The German process uses a special conveying system to load de-stemmed grapes onto a belt that travels past a sorting module.
and show how and when to deploy delivery trucks to ensure immediate shipment an especially important factor in farmlands where the lack of paved roads can paralyze distribution.
and predicting of weather effects on transportation networks can help farmers make better decisions about
That is especially critical in countries like Brazil where many of the roads are unpaved and heavy rain can cause trucks to get stuck in mud.
What if unmanned arial vehicle (UAV) developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
Vehicle engines and warm bodies provide telltale signs that would otherwise be hidden by the night.
Prizes such as the automotive XPRIZE (vehicle efficiency) the lunar XPRIZE (space exploration) the genomics XPRIZE (genome sequencing)
Because a vehicle has thousands of parts and is supposed to last for tens of years without catastrophic failure.
But the search-engine giant's mapping and imaging technology has uses beyond navigation and armchair travel.
akin to taking more than 68 million vehicles off the road for 30 years, depending on which chemicals fill the void.
$286 million to Solyndra of Fremont (photovoltaics), $82. 5 million to Tesla Motors of San Carlos (electric vehicles) and $60 million to Serious Materials in Sunnyvale (energy-efficient building materials.
NASA expects the craft to ferry astronauts, supplies and research materials to the International Space station when its shuttle fleet retires next year.
Spacex, based in Hawthorne, California, hopes to dock Dragon with the station during its next demonstration launch,
Through the Recovery Act, my Administration committed over $100 billion to support groundbreaking innovation with investments in energy, basic research, education and training, advanced vehicle technology, health IT and health research
to develop specific guidance for the commodities most often associated with food-borne illness outbreaks.
The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see Fuelling Brazil s transport boom),
and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tonnes of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 Â million tonnes in 2008."
That, combined with the cost of pure ethanol, has meant that"the share of alcohol in our transport fuel matrix has dropped from 55%in 2008 to 35,
Reicher, an attorney by training, previously headed Google s $1-billion initiative for investing in energy and climate, where he guided investments into solar technologies and electric transport.
Since then, her agency has developed the first US greenhouse-gas standards for vehicles, tightened air-quality standards and proposed emissions limits for power plants.
These include federal greenhouse-gas standards for vehicles and the introduction by more than half of the states of significant energy and climate initiatives that could deliver further reductions  perhaps even the 17%cut by 2020 that Obama promised at the United nations climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009.
The rocket is the first vehicle to take off from NASA s new launch pad at the Wallops Flight Facility In virginia.
The flight puts NASA one step closer to having two US cargo carriers available to resupply the International Space station."
Primate carriers Vietnam Airlines said on 19 april that it will no longer transport primates used in research experiments, effective from 1 may.
It was one of the last major carriers to transport primates for research: only Air france and Philippine Airlines say that they still do so.
The London Company was a joint stock enterprise that established the Jamestown Settlement in 1607providing transportation to pioneers in return for seven years of labor in America where they cultivated tobacco and other crops for the company's profit.
and come down on a regular basis the shuttle missions went up and came down on a regular basis. If the radiation belts in the Earth's magnetosphere were really that deadly
But the moment Levandowski enters the freeway ramp near his house a colorful graphic appears.
It's a schematic view of the road: two solid white vertical lines marking the boundaries of the highway
there are two on the far side of the freeway shown in green on the schematic. Levandowski's car and those around him are represented by little white squares.
And with that Levandowski has handed off control of his vehicle to software named Google Chauffeur. He takes his feet off the pedals and puts his hands in his lap.
and mandates for car-borne beacons that will broadcast location information to other vehicles on the road.
when the car ahead breaks hard for example or another vehicle swerves erratically into traffic. Automakers may then use this information to take the next step:
Following Google policy Levandowski drives through residential roads and surface streets himself while Chauffeur drives the freeways.
Still it's a lot better than driving the whole way. Levandowski has his hands on the wheel for just 14 minutes of his hour-long commute:
at the very beginning at the very end and during the tricky freeway interchanges on the San mateo Bridge.
Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles
but they are also simply doing their job: ferrying Google employees back and forth from work. Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars easily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof an average of once an hour.
Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year where Governor Jerry brown signed California's self-driving-car bill into law Google cofounder Sergey Brin said you can count on one hand
For example it might mistake a parked truck for a small building or a mailbox for a child standing by the side of the road.
and then ticked off the goodies the Android operating system search voice social maps navigation even Chauffeur.
For the autonomous vehicle I'm kind of the only thing that works Hall says. Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration.
Thus in the eyes of the law an autonomous vehicle is arguably similar to a horse-drawn buggy.
For the autonomous vehicle that now drives Levandowski to work the answer (according to Smith) is logical:
New york's vehicle code for example directs that no person shall operate a motor vehicle without having at least one hand
or in the case of a physically handicapped person at least one prosthetic device or aid on the steering mechanism at all times when the motor vehicle is in motion.
Its DMV even designed special license plates for the vehicles (they have an infinity sign. California Florida and most recently the District of columbia have followed suit.
The vehicle-to-vehicle communications standard soon to be announced by NHSTA would at least in theory enable all makes
In our self-driving future not only would traffic jams become a thing of the past every stoplight would also be green.
In our self-driving future not only would traffic jams become a thing of the past every stoplight would also be green.
Both use a combination of radar and computer vision to center the vehicle in the lane
and oversight to guard against situations like a deer running into the road; the car must be able to hand back control with no warning.
-and vision-based pedestrian-avoidance systems fail to see the proverbial child running into the road 1 or 2 percent of the time.
Google's main focus and vision says Medford is for a level-four vehicle. Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.
Kinect device to replace expensive LIDAR system for self-driving vehicles. Google would buy it right now.:
I think this would be an excellent discussion topic on our Autonomous Vehicle Community of Practice on Linkedin.
Also they periodically hand the vehicle back to the carbon based life form. I don't disagree with the approach I'm just saying that many things are yet to be proven.
How about sliding around on winter roads when the lidar is being blinded pretty much by the snow?).
I would think that the best way to proceed would be to allow these vehicles to be driverless only in certain areas.
It is a form of duel mode transportation which is powered by electricity from the road bed in 2 protected automated lanes and an access and exit lane
Any vehicle that will fit into a standard parking space and with very minor modifications can be carried by the system.
Shipping containers can be transported from one terminal to another automatically without a tractor or driver.
It would be so much more efficient than the vehicles using it that the fees charged would
not only save large amounts over the cost of the vehicles being driven on the highway that the system can be built
which can solve almost all the problems of highway transportation without adding more prob; ems. I hope kids
when the AI core of one of these vehicles craters in the middle of the rush-hour commute
and the now pilotless vehicle causes a multi-car pileup? So create them so that the driver can take over you say?
and gain control of the vehicle he/she would have been having to pay attention to/what the car is doing at all times/(like you do
oh which also means that the business model for vehicle insurance would have to entirely change as well.
The real problem with physical books is in creation and transportation. It takes a lot of energy to cut down trees process them into pulp strain them press them heat them print them
Out of sight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long linear passes of a mowed lawn.
The vehicles come from the University of California San diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Delaware
Historically on unmanned underwater platforms you might spend the better part of your experimental time just ensuring the sensors were functioning tracking the vehicle navigation
Scripps and the University of Delaware shipped 60 packages of equipment to Palau including underwater vehicles cameras various types of sonar
to confirm the exact craft divers would try to recover a stamped metal plate riveted to the inside of the cockpit.
If there's any primer left on the interior of the cockpit which will last longer than straight paint that's one way to take a peek at it he says.
After descending to the plane O'brien noticed that the windscreen on the cockpit was located behind the wing.
Scannon waves me over to the cockpit and places my hand on the gun mount.
It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.
Placing his left hand on the cockpit coaming he braced for impact. There was no shock Mccullah later wrote in a mission report.
a large bulbous coral head has taken up occupancy in the cockpit. Originally painted blue with a white star
With data from the robotic vehicles Palau can add downed aircraft to an inventory of the country's rich underwater sites something previously unattainable for an office that can barely afford to buy gas for a boat.
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ON lyin jeb bush or cheney noradtag harrp remote control Utah rocket site roads to edwards rocket site road!
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But you kicked the can down the road. A new standard of 54.5 miles per gallon is great but by 2025?
Are you willing to pay 2x the cost for power transportation and fuel? I don't understand why reversing the effects of the azolla event is seen as such a negative thing.
I'm driving around a vehicle which if I run in my garage with everything closed will kill me...
which the rest of your comment indicates you were talking about) is by far the safest mode of transportation.
and see that travel by almost any other mode of transportation is inherently more dangerous.@@Him:
While Europe is building a massive Supergrid (much of it with DC lines) for it`s solar wind and bio energy transports.
And while Europe and China keep expanding high speed rail to more cities the US is only lowering investments in roads energy rails etc.
and Pacific oceans transforming trade transportation and even wartime strategy. France began construction on the canal in the 1880s
Gorgas himself says that the Americans could have done no better than The french without the knowledge of the mosquito as a disease carrier.
Great commercial agricultural and industrial development immediately follows new and important lines of transportation; and in addition to the enormous investments of the United states government in the Zone private capital will flow into the country in a steady stream.
In a world where people use 240000 plastic bags every 10 seconds where passengers on U s. airlines consume one million plastic cups every six hours where consumers in total discard
With no federal laws requiring the recycling of end-of-life vehicles or electronics or a law banning the offshore dumping of e-waste Biddle s source material was moving overseas.
and vehicles and recycle them responsibly Japan had laws mandating the large-scale collection and recycling of appliances.
And engineers have developed the first flying insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:
Engineers have developed the first insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:
and demonstrating for the first time stable hovering and controlled flight maneuvers in an insect-scale vehicle. I didn t end up sleeping the rest of that night Wood says.
other researchers have used flapping-wing dynamics to reduce the size of aerial vehicles capable of carrying payloads.
When the vehicle is blown out of position or clips an obstacle its computer detects the discrepancy between its current position
Unless stringent mitigation action in transport and other end-use sectors is implemented almost immediately the only way to still achieve the 2 degree target will be to rely on carbon dioxide removal technologies such as bioenergy with CCS.
and can be used readily by current transportation systems while the other renewable technologies would require electric or hydrogen vehicles and infrastructure in order to power transportation.
Additional findings from the EMF-27 projectthe EMF27 project is a global model comparison exercise that includes a worldwide consortium of research institutes
In one of the studies IIASA researchers David Mccollum and Volker Krey showed that electrification of the transport system would free up limited
and therefore valuable supplies of biomass across the globe by reducing the need for biofuels Based on our analysis this freeing up of biomass is one of the key system-wide consequences of electrifying transport says Mccollum.
beera discovery at Rice university aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical. It might also prolong the shelf life of bottled beer and soda.
or diesel vehicles researchers at the Georgia Institute of technology are offering some advice: comparisons of the energy consumption greenhouse gas emissions and total cost of ownership for the medium-duty vehicles.
The advantages of electric versus diesel depend largely on how the trucks will be used--the frequency of stops
In city driving with frequent stops the electric trucks clearly outperform diesel vehicles. On average in the United states electric urban delivery trucks use about 30 percent less total energy
and the regenerative braking systems in electrical vehicles help provide better efficiency. However electric delivery trucks lose their advantage in suburban routes that involve fewer stops and higher average speed.
Electric vehicles have limited a daily range and top speed and without a lot of stops lose their regenerative braking advantage.
Electric vehicles can cost more than their diesel counterparts under certain conditions particularly if high-cost charging systems are used
The relative benefits of the electric vehicles the researchers found depend on vehicle efficiency associated with drive cycle diesel fuel price travel demand electric drive battery replacement
The research team took into account the sources of electricity used to charge the electric vehicles in evaluating greenhouse gas emissions.
Electricity produced from hydroelectric sources--more common in the northwest United states--dramatically reduced total greenhouse gas emissions for electric vehicles operated there.
Vehicles operated in states heavily dependent on coal for producing electricity showed higher emissions. In every state in the U s. electric trucks provided some reduction in greenhouse gas emissions with urban routes providing the most advantage.
or more compared to diesel vehicles. Wild cards in the study included the future costs of both diesel fuel
Battery price reductions down the road could have a large effect on the cost-competitiveness of electric trucks
because vehicles in these applications tend to travel the same routes each day spend significant amounts of time in stop
The two trucks had approximately the same gross vehicle weight curb weight and payload. The comparison controlled for improvements in diesel efficiency between 2006 and 2011.
The researchers were surprised to find that the electric truck had cost advantages over the diesel vehicle under some conditions.
They had expected that costs would always be higher for the electric vehicle especially since the purchase price of the electric truck studied was higher than the diesel truck
which the total cost of operating an electric vehicle is less than operating a diesel vehicle noted Marilyn Brown another co-author and a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy.
Our expectation was that the electric vehicle would provide environmental benefits but at a cost.
Depending on what happens with vehicle and fuel costs the advantages could swing even farther in the direction of electric vehicles.
The relative benefit of electric trucks over diesel counterparts could be much more significant than one might expect said Lee.
It can even serve as a high-density hydrogen storage carrier that could solve problems related to hydrogen storage and distribution.
For example some nanoparticles are used as the drug delivery vehicle. We can make nanogumbos that are both the drug
and the drug delivery vehicle he said. Warner cited as one example a newly developed nanogumbos material with a provisional patent application filed that his team at LSU foresees as a lead in possible development of new anticancer drugs.
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and agricultural waste advanced biofuels represent a sustainable nonpolluting source of transportation fuel that would also generate domestic jobs and revenue.
The U s. Clean Air Act began requiring regulatory controls for vehicle emissions in the 1970s
considering that the time period also was marked by dramatic growth in gross domestic product urban population and the number of vehicles.
and automobile manufactures are aggressively trying to develop vehicles that run on hydrogen fuel cells. Unlike gas-powered engines that spew out pollutants the only byproduct of hydrogen fuel is water.
and energy companies are working on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as the transportation of the future Zhang said.
Nesting hens will avoid nesting near humanmade structures and disturbances in habitat from roads to buildings to the conversion of native grasslands to cropland.
and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light-duty vehicles--cars and small trucks--via a combination of more efficient vehicles;
and greenhouse gases vehicles must become dramatically more efficient regardless of how they are powered said Douglas M. Chapin principal of MPR Associates
i e. energy cost savings improved vehicle technologies and reductions in petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions exceed the additional costs of the transition over and above
Improving the efficiency of conventional vehicles is up to a point the most economical and easiest-to-implement approach to saving fuel
This approach includes reducing work the engine must perform--reducing vehicle weight aerodynamic resistance rolling resistance
The average fuel economy of vehicles on the road would have exceed to 180 mpg which the report says is extremely unlikely with current technologies.
Therefore the study committee also considered other alternatives for vehicles and fuels including: hybrid electric vehicles such as the Toyota Prius;
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Volt; battery electric vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf;
hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles such as the Mercedes F-Cell scheduled to be introduced about 2014; and compressed natural gas vehicles such as the Honda civic Natural gas.
Although driving costs per mile will be lower especially for vehicles powered by natural gas or electricity the high initial purchase cost is likely to be a significant barrier to widespread consumer acceptance the report says.
All the vehicles considered are and will continue to be several thousand dollars more expensive than today's conventional vehicles.
Additionally particularly in the early years the report predicts that alternative vehicles will likely be limited to a few body styles and sizes;
some will rely on fuels that are not readily available or have restricted travel range; and others may require bulky energy storage that will limit their cargo and passenger capacity.
Wide consumer acceptance is essential however and large numbers of alternative vehicles must be purchased long before 2050
if the on-road fleet is to meet desired performance goals. Strong policies and technology advances are critical in overcoming this challenge.
The report identified several scenarios that could meet the more demanding 2050 greenhouse gas goal.
Each combines highly efficient vehicles with at least one of three alternative power sources--biofuel electricity or hydrogen.
Natural gas vehicles were considered but their greenhouse gas emissions are too high for the 2050 goal.
However if the costs of these vehicles can be reduced and appropriate refueling infrastructure created they have great potential for reducing petroleum consumption.
While corn-grain ethanol and biodiesel are the only biofuels to have been produced in commercial quantities in the U s. to date the study committee found much greater potential in biofuels made from lignocellulosic biomass
--which includes crop residues like wheat straw switchgrass whole trees and wood waste. This drop in fuel is designed to be a direct replacement for gasoline
it can also be introduced without major changes in fuel delivery infrastructure or vehicles. The report finds that sufficient lignocellulosic biomass could be produced by 2050 to meet the goal of an 80 percent reduction in petroleum use
when combined with highly efficient vehicles. Vehicles powered by electricity will not emit any greenhouse gases
but the production of electricity and the additional load on the electric power grid are factors that must be considered.
These vehicles also rely on batteries which are projected to drop steeply in price. However the report says that limited range
and long recharge times are likely to limit the use of all-electric vehicles mainly to local driving.
When hydrogen is used as a fuel cell in electric vehicles the only vehicle emission is water.
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles could become less costly than the advanced internal combustion engine vehicles of 2050.
Fuel cell vehicles are not subject to the limitations of battery vehicles but developing a hydrogen infrastructure in concert with a growing number of fuel cell vehicles will be difficult and expensive the report says.
The technology advances required to meet the 2050 goals are challenging and not assured. Nevertheless the committee considers that dramatic cost reduction
The best approach therefore is to promote a portfolio of vehicle and fuel research and development supported by both government
Overcoming the barriers to advanced vehicles and fuels will require a rigorous policy framework that is more stringent than the proposed fuel economy standards for 2025.
and vehicle technologies are close to market readiness and consumer behavior toward them is understood well The report warns that forcing a technology into the market should be undertaken only when the benefits of the proposed support justify its costs.
The goal of the project is to sequester 1 million metric tons of CO2 a year--the equivalent of removing 200000 automobiles from the road.
Wildland fires involve complex interactions that include fuel distribution terrain topography chemical reactions energy transfer and the associated fluid dynamics that transport moisture gas-phase hydrocarbons air
and Research Project Office Morgan Simpson of NASA Ground Processing Directorate and Ray Wheeler Ph d. of the Surface Systems office in NASA's Engineering and Technology Directorate also provided guidance
The Cedars-Sinai surgeons highlight the advantages of a spinal navigation technique that uses high-speed computerized tomography (CT) imaging to navigate in and around the spinal column from different angles.
Computer-guided surgical navigation technology delivers on quality and safety said J. Patrick Johnson MD a neurosurgery spine specialist and director of Spine Education and the Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship program in the Department of Neurosurgery.
This approach represents a major leap forward for instrumented spine surgery said Terrence T. Kim MD an orthopedic spine surgeon in the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center and expert in the computer-guided navigation field.
and the potential future use of robotic spine surgery with computer navigation. The special issue of the journal can be accessed at:
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