Experienced in inventing
Frank
Gnisa
Frank Gnisa is the inventor at the centre of TECLOW. Inventor. Architect. Relentless tinkerer. His work does not begin with a market or a trend, but with a question about something everybody already considers solved.
Some people grow up.
Some never stop
asking why.
Over the course of his career, Frank Gnisa has filed more than forty innovations for patent. They come from very different fields — air, water, wind, heat, motion — and they share one method: take the accepted construction apart, find the assumption nobody re-examined, and see whether the problem looks different without it.
During his studies he revolutionised the construction of perspectives. Architecture students learned according to his method — an early example of the same instinct: an established technique, rebuilt into something simpler to use.
That instinct is what TECLOW is built around. Not a laboratory full of equipment, but a persistent refusal to accept that the current answer is the only one available.
How he works
Question the accepted solution
Most technical fields settle on one answer and then spend decades refining it. The more established that answer becomes, the less often anybody asks whether it was the right starting point.
Make the complex simpler
A solution that needs fewer parts, less energy and less maintenance is not a compromise. It is usually the harder thing to find, and almost always the more useful one.
Say where you actually are
A theory is a theory, a prototype is a prototype, a measurement is a measurement. Each development on this site carries its real stage, and none of them is described as more than it is.
What that thinking produced
All innovationsMedical technology
secureAIR
Virologically investigated. Clinical field testing is still pending; there is no approval or certification.
Wind energy
Flat Rotor
Small prototypes of around one metre in diameter are in trial operation. Scaling figures come from design work, not from measurements.
Hydropower
Tube-Body Turbine
A larger prototype has been tested and measured in the river Elbe. No output figures from those tests are published; the kW values quoted come from model calculations.
Water
Water Desalination
Theoretical principle established. No prototype, no measured data.
Heat
ZeroTerm
Theoretical principle established. No prototype, no performance figures.
Motion
Innovative Propulsion
Vision and theoretical model. Concept and research stage, not a proven product.
Heat
Heat Pump 4.0
Concept established: vortex-tube stage plus absorption stage as one cascade. No prototype, no measured data.
Cognition
AI 2.0
Exploratory research concept, pursued with research institutes. A hypothesis, with no experimental evidence.
Electrical engineering / basic research
Shielding Generator
Concept: the operating principle and prototype geometry are defined and a prototype is in preparation. No measured data exists.