National University of Singapore industrial design students Gabriel Tan and Wendy Chua's prototype uses negative ions, compressed air and anti-bacterial deodorants to clean clothes.
The GE team began its energy treasure hunt at Weidmann by shutting down everything at the factory and searching for things like lights unnecessarily left on, compressed air leaks and running water.
In addition to nukes, OR-SAGE also examines advanced coal with carbon capture and storage, solar and compressed air energy power plants.
RAPHaEL -- which is part of a larger RoMeLa robot project named CHARLI -- has already won several awards, including grabbing first prize at the 2008-2009 Compressed Air and Gas Institute Innovation Award Contest.
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There are no fixed walls, and each deck is hollow, allowing technicians to run compressed air, electricity and data feeds to wherever they are needed.
The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (AKA the RoMeLa Project) at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech has designed and built a prototype robotic hand that is controlled and operated by compressed air.
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In 1990 an equivalent gun would have used 15 times as much compressed air as water, and thus been far more expensive to run.
This somewhat dangerous device had a six foot barrel, was made out of PVC irrigation pipe of varying diameters, and was powered by compressed air.
Air is pumped in and then compressed by the mass of water above it.
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The first carries compressed air, water, communications and a constant supply of electricity to power lights that are intended to simulate daytime and nighttime.
Compressed-air plants are inefficient, and so they are commercially viable only in places where the price of power varies dramatically.
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Now we have Frenchman Guy Negre and his Aircar, whose fuel is compressed air.
And the range of a car on compressed air is 10 to 15 miles at best.
At the moment, however, there are only two compressed-air energy-storage plants in the world (one in America and one in Germany), and neither was built to make use of wind power.
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Compressed air blows away any factory gnorts, the body is inspected for tiny defects and degreased using an environmentally safe water-based solution and surfaces are wiped with tack cloth in between each process to remove dust.
And rather than relying on salt caverns, SustainX uses standard steel pipes to store the compressed air, allowing its systems to be installed wherever they are needed.
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