Magnetic Refrigerators
Magnetic Refrigerators
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and General Electric have teamed up to create a revolutionary new type of refrigerator that uses magnets to create cold, also known as the magnetocaloric effect (lowering or raising the temperature of the material by changing the magnetic field).
Ultra-Efficient Heat Pumps
Ultra-Efficient Heat Pumps
The Building Technologies Office is ushering in the next generation of heat pump systems, which warm and cool your home by moving heat from one space to another. A fuel-fired, multi-function residential heat pump that can reduce primary energy consumption by 30 percent.
Clothes Dryers
Clothes Dryers
The same concept behind heat pump technologies that keep your home comfortable can also be used for another important application: drying your clothes. Oak Ridge National Laboratory and General Electric are developing a new type of clothes dryer that uses a heat pump cycle to generate hot air needed for drying.
Smarter, More Connected Homes
Smarter, More Connected Homes
We live in an increasingly connected world -- the same is true for our homes. New electronic devices and appliances can now be linked to the Internet to provide real-time data that makes it easier to understand and lower energy use.
Next-Gen Insulation
Next-Gen Insulation
Insulation is one of the most important ways to reduce your home heating and cooling costs. The Industrial Science & Technology Network is developing new foam insulation made with environmentally friendly and advanced composite materials that ensure heat doesn’t escape from the attic, walls and other areas of the home during cold winter months.
Advanced Window Controls
Advanced Window Controls
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Pella Windows are working on new highly insulated windows that use sensors and microprocessors to automatically adjust shading based on the amount of available sunlight and the time of day to ensure proper lighting and comfort, saving consumers energy and money.
Reflective Roofing Materials
Reflective Roofing Materials
Cool roofs coated with materials containing specialized pigments reflect sunlight and absorb less heat than standard roofs. Expect these types of roof systems to get even “cooler” due to new fluorescent pigments developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and PPG Industries that can reflect nearly four times the amount of sunlight of standard pigments.

Energy-Saving Solutions

From heating and cooling to electronics and appliances, it takes a lot of energy to power our daily lives. Our homes use 37 percent more energy today than they did in 1980. But without energy efficiency -- through technology innovation and federal energy conservation standards -- this number would be a lot higher. In fact, even though our total energy use has grown, our energy use per household is down about 10 percent, despite that our homes are larger and contain more devices.

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Turning Invention Dreams Into a Reality

In the event that you have a thought for an item that is the best thing since cut bread, there's no reason for it staying as a fantasy of your creative mind when you could offer it for sale to the public, and it could make you a little fortune. Being a prototype manufacturing Cincinnati, OH isn't all Disney-esque insane lab rats and unpredictable, insane haired teacher types. Numerous individuals have imaginative thoughts, yet for reasons unknown, they never figure out how to make their creation dreams a reality. Investigate how you can go above and beyond than most and make your item a genuine substance.
Get It On Paper
It doesn't make a difference what your innovation is, you need confirmation that it was you who designed it. While you should record your thought and afterward present it on yourself in a fixed envelope with the goal that you have a date stamp, this isn't the most legitimately stable method for guaranteeing you have verification of the date of origination. Rather, record how your item works and what it is produced using, and go with your exposition with any outlines you may have. Head to a specialists office and get this marked and dated by an official observer.
Presently you have this archived, you can consider applying for a patent. This is a bit of paper to express that the plan is yours and that nobody is permitted to duplicate or recreate your work and pass it off as their own. This is crucial on the off chance that you need to keep up the respectability and the budgetary reward of your development.
Statistical surveying
Because you think you have had the most inventive thought since the thousand years, you should guarantee that other individuals concur with you. In the event that you can, fabricate a model of your item and test it on your picked specialty. On the off chance that the market reacts emphatically, you can proceed into assembling. If not, they may have recommendations for changes that you can follow up on. You should work out the expense of assembling and your overheads and set a retail value as needs be to enable you to make benefit and sit easily inside your picked market.
Make It
This is the energizing stage when you can see your thought go into an increasingly mass condition of generation. Consider the utilization of infusion form assembling to deliver any segments you may require. This takes into consideration a reliable and precise technique for assembling that is savvy. When you're content with your last item, you can come back to your patent and add anything of note to verify your plan.
Advertising your development is the precarious part. Because your item is extraordinary doesn't mean individuals will get it on the off chance that they don't think about it. Use the web, upgrade your online nearness and top off your web based life feeds to showcase your item.
Being a designer isn't troublesome on the off chance that you are happy to put in the diligent work and exertion. You never know, you might sit on a little fortune with your thought without acknowledging it.