Hydrogen fuel cells can power vehicles ranging from cars to submarines and rockets. They can also heat buildings
Predicting retail activity a key economic indicator could be done by counting vehicles in the car parks of supermarkets and malls.
The new vehicle has simple silvery walls seats for up to seven passengers and a set of flatscreen control panels.
But unlike the US Canada doesn't have its own vehicles capable of launching a satellite into orbit
The inflatable technology is intended to help slow down vehicles after they enter the thin Martian atmosphere at supersonic speeds.
For the car-sized Curiosity NASA invented an ambitious system called the sky crane which combined parachutes with landing gear powered by retrorockets that could lower the rover to the surface on tethers.
and a giant parachute twice the size of Curiosity's. The decelerator would attach to the outer rim of a capsule-like entry vehicle.
To simulate Mars's thin atmosphere On earth the team in Hawaii will first lift a test vehicle fitted with the LDSD system to about 37 kilometres above the Pacific ocean using a high-altitude balloon.
Then after spending decades building the ISS the US cancelled the space shuttle the vehicle originally intended for transport to the ISS as part of its post-Apollo programme.
Ardusat-1 and Ardusat-X were launched to the International space station (ISS) on 3 august aboard a Japanese resupply vehicle
lightweight satellites that can piggyback on the launches of other vehicles.""That way every rocket that goes up is kicking off Cubesats,
Developing cybersecurity policy frameworks for autonomous vehicles like drones and self-driving cars; andhow to achieve regional and even global agreements on both privacy and security norms in online environments.
so trucks can safely haul them on highways and under bridges. This means that in the United states, most towers for 2-or 3-megawatt turbines are limited to about 260 feet.
They researched and implemented methods for controlling a large robotic arm out of that from a boom truck,
Agha-mohammadi says the system may help speed up the development of self-driving cars, package-delivering drones,
and other autonomous, route-planning vehicles. s designers, when we can compare the robot perceptions with how it acts,
The engineers mounted 18 motion-capture cameras on the ceiling to track multiple robotic vehicles simultaneously.
Agha-mohammadi says. epending on where the vehicle is, you can look at the environment from different angles,
Because the Federal aviation administration has placed restrictions on outdoor testing of quadrotors and other autonomous flying vehicles Omidshafiei points out that testing such robots in a virtual environment may be the next best thing.
and can test and prototype your vehicles as if theye fully outdoors, before you deploy them in the real world,
For example, with this technology, we could simulate clouds above an environment monitored by a high-flying vehicle
If all midsized carrier networks were to replace current radio amplifiers with Eta Devices technology he says the reduction in greenhouse gases would be equivalent to taking about 5 million cars off the road.
but they were so effective in this study that Cima says they may end up being the most promising vehicle for potential human clinical trials.
#High-speed biologics screen MIT engineers have devised a way to rapidly test hundreds of different drug-delivery vehicles in living animals making it easier to discover promising new ways to deliver a class of drugs called biologics
These fatty molecules have shown promise as delivery vehicles for RNA interference a process that allows disease-causing genes to be turned off with small strands of RNA.#
Yanik s lab is currently using this technology to find delivery vehicles that can carry biologics across the blood-brain barrier a very selective barrier that makes it difficult for drugs
To get the CRISPR components into bacteria the researchers created two delivery vehicles engineered bacteria that carry CRISPR genes on plasmids
Multiple uses for quick changes While troops and vehicles often move from one environment to another,
either on uniforms or on vehicles, could allow the camouflage patterns to constantly change in response to the surroundings. he U s. military spends millions developing different kinds of camouflage patterns,
a small red box that is installed into all of a client drones. his is responsible for flying the vehicle in a safe, reliable manner,
customers use software to select third-party drone vehicles and components such as sensors, cameras, actuators, and communication devices configure settings,
Another UAV maker, Cyber Technology in Australia, is using the platform for drones responding to car crashes and other disasters,
#Ride sharing could cut cabs road time by 30 percent Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity:
The car service company Uber was recently valued at $18 billion and even as it faces legal wrangles a number of companies that provide similar services with licensed taxi cabs have sprung up.
Of course nobody should ever be forced to share a vehicle says Carlo Ratti professor of the practice in MIT s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and one of the paper s coauthors.
David Mahfouda the CEO of the car-and taxi-hailing company Bandwagon whose business model is built specifically around ride sharing says that his company hired analysts to examine the same data set that Santi
if you re willing to share vehicles s
#A new way to diagnose malaria Over the past several decades malaria diagnosis has changed very little.
but also light much as window blinds tilt to filter the sun. Researchers say the work could lead to waterproofing and anti-glare applications such as smart windows for buildings and cars.
You could coat this on your car windshield to manipulate rain or sunlight says Yangying Zhu a graduate student in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering.
In the car you can wear varifocals but varifocals distort the geometry of the outside world
but can be as large as trucks and operate at about 20 percent efficiency. Then came diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers including disk
Now this wireless electricity (or Witricity) technology licensed through the researchers startup Witricity Corp.#is coming to mobile devices electric vehicles and potentially a host of other applications.
Back in December Toyota licensed Witricity technology for a future line of electric cars. Several more publicized
and TDK for wireless electric vehicle-charging systems. There s even talk of a helmet powered wirelessly via backpack specifically for military applications.
At present Witricity technology#charges devices#at around 6 to 12 inches with roughly 95 percent efficiency#12 watts for mobile devices and up to 6. 6 kilowatts for cars.
Courtesy of Witricity Corp. Full Screen The Witricity technology can charge an electric car with the vehicle parked about a foot above the transmitting pad.
or perhaps even vehicles. Detailed studies of aerodynamics have shown that while a ball with a dimpled surface has half the drag of a smooth one at lower speeds,
Another application could be the exterior of automobiles, where the ability to adjust the texture of panels to minimize drag at different speeds could increase fuel efficiency,
called a bus . When two cores need to communicate, theye granted exclusive access to the bus. But that approach won work as the core count mounts:
Cores will spend all their time waiting for the bus to free up, rather than performing computations.
In a network-on-chip, each core is connected only to those immediately adjacent to it. ou can reach your neighbors really quickly,
One advantage of a bus, however, is that it makes it easier to maintain cache coherence.
If all the cores share a bus, then when one of them receives a data request,
. But it will hold it until it passed along 1. This hierarchical ordering simulates the chronological ordering of requests sent over a bus,
and test winches and cables Looking back Glass credits his undergraduate years on MIT s Solar Electrical Vehicle Team a student organization that builds and races solar
cars for competition with giving him the experience and motivation to bring the BAT from concept to reality.
RNAI delivery vehicles. They also showed that they could block up to five genes at once by delivering different RNA sequences.
all led by MIT Troy Van Voorhis, professor of chemistry, and Marc Baldo, professor of electrical engineering.
For the past four years, Van Voorhis and Baldo have been pooling their theoretical and experimental expertise to investigate this problem.
Van Voorhis says. To support his theoretical study of electron behavior within PVS, Van Voorhis used experimental data gathered in samples specially synthesized by Baldo and Timothy Swager, MIT John D. Macarthur Professor of Chemistry.
The samples were made of four types of exciton fission molecules decorated with various sorts of pinachbulky side groups of atoms that change the molecular spacing without altering the physics or chemistry.
Van Voorhisnew first-principles formula successfully predicts the fission rate in materials with vastly different structures.
Van Voorhis says. he controversial, or xotic, mechanisms proposed more recently aren required to explain what being observed here.
Van Voorhis says. hat the reason that 50 years ago they couldn compute these things
which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints has a number of other promising applications from explosives detection to collision avoidance in cars.
but you re processing signals on a vehicle or something where you did not have significant computational power.
It could also eliminate 10 trucks of wastewater shipping per day for Lagunitas. All in the design Increasingly, the beverage industry has employed anaerobic and aerobic wastewater treatment processes
and fuel consumption electric and hybrid cars and trucks struggled for years to find a solid customer base.
and charging them requires plug-in infrastructure that s still sparse in the United states. Now MIT spinout XL Hybrids is upfitting (and retrofitting) gas and diesel commercial vans and trucks with fuel-saving add-on electric powertrains
According to tests conducted by the startup the $8000 system which has been incorporated into hundreds of vans in the commercial fleets of Coca-cola
and other connecting components that attach to the powertrains of traditional General motors and Ford cargo delivery and shuttle vans as well as cutaway trucks.
When the vehicles brake a process known as regenerative braking captures the kinetic energy (usually dissipated as heat through friction) and converts it into electricity that charges the battery
The startup also collects operational data from the vehicles to inform fleet managers of the best vehicles for the technology usually ones traveling in the stop
and other companies have started retrofitting vehicles with electric powertrains. But XL Hybrids innovation comes from targeting commercial fleet vehicles with a good value proposition all around Hynes says offering low-cost equipment quick installation savings on gas and oil and easy integration.
At the end of the day it s about making the economics work to compete against the price of fuel Hynes says adding We re able to do a lot with a little.
Electric or hybrid fleet vehicles traditionally run on large batteries sometimes more than 100 kilowatt-hours (kwh) in capacity that cost upward of $40000.
which involves running a vehicle on treadmill-like rollers to estimate fuel mileage in urban driving.
They first ran a 5-ton vehicle through the test without XL Hybrids system and then with the system observing a 21 percent savings.
While the system can be added as a retrofit it s generally installed as part of the modifications that most commercial fleet vehicles go through.
The vehicles literally roll of the line and go to facilities where they ll be modified anyway he says.
and incorporate it onto other vehicle makes and models and rapidly scale across the industry Hynes says.
could be used in medical imaging and collision-avoidance detectors for cars, and to improve the accuracy of motion tracking
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
The startup deploys cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that create heat maps of thousands of homes and buildings per hour, detecting fixable leaks in uilding envelopeswindows, doors, walls,
In one night, the cars can generate more than 3 terabytes of data, which is downloaded to an onboard system and processed at the startup Boston headquarters.
the idea for thermal-imaging cars came to Sarma in 2009, when a company sent an employee to his home with a handheld thermal-imaging device
ouldn it be easier to just throw it on a car and drive by the house??
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
such as in electric vehicles. Another advantage of this approach, Chiang says, is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units.
because they interfere with pollution control systems in vehicles and contribute to acid rain and smog. Processes now used to upgrade
Now MIT spinout Cambridge Electronics Inc. CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centers, electric cars,
electric cars cheaper and more powerful, and laptop power adapters one-third the size or even small enough to fit inside the computer itself. his is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change electronics
will be replacing the silicon-based power electronics in electric cars. These are in the chargers that charge the battery,
The silicon transistors used today have constrained a power capability that limits how much power the car can handle.
This is one of the main reasons why there are few large electric vehicles. Gan-based power electronics, on the other hand, could boost power output for electric cars
while making them more energy-efficient and lighter and, therefore, cheaper and capable of driving longer distances. lectric vehicles are popular,
but still a niche product. Gan power electronics will be key to make them mainstream, Palacios says.
and therefore less-polluting vehicles. One of our wildest dreams for the nanomaterials we are developing is that they could be used to make the super-strong lightweight cables that would make possible the construction of a space elevator
Automakers have started introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles which only emit water when driven. But making hydrogen which mostly comes from natural gas requires electricity from conventional carbon dioxide-emitting power plants.
and greatly improve the efficiency of hybrid electric automobiles. Nanoporous carbon materials can also adsorb gas pollutants work as environmental filters
Obviously such vehicles must be small enough to be injected into the eyeball for example with a syringe.
called coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS). By focusing these laser beams onto the nanodiamond, a high-resolution CARS image is generated.
Using an in-house built microscope, the research team was able to measure the intensity of the CARS light on a series of single nanodiamonds of different sizes.
The nanodiamond size was measured accurately by means of electron microscopy and other quantitative optical contrast methods developed within the researcher's lab. In this way,
they were able to quantify the relationship between the CARS light intensity and the nanoparticle size.
Consequently, the calibrated CARS signal enabled the team to analyse the size and number of nanodiamonds that had been delivered into living cells,
#Tracking heat-driven decay in leading electric vehicle batteries Rechargeable electric vehicles are one of the greatest tools against rising pollution and carbon emissions and their widespread adoption hinges on battery performance.
and aluminum (NCA) offers high enough energy density a measure of the stored electricity in the battery that it works well in large-scale and long-range vehicles including electric cars and commercial aircraft.
Crucially the high heat of vehicle environments can intensify these telltale degradation tracks and even cause complete battery failure.
which is above the operating temperature for most vehicles Bak said. But that temperature threshold dropped for a highly charged battery suggesting that operating at full energy capacity accelerates structural degradation and vulnerability.
#Flexible paper electrodes with ultra-high loading for lithium-sulfur batteries With the rapid development of portable electronic devices, electric automobiles,
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and has exciting potential for the car space and defense industries. Current powder metallurgy or liquid processing methods fail to achieve uniform processing says research leader Junfeng Guo who is from the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology.
The research could be used to develop an extremely sensitive micromechanical way to measure acceleration of a car
Scaling this research up in the future may mean that you could replace the gas in your cars and generators with hydrogen greener option,
One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer and even in skyscrapers Tour said.
In a newly published article in the journal ACS Advanced Materials & Interfaces, researchers Ravi Saraf and Chieu Van Nguyen describe a thin-film sensor that can detect tumors too small and deep
Supercapacitors have an expanding range of applications as their capabilities increase from powering computer memory backup to powering electric vehicles.
"It creates exciting opportunities for mobile power supplies for many applications from cell phones to electric vehicles. v
#Used-cigarette butts offer energy storage solution A group of scientists from South korea have converted used-cigarette butts into a high-performing material that could be integrated into computers handheld devices electrical vehicles and wind turbines to store energy.
Nano-supercapacitors for electric cars More information: Preparation of energy storage material derived from a used cigarette filter for a supercapacitor electrode Nanotechnology iopscience. iop. org/0957-4484/25/34/345601 5
#Nanoscale details of electrochemical reactions in electric vehicle battery materials Using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating conditions,
or positive electrode, of electrical vehicle batteries-as the battery charged.""We wanted to catch
enabling electric vehicles to travel farther before needing to be recharged. Many previous methods used to analyze such battery materials have produced data that average out effects over the entire electrode.
and individual particles) under two different charging scenarios-rapid (like you'd get at an electric vehicle recharging station),
when plugging in your vehicle at home overnight). These animated images of individual particles, taken while the electrode is charging,
a two-coherent-laser technique called"coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy,"or CARS. By using CARS in conjunction with a light amplifier made of four tiny gold nanodiscs,
Halas and Zhang were able to measure single molecules in a powerful new way. LANP has dubbed the new technique"surface-enhanced CARS,"or SECARS."
"The two-coherent-laser setup in SECARS is important because the second laser provides further amplification,
His research is centered on building better lithium ion batteries, primarily for personal electronics and electric vehicles. He is focused on the anode
#Chemists seek state-of-the-art lithium-sulfur batteries When can we expect to drive the length of Germany in an electric car without having to top up the battery?
Whether or not the future of automotive traffic belongs to the softly purring electric car depends largely on the development of its batteries.
the lithium-sulfur battery still presents several major challenges that need to be resolved until it can be integrated into cars.
and neutral environment) makes these nanoparticles an ideal vehicle for the controlled activation of therapeutics directly inside the cells Raymo says.
At a 90â°impact angle the nanotubes deformed along the radial direction essentially being smashed like the front of a car in a head-on collision.
Even heads-up displays on vehicle dashboards could soon be a reality. The new technology also has major medical implications.
This understanding could inform the emerging use of nanoparticles as vehicles for delivering genes across cellular membranes."
Lithium ion batteries are the rechargeable battery of choice for portable electronic devices and electric vehicles. But they present problems.
Batteries in electric vehicles are responsible for a significant portion of the vehicle mass. And the size of batteries in portable electronics limits the trend of downsizing.
New nanotech may provide power storage in electric cables clothes Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 PLAYER, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?
and development of electrical vehicles, space-launch vehicles and portable electronic devices. By being able to store
like that needed to start a vehicle or heavy-construction equipment. Although more work needs to be done,
or an electric car powered by energy stored in its chassis, or a home where the dry wall and siding store the electricity that runs the lights and appliances.
It doesn't make sense to develop materials to build a home, car chassis, or aerospace vehicle if you have to replace them every few years
because they go dead.""Westover's wafers consist of electrodes made from silicon that have been treated chemically so they have nanoscale pores on their inner surfaces
There have also been recent press reports of several major efforts to develop multifunctional materials or structural batteries for use in electric vehicles and for military applications.
This has significant implications for industries including electronics and electric vehicles which are always trying to squeeze longer discharges out of batteries."
Microelectronics to electric vehicles can benefit from energy storage devices that offer high power and high energy density. That's why researchers are working to develop a device that offers both.
I can see it being a little buggy at first but if this catches on and theres a market for this
and drive virtual vehicles too using virtual pedals and steering wheels. The options are unlimited with this combo. very exciting times for the human race.
what you need to make it workmy mum in-law got a fantastic white Cadillac CTS-V Sedan by working part time off of a home computer...
what no spacefaring vehicle ever has: offer reliable affordable and regular round-trip access to low Earth orbit.
The vehicle would have a fuselage reminiscent of the Concorde and take off like a conventional airliner accelerate to Mach 5. 2
Imagine a fleet of these vehicles whisking payloads to LEO on a daily basis . If multiple countries operate their own fleets there will eventually be multiple payload deliveries per day.
No one will fly astronauts/cosmonauts up to the ISS on an unmanned vehicle. Other than that good article.
and hit this vehicle. I read that they had a breakthrough in developing materials for the engines to enable them to survive the intense heat
I want to see vehicles that can mine asteroids. Its 2013 and we still havent even dug up that Monolith on the Moon.@
so light for its size it will not get as hot as other re-entry vehicles like the space shuttle (1100k vs 2000k).
Pets cars and family members are all scannable Asda wrote in a blog post. Asda sends digital files of the scans to a facility where they're printed then shipped back to the Asda store.
#Massive CT SCANNER Will Glean Safety Insight From Wrecked Cars Computed tomography (CT SCANNERS are great for diagnosing problems in people but what about cars?
The Fraunhofer Development Center is using the biggest CT SCANNER it can find to analyze wrecked cars.
That sounds good but how do you fit a car in a CT SCANNER? Apparently you just get a bigger scanner.
Fraunhofer is building a giant scanner that it says can be used for cars as well as to detect damage to airplane wings
A crashed car is hoisted onto a turntable. As it turns two X-ray detectors on either side scan it
or failure of specific parts across an entire car showing which where forces were directed and how each part of a car's structure reacted.
The question is: will the giant scanners actually fit in any existing crash test labs? This article written by Stephen Edelstein was published originally on Motor Authority a publishing partner of Popular Science.
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#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?
The elderly obese man had drugs in his system as he stepped in front of the bus that squished him running away from his angry wife with that machete.
It does not show deaths from chronic health problems caused by drug use nor accidents (car crashes falls) nor suicides while intoxicated.
The Rani Ki Van stepwell in India took approximately two weeks to get all the detail. Still other sites are collected incidentally.
Here cars use cameras and lasers to provide detailed travel maps capturing the curve of the road and details down to a centimeter accuracy.
either disable the attacking vehicle or cause any explosions to detonate prematurely with no American lives lost.
Provided of course the vehicle hasn't sprung a leak. We've been meaning to do this for a while says Adam Rein the company's lead director and cofounder over the buzz of the air compressor.
And instead of pouring concrete foundations and erecting a multistory tower a few people with a truck can inflate the airship on site
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