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CEN and ETSI deliver first set of standards for Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) in Europe

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Standards organizations CEN and ETSI recently confirmed , at the 6 th ETSI workshop on ITS in Berlin, that the basic set of standards for Cooperative Intelligence Transport Systems (C-ITS), as requested by the European Commission in 2009, have now been adopted and issued. Connected cars are expected to appear on European roads in 2015.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. CSI says this is the world’s first production of a liquid renewable transport fuel from non-biological sources of energy.

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It Just Got Easier to Visit a Vanishing Glacier. Is That a Good Thing?

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He and his son happened to be there on the opening day of a gondola that transports visitors between the viewing platform and the ice below. Its colors were chosen to blend into the landscape, a special cable was used to minimize noise, and most of the building material was transported to the site by train. How much petrol?

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Drone Startup to Fly Pallets Without Pilots

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The concept then graduated, first to a proof-of-principle venture in Iceland using multicopters, then to a well-funded Amazon project in the United Kingdom. It addresses the less sexy but equally important middle-distance problem—the route that connects factories to warehouses. First of all, we want to try it,” Kleine-Lasthues says.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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Navy Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport was converted into an IPR-data-collection aircraft. Laser altimetry’s problems would seem to have no connection to aircraft-based IPR surveys. The Raspberry Pi also connects to a network of temperature sensors, so that we could be sure nothing in our system gets too hot or too cold.