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"Transmission Losses:" West African pirates

Plugs and Cars

In the Niger Delta, the pirates in armed speedboats attack tankers and work with militants in the delta's swamplands who steal around 150,000 barrels a day from oil installations or pipelines, around 5 percent of Nigeria's daily production. By 2015 the region is expected to be supplying 25 percent of U.S. oil imports.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

Cars That Think

It is often better to fly in lifesaving supplies instead of loading trucks with supplies to bring them along roads that might not be passable anymore,” Fregene says. As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus.

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