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Competition Spurs Robotics and AI Innovations for Maritime Challenges

Cars That Think

The basic aim of the challenge is to find the proverbial needle in a haystack using a combination of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and an unmanned surface vessel (USV) to search an area that the Coast Guard would have to search in person to find a bad actor vessel. There's a white-paper phase. There's a simulation phase.

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Peapod Comes Out on Earth Day '09 - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Intel Founder: Look to Silicon Valley for Electric Car Development - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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GM Proposes Electric Car Plug Standard - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Demand Charges: The Secret Cost to EV Charging

EV Connect

The next highest daily consumption goes to the water heater in a four-person household, which uses about 10 kilowatts a day. To put that into context, Sparkenergy reports that the most energy-consuming appliance in the average home is the air conditioner which consumes about 48 kilowatts a day. This is not cheap.

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It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

Hey, it’s not personal. Dr. Hansen wrote both a personal letter to President elect Barack Obama as well as a pdf white paper that you can download and read for yourself and don’t let anyone tell you you can’t. That just ain’t right. It’s strictly business. But I digress.

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