Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 15, 2009
The Commandant of the Marine Crops, General Conway said it best during the Marine Corps energy summit a few weeks ago when he described the fully burdened cost of a gallon of gasoline delivered to a piece of equipment in Afghanistan. The 2009 Naval Energy Forum was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.
Green Car Congress
MAY 25, 2012
Afghanistan). an alternative fuel if the cost exceeds the cost of traditional fossil fuels used for the same purpose, except for continued testing. an alternative fuel if the cost exceeds the cost of traditional fossil fuels used for the same purpose, except for continued testing. The bill authorizes $498.0
Green Car Congress
MARCH 10, 2012
The report will assess the effectiveness of rapid fielding of fuel demand management improvements by the Military Departments, including energy efficiency and alternative generation technologies, to Afghanistan and other locations in support of contingency operations. The chairman has designated the Director for Logistics, Lt. Brooks Bash.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low. Our worst failure scenarios had the Roomba missing a patch of floor and failing to pick up a dustball.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2009
Crane also mentioned that one-quarter to one-third of the cost of a battery system is the packaging, integration and electronics. Fuel becomes very expensive by the time it reaches the front line, ranging from $20/gallon up to $600/gallon when it is delivered by helicopter in Afghanistan. Storage Temperature. Driving Temperature.
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2023
military took hold of the concept, and in its hands, those simple drones morphed into Predators and Reapers , bomber-size machines that flew missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and each cost millions of dollars (if not tens of millions). But a technologically powerful country needn’t count the cost; the United States certainly didn’t. “We
Cars That Think
AUGUST 21, 2022
soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, I have donned a variety of prosthetic hands, each of them striving toward perfect fidelity of the human hand—sometimes at a cost of aesthetics, sometimes a cost of functionality, but always designed to mimic and replace what was missing.
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