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Zipline reaches 500,000 automated drone delivery milestone

Teslarati

The autonomous drones, which operate as small planes instead of helicopters like other competitors, are launched from delivery locations and have an operating range of 50 miles. According to one of the company’s co-founders, Keller Cliffton, the drones had traveled a combined 36 million miles.

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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

Cars That Think

megaton thermonuclear weapon , code-named Starfish Prime, 250 miles above Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean. Over 1,000 miles away, the blast knocked out electricity supply in parts of Hawaii and disrupted telephone service for a period of time. In 1962, the. conducted an atmospheric test of a 1.45

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Walmart demonstrates how drones are the future of grocery delivery

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According to Zipline, each drone has an operational range of 50 miles from any launch point and has already proven itself in nearly a quarter million commercial deliveries worldwide since 2016. Walmart is completing initial testing in its home state of Arkansas, and Zipline has expanded to numerous other sectors.

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Follow the sand to the real fracking boom

Green Car Congress

When it takes up to four million pounds of sand to frack a single well, it’s no wonder that demand is outpacing supply and frack sand producers are becoming the biggest behind-the-scenes beneficiaries of the American oil and gas boom. The industry has gone from drilling four wells per square mile to up to 16 using shorter, wider fracs.

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Electric bus revolution 

Electric Vehicles India

Frost & Sullivan recently analysed that the growing adoption of electric transit buses, driven by pro-green government policies, has enabled global sourcing and supply chain for alternate powertrain buses. billion miles each year, and nearly 95 per cent of them run on diesel fuel. These buses travel a total of nearly 3.5