Abstract: Current technologies for restoring buildings and spaces, such as drying processes to remove water damage, are prone to technical error and operational error. A portable controller is herein provided to autonomously monitor and control restoration equipment, including drying equipment. The portable controller is in data communication with a server system, and the server system can remotely control the portable controller. The portable controller includes outlet receptacles to which the drying equipment is connectable. The portable controller includes a computer that autonomously determines when to provide electrical power and when to cut off the electrical power to the outlet receptacles, in order to respectively activate and deactivate the drying equipment. The portable controller also senses environment conditions and electrical power consumption caused by the drying equipment. This data is transmitted to the server system for storage and analysis.

Abstract: The invention encompasses multi-stage naturally amplified global-scale carbon dioxide capture systems combining basic capture from (CCS—carbon capture and sequestration) clean-coal-fired and CCS gas-fired power plants, CCS natural-gas reformation systems, CCS cement plants, outdoor air, CCS home and building flues, CCS incinerators, CCS crematoriums, CCS blast-furnaces, CCS kilns, CCS refineries, CCS factories, CCS oil gasification systems and CCS coal gasification systems which yield concentrated carbon dioxide, with a collective, globally distributed capture capacity of up to 3 GtC/yr, feeding the captured carbon dioxide into land-based invention stage-1 bioreactors for rapid, selective, high capacity conversion to a high-density, fast-sinking marine algae by means of accelerated photosynthesis and/or coccolithogenesis (calcification) consuming carbon dioxide as the algae bloom, and transporting a primary fraction of the stage-1 bioreactor-produced algae to seaports for seeding the oceans at regular interva

Abstract: The invention encompasses multi-stage naturally amplified global-scale carbon dioxide capture systems combining basic capture from (CC—carbon capture) clean-coal-fired and CC gas-fired power plants, natural-gas reformation systems, cement plants, outdoor air, home and building flues, incinerators, crematoriums, blast-furnaces, kilns, refineries, factories, oil gasification systems and coal gasification systems which yield concentrated carbon dioxide, with a collective, globally distributed capture capacity of up to 3 GtC/yr, feeding the captured carbon dioxide into land-based invention stage-1 bioreactors for rapid, selective, high capacity conversion to a high-density, fast-sinking marine algae by means of accelerated photosynthesis and/or coccolithogenesis (calcification) consuming carbon dioxide as the algae bloom, and transporting the stage-1 bioreactor-produced algae to seaports for seeding the oceans at regular intervals in stage-2 operations-at-sea to produce naturally amplified 14 GtC/yr algal blooms

Abstract: A prefabricated ground mat with cathodic protection adapted to protect persons from induced electrical potentials in a pipe or other electrical conductor buried below a ground-level surface, adapted to protect test stands, valve sites, metering stations, pig launchers and receivers, access portals, or other exposed, above-ground equipment which are electrically connected to the buried conductor, from such electrical potentials, and adapted to protect the buried conductor from oxidation due to the ground grid. Multiple mats may be buried between the underground conductor and the ground-level surface and electrically connected to either the underground conductor, the above-grade buried conductor, or both. The mats are made of materials such that the galvanic cell formed by the electrical union of the underground conductor with the mat cause the mat to be consumed.

Abstract: A prefabricated ground mat with cathodic protection adapted to protect persons from induced electrical potentials in a pipe or other electrical conductor buried below a ground-level surface, adapted to protect test stands, valve sites, metering stations, pig launchers and receivers, access portals, or other exposed, above-ground equipment which are electrically connected to the buried conductor, from such electrical potentials, and adapted to protect the buried conductor from oxidation due to the ground grid. Multiple mats may be buried between the underground conductor and the ground-level surface and electrically connected to either the underground conductor, the above-grade buried conductor, or both. The mats are made of materials such that the galvanic cell formed by the electrical union of the underground conductor with the mat cause the mat to be consumed.

Abstract: A two-part pile splice forming a pile protector and reinforcer and a method for reinforcing a deteriorated wood pile under a bridge wherein a first pile-protector and reinforcer-member having a flange is positioned on one side of a deteriorated wood pile with the flange located parallel to the flow of water under the bridge, and a second pile-protector and reinforcer-member with opposite flange is positioned on the opposite side of the wood pile with the flanges of the second pile protector and reinforcer spaced from and parallel to flow of water under the bridge. The pile protector and reinforcers are squeezed around the pilings to form a mechanical link thereto but not crash the wood piles and an epoxy which provides the compressive strength for the wood pile is filled into those areas in which the wood pile has voids.