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Afghanistan to power electric cars?

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Afghanistan could become the ‘Saudi Arabia of lithium’ an internal memo from the US Pentagon hints after new research revealed that the country has vast reserves of the valuable mineral. Tags: Electric cars Afghanistan lithium U.S

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Toward the end, though, the speech took a curious and hopeful turn, as Nixon rhapsodized about the unifying potential of international cooperation in space exploration. The two nations also cooperated on applying remote sensing to geology and hydrology in the hopes of allaying international concerns over American espionage.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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For every kJ of chemical energy in the fuel for a spark ignition internal combustion engine, 73 % is sacrificed to chemical and thermal losses. 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.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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along with Canada, as powerful crude, NGL, and natural gas producers is also a major concern for the Russian economy. naval power, the Chinese, for example, prefer pipeline natural gas supplies over seaborne LNG supplies. in Russian and Soviet history, Soviet economics, and International economics, and MBA in finance and marketing.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Marine Corps used the autonomous K-Max helicopters for resupply missions in Afghanistan. While attending the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, he interned at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., They didn’t remain mysterious for long. The IEEE connections helped him get his first job.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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This war is a war of drones, they are the super weapon here,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, told Newsweek earlier this year. But a technologically powerful country needn’t count the cost; the United States certainly didn’t. “We says it will defend.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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A Navy unit used a remote-controlled vehicle with a mounted video camera in 2009 to investigate suspicious areas in southern Afghanistan. I can’t blame you for giving your guy a proper burial, he helped keep a lot of people safe and did a job that most people wouldn’t want to do.” Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick W.

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