Green Car Congress
JANUARY 26, 2011
To cut down on convoys trucking fuel to forward operating bases, as well as to implement the Department of the Navy’s vision for energy efficiency, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and elements within the US Marine Corps (USMC) have successfully demonstrated their goal to reduce petroleum and energy usage in remote locations in Afghanistan.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 13, 2010
Conway and other Marine and Navy leaders recently toured technical demonstrations by nearly 30 commercial vendors at the first Experimental Forward Operating Base (ExFOB) at Marine Corps Base Quantico. Logistics train in Afghanistan. Conway has been the catalyst for the Corps’ current work in energy conservation. Source: USMC.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 15, 2009
Another of the five goals is for the Department of the Navy to reduce petroleum use in its 50,000 strong commercial fleet by half by 2015. The lifetime energy cost of a building or a system, and the fully burdened cost of fuel in powering those, will be a mandatory evaluation factor used when awarding contracts.
Cars That Think
JUNE 29, 2022
Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. As part of its War on Drugs, the CIA used Landsat imagery to reveal an increase of acreage committed to poppy in Afghanistan in 1985 and the resulting expanded opium trade. ERTS had a spatial resolution of 80 meters.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2009
Crane also mentioned that one-quarter to one-third of the cost of a battery system is the packaging, integration and electronics. How much does it cost to save weight? by 2020 and in one case study they were able to save between 70 and 75 lbs (32 to 34 kg) of vehicle mass for a cost penalty of $280-$350 ($4-$5/lb).
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
The plant will be based on Haldor Topsøe’s TIGAS (Topsøe Improved Gasoline Synthesis) technology (earlier post ) and will become the first full-scale large commercial facility using this technology. and the Turkish contractor Rönesans Turkmen to engineer and construct the facility. without isolation of methanol as an intermediate.
Plug In India
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
The Taj Resort was super duper expensive - black tea cost Rs. Our per capita dinner cost came to the same as black tea. Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. We had 110 km to cover and the 3 km diversion would have a huge time cost. 75 + taxes.
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