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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

Cars That Think

The blistering late-afternoon wind ripped across Camp Taji , a sprawling U.S. Take, for example, this case described by a Marine who served in Iraq: My team once had a robot that was obnoxious. The Reaper [bottom] is designed for both high-altitude surveillance and destroying targets. military base just north of Baghdad.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power. Smart Grid City will easily support up to 1,000 easily dispatched distributed generation technologies including PHEVs, distributed batteries, solar and wind.

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