Electrical Engineer Educates the Public on Money Saving Technology

Calabasas, CA – April 22^nd, 2010 – Fuel Doctor USA, the creator of the revolutionary FD-47, is proud to announce the appointment of Douglas Hungerford to Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With more than 18 years of professional experience as an electrical engineer, Hungerford brings a wealth of knowledge to the team and will take on the role of educating the general public on the Fuel Doctor USA’s FD-47, an innovative product that significantly changes the rate of fuel consumption of an automobile. As CTO, Hungerford will help consumers understand exactly how the FD-47 works as well as its money saving technology.

With an extensive background in engineering design and manufacturing, Hungerford is the perfect technology spokesperson for Fuel Doctor USA.  “Doug’s knowledge and skill set provide him an instinctive comprehension of machine functions, systems operation, and failure analysis that all benefit the understanding of Fuel Doctor’s technology” explained Mark Soffa, the Company’s CEO.   Hungerford’s knowledge and ability to translate scientific engineering facts into plain English allows Fuel Doctor USA’s product to be easily understood by the general public and with confidence.

Hungerford has already begun consulting on a variety of tasks including engaging the public in understanding the FD-47 product and how it operates, enhancing the website, blogging with individuals about the FD-47 and overall making the public aware of this innovative product and how it can save money for consumers.  Furthermore, he will assist the Fuel Doctor team with product enhancements/developments, technology manual updates and work with inventors to assist with the engineering aspects of Fuel Doctor’s products.

A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Hungerford received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.  Since graduating in the early 1990’s, he has worked in a variety of capacities including Electronics Technician, Electrical Engineer, Project Engineer, and Systems Engineer. Hungerford has worked at all levels of engineering, both domestically and internationally, with some of the most prestigious firms and corporations such as E.C.C. International/Cubic Simulation Systems, Simcom, ITEC Productions, Universal Studios Florida, and Walt Disney World.  These experiences have given Hungerford in-depth knowledge of numerous hardware and software systems. Hungerford is also a member of International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

Currently, Hungerford is competing in the Progressive Automotive X Prize Competition as part of BDCOTSRUS, Inc., a horizontally integrated group of engineers, consultants and friends that share a common goal of increasing the efficiency of an existing design.  The goal of the Progressive Automotive X Prize is to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles that offer more consumer choices, focusing largely on affordability, safety and the environment.  Ten million dollars in prizes will be awarded to the teams that win a stage race for lean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPGe.  Hungerford will be using the Fuel Doctor USA technology in the BDCOTRSRUS, Inc. car in the competition.

About The Fuel Doctor USA:

The Fuel Doctor USA’s FD-47 will significantly change the rate of fuel consumption for consumers, saving them money and the environment one car at a time. FD-47′s cutting-edge technology increases fuel economy which results in decreased CO2 emissions. Fuel Doctor USA has officially joined the ranks of new companies using science and technology to effectively lessen environmental damage. To learn more about Fuel Doctor USA please go to www.fueldoctorusa.com.

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AMG PRWorks

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Maidstone (Kent), UK – March 06, 2010 For everything you ever wanted to know about providing electricity for your home using solar energy and photovoltaic solar panels, look to national expert, MAP environmental – after all, it is the only company in the UK to supply and install these clever solar power systems.

All our solar power systems are made exclusively for the company by TopSolar, one of the world’s largest solar cell technology manufacturers. Shanghai TopSolar Green Energy Co. Ltd is part of Shanghai Electric Group Holding Co. Ltd, a Chinese government-owned corporation which is a world-class mechanical and equipment manufacturing technology enterprise.

In 2008, TopSolar grew by 170% and boasted an annual turnover of 180 million USD.  The company employs more than 30,000 employees and manufactured 70MW of solar photovoltaic modules during 2008 which would cover 632km.  In Production doubled in 2009.

The team at MAP is committed to providing you with clean, sustainable, affordable and high-tech solutions to your rising energy costs; and you can feel better that you are using a sustainable energy solution. Solar power systems simply using the sun.

Each solar power system is meticulously engineered for a long life and is covered by a 25-year warranty. In addition, if you are not entirely satisfied, there is a 90-day, no-charge return policy.

The PV solar power systems are available as complete kits or customized for on-roof mounting, in-roof mounting, flat-roof mounting or as integrated systems.

For further information on MAP environmental, please call 01622 722280 or visit www.mapenvironmental.co.uk

See Water has a worldwide network of manufacturing reps/distributors in the plumbing, utility, and petroleum industry capable of supplying and providing solutions to companies and engineers around the world. In addition, See Water focuses on the development of new innovative technology that enables positive changes to the pump industry and to continue to meet and exceed the expectations of customers.

See Water, Inc. is a design/manufacturing firm that provides water pump controls and solutions to the water pump industry. In 1995, See Water came into existence and the Oil Smart® Pump Controller was developed to pump water without the risk of pumping oil into the environment. The pump control is used in a variety of applications including elevators, transformer containment barriers, and underground vaults while reducing the risk of fines, bad publicity, or contaminating the environment from an oil spill.  Since the development of the Oil Smart Pump Control, we have expanded our lines of products to additional pump controls, alarms, and control panel systems through three different line of products: Oil Smart®, Water Smart®, and Wastewater. Currently, the company holds five patents (5,287,086 – 5,463,378 – 5,563,585 – 5,856,783 and 7,492,272) with additional patents pending.

Oil Smart® products have the unique characteristic of being able to differentiate between water and oil. The Oil Smart® Pump Controller, when combined with any manual sump pump, will automatically pump water from transformer oil containment barriers, substations, elevators, or any dewatering application into rivers, waterways, or the environment without the danger of pumping oil. The Oil Smart® alarm is a high liquid alarm that will indicate if oil or water is present in the event of a high liquid level condition. Oil Smart® technology allows the application to be remotely monitored from virtually any location.

Pump Control Panels are available for Oil Smart (Dewatering) Applications and Standard Wastewater Applications. All panels are engineered of the highest quality and are complete packages. The standard panels are rated NEMA 4X, include visible mounted features, consist of engineered circuitry and electronic parts manufactured within our Southern California facility and include dry contacts to work in conjunction with standard monitoring systems. We offer a variety of control panels to choose from, including custom pump control panels.

http://www.seewaterinc.com/

Noord Brabant, Holland ( Prfriend ) February 27, 2009 – Snow-Blower-Guide.com now offers a comprehensive collection of information regarding snow blowers all in one place, providing assistance to anyone searching for the snow blower that best answers their needs.

Snow-Blower-Guide.com is a website that compiles information about snow blowers in a single place. This is for the convenience of consumers searching for a quick but accurate guide as they shop for snow blowers. One of the objectives of the website is to make it easier for snow blower buyers to make smart decisions when they are out to purchase snow blowers.

The website provides consumers with high-quality reviews and snowblower ratings on leading snow blower brands and models. The website offers summaries of the snow blowers with the best ratings as well as reviews for specific snow blower models. Valuable consumer insight is also given to provide consumers with opinions that come from the same point of view as theirs.

Top snow blower brands such as John Deere snowblowers, Ariens, Craftsman, Yamaha, Simplicity, among several others, are featured on the website. Popular snow blower models are also featured as a guide for consumers in evaluating and setting standards for what they should look for in snow blowers.

Information regarding snow blowers is not hard to find. However, Snow-Blower-Guide.com’s one-stop collection of information is quite helpful in lessening the amount of time spent on searching and evaluating information about snow blowers. Online subscriptions are also offered on-site for those who want to keep up to speed with recent news regarding snow blowers.

For additional information, visit our Best Snow Blower Guide

Contact:
Mark van Tuel
Rijnstraat 216
5215 EN, Den Bosch
Noord Brabant, Holland
06-34192442

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During the spring, flocks of migratory wading birds arrive from their natural habitat, which would be usually intolerably cool during winter, to a critical non-breeding habitat on the tropical places.

Protection of these migratory birds is a concern that needs real attention. Some of these birds from northern hemisphere fly more than 20,000 km a year in search of a suitable dwelling place for survival during the winter season.

The use of GIS and remote sensing technology can be used as an integral part to trace the migrating location of these birds from field mapping to reporting of the location.

One tip to find the birds of migration is to identify their food habit. This would give an idea of their prospective migrating location with regard to the availability of the specific food.

For instance, if we take the birds that usually migrate from Siberia to the tropical North coast of Australia. These migratory birds feed on small animals that live in mud such as crabs, snails and worms. These birds naturally migrate to the area of low muddy lands of Australia to feed and refill their energy for their journey back to their natural habitat.

Using compatible and innovative GPS units and enough field staff, samples can be collected from various points of the expected area of migration by producing progress maps and occasional species maps. By these procedures, even the presence of any new species in the area also can be identified.

To cite another example, some migratory birds have time and again halted in Malaysia during their roosting season that usually lasts from November to March because of its Matang Mangrove Forest.

The arrival of these migratory birds was observed by The Department of Wildlife and National Parks and they have decided to create a GIS database in order to study the biodiversity and sustainability of migratory birds.

Finally, they made a GIS database for the migratory birds and conducted an overall analysis on the captured data. The methodology run from need assessment to data collection, database development and system integration. This finally resulted in an analysis on the trends of bird migration, the properties of ecosystem, environment sensitivity analysis and spatial statistic analysis on the distribution of the migratory birds.

As already mentioned, the resultant migratory bird’s database contain statistical results on the trend of bird migration which in turn helped to identify the endangered species of migratory birds. When the endangered species are classified, measures and procedures for the maintenance of the mangrove areas are taken.

• The database of the migratory birds with reference to the diversity and sustainability of the birds can been developed using ArcView 3.2, MapObject 2.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, AutoCadMap 2.0 and S-Plus 2000.

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Article by : RARIMA N S

In the areas of GIS data acquisition, visualization and general mapping, digital satellite imagery and aerial photographs have a significant place.

Photographs obviously provide a solid visual effect. Imperceptible spatial concepts are more clearly understood by viewing the photographs. These are not photographs taken by ordinary cameras. These are very professional high-end cameras with higher zoom and clarity.

Another important role of these photos is to provide a foundation for collecting the spatial information needed. Data in the form of the satellite images or aerial photographs must be taken without any distortions, if you need to gather information useful for a mapping or GIS system in the case of roads, marine forms or vegetation.

This process of correcting the distortions of a satellite image of aerial photograph is called orthorectification. This process allows you to make direct and precise measurements of areas, distances, angles, positions etc.

Why an aerial photograph needs correction?

The main challenge of an aerial photograph compared to a non-aerial photograph is that an aerial photograph needs perspective correction. An aerial photo is usually captured at an angle to the object being photographed. Here, the perspective of the photograph will be incorrect with near objects compared to distant objects. By perspective correction, the objects in the image and the real world will have equal size.

Process of Orthorectification

As topographical variations in earth’s surface and the tilt of the satellite or the aerial sensors can affect the display of the features on the satellite or aerial image with regard to their distance. The image distortion will be more as the topographical diversity of the landscape is more.

Image data acquired by airborne and satellite image sensors are affected by systematic sensor and platform-induced geometry errors, which introduce terrain distortions when the image sensor is not pointing directly at the Nadir location of the sensor.

There can be hundreds of meters of terrain displacement. Image data over an area with at least a kilometer of vertical relief, with the sensor having an elevation angle of 60° (30° from Nadir), the image output will have nearly 600 meters of terrain displacement.

Errors in setting the reference elevation can cause further terrain displacement. Other than this, low elevation angles of images, imperfect terrain models, and inconsistency of sensor azimuth and elevation angles within an image alters the accuracy potential if image orthorectification is attempted. To overcome this defect, high elevation angles of the sensor is used with new high resolution satellite image of irregular terrain.

Creation of Digital Elevation Model (DEM)

For the accurate removal of the image distortions, a digital elevation model (DEM) is used to make image orthorectification. The requisite DEM can be produced by semi-automatic DEM extraction software from stereo satellite scenes obtained by the QuickBird, IKONOS, SPOT-5, or ASTER satellite sensors, and stereo aerial photography.

In situations where higher mapping accuracy standards are required, the DEM is extracted from the already existing topographic maps with reference to a standard scale or collected using stereo satellite image data.

To obtain this accuracy standard, adequate GPS-derived ground control points (GCPs) are necessary. Other remote sensing techniques can also be used such as radar interferometry or LIDAR.

When a particular vector data needs to be extracted from satellite or aerial image data by raster-to-vector translation, the process of orthorectification of the remotely sensed image data can rectify all digital images of geological, environmental, topographic or any other source map which will be used in the GIS mapping environment.

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Article by : RARIMA N S

Vancouver, BC—Syntaris Power Corporation is pleased to announce that it has submitted three hydroelectric projects into the BC Hydro 2008 Clean Call for Power. The projects represent a total estimated capacity of approximately 104 Megawatts of electricity.

“Our top notch professional team worked hard on developing these submissions and we are confident that the quality of these projects will make them extremely attractive to BC Hydro,” says Syntaris Power President and CEO Robert Fraser. “We are also pleased with the support we have received from our First Nations partners and look forward to working together on building and commissioning these projects in the near future.”

The projects submitted to the BC Hydro Call for Clean Power are:

• Kinskuch River Project, located 27 km east of Stewart, BC which is estimated to generate 76 MW of power

• Maselpanik Creek Project, located 51 km east of Chilliwack and 35 km south of Hope, BC which is estimated to generate 13 MW of power in the Fraser Valley.

• Culliton Creek Project, located near Squamish, which is estimated to generate 15 MW of power

These three projects combined have the potential to displace over 210,000 tonnes of CO2 annually*, equivalent to the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by over 42,000 cars per year. Development of these three hydroelectric projects will help the province reach its goal of achieving energy self-sufficiency by 2016.
The BC Energy Plan requires that 90 per cent of all new electrical generation will come from clean or renewable resources.

* Based on the calculation that for every Mega-watt-hour of green power produced, 0.52Tonnes of CO2 is offset from thermal power plants

About Syntaris Power Corporation:

Syntaris Power Corporation, formerly Max Pacific Power, is a Vancouver-based green energy company committed to sourcing, developing and operating clean, renewable hydro electric energy projects in the Province of British Columbia. With an impressive hydropower development portfolio representing a total of over 600 Megawatts of expected energy, the company’s projects have the potential to bring socio-economic benefits to First Nations and local communities. Syntaris projects are an integral part of British Columbia’s long-term energy strategy to become energy self sufficient and create a legacy of safe, clean, renewable power for future generations.

For more information about Syntaris Power, visit the company website at www.syntaris.com

Contact Details:
Kevin Boothroyd
Web Site: http://syntarispower.com
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 1-778-329-9629 ext. 247

Address:
Street: #600 – 999 West Hastings Street
City: Vancouver, BC
Country: Canada
Zip Code: V6C 2W2

Householders in London are being urged to ease the threat of landfill fines and beat the credit crunch with a free online resource called SnaffleUp.

Keen recycling fanatic Chris Toynbee, who runs a London website design company, decided to put his skills to good use by launching SnaffleUp to reduce the amount of useful household items that are needlessly thrown away and place increased pressure on the use of landfill.

The www.snaffleup.co.uk site now provides a user-friendly location where people can donate unwanted household goods and search for items that others have already posted.

SnaffleUp members can enter their postcode to search for local items and do not need to register to browse through the various categories including: home, kitchen, furniture, baby, toys & hobbies, garden & pets, computer peripherals, clothing, and crafts.

Every item is free and all collection or delivery costs are negotiated between the site’s members who can set up email alerts to inform them when items they require become available.

A forum facility has also been included on the site, as part of an ongoing improvement policy, to allow members to post their suggestions, which can be voted on by other members of the SnaffleUp community.

Chris is hoping London householders will join the SnaffleUp community and help to combat the throwaway culture that has seen the UK become the worst EU country for dumping waste into landfills – amounting to 27m tonnes, according to the Local Government Association (LGA).

“London boroughs now face huge fines from imminent landfill charges under the EU’s Land Directive, yet a lot of household items that end up in landfill sites still have plenty of life in them,” says Chris Toynbee.

“I hate to throw things away needlessly and so I created the SnaffleUp.co.uk site to allow people to donate their unwanted but useful goods to others who can give them a new home.

“At a time when householders in London are feeling the credit crunch, SnaffleUp is an easy and convenient way to help save money, reduce the impact on the environment and prevent local councils from being issued with millions of pounds of landfill fines.”

www.snaffleup.co.uk

Company Name: Snaffleup
Web site: http://www.snaffleup.co.uk/
Contact name: Chris Toynbee
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
Comtact phone: +44 (0)207 5954540
Category: Recycling, Enviroment
Release date: November 4th 2008
Tags: Recycle, recycling, waste, waste disposal, waste management
Zip Code: SVW 01