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.
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
JULY 27, 2023
LiquidPiston, a developer of efficient engine technology and hybrid power systems, has been awarded an $8.3-million The XTS supercharger adds up to 1 bar boost while operating on a 2-stroke cycle, producing 6 combustion events per revolution of the rotor, to deliver smooth power from a minuscule package.
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
APRIL 25, 2024
Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War. AWS allows us to utilize extremely powerful computers on demand to process thousands of images a day through our machine learning model to meet the needs of deminers in Ukraine.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2009
Only 22% remains to power the vehicle. Honda is still interpreting the data but they believe the user’s externally powered legs are acted like a second heart, helping pump blood. For every kJ of chemical energy in the fuel for a spark ignition internal combustion engine, 73 % is sacrificed to chemical and thermal losses.
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