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To create new transport using not chemistry fueles, but magnetic area of the Earth or air pillow.
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Everytime I drive past a farmed field, I always wonder what is being grown. Wouldn’t it be great if all farmers would add signs to say things like: “ This field is growing strawberries!” or “Soybeans grown here!” I…
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There are a lot of volcanos on the earth , my idea is whether can use these guys to produce energy , for example we can put an electrical machine on the crater , then make the volcano erupted , woo….... , so crazy , haha , i think it is .
Read MoreIf you’re concerned about saving water wouldn’t it be nice to be able to measure your consumption every time you took a shower, kind of like monitoring gasoline savings in a Hybrid car.
Read MoreOil will be a scarce (or null) resource before the current motor manufacturers will deploy a reasonably priced vehicle. With a special legistation, governments can contribute to “set the game rules” equal for everyone so that all…
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Have one car and share it with many neighbors. Use it to go to school, or to the store. And sell one of your 2.3 cars in your garage.
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There are many restaurants and insitutions that use vegatable oil. The used oil can be recycled into biofuels. What are the key attributes that will help create a business to identify sources of used oil, cooordinate pick-up, find the recycling…
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Either don’t use one, or when you can, wash it off and re-use it. Just think of all the straws that go into the landfills every day. We can take the same approach with wooden chopsticks.
Read MoreWithin a household, we generate waste water which can be resuse for irrigation, flushing toilet. My idea is to install barries, drainage system to collect the waste water and delivery it to the room/area within a house for reuse. To address the…
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Install rain water catchments in all new office buildings and residences in cities with rainy seasons.
Read MoreThe flow of traffic is much slower than it could be because each vehicle is controlled by a person who must watch out for the unexpected movements of other drivers, changes in traffic signals, etc. Have you ever been in one of those traffic jams…
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Zoos are so old. Why stay 40 feet from a tiger when you can see one a foot away? Build weather proof solar power WEBEX/Telepresence units and place them at known feeding centers anywhere there’s big interesting game to watch.
Read MoreTo build a “rubbish melter” in every town. You take the rubbish on the rubbish dumps and throw it in the melter. This must create something like molten lava that will be thrown into molds. When the stuff in the molds cool down, it can…
Read MoreLike a lot of people i’m keen to do what I can to look after the environment. I’ve found this more difficult in more recent years tho as there are so many rules …so i’m trying to encourage old school recyling between my…
Read MoreIn an age when we are supposed to be greener and more health concious, why cant vegeteble patches be incorporated in landscape designs in work places? It means home grown produce, less transport costs for produce, a social link between colleagues…
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Children can fill and refill plastic water bottles with water, juice, or Kool-Aid rather than using disposable drink boxes. Tupperware or other containers can be used for snacks (i.e. fruit, veggies, dessert) rather than pre wrapped snacks. Lunch…
Read MoreWe have thousands of miles of black top that is only being used for driving on. Why not install solar panels that you can drive on that will generate power for the surrounding homes? I’m sure there are planty of uses that haven’t…
Read MoreCLosing the office 1 day a week to allow employees to work from home would save our natural resources. Minimal electricity and fuel used for that one day multiplied billions of times over, imagine the savings.
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Communities that have land set aside for protection against deveopment should use that land to harness wind, solar and water powered energy. The monies that are collected by selling the power back into the grid should be used to offset residential…
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We cannot wait for governments or even consumers to recycle more. A consumer packaging company needs to use packaging made from a renewable resource i.e. no plastic. On a wider scale, a community needs to use the waste of that community to make…
Read MoreI hold a copyright on a building that uses geothermal, ssolar, and wind power to produce electricity. I am trying to get the proto-type of the building up.
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The fact that all windows let in sunlight to a certain extent, then why are the propereties of windows not engineered to act as solar panels??? My home is equipped with a first generation “Inflector window solar systems as an alternative…
Read MoreIn today’s world where everyone wants to be more “green” we talk about using more public transportation. However I believe a large part of the population just does not know how to use it. we should teach children at a young age…
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