Eco Factor: Sustainable house designed to run on off-grid solar energy.
Taalman Koch has designed a sustainable off-grid dwelling that utilizes a series of components prefabricated off-site to minimize construction waste, labor and maximize aesthetic quality. Dubbed the itHouse, the small house aims to better the relationship of the occupant to the surrounding landscape.
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We’ve all pretty much had it up to our keesters with the brusque and dismissive treatment that commenters who don?t agree with the RC world view get over there. This is why many of us have simply given up trying, there?s no point in attempting to have a relevant and open discussion there anymore.
It should be foremost on the minds of many that the RealClimate.org webserver domain is funded by Fenton Communications, an eco media group. Further, our tax dollars pay the salaries of people like Dr. Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS who has been (according to several post and comment times noted) using his taxpayer paid time at work to participate in that blog.
One of the missions of RC (Actually most of the mission, as it was setup as a response to the McIntyre and McKitrick paper in E&E, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT VOLUME 14 NUMBER 6, November 1st 2003) is to counter skeptical arguments. One of the ways they do this in to provide a list of people they disagree with, with links to rebuttals.
Source: wattsupwiththat.com
According to reports, the Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake will arrive in 2011 as the production version of the Mercedes Fascination concept car, presented at the Paris motor show back in 2008. The three door coupé will appear alongside the four-door coupé, which will be officially presented at the 2010 Paris motor show.
While Mercedes is unlikely to use the name ’shooting brake’, the style could also produce a five-door version which would substitute the R-Class in the future. An AMG shooting brake version seems almost guaranteed, as Mercedes uses the four-door model to compete with cars such as the Porsche Panamera and Audi A7.
Source | Autointernationaal
Visam started the introduction into the market of the new electric rotary vibrators models of our sizes 08 and 09.
As per Visam tradition, the new models realization has concentrated to improve the already high quality features of the previous models, thanks to the application of the latest designing technology, the adoption of the highest quality materials and components available in the market, and the use of state of the art machining and production systems.
Thus, we have obtained the new models SPX, size 08 and 09, that, thanks to the new solutions they incorporate, can grant:
-optimization of the weight/performances ratio of the vibrators;
-quicker start-up, therefore quicker syncronisation when working in couple;
-quicker time to complete stop;
-lower start-up and working current, therefore lower energy consumption.
On our website www.visam.it you can already find all electro-mechanical and dimensional data of the new SPX models, in all different versions 2-4-6 and 8 poles, 50Hz and 60Hz.
15 models! Over 4000 machines installed all over the world and still working. Three driving rolls. Double initial pinch style (independent adjustment of lower rolls).
Three-directional lateral guide rolls. Bending capacity: angle from 30×30 mm (1″x1″) up to 250×250 mm (10″x10″); pipe from 1″ to 20″; beams the hard way up to HEB 400 (WF 16″); modulus of inertia from 1.5 to 3000 cm3
Combination horizontal-vertical working position on most models
Digital readout available on all models
Conventional, programmable and CNC controlled versions
Broad range of special rolls and toolings
ELAP new absolute encoders series MEM-Bus avail on an interface to connect to field bus systems according to the CANopen standard.
MEM-Bus encoders can be supplied both in single- and in multiturn version: the singleturn encoder resolution is 13 bit, while for the multiturn type the resolution value is 29 bit (8192 steps/revolution x 65536 revolutions).
The encoder operating parameters can be set directly by the user: revolutions no., steps per rev., rotation direction and preset no. The diagnostic function signals possible parameter and position errors as well as the battery alarm – the data memory is anyway assured for a long period (13 years). MEM-Bus encoders avail on 3 signalling LEDs for supply state, line and error.
Different mechanical versions are available to satisfy all application requirements: MEM520 – Ø.58 mm round flanged with servo coupling, MEM540 – Ø 58 round flanged with Ø 36 mm centering mask, MEM620 – 63.5X63.5 square flanged, and MEM410 -with hollow shaft to couple directly to a motor shaft. All the types offer different options for the shaft/hole diameter; the electrical connection is by cables: two or three cable glands option is available.
The stout aluminium case ensures a high protection degree, so that it is possible to use MEM-Bus encoders in severe industrial environments.
The innovative electronic construction technology – involving no mechanical gear –allow to reach high acceleration and speed values and grants the transducer a long life.
Pneumatic manipulator with special vacuum handling attachment to overturn panels or metal sheets.
One vacuum pad, fixed to a 180° rotating support, allows to grip the panel or the metal sheet on the side below. The controlled lifting allow he operator to bring at first the panel in vertical and then to lay it on the opposite side, overturning it.
Depending on the operating necessities, vacuum can be generated by compressed air ( Venturi system) or by an electrical pump.
Max capacity 100 kg.
Max work radius up to 7 m.
Max vertical stroke up to 2 m.
The new deltawave leakage master monitores pipelines and penstocks for leaks and pipe burst. Up to sixteen flow meters can be balanced and monitored with an intelligent, multi-level alarm concept for leakage. False alarms whilst startup and shutdown of pipelines are safely avoided by the prooven smart alarm identification. Never the less, even smalles leacks can be idntified precisely.
The system is used for penstocks and for oil pipelines.
The leakage Master communicates via LAN, fiber optic, GSM or Sattelit with synchronized ultrasonic flow meters and generates operator warnings and shut down emergency alarms. Dynamic processes such as tube elongation in the start up or different dynamics of the individual stations are detected and will create no emergency shut down.
Product Name: Echinacea P.E
Latine Name: Echinacea purpurea
Appearance: Yellow-brown Powder
Active ingredients: polyphenols
Detection Mothed: HPLC
Specfication:4%
Details:
Echinacea belongs to the daisy (Compositae) family, and the nine North American species of these perennial wildflowers have a widespread distribution over prairies, plains and wooded areas. First used by Native Americans in the Central Plains states to treat a variety of illnesses, from respiratory and digestive problems to snakebite and blood poisoning, the scientific properties of Echinacea were first studied by German scientists in the 1930s, with the result that it is now one of the leading phytomedicines used in Germany. In the US, it is estimated that around 10% of the population have used it at some point to fight a cold, and its annual sales of an estimated US$300 million is second only to St. John’s Wort.
The Echinacea species are rich in bioactive metabolites of which lipophilic alkamides, water-soluble phenolic compounds (mainly caffeic acid derivatives) and polysaccharides are the most recognized for their immunomodulatory properties. recent research focuses on the caffeic acid derivatives. Caffeic acid derivatives are good antioxidants in cell-free free radical generation systems and echinacoside.
Product Name: Garlic P.E
Latine Name: Allium sativum L
Appearance: Light- yellow Fine Power
Active ingredients: Allicin
Detection Mothed: HPLC
Specfication:2%
Details:
Garlic (Allium sativum) has been a subject of considerable interest as a medicine world-wide since ancient times. Several lines of evidence through both in vitro and in vivo studies have revealed pharmacological potentials of garlic. In vitro studies demonstrated its antimicrobial, antithrombotic, anticancer, anti-platelet aggregation and antioxidant activities. In vivo studies, both in animal models and human clinical trials, have demonstrated beneficial effects of garlic in a large number of pathological conditions, including hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disorders and arteriosclerosis. Cancer preventative properties of garlic have also been reported. Epidemiologic studies have revealed the lower risk of stomach cancer in people with high garlic intake.
Main pharmacological effects of garlic are attributed to its organosulphur compounds. Allicin is the chief biologically active component of garlic.
Product Name: Gotu Kola P.E
Latine Name: Centella asiatica L
Appearance: Yellow- brown Powder
Active ingredients: triterpene glycoside
Detection Mothed: HPLC
Specfication:10% 40%
Details:
Centella asiatica belongs to the family Umbelliferae. The crude extract of C. asiatica and the products derived from glycoside were used as oral antifertility agents. The extract of C. asiatica extract possesses antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulating, antitumor, antiproliferative, radioprotective and antigenotoxic properties. The extract of C. asiatica L. has certain bioactive terpene acids such as asiatic acid, madecassic acid and their respective glycoside, asiaticoside and madecassoside Asiatic acid decreased the viability and induced apoptosis in human melanoma SK-MEL-2 cells. Asiaticoside and madecassoside have anti-psoriatic properties. Asiaticoside, has wound healing activity, promotes fibroblast proliferation
and increases the level of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants. There are some phenolic compounds in the extract of C. asiatica, having the activity same as that of the a-tocopherol. The crude extract of C. Asiatica was shown to be non-toxic in normal human lymphocytes and reduced the genotoxic effects of methyl methanesulphonate and cyclophosphamide in cultured human lymphocytes.
Product Name: Hawthorn FruitP.E
Latine Name: Crataegus pinnatifida
Appearance: Red-brown Powder
Active ingredients: hawthorn flavonoids
Detection Mothed: UV
Specfication:2% 10%
Details:
Hawthorn has been used as traditional Chinese medicine for a long time. In China, hawthorn fruit was used to improve digestion and relieve food stasis. In Europe, the fruit, leaf and flower of hawthorn are used for astringent, diuretic, and cardiovascular disease. The chemical components of hawthorn consist of sterols, triterpene acids, flavonoids, oligomeric proanthocyanidins, organic acids and cardioactive amines etc. The pharmacological effects were believed to be mainly due to the hawthorn flavonoids, which possess a number of beneficial effects such as cardiotonic, antiarrhythmic, hypolipidemic, antihypertensive and antioxidative activities.
Hawthorn flavonoids are mainly composed of hyperoside (HP), quercetin, quercitrin, isoquercitrin (IQ), rutin, vitexin, isovitexin and epicatechin (EC).Among them, EC, IQ, and HP are identified to be the major active flavonoids in the hawthorn phenolic extract (HPE) from hawthorn fruits that
have demonstrated inhibitory effects on the in vitro Cu+2- mediated low density lipoproteins (LDL) oxidation.
Product Name: Rhubarb P.E.
Latine Name: Rheum officinale Baill
Appearance: Yellow- brown Powder
Active ingredients: Emodin
Detection Mothed: HPLC
Specfication:10% 50% 98%
Details:
Rheum officinale Baill (Chinese name Dahuang), is one of the most popular traditional medicinal herbs and is officially listed in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. Its species are widely distributed in China, Kirgheeze desert and Europe. Chinese rhubarb is the only kind recognized by the United States Pharmacopeia, and pharmacological test revealed that Rheum officinale Baill had pharmacological activities such as cathartic, anti-psychotic, antiinflammatory, antimicrobial, hemostasis and so on, so it has been used for the treatment of dysentery, cholera, uraemia,
leukaemia, diabetes, lung cancer and widely used in combination with other crude drugs for the treatment of wound healing from ancient times in China.
The major active components of the herb are hydroxyanthraquinones. Emodin, is an anthraquinone derivative from the roots of Rheum officinale Baill. It has been reported that
emodin possesses a number of the same biological activities as Rheum officinale Baill, such as inhibitory activity of monoamine oxidase, anti-inflammatory, anti- virus, vasorelaxative, immunosuppressive , hepatoprotective and anti-tumor.
Product Name: Bitter Melon P.E
Latine Name: Momordica Charantia Linn
Appearance: Yellow-Green Powder
Active ingredients: Charantin
Detection Mothed: UV
Specfication:10%
Details:
Bitter melon (Momordica charantia; Cucurbitaceae family) is a vegetable indigenous to subtropical and tropical regions of South America and Asia. This vegetable is also cultivated in the southern part of China, due to its subtropical climate. Fruit and seeds of bitter melon are
traditionally used as a medicinal herb and/or vegetable for treatment of diabetes in Southeast Asian countries. It may be of benefit to lower plasma lipids and blood sugar in animal studies. It has been shown to ameliorate diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance. It is composed of several compounds with confirmed antidiabetic properties. Charantin, extracted by alcohol, is a hypoglycemic agent composed of mixed steroids that is more potent than the drug tolbutamide,
which is often used in the treatment of diabetes. It also contains insulin-like polypeptide, polypeptide-p, which lowers blood sugar level when injected subcutaneously into Type1 diabetic patients.
Product Name: HoneySuchle Flowers P.E.
Appearance: white powder
Active ingredients: chlorogenic acid
Detection Mothed: UV
Specfication:20%,98%
Details:
Chlorogenic acid is a kind of polyphenol derivative which widely exists in higher plants like fruits, vegetables, black teas, and some traditional Chinese medicines . It not only has the functions of antioxidation,of inhibiting hypertension, and of stimulating the flowering of plants, but also affects the activity of trypsin, amylase, and other enzymes. Moreover, chlorogenic acid is the main component of producing the bitter taste in crude coffee and thus deliberative elimination of chlorogenic acid into the instant coffee has been adopted extensively to improve the taste of various kinds of coffees. The contents of chlorogenic acid in different areas and in various foods are also quite different.
Product Name: Saw palmetto P.E.
Latine Name: Serenoa repens (bartram) small
Appearance: white powder
Active ingredients: fatty acids
Detection Mothed: GC
Specfication:25%
Details:
Herbal therapies are one of the most widely used alternative modalities in the U.S. with sales exceeding $18 billion in 2005. Among the most commonly used phytotherapeutics is an extract of the berry of the saw palmetto plant, a dwarf palm tree native to the southeastern U.S. Saw palmetto extracts are generally used to relieve symptoms associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), one of the most common medical conditions in aging men, is caused by the non-malignant growth of the prostate gland. More than 50% of men over 50 years of age have been found at autopsy to display histological signs of BPH, and by the seventh and eighth decades, this rate increases to over 90%. Over 40% of men aged 70 and older complain of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), which manifest as urgency, increased frequency, hesitancy, dribbling, weak stream, nocturia, dysuria, and incomplete emptying of the bladder
Product Name: Ginger P.E.
Latine Name: Zingiber officinale
Appearance: brown powder
Active ingredients: Gingerols
Detection Mothed: HPLC
Specfication:5% 6% 8%
Details:
Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe, Zingiberacae) is widely used around the world in foods as a spice. For centuries, it has been an important ingredient in Chinese, Ayurvedic and Tibb-Unani herbal medicines for the treatment of catarrh, rheumatism, nervous diseases, gingivitis, toothache, asthma, stroke, constipation and diabetes . Several reviews have appeared in the literature about this plant, and this may reflect the popularity of the subject and its common use as a spice and a medicinal plant.
Ginger and many of its chemical constituents have strong anti-oxidant actions. As several metabolic diseases and age-related degenerative disorders are closely associated with oxidative processes in the body, the use of either ginger or one or more of its constituents as a source of anti-oxidants to combat oxidation warrants further attention. Ginger andmany of its chemical constituents have been shown, in numerous clinical studies, to be useful in combating postoperative vomiting and vomiting of pregnancy. It may be worthwhile investigating the effect of ginger on vomiting during cancer chemotherapy, as the crude drug and its constituents have themselves anti-cancer actions. More studies are also required on the kinetics of ginger and its constituents and on the effects of their consumption over a long period of time. Ginger is considered to be a safe herbal medicine with only few and insignificant adverse/side
effects.
Product Name: Senna Leaf P.E
Latine Name: Folium Sennae
Appearance: Yellow-Green Powder
Active ingredients: Sennoside
Detection Mothed: UV
Specfication:8%
Details:
Senna leaves and rhubarb roots are used as oriental laxative medicines. These plants contain a wide variety of compounds including monomeric anthraquinones, together with their glycosides and dimeric anthrones glycosides. Sennosides are the purgative principles of these plants ~ and like other glycosides are metabolized by animals and humans into monomeric rhein or other anthraquinones which are the active metabolites.
The natural free anthraquinones are not effective and it has been confirmed that they are reduced into anthrones and anthranoles in the human intestine, and act as laxative compounds The stimulant laxatives composed of the anthraquinones are the cause of the greatest side-effects and are often abused by the public, therefore the identification and analysis of anthraquinones in herbal samples, pharmaceutical preparations and biological fluids are of greatimportance.
Product Name: Wolfberry P.E.
Latine Name: Lycium barbarum L.
Appearance: brown powder
Active ingredients: Lycium barbarum Polysaccharides
Detection Mothed: UV
Specfication: 50%
Details:
Chinese wolfberry, which is a plant belonging to the family Solanaceae, is regarded in traditional Chinese medicine as a medical herb for eternal youth and long life, a nourishing ingredient, and a tonic to reduce the risk of arteriosclerosis and essential arterial hypertension. Used as tea in the Orient for more than 2000 years due primarily to the staminaimproving, tranquillizing, and thirst-quenching activities, wolfberry are considered a healthful food. Besides abundant betaine, a phytochemical used to abate the risk of fatty liver or as a digestive aid for persons with insufficient production of acid in the stomach, wolfberry contain anti-aging vitamins ascorbic acid and tocopherols , a group of antioxidative compounds such as rutin and chlorogenic acid , and lyciumoside I, a methanol extract showing antimicrobial activities against gram positive rods. Moreover, wolfberry reportedly increased the amino acids content of broiler meat while improving its flavor, taste, and tenderness, indicating their potential application as feed supplement.
Product Name: Ganoderma lucidum Extract，Reishi Extract， Reishi Mushroom Extract
Latine Name: Ganoderma Lucidum
Appearance: brown powder
Active ingredients: Ganoderma lucidum Polysaccharide，nucleosides, terpenoids
Detection Mothed: UV
Specfication: Polysaccharide 20% 30%
Details:
Ganoderma lucidum (Fr.) Karst. (Polyporaceae) is a medicinal mushroom known to the Chinese as ‘Lingzhi’. Its fruiting bodies have been used for medicinal properties in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2000 years. This mushroom is described in detail in the Chinese Materia Medica classics, Shen Nung Ben Cao Jin (dated 206 BC–8 AD), and the Compendium of Materia Medica. G. lucidum has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for promotion of vitality and longevity, and more recently used in the treatment of debility and weakness, insomnia, hepatitis, bronchitis and asthma, diabetes, altitude sickness, cardiovascular disease, AIDS, and cancer . In addition to the fruiting bodies, the spores and cultivated mycelia of Ganoderma have been recently
consumed as health food and herbal medicines.
Chemical investigations on the fruiting bodies, spores, and mycelia of G. lucidum reveal that they contain various bioactive substances. Active constituents of G. lucidum include polysaccharides, proteins, nucleosides, fatty acids, terpenoids, sterols, and cerebrosides. Water or alcohol extracts of G. lucidum have been used to investigate biological activities, as these extracts contain compounds mainly responsible for the immunological and anti-inflammatory properties. Alcohol extracts contain biological compounds that lower blood cholesterol and glucose levels, blood
pressure, and inhibit histamine release, while the liver-protective, antiviral and anti-tumor effects
can be attributed to both the water-soluble polysaccharides and alcohol-soluble triterpenes. Ofparticular interest among the reported biological/pharmacological properties of G. lucidum are theiranti-tumor activities, including the effects on cell cycle arrest, apoptosis induction, motility inhibition, antiangiogenic, and antimutagenic activities.