yacht which won two America’s cup named Alinghi.What make it self healing is a carbon fiber composite with which its hull is made of.it could heal itself following a collision.But the automatic self healing is not achieved,But a EPFL graduate student discovered that it could be healed easily by passing electricity .Lets look how it works…. This carbon fiber composite is made of many layers of light weight carbon fibers and epoxy resins which read more

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Can we make water from air???

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

A Canadian company says the answer ‘yes’,we could make water from air.Recently they developed a water generator to produce water from atmosphere.In their view water is the next commodity that humans have to start production of their own owing to its scarcity.Yes thats our  near future, as we are depriving  of   good source of fuels and electricity now, soon we will set search on water…Lets look how this company could work out in the present scenario. This device so called atmospheric water generator absorbs water vapour from the atmosphere condense it and sterile it so that we could use it for drinking and other house hold purposes.Then the next question arise how much we could produce?and what is the case of a less humid area? the company has its answers.The read more

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New Technology to Increase the Mileage of Vehicles

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Researches at Temple University in Pennsylvania made an invention which may result in a world with 20% increase in fuel efficiency.They made an electrically charged tube covering car’s fuel line near to the injector and this resulted in the increase of mileage from 14.029 km/liter to 15.73km/liter.This achievement is based on a principle named electrorheology, The principle states that the applied electric field could reduce the viscosity of the fuel and the atomization of spray could be increased resulting in a better combustion.They expect the technology would make many advancements in the field of engines and locomotives.Since a better combustion could be achieved the emissions or pollutants is low helping to preserve a green environment. A piece of study abstract made by them read more

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