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New self-propelled robotic device pinpoints leaks in pipes more accurately than existing methods

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Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations. Chatzigeorgiou, D.; Youcef-Toumi, K.; Ben-Mansour, R. 2014.2308145.

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UC Riverside team developing nav system that uses signals of opportunity; support for autonomous vehicles

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A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi, rather than the Global Positioning System (GPS). in September.

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EPA announces 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners

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The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners were honored at a ceremony in Portland, Ore. The 2016 awards event will be held in conjunction with the 20 th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference. on 13 June.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

Cars That Think

www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. The reason? This one performed addition.

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Conferring with Amtrak on "Spirit's" Auto Train Return from Sanford, Florida. Note: the Green Train leave on its six week venture from Portland and is en route to DC. DPS is building commercial battery packs from smart universal battery modules ("UBM(TM)") as building block. Setting up PHEV3A Committee Open Planning Sessions.

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

Contrary to some reports, the Copenhagen Climate Conference was a great success. After parading in Evs from City Hall to Denmark’s oldest University, mayors from around the world had something to say. Like Portland, like Paris, like Tel Aviv, like Tokyo, like Los Angeles, like Copenhagen, like Hawaii! Toronto would lead!

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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The train ride from the village where he grew up to Central South Industrial University of Technology, where he earned his chemistry degree, took him by Yellow Mountain, a popular destination for hikers and tourists, but he has never visited there. "I didnt go then because we had no money," he says.

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