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MIT automotive crash model could forecast oil and gas pipe fractures; Deepwater Horizon case study

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A computer model that tests automobile components for crashworthiness could also be of use to the oil and gas industry, according to researchers at MIT’s Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory, who are now using their simulations of material deformation in car crashes to predict how pipes may fracture in offshore drilling accidents.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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Taking inspiration from cephalopods, here we present an underwater robot with a compliant body that can achieve repeatable jet propulsion by changing its internal volume and cross-sectional area to take advantage of jet propulsion as well as the added mass effect. UCSD ] I like this idea of making incidental art with robots. [

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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As part of that effort, she installed and operated a receiving station to acquire and analyze data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s satellites over extended areas of North America and the Gulf of Mexico. Then you are part of a community.” Crawford recently helped lead a project funded by the U.S.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C Well, they’re really making a scenario that’s internally consistent with a set of assumptions. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., In the past two years, the U.S.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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Nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), which stretches between Mexico and Hawaii, are estimated to contain more cobalt and nickel than there are in deposits on land. Raw materials nodule The Metals Company Agencies from seventeen nations have exploration contracts in the CCZ from the International Seabed Authority.

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