Cars That Think
APRIL 25, 2024
Humanitarian demining groups are slow to adopt new technologies because any mistake, including ones caused by unfamiliarity with new tech, can be fatal. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos. But in the last couple of years, drones seem to have reached an inflection point.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 21, 2022
soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fleshy stumps of the world act as repositories for these designers’ dreams of a high-tech, superhuman future. Such low-tech activity prostheses and body-powered prostheses perform astonishingly well, for a tiny fraction of the cost of bionic hands.
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2023
The war between Russia and Ukraine is making a lot of high-tech military systems look like so many gold-plated irrelevancies. That’s why both sides are relying increasingly on low-tech alternatives–dumb artillery shells instead of pricey missiles, and drones instead of fighter aircraft. A recent research paper she wrote with U.S.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar. 12:47 PM joe said. SZ (1) 6753.T
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
I liken electric grid and renewable to the economic and political and military fiasco of the Iraq war. Most of us are waiting to be able to plug into a 120v line like I do when my tractor battery needs a “refill&#. Alternative is no longer an alternative. Oil is the alternative. — Bada Bing 9.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 30, 2009
Flu genes spell pig · British forces end combat operations in Iraq more AP: LOCAL · First stimulus highway project starts in Wash. ·
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