Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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batteries lighter for armed


USA - 30/11/2010 - 3B Tips - Rockwell Collins presented at the show IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2010 "Cambridge (Massachusetts) a battery that can significantly reduce the load carried by soldiers.
The total weight is usually 50-60kg and batteries account for about 10-25kg ... In 2007, there were nearly 257,000 reported orthopedic injuries in the military.
batteries are generally used only once per mission - indeed, no risk is tolerated during a mission.
Rockwell Collins believe that the cost of shipping batteries in Afghanistan is $ 3,000 to $ 4,000 / kWh. Rockwell assesses energy recovery technologies combined with fuel cells and new lithium-ion batteries.

In addition, the newsletter of the ADIT mention the ambitious program of research on batteries of the future BATT (Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies)

BATT The research group is led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) and is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). It has 30 researchers who are distributed in various laboratories of the U.S. DoE. The group focuses on six areas related to batteries: anode, cathode, electrolyte, modeling, cell analysis and diagnostics.

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Sources: PCB 23/11/2010 Rockwell Collins, October 2010 ADIT

Monday, November 29, 2010

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Conservatories natural areas and Ministry French Defence

France 29/11/2010 - 3B Tips - 12 new military sites have recently been contracted by the Ministry of Defence, Ministry first user in the domain of the State. This ministry has military sites in mainland and overseas to enable the training of his forces (land maneuver, driving ranges shooting ...). This new signature brings to 18 the number of military sites under contract in 2010 with the Federation of conservatories (CNF) chaired by Pascal Vauthier (speaker at the conference and Environmental Defense, a new way of thinking of 07/03/2007).

Given their limited use and military, these lands have been preserved from urbanization and intensive agriculture. They have a wealth of flora and fauna recognized in national and European level. 50 000 hectares of land have already been classified military Natura 2000. Six camps for the Army are the subject since the 80 partnership agreements with regional conservation ecological and county natural areas (CEN) who helped implement a sustainable management of these camps, consistent with their assignment.

4 camps of the Army
Golf Jackpot (40)
Camp La Courtine (23)
Camp Caylus (82)
camp Bourg Lastic

7 airbases
Former airbase Marigny (51 )
Air Force Base, Mont Verdun Lyon (69)
Ambérieu Air Force Base (01)
Istres Air Base (13)
Air Base Salon de Provence (13)
Cazaux Air Base (33)
Air Base Orange (84)

Ecological Management of Military Zone of the nature reserve of La Crau Coussouls


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Source: DMPA - Ministry of Defence