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Ukraine Is the First “Hackers’ War”

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Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. Prior to this revolution, various commercial drones played critical roles, primarily for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. These were not FPV drones, for the most part.

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Puzzling Out the Drone War Over Ukraine

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Eight years later, the Russians are again invading Ukraine. Russia’s fleet of drones includes models in each of these categories. These include the Eleron-3SV and the Orlan-10 drones, both of which have been used extensively in Syria and Ukraine. unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs). The difference is on defense.

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Pike Research forecasts annual global sales of light-duty natural gas vehicles to reach 3.2M in 2019

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The global market for light-duty (LD) natural gas vehicles (NGVs)—including passenger cars, light-duty trucks and commercial vehicles—will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% market largely consists of fleet purchasers rather than individual consumers. Fleet sales of NGVs are growing at a rate of 10.8%

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European spacecraft converge on the US for rides on SpaceX rockets

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Thanks in large part to delays suffered by Arianespace’s next-generation Ariane 6 rocket, a small fleet of European satellites are simultaneously converging on the United States to hitch rides into orbit with SpaceX. SpaceX launching European payloads is nothing new.

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Natural Gas Vehicles Use Almost 1% of Natural Gas Sold in Europe

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NGVA Europe puts the total number of natural-gas fueled vehicles (light-, medium-, and heavy-duty) at 1,039,325, with light duty cars and commercial vehicles accounting for 76% (793,857). NGVA estimates that cars account for 36.2% of the natural gas fuel use (1.7 billion Nm 3 ).

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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technology-license deal for the first commercial deployment of vehicle-to-grid technology. Other trials include commercial auto fleets, a set of utility vans in Copenhagen , two electric school buses in Illinois, and five in New York. Amassing that fleet wasn’t easy. Their research partnership ran for four years.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Instead, they think, a clean-energy transition might be better served with a fleet of smaller, more modular, reactors—like Linglong One. I think, in the next 15, 20 years, there is going to be a real chance for SMRs to be commercially available and widely deployed.” Hence the name: small modular reactors (SMRs).

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