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Secretary of the Navy Sets Target for 50% of Total Energy Consumption from Alternative Sources by 2020; Role for Biofuels and EVs

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The Commandant of the Marine Crops, General Conway said it best during the Marine Corps energy summit a few weeks ago when he described the fully burdened cost of a gallon of gasoline delivered to a piece of equipment in Afghanistan. The 2009 Naval Energy Forum was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.

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US Senate Armed Services Committee produces markup limiting DoD purchase of biofuels and prohibiting construction of biorefineries

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Afghanistan). an alternative fuel if the cost exceeds the cost of traditional fossil fuels used for the same purpose, except for continued testing. an alternative fuel if the cost exceeds the cost of traditional fossil fuels used for the same purpose, except for continued testing. The bill authorizes $498.0

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low. The limited AI wasn't a problem, though.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Crane also mentioned that one-quarter to one-third of the cost of a battery system is the packaging, integration and electronics. How did the high fuel prices impact customer behavior in 2008? A $1 change in gas prices can lead to a 4-6% shift in take rates (i.e. Driving Temperature. State of Charge.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, I have donned a variety of prosthetic hands, each of them striving toward perfect fidelity of the human hand—sometimes at a cost of aesthetics, sometimes a cost of functionality, but always designed to mimic and replace what was missing.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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But for the most part, the price is right: China’s DJI Mavic 3 , used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around $2,000. You can get 55,000 of them for the price of a single F-35. But a technologically powerful country needn’t count the cost; the United States certainly didn’t. “We

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