Abstract: Method and apparatus for switching high power at high repetition rates. The apparatus is preferably a switch utilizing a pressurized flowing dielectric. The pressurized dielectric suppresses growth of dielectric breakdown byproducts, such as large bubbles and breakdown contamination, enabling lower dielectric flow rates to remove the byproducts. In addition to the advantage of lower flow rates, and thus smaller and lighter pumping means, the switch can switch high energies (up to megajoules) at fast repetition rates, up to thousands of pulses per second. The switch is preferably triggered to reduce jitter. The switch can also be used to remove water from oil.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method to combinatorially screen a plurality of electrochemical material compositions for use in an electrochemical cell such as a fuel cell, battery or electro-catalytic cell. The apparatus includes an electrochemical cell with one or more windows, sealed with an infrared (IR) transparent material for direct thermal imaging of an internal electrode, an electronic load for applying a voltage or current to the electrochemical cell, and a device, external to the cell, for monitoring the relative temperature of the internal electrode through each window of the cell when the load is applied. When a load is applied to the cell, the temperature observed through each window may be used as a relative measure of the electrochemical efficiency of the discreet region of the electrode being viewed and of the material compositions contained therein. The electrochemical cell may comprise discreet compositions of electrode materials.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for switching high power at high repetition rates. The apparatus is preferably a switch utilizing a pressurized flowing dielectric. The pressurized dielectric suppresses growth of dielectric breakdown byproducts, such as large bubbles and breakdown contamination, enabling lower dielectric flow rates to remove the byproducts. In addition to the advantage of lower flow rates, and thus smaller and lighter pumping means, the switch can switch high energies (up to megajoules) at fast repetition rates, up to thousands of pulses per second. The switch is preferably triggered to reduce jitter. The switch can also be used to remove water from oil.

Abstract: Rodent Trap with a lid, a pivot plank, a ferrous metal rectangular open topped box, a magnet, a pivot point, a food holding platform, a guide panel, a climbing ramp or rope and a rodent receptacle. The guide panel and the bait tray are fixed at one end of the rectangular box. The box has half of the floor removed. The pivot point holds the plank so that it can rotate. The pivot plank includes a magnet on its underside. The magnet is attracted to the ferrous metal portion of the floor of the box so that a rodent can climb up the ramp, travel along the pivot plank, wedge itself between the pivot plank and the guide panel in the pursuit of bait causing the magnetic attraction to break and the pivot plank to rotate down causing the rodent to drop into the receptacle below the rectangular box.