the overall power density--the amount of juice you can store in a battery vis-a-vis its size--more closely resembles the large lead-acid battery you'd find in your car.
but you can bet that electronics manufacturers, makers of electric cars, and power companies all have their eyes on the development of this technology.
will be used on Rocket Labs Electron orbital launch vehicle, which will get its first test spin later this year.
The Rutherford engine will be the main propulsion source for Rocket Labs Electron vehicle which the company hopes to use as a low-cost method for launching satellites and other small payloads of up to 220 pounds into space.
The European union-funded Autonomous vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool (AVERT) project is intended a system to remove suspicious vehicles where there is concern over potential threats like IEDS,
but the vehicle can't be accessed safely by other bomb disposal tools. AVERT consists of a single deployment unit and four autonomous robot bogies
or trucks--frames attached to wheels like on skateboards or roller skates. After being towed into position by a bomb-disposal robot,
AVERT's deployment unit can scan locations of a targeted vehicle using laser-based LIDAR,
It can even detect the angle of the wheels on the vehicle in question to help figure out the best way to remove it.
The bogies then maneuver themselves in concert beneath the wheels of the target vehicle, and use their onboard intelligence to slowly move the vehicle to a safe location.
The biggest advantage of AVERT is that it's largely autonomous. While it can be overridden by a remote operator if necessary
including vehicle towing and perhaps even automatic parking in environments where space is limited. The good news is that
when the robot valet parks your car, you don't even have to tip p
#Scientists Are Figuring Out How To Change Blood types At some point in your life, youe probably been asked to donate blood.
But theye hardly the only way for flying vehicles to stay level. The Beerotor drone made by roboticists Fabien Expert and Franck Ruffier at Aix Marseille University in Marseille,
but most of the vehicles it be mounted on are armored already enough to protect people inside from the shrapnel that comes with a bomb blast.
creating a plasma shield in between the explosion and the vehicle. The plasma's temperature and density help deflect
but the design is written broadly enough that it can potentially protect everything from ships to submarines, offshore platforms, ground vehicles, buildings,
For example, a lightly armored vehicle like a HMMWV might use the force field against a small explosion
Also, if you click the period after mention of the self-driving car on Page's blog post,
But like organic foods or hybrid vehicles, it will help the environment. he more solar we use,
or a bus trip across town. he Contactless Jacket was launched in September 2. It is available in True Black and Admiral Blue colors.
What kind of car is this? s a blind person you don really think about the things that you might be able to see
but for the Univ. of Cincinnati (UC)' s Yoonjee Park, assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Applied science biomedical engineering professor, these words are central to every conversation relating to her cutting edge research on drug delivery vehicles.
The area in which Park has established herself as an expert is the field of study related to the creation and monitoring of delivery vehicles that carry medicine to specific locations within the body.
"Usually I use nanoparticles for drug delivery vehicles, and we can attach image and contrast agents to the nanoparticle to track the particle.
Using vehicles made with perfluorocarbons, Park and Lin have created bio-safe, durable, reliable vehicles that can be inserted into the discs
and traced via medical imaging. Lin says that these vehicles, described as"droplets, "enter the bloodstream
and are tracked"without opening up the body"to provide real time feedback and manipulation. Park says,
the vehicles can be popped"to systematically release the drug as needed. This technique allows for minimized invasive treatment,
"says Park of her attempt to create an effective drug delivery vehicle, and she herself is no stranger to this work,
Her Phd at Purdue University and her research at Boston's Massachusetts institute of technology were dedicated both to studying particle stabilization to avoid clogging arteries with the nanoparticles and drug delivery vehicles;
creating a vehicle that could be programmed to travel to specific destinations; tracking this vehicle with medical imaging;
and learning how drugs could be released time at the proper time. With the support of the Univ. of Cincinnati behind her efforts, Park hopes to be able to overcome the barriers that have slowed others,
Already envisaged scenarios include its use as fuel for vehicles or for producing carbon-based energy carriers.
#A better way to pack natural gas into fuel tanks A new and innovative way to store methane could speed the development of natural gas-powered cars that don require the high pressures
or cold temperatures of today compressed or liquefied natural gas vehicles. Natural gas is cleaner-burning than gasoline,
and today there are more than 150,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles on the road in the U s, . most of them trucks and buses. But until manufacturers can find a way to pack more methane into a tank at lower pressures and temperatures,
allowing for a greater driving range and less hassle at the pump, passenger cars are unlikely to adopt natural gas as a fuel.
whereas compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles compress natural gas into an empty tank under 250 atmospheres (3, 600 psi).
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles operate at lower pressures but require significant insulation in the tank system to maintain the natural gas at minus-162 degrees Celsius (minus-260 degrees Fahrenheit)
Next-gen NG vehicles Long said that next-generation natural gas vehicles will require a material that binds the methane and packs it more densely into the fuel tank, providing a larger driving range.
which results in natural gas vehicles with a shorter driving range per fill up. In order to advance onboard natural gas storage, Ford motor company teamed up with UC Berkeley on this project, with funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agencynergy (ARPA-E) of the U s. Dept of energy.
Ford is a leader in CNG/propane-prepped vehicles with more than 57,000 sold in the U s. since 2009, more than all other major U s. automakers combined.
According to Mike Veenstra, of Ford research and advanced engineering group in Dearborn Michigan, Ford recognized that ANG has the potential to lower the cost of onboard tanks,
station compressors and fuel along with serving to increase natural gas-powered vehicle driving range within the limited cargo space. atural gas storage in porous materials provides the key advantage of being able to store significant amounts of natural gas at low pressures
than compressed gas at the same conditions, said Veenstra, the principal investigator of this ARPA-E project. he advantage of low pressure is the benefit it provides both onboard the vehicle and off-board at the station.
In addition the low-pressure application facilitates novel concepts such as tanks with reduced wall thicknesses along with conformable concepts
which aid in decreasing the need to achieve the equivalent volumetric capacity of compressed CNG at high pressure.
hoping to use them to capture carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or store hydrogen in hydrogen-fueled vehicles,
-and would enable an electric car with a battery that is a fifth the cost and a fifth the weight of those currently on the market to drive from London to Edinburgh on a single charge.
electric cars and grid-scale storage for solar power.""In their simplest form, batteries are made of three components:
dysprosium and praseodymium for growing the clean tech sector-including electric vehicles, according to Kevin Cassidy, ceo of US Rare earths, Inc I
or to remember a few hours later where you parked your car in a multi-storey car park. Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of psychological symptoms,
#Eco-friendly 3d printed supercar Kevin Czinger of Divergent Microfactories has spent most of his career in the automotive industry.
or how few tailpipe emissions the modern car has, the business of car manufacturing is destroying the environment."
"3d printing of metal radically changes that. By looking at 3d printing not for that overall structure
According to Czinger, 3d printing transforms everything by changing the way the structural components of cars are fabricated.
Currently cars are pieced together on long assembly lines inside large factories that use massive amounts of energy.
Even the most fuel efficient car has a large carbon footprint before ever leaving the plant. Czinger and his team's approach was to take the large plant out of the equation.
the entire vehicle only weighs 1400 pounds (635kg), giving it twice the weight to horsepower ratio of a Bugatti Veyron.
The Blade is fitted with a 700 horse power engine that runs on natural gas, reducing its carbon footprint even further.
Balzer says designing an eco-friendly speed demon supercar as their first prototype was intentional.""We focused a lot on the aesthetics of this car
because it is very important to capture the people's imaginations, especially when we are talking about the core enabling technologies,
The core enabling technology, the ability to print out car components that can be assembled easily,
is what Kevin Czinger hopes will revolutionize car manufacturing. He says electric cars are a step in the right direction,
but alone they won't be enough to curb greenhouse emissions given the projected rise in demand for cars globally
unless the way they are manufactured changes.""By constructing a car this way it has less than one third of the environmental
and health impact than the 85 hours all electric car for example has added, "he. Czinger and Balzer are starting small
but they believe their new 3d printing method for car manufacturing will have a huge impact on how the cars of the future are built t
#New tidal energy system could help POWER UK, say developers A British company, in conjunction with Oxford university researchers, believes it has devised a way to overcome this obstacle by creating a new type of horizontal axis turbine that can be used underwater at depths of up to 30 meters, at an economical cost.
#Japanese engineer develops world's first'car in a bag'Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo.
A Japanese engineer has developed a portable transporter small enough to be carried in a backpack that he says is the world's first'car in a bag'.
and resembles a skateboard more than a car. The slender Walkcar is made from aluminum and weighs between two and three kilograms (4. 4 to 6. 6 pounds),
while simply stepping off stops the vehicle. To change direction, the user just shifts their weight.
Sato said his studies in electric car motor control systems sparked the idea for the new kind of ride."
since I was doing my masters in engineering specifically on electric car motor control systems, "he told Reuters. Sato says he is confident that Walkcar goes beyond bulkier devices such as the Segway or Toyota's Winglet."
"Maybe I just see it that way, but it seems to me that the U s. is always the one
which will contain subsidiaries to separate its core web advertising business from newer ventures like driverless cars.
Google is not going to slow the pace of their experimental processes like self driving cars, "said Michael Yoshikami,
and separate the core web advertising business from newer ventures like driverless cars s
#Nine of world's biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership Nine of the world's biggest banks including Goldman sachs
#European Researchers Create Acoustic Tractor Beam t was an incredible experience the first time we saw the object held in place by the tractor beam.
The tractor beam crated by Marzo and his colleagues uses high-amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram
The tractor beam works by surrounding the object with high-intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.
The researchers have shown that three different shapes of acoustic force fields work as tractor beams. The first is an acoustic force field that resembles a pair of fingers or tweezers.
Into this mould, they pour a suspension containing magnetised ceramic platelets, such as aluminium oxide platelets. The pores of the plaster mould slowly absorb the liquid from the suspension,
which causes the material to solidify and to harden from the outside in. The scientists create an ordered layer-like structure by applying a magnetic field during the casting process,
Through the composition of the suspension and the direction of the platelets, a continuous process can be used to produce multiple layers with differing material properties in a single object.
They then filled this mould with a suspension containing aluminium oxide platelets and glass nanoparticles as mortar.
the scientists poured a second suspension into the same mould. This suspension, however, did not contain glass particles.
The aluminium oxide platelets in the second layer were aligned horizontally to the surface of the tooth using the magnet.
and his van collided with a boat and a trailer. None of the boys was injured severely,
#Sonic Tractor Beam Invented A team of researchers have built the world's first sonic tractor beam that can lift
Tractor beams can grab and lift objects, a concept that has been used by science-fiction writers and has fascinated since scientists and engineers.
Researchers have built now a working tractor beam that uses high-amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram
The tractor beam works by surrounding the object with high-intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.
The team have shown that three different shapes of acoustic force fields work as tractor beams. The first is an acoustic force field that resembles a pair of fingers or tweezers.
as well as producing'electrolyte fuels'that might be used to power future electric vehicles,"one of the team,
whereas ex-lorry driver Lane was busy in his garden shed in Coleford, Gloucestershire. The radio enthusiast had spent several weeks trying to make contact with the space station after learning it was due to pass over his house."
#Japanese engineers have created the world's first'car in a bag'Getting around is about to look a lot different.
and his team at Cocoa Motors, have created a laptop-sized personal vehicle that weighs less than seven pounds.
'is described as a'car in a bag 'because it can easily carried around. It sort of like a small, four-wheeled electric skateboard meets a Segway.
Check out video below to see the vehicle in action n
#New device can immediately target and destroy deadly blood clots Australian researchers have developed a nano-sized capsule that can be delivered to a patient intravenously to immediately target
#The UK is trialling a new road surface that charges your electric car as you drive One of the problems with being on the cutting edge of electric car technology is you're not as sure of being able to find a filling station as all the petrol-burning drivers around you.
that sort of'range anxiety'could be gone for good-the roads actually charge your car as you drive.
A select number of cars will be fitted with the requisite wireless charging technology and a test road will be built to show how smaller substations, AC/AC converters,
but it would certainly increase the amount of time cars could last between full charges at home or a designated charging station."
"Vehicle technologies are advancing at an ever increasing pace and wee committed to supporting the growth of ultra-low emissions vehicles on England motorways and major A roads,"Highways England chief highways engineer,
Mike Wilson, said in a press statement.""The off-road trials of wireless power technology will help to create a more sustainable road network for England
Electric car charging points won't be dismissed completely, however, and Highways England has said it's committed to installing plug-in facilities every 48 km along the motorway network.
The tests come after a feasibility study looking into how dynamic battery charging could solve the problem of electric vehicles running out of juice,
encouraging electric cars onto the road would make a lot of financial sense for the UK government. A similar idea is already in use in South korea,
and cars in just a few years, say the researchers. lectrochemical splitting of water could provide a cheap,
said Macfarlane. ars driven by fuel cell electric engines are becoming available from a number of car manufacturers.
The researchers call their new method agnetic field human body communication The technique uses the body as a vehicle to deliver magnetic energy between wearable electronic gadgets.
"Right now, we have a plant that is essentially the Ferrari of the plant world when it comes to producing the chemical of interest.
his research may help computers get better at teaching themselves to do everything from driving a car to making an omelette,
They are planned also for use in the next Mars rover vehicle, "said Laws.""But if they become easier and cheaper to make,
Or cars made from the material. Because, let's face it, plastic is great and all but we could all use a little more durability in our lives v
"In hybrid and electric cars, such recovery systems can help improve range, but in large heavily-packed passenger trains running regularly in one of the most heavily traveled cities in the world,
No doubt Filimundus was looking at the several Toyota service centres in Gothenburg which switched to a six-hour day 13 years ago
which is expected to extract 1 million tonnes per day-the equivalent of taking 100 cars off the road every year.
and long-haulage trucks. Even existing petrol pumps can work with the fuel. A major limitation of solar and wind technologies, on the other hand, is that they require specific technologies to capture
not just for smartphones but for electric cars and solar power, where batteries are essential for storing energy to use
crucial if we're to put these batteries into millions of cars and smartphones, was reached by using a'fluffy'carbon electrode made from graphene.
as electrical vehicles and personal electronic devices become more ubiquitous in our daily lives, it is becoming increasingly necessary to have more efficient systems for localized electrical power generation and effective cooling mechanisms.
it could translate into less expensive consumer devices and even less expensive electric cars. Yao's research group focuses on green and sustainable organic materials for energy generation and storage.
#Discovery may be breakthrough for hydrogen cars The team's new findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help speed the widespread arrival of the hydrogen-powered vehicles in a way that is inexpensive
and has extremely low carbon emissions.""This means we have demonstrated the most important step toward a hydrogen economy--producing distributed and affordable green hydrogen from local biomass resources,
Distribution of the hydrogen to users of fuel cell vehicles is another key challenge. Rollin's model increased reaction rates by threefold, decreasing the required facility size to about the size of a gas station,
enzymatic reactions such as those being used in this system generate high-purity hydrogen, perfect for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
"We believe this exciting technology has the potential to enable the widespread use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles around the world
cheaper and more powerful and durable than lithium-ion batteries common in mobile phones and laptops and increasingly used in hybrid and electric cars.
Other approaches for injecting materials into cells--such as using viruses as delivery vehicles or chemical methods--are only useful for small molecules,
#Researchers find protein that may signal more aggressive prostate cancers Biomarkers in the body are analogous to the warning lights in cars that signal something might need repairing.
"This research was funded in part by Airbus Group, Boeing, Embraer, Lockheed martin, Saab AB, Tohotenax, ANSYS Inc.,the Air force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air force base,
Frank Koppens and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Niek van Hulst, in collaboration with scientists from the research group led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at MIT
As Prof. van Hulst states""it is amazing how graphene allows direct nonlinear detecting of ultrafast femtosecond (fs) pulses."
we could advance large-scale renewable energy storage technologies for electric cars and microgrids, "he says. Jin also believes that the novel X-ray imaging technique will facilitate the studies of other technologically important solid-state transformations
#Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines Karl A. Gschneidner and fellow scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Ames Laboratory have created a new magnetic alloy that is an alternative to traditional rare-earth permanent magnets.
and Frederik E. Pinkerton of General motors R&d Center. The research was supported by the U s. Department of energy's ARPA-E REACT program (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy-Rare earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies) which develops cost-effective alternatives to rare earths,
the naturally occurring minerals with unique magnetic properties that are used in electric vehicle (EV) motors, and wind generators.
hold on to your seat. Researchers at the University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) have developed recently a device that can turn any smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope."
"Exosomes are engineered by nature to be the perfect delivery vehicles for proteins and genetic material, "Batrakova says."
These packages of medicine will be ignored by the patient's immune system, which works against unknown proteins as well as many synthetic delivery vehicles s
enable collision avoidance technologies on cars and allow virtual reality (VR) headsets to be used outdoors. The researchers'new centimeter-accurate GPS coupled with a smartphone camera could be used to quickly build a globally referenced 3-D map of one's surroundings that would greatly expand the radius of a VR game.
"Humphreys and his team in the Radionavigation Lab have built a low-cost system that reduces location errors from the size of a large car to the size of a nickel--a more than 100 times increase in accuracy.
where centimeter-accurate GPS could lead to better vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology.""If your car knows in real time the precise position
and velocity of an approaching car that is blocked from view by other traffic, your car can plan ahead to avoid a collision,
"Humphreys said. Further information: http://gpsworld. com/accuracy-in-the-palm-of-your-hand d
#'Microcombing'creates stronger, more conductive carbon nanotube films"It's a simple process and can create a lightweight CNT film,
such as in maintaining spacing between self-driving cars that are platooned"-following each other at close intervals.
in which a fast rotation creates a force that causes the seats to drift radially away from the ride's center--to capture the tiny bacteria directly from patients'samples of bodily fluidsn this case, urine.
"said Ute Neugebauer, group leader at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology. What exactly does the team's medical device detect?"
Few people would look at a car, an airplane or a farming tool and appreciate the durable layers protecting its parts.
"This includes automobiles, with parts that bear the burden of heavy loads, erosion and corrosion.
which uses the body as a vehicle to deliver magnetic energy between electronic devices. An advantage of this system is that magnetic fields are able to pass freely through biological tissues,
"Just like you have a car that you're running into the ground--things don't work right
led by CNRS senior researcher Peter Ford Dominey, has developed"an autobiographical memory"1 for the robot Nao,
but conventional, motorized trackers are too heavy and bulky for pitched rooftops and vehicle surfaces.
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
FOM workgroup leader prof. dr. Bart van Wees and his Phd student Ludo Cornelissen, both from the University of Groningen and FOM workgroup leader dr. Rembert
"That gives us hope they can be used as vehicles for improving fertility and the chances of producing healthy embryos and offspring."
"Cooler cars Zhu said the technology has significant potential for any outdoor device or system that demands cooling
"Say you have a car that is bright red, "Zhu said.""You really like that color,
but you'd also like to take advantage of anything that could aid in cooling your vehicle during hot days.
and totally redesigned its core to repurpose its infectious capabilities into a safe vehicle for delivering vaccines
The new paper describes how the Stanford team designed a viruslike particle that is only a delivery vehicle with no infectious payload.
nontoxic 2d nanomaterial suspension in liquid form, such as graphene oxide, as the pressure sensing element to recognise force-induced changes.
such as running a car tyre over it, the electrical output was uniformed highly and there was no damage to the functionality of the device.
This speed control mechanism makes sure that proteins are assembled and folded properly in different cells. Therefore, the genetic code not only specifies the sequence of amino acids but also the shape of the protein."
along with Professors Andrei Fedorov and Suresh Sitaraman from the School of Mechanical engineering, developed a thermal design vehicle to emulate challenging power maps to test the benefits of microfluidic cooling."
Engineers build better energy storage device Mcmaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car.
and high-power electronics, such as wearable devices, portable power supplies and hybrid and electric vehicles.""Ultimately the goal of this research is to find ways to power current and future technology with efficiency
Lightweight and high-power density capacitors are of particular interest for the development of hybrid and electric vehicles.
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