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1.Using battlefield technology to improve the environment

Problem: Modern large field farming has destroyed tradition landscapes and is wrecking the rural environment.

BAE Systems employees
 with military technology
 expertise are about to
 be made redundant.
Could this proposal create
 new secure jobs
for them?

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2.Global warming and the Fukushima nuclear disaster

How can we meet our climate change commitments if nuclear power becomes politically unacceptable?

Latent Power Turbines may provide the answer.

 

Research at Lancaster University suggests how a new type of steam turbine design could mimic the action of hurricanes to radically improve the efficiency of steam turbines.

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3. Soft bumpers to save pedestrian lives

 

A British invention could make car bumpers soft for pedestrian impacts, but stiff for collisions with other vehicles.

 

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4. British invention plagiarised

 Cover-up costs Britain a seven year lead in developing SALi suspension system.
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5. Comment
The Queen Elizabeth award for engineering innovation

 This is well intended, but the consequences for British engineering are worrying.

Britain is a small country, so, even if we are punching well above our weight as innovative engineers, we cannot expect to win more than a small fraction of future QE awards. As the years go by and more countries move into high technology, our bi-annual chances of winning a prize will gradually fall.

We Brit’s have a talent for self criticism and our media reflects this. Consequently we can look forward to the occasional story about a British engineering triumph, but more often than not, the QE award will be reported as “Yet another year of British failure.”

The long term effect of the Queen Elizabeth award may be to send out the subliminal message that Britain has lost its way as an engineering innovative nation.

A proposed solution
The award could be split into two mutually exclusive categories. One restricted to British based  engineers, inventors and companies; the second for the rest of the world.

 

Are you disillusioned by Britain's failure to innovate?

So are we!

If you are looking for suggestions on how Britain could regain the initiative as a leading innovative nation then

-Click to link with our dedicated national innovation web site

 

Bill Courtney is the principle inventor for all of the inventions described on the site. 1792 Technology is a joint invention with  Richard Klee.