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Coating developed at MIT could stop buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow

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A team of researchers at MIT has developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. These hydrates are potentially explosive and are largely responsible for the initial failure to contain the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that rocked the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Arindam Das, Taylor A.

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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RSS 2022 : 21 June–1 July 2022, New York City ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands RoboCup 2022 : 11–17 July 2022, Bangkok IEEE CASE 2022 : 20–24 August 2022, Mexico City CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Azores, Portugal Enjoy today’s videos! During the summer I do all kinds of experiments with the wind, sand and water.

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Video Friday: DALL-E 2

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s satellites over extended areas of North America and the Gulf of Mexico. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Video Friday: Remote Control Burger Crafting

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MIT ] Thanks, Rachel! MIT ] Unboxing and getting started with a TurtleBot 4 robotics learning platform with Maddy Thomson, Robotics Demo Designer from Clearpath Robotics. Stanford BDML ] This is very, very water resistant. Please send us your events for inclusion. This property allows rapid proprioceptive probing of objects.

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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. The Metals Company (previously DeepGreen Metals) in Vancouver expects to be the first to commercially produce metals from these nodules by 2024.

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