MARS

Necessity… the mother of invention.
Plato

Almost all the inventions (so far), happened due to some necessity. The crucial challenge, humans face at present is to find an alternative source of energy rather than rely on fossil fuels, due to the limited availability and ill effects it impinges upon planet earth.Innovative ideas struck human brains and end up in new inventions.One such marvel is

MARS – Magenn Air Rotor System.

MARS Megann Air Rotor System

Magenn Power’s MARS is a Wind Power Anywhere solution with distinct advantages over existing Conventional Wind Turbines and Diesel Generating Systems.

MARS is a lighter-than-air tethered wind turbine that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, generating electrical energy.

This electrical energy is transferred down the 1000-foot tether for immediate use, or to a set of batteries for later use, or to the power grid. Helium sustains MARS and allows it to ascend to a higher altitude than traditional wind turbines. MARS captures the energy available in the 600 to 1000-foot low level and nocturnal jet streams that exist almost everywhere. MARS rotation also generates the “Magnus effect” which provides additional lift, keeps the MARS stabilized, and positions it within a very controlled and restricted location.

Mars Technology

All conventional wind generators use bladed two-dimensional disk-like structures and rigid towers. The Magenn Power Air Rotor system is a closed three-dimensional structure (cylinder). It offers high torque, low starting speeds, and superior overall efficiency thanks to its ability to deploy higher. The closed structure allows Magenn Power to produce wind rotors from very small to very large sizes at a fraction of the cost of current wind generators.

The distinct advantages of the Magenn Air Rotor System design are as follows:

• Magenn Air Rotor System is less expensive per unit of actual electrical energy output than competing wind power systems.
• Magenn Power Air Rotor System will deliver time-averaged output much closer to its rated capacity than the capacity factor typical with conventional designs. Magenn efficiency will be 40 to 50 percent. This is hugely important, since doubling capacity factor cuts the cost of each delivered watt by half.
• Wind farms can be placed closer to demand centers, reducing transmission line costs and transmission line loses.
• Conventional wind generators are only operable in wind speeds between 3 meters/sec and 28 meters/sec. Magenn Air Rotors are operable between 1 meter/sec and in excess of 28 meters/sec.
• Magenn Air Rotors can be raised to higher altitudes, thus capitalizing on higher winds aloft. Altitudes from 400-ft to 1,000-ft above ground level are possible, without having to build an expensive tower, or use a crane to perform maintenance.
• Magenn Air Rotors are mobile and can be easily moved to different locations to correspond to changing wind patterns. Mobility is also useful in emergency deployment and disaster relief situations.

The performance specs of a 100 KW MARS ia as tabulated.

Radiation Effects on Humans

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
- Jimmy Carter

Recently the whole world got stunned on the nature’s fury and subsequent disaster with the triple blow of earth quake, Tsunami and Nuclear radiation threat happened on Japan.In spite of the heavy losses of human lives and property, the horror part is yet to conclude.The increasing levels of radiations on environment and humans pose an acute danger.

The aim of this article, is to explain the ill effects of nuclear radiation on the human body.

Certain parts of our body are very vulnerable to the exposure of nuclear radiation.There are various factors influencing the health conditions of humans exposed to radiation, such as

• The amount of dosage.
• Type of Radiation and its ability to damage human tissues.
• Which human organ got affected.

The radiation occurs when unstable nuclei of atoms decay and release particles. When human body is exposed to these particles, the energy gets absorbed on cells, causing biological damages. The extend of damage depends upon how much of radiation is absorbed. The unit used to measure radiation dosage is the rem, which stands for roentgen equivalent in man.

The extend of damage based on rem levels on different organs are listed below.

Even long after the radiation has subsided, the radiation damages continue to persist and cause physical problems.

Increased levels of Blood disorders,Malignant Tumors, Keloids – scar tissue covering the healed burns, swell and grow abnormally,cataracts on humans are noticed from the past experiences around the world.

In spite of all these ill effects, human race is not ready to stop the usage of nuclear power plants, due to the fact that the energy obtained from nuclear process under controlled operation is immense and relatively cleaner in terms of sustainability related issues.

Now it is high time to invest on innovative technologies to increase the harvesting of Solar, Wind and Wave Power for our energy usages.

Lets save our planet and human existence………..

Bottom Note: Even though Japan is the leading innovators on Humanoid Robotics, not even a single robot is used in the disaster management during the recent nuclear crisis…………..

Paradigm Shift

Human race is trying to play a “good Samaritan” role towards the environment, by wiping out the serious ecological damage caused. The advancement in technologies and sophistications, in some way or the other has adversely created an irreparable damage to the planet. Now it is Nature’s turn to take revenge and self balance the ecosystem. Once Nature gets furious, mankind is thinking of using the same technology to try and reverse the effects of the damage.

A common public may think, “what damage I have done to the environment?”. Every one of us, whether knowingly or unknowingly repetitively creating damages, as part of our life style. All our innovations and technological advancements are flawed. What once thought was an advancement or innovation, is actually self destructive ideas. Human race has undermined our own existence. In every action of us, we are speeding the “time bomb” of mass destruction.

How exactly, the damage done?

The Green House Gases (GHG) namely Carbon-di-oxide,Nitrous Oxide,Methane and Flourocarbons in the atmosphere are responsible for balancing the Earth’s temperature.All our manufacturing process,Transportation and Living, needs either Power, Heating or Cooling…..results in emission of Carbon and other green house gases.Due to the excess release of these gases into the atmosphere, the concentration of GHG is increasing, causing the earth to warm in excess. The warming in turn, causes huge natural catastrophies like floods, droughts, increase in Sea Level, earth quakes and more surprisingly increased prevalence of insects, etc…etc….leads to mass destruction.

What needs to be done?

Try and reverse the GHG emissions by reducing the Carbon-footprints(amount of Carbon release).Implement innovative sustainability ideas into our life styles.We need to find alternative sources of power from renewable energy sources like sun light, wind energy, wave energy and all known natural resources.Governments’ need to implement strict laws to govern the carbon footprint.Awareness to be given for common public.

Where are we?

The idea of implementing sustainability needs excess money to be spent, makes the process very slow. Even then the ideology is spread through various fields of development, the process of reversing the effect seems to be a big leap ahead.

If all of us didn’t act now and be responsible to the environment, the future of our plant remains a “?”