The researchers are using an autonomous underwater vehicle to measure slices of water quality. The slender, battery-powered vehicle is about 3 feet long and is programmed to trace specific routes in collecting data such as oxygen and chlorophyll concentrations, pH, and turbidity. Strings of sensors extending to the lake bottom from buoys also are recording temperature readings every 15 minutes.
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Robot Submarine Patrols Lake Michigan for Climate-Change Study, by Emil Venere
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010New Biofuels Processing Method for Mobile Facilities, by Emil Venere
Thursday, July 8th, 2010“Material like corn stover and wood chips has low energy density,” Agrawal said. “It makes more sense to process biomass into liquid fuel with a mobile platform and then take this fuel to a central refinery for further processing before using it in internal combustion engines.”
