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LiquidPiston receives $8.2M award to integrate XTS-210 heavy-fueled rotary engine into compact 10 kW genset for US Army

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The authors demonstrated the methodology based on historical data from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The report found that the casualty factor for fuel resupply in Afghanistan was 0.042—i.e., 0.042 casualties for every fuel-related resupply convoy or one casualty for every 24 fuel resupply convoys in Afghanistan.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War. In the summer of 2022, we spent two weeks with Frucci at OSU’s explosives range, which has more than 50 types of unexploded ordnance. so Steinberg represented Safe Pro AI at that event.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. The satellite then transmitted the signal to a ground station; if no station was within range, it stored the data on magnetic tape for later transmission. ERTS had a spatial resolution of 80 meters.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Fuel becomes very expensive by the time it reaches the front line, ranging from $20/gallon up to $600/gallon when it is delivered by helicopter in Afghanistan. If the US could reduce its fuel consumption by 1%, it would save more than 6,000 soldier-trips/year.

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Groundbreaking in Turkmenistan for major synthetic gasoline plant; first full-scale Haldor Topsøe TIGAS facility

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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. Topsoe Gasoline Synthesis Catalyst GSK-10.