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Ken Isaacs (7 February 1927 – 8 June 2016), [1] born in Peoria, Illinois, [2] was an American designer.He is known for his creation of a matrix-based modular system to build living structures.
Self-build house (EVA Lanxmeer, Nederland)Self-build is the process of creating an individual home or building through a variety of methods. The self-builder's input into this process varies from doing the actual construction, also known as DIY, to contracting certain works to an architect or building package company.
Founded by Robert Kern in 1959, the company soon began producing portable generators for Sears, Roebuck and Co. under the Craftsman brand. During the 1970s, Generac expanded its offerings in the portable and recreational vehicle markets, and in the 1980s the company entered the commercial and industrial markets with its backup power generation systems.
A magnetohydrodynamic generator directly extracts electric power from moving hot gases through a magnetic field, without the use of rotating electromagnetic machinery. MHD generators were originally developed because the output of a plasma MHD generator is a flame, well able to heat the boilers of a steam power plant. The first practical design ...
"Generator" is the first, fourth and sixth single from the North London indie group The Holloways. The initial limited release wasn't chart eligible as it was only available from one shop on Holloway Road. The first re-release debuted at #89 in the UK Singles Chart. [1] It was included in The Holloways' debut album So This is Great Britain?.
An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, is an electrical generator that produces static electricity, or electricity at high voltage and low continuous current. The knowledge of static electricity dates back to the earliest civilizations, but for millennia it remained merely an interesting and mystifying phenomenon , without a ...
The center of the circular building is reserved for wind power generation through the use of a large-scale ion wind generator based on the EWICON implementation. The efficiency and power generation of the system at such a scale is not known, but the Dutch Windwheel Corp. expects the building to generate more energy than it consumes. [6] [7]
Shows using the Van de Graaff generator and several Tesla coils are conducted two to three times a day. [26] Many science museums, such as the American Museum of Science and Energy, have small-scale Van de Graaff generators on display, and exploit their static-producing qualities to create "lightning" or make people's hair stand up. Van de ...