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| 7832657 | Apparatus for lowering water temperature of sea surface By efficiently lowering a water temperature of a sea surface to thereby suppress an evaporation of a water vapor from the sea surface by lowering the water temperature of the sea surface, a generation of an atmospheric depression is prevented or its strength is weak... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7434524 | Machine to get rid of hurricanes A machine and method of operation to get rid of hurricanes. The general idea is to get rid of the low pressure in the center of the hurricane. No low pressure equals no circulation. No circulation equals no hurricane. The machine is a ship consisting of two m... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7306045 | Multi-stage fluid power turbine for a fire extinguisher A multi-stage fluid power turbine having application as a fire extinguisher to be ideally carried by a fire truck (e.g., a tanker or a pumper) so as to fight outdoor fires. An impeller and a propeller are located at one end of the fire extinguisher, and a fan is loc... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7290722 | Method and apparatus for making snow An elongated pipe conduit snow making tower, and assembly method, having an upper end spray nozzle head and pivotally supported on a support pipe for vertical inclination by a hydraulic ram jack enabling infinite non-preselected incremental inclinations. A ram safet... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7231140 | System for removing snow and ice from a surface A system for removing snow and ice from a surface that includes a fan and a heating element contained within a hollow cavity open at one end, and a hollow duct positioned above the hollow cavity. The hollow duct is open at both ends; one end is positioned directly a... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7154275 | Method and apparatus for detecting individuals using electrical field sensors A robust, easily deployable, covert, passive intrusion detection system uses one or more E-field sensors to detect the presence of a moving individual and to provide an indication of the presence of the individual adjacent the sensor based on E-field distortion prod... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7121804 | Fan system A wind power generating system that includes a series of progressively larger fan fans, the fans positioned in series relative to one another such that the blades of the trailing fans project into the wind stream that has been disturbed by the preceding fan and the ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6850819 | Irrigation control system An irrigation control system for land comprising: (a) at least one meter to measure one or more wheather conditions in a first area; (b) at least one monitor to (i) examine rainfall data derived from a radar scanning at least the first area according to predetermine... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6845919 | Apparatus for disturbing and removing electrons and protons from the atmosphere A tower has a concrete base (14) supported within the Earth and a frame (5) extending vertically from the base into the atmosphere. A ground conductor (12) runs alongside the frame. A first ground rod (10) is driven into the Earth and is ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6691926 | Turbo-fan snow making system A snow making system comprises a cooling subsystem having a fan that draws a first air into the cooling subsystem and a turbine that expands a second air to produce an expanded air, with the cooling subsystem combining the first air and the expanded air t... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6575381 | Artificial snow producing and releasing apparatus and method thereof Primarily crushed flaky or platy pieces of ice are supplied from a supply port into a rotary blade casing of a high speed rotary snow producing and throwing apparatus toward a rotor blade in the shaft direction of a rotating shaft by strong discharge pres... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6315213 | Method of modifying weather A method for artificially modifying the weather by seeding rain clouds of a storm with suitable cross-linked aqueous polymer. The polymer is dispersed into the cloud and the wind of the storm agitates the mixture causing the polymer to absorb the rain. Th... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6257498 | Method and apparatus for an agricultural air handler An economical and compact air handler specially configured for use in agricultural applications is provided. The agricultural air handler includes a shroud formed to surround a rotating shaft having a propeller attached to each end of the shaft. The prope... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6241160 | Atmospheric inversion layer de-stabilizer apparatus An atmospheric inversion layer de-stabilizer apparatus is using the energy of the water vapor present in the earth's atmosphere to destabilize an atmospheric inversion layer, as a way and to disperse the air pollutants concentrated below the inversion lay... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6223995 | Method for cooling golf greens and other vegetation A device and method for cooling a vegetation covered surface, such as a golf putting green. Said method includes providing an air stream, injecting water into said air stream, and projecting the combined air/water mixture over and onto the surface to be c... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6152378 | Mist clearing method and equipment An applying means in a discharge means includes a set of electrodes, and the electrodes face the ground level, are aligned along one continuous plane, are separated from each other at specified intervals in the horizontal direction, and are set to the sam... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6116515 | Method of using microcrystalline cellulose to enhance artificial snow making A method for making artificial snow using micro particulate material for the performance enhancement of snow making equipment, wherein very small particles of material are mixed into the water supply system which supplies water to the snow making guns at ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6056203 | Method and apparatus for modifying supercooled clouds Factors controlling the effect of cloud seeding were critically examined, and a new horizontal penetration seeding method using liquid homogeneous ice nucleants at the lower level of the supercooled portion of clouds was invented to maximize the microphys... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6025402 | Chemical composition for effectuating a reduction of visibility obscuration, and a detoxifixation of fumes and chemical fogs in spaces of fire origin A chemical composition is disclosed herein for effectuating a complex detoxification of fumes, chemical fogs, and a reduction of visibility obscuration caused by fumes and dispersed extinguishing agents in confined areas of fire origin. The composition in... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5975424 | Electric control for ultrasonic vertical anti-hail cannon A new control circuit for firing an ultrasonic vertical anti-hail cannon on a repeated basis from a remote location. The control circuit employs a micro-controller with electrically erasable programmable read only memory and random access memory. When mai... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5971293 | Modular system with double ventilation--mechanic and thermic--for the reduction or annulment of the formation of fog banks The modular system with double ventilation--mechanic and thermic--for the reduction or annulment of the formation of fog banks, that determines the slowest possible cooling of the ground and of the adjacent air layers maintaining their temperature higher ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5957382 | Fog generator A fog generator comprising a pump which delivers under hitch pressure a volatilizable chemical into a centrifuge-heater component which centrifuges and heats the chemical efficiently. The centrifuge forces heavier particles of the volatilizable chemical a... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5833137 | View tank A view tank including an upper partition plate and a lower partition plate dividing the tank body into an upper section, a middle section, and a lower section. The walls of the middle section are transparent and openable for planting purposes. The lower s... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5810248 | Method for the prevention or elimination of fog over a terrain, as well as system for the performance of this method The invention concerns a method of preventing or eliminating fog over an area of land, for example an aircraft runway, a motorway carriageway, part of a road or some other area. The method calls for water to be sprayed through several nozzles into a given... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5803359 | Device for generating a fog The invention relates to a device for generating a fog, characterized in that it comprises: a) a first closed vessel (1) kept at temperature and filled with a mixture having such a vapor pressure curve that pressure can be generated by varying the tempera... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5711481 | Process and apparatus for creating fog for special effects The present invention's fog generating apparatus has a mixing chamber. A steam nozzle in the mixing chamber injects high pressure steam into the chamber. The injected steam entrains ambient air, pulling it through an air opening into the mixing chamber. T... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5626290 | Rain making system An embodiment of this invention comprises a plurality of mono-filaments as condensation collectors. Plurality of filaments are connected to hang vertically from this horizontal cord, cable, rope on either side. A network of any size can be built. On a cle... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5556029 | Method of hydrometeor dissipation A method of dissipating hydrometeors (clouds) that includes transmitting electromagnetic radiation (e.g., light energy, from the sun, for example) that is absorbed by water vapor into the cloud to be dissipated and continuing the transmission of such ener... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5492274 | Method of and means for weather modification Weather in the vicinity of a land mass such as a continental arid zone near, and usually eastward of a body of water is modified by preferably propelling a ship pulling a submerged body having plurality of vertically displaced foils having an angle of att... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5445321 | Anti-hail shock wave generator The shock wave generator has a combustion control system including a pressure transducer for detecting whether an explosion in the combustion chamber takes place. When combustion is weak, as may be the case when the chamber is particularly wet or cold, ex... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5411209 | Anti-hail shock wave generator To improve the transmission of positive ions from ground level to cloud level by a shock wave generator, a shroud is provided which surrounds the barrel of the generator for guiding a convective air flow vertically along the sides of the barrel to an orif... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5381955 | Anti-hail shock wave generator The shock wave generator has a barrel made of four half conical shells with a vertical seam line plane of the Upper shells perpendicular to a vertical seam line plane of the lower shells. The upper and lower shells are connected about a horizontal circula... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5376346 | Method of reducing the destruction of ozone in the earth's stratosphere by the removal of chlorine, chlorine monoxide radicals, and catalytic aerosols By reaction of Cl and ClO radicals with alkaline cations, such as K2 O2, Na2 O2, CaO, CaO . MgO, Ca(OH)2, CaCO3, (Ca Mg) (CO3)3, Na2 CO3, NaHCO3 | 12/27/1994 |
| 5357865 | Method of cloud seeding A method of cloud seeding for precipitation enhancement comprises releasing hygroscopic seeding particles from a seeding flare 10. The particles are obtained by burning, in the flare, a pyrotechnic composition which includes, as an oxidizing agent, a comp... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5305548 | Orchard heat exchanger An orchard heat exchanger comprises an engine-driven shaft having an air propeller on each end. The assembly is enclosed in an open-ended horizontal cylindrical shroud, which has a large converging-diverging air inlet at the top, and is trailer mounted. T... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5295625 | Microclimate control apparatus A microclimate control apparatus utilizing the water vapor present in the earth's atmosphere as a natural energy source for promoting vertical air movement inside the apparatus, to gather, transport and distribute condensed water. The apparatus is positio... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5242109 | Method and apparatus for dispelling fog Fog is dispelled from a site by passing fog-laden air into a drying unit where it is contacted with a dessicant liquid (either an aqueous solution or a deliquescent absorbent which is not calcium chloride or a liquid dessicant such as glycerol or certain ... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5176319 | Method and apparatus for dispelling fog Fog is dispelled from a site by passing fog-laden air into a drying unit where it is contacted with an aqueous solution of calcium chloride under conditions which effectuate absorption of the water particles and some water from the air effective to increa... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5156333 | Apparatus for producing fog A method of producing a breathable fog comprises (a) passing air through a dryer unit to remove moisture; (b) cooling the dried air to a temperature below 0° C.; and (c) inducing water vapor into the dried and cooled air to produce breathable fog.... | 10/20/1992 |
| 4991773 | Method and apparatus for dissipating fog A method and apparatus for dissipating fog. A low enclosure includes a plurality of slits in the top thereof. A space heater is in communication with the enclosure and provides a flow of heated air thereinto. Heat is transferred to the air above the enclo... | 02/12/1991 |
