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Firefighter using laser imaging camera to see through flames.

Laser Imaging Video Camera: Sees Through Smoke

Security is not the original intent of laser imaging video camera technology, which ultimately finds uses in several fields. Conceived a decade prior as a tool that would allow firefighters and other first responders to see through smoke and flames, it developed the capability to work with the Navy. Excitement about it for applications, capable of seeing through a blaze. Also capable of penetrating almost any other visual obscurant, the potential for the device to increase visibility for aircraft under adverse conditions. How It Works Laser Imaging Video Camera, along with other visibility issues pilots face, the device works by

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Peeling cracked layers of paint and colorful metal background.

Engineers Design Fluid Inspired Material Coating for Metals

Self-Healing Metal Coating Engineers have developed a new coating strategy for metal that self-heals within seconds when scratched, scraped, or cracked. The novel material could prevent these tiny defects from turning into localized corrosion, which can cause significant structures to fail. It’s hard to believe that a tiny crack could take down a gigantic metal structure, but sometimes bridges collapse, pipelines rupture, and fuselages detach from airplanes due to hard-to-detect corrosion in tiny cracks, scratches, and dents. Localized corrosion is extremely dangerous. It is hard to prevent, hard to predict, and hard to detect, but it can lead to catastrophic

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Engineers Forge a New Frontier for Solar: Utility Build-Transfer Agreements

Historically, electric utilities in the U.S. have been buyers and sellers, but not producers, of solar energy. Mainly due to tax and accounting constraints, vertically integrated, regulated utilities traditionally have entered power purchase agreements (PPAs) to procure solar energy (and wind and other renewable energy) from independent power producers (IPPs), rather than building such projects and including them in their rate base. For too many utilities, this has seemed like a lost opportunity; they generally earn a return on the equity invested in power plants, transmission, and distribution lines but not on power purchased from others. Dramatic reductions in the installed

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