Technology keeps marching on and with new advances – such as the Google/Fiat partnership to bring the driverless car to the mass market – Canadian officials are worried driverless cars will lead to a greater increase in sex while in those cars, according to experts at the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCE) and reported by Raw Story....
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A celestial event – so rare it happens just 13 times in a century – is going to have all eyes looking skyward beginning Monday, May 9, ABCNews reported Wednesday. Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, will begin to transit the sun beginning at 7.12 a.m. ET, the report said ... The astronomical event, where the planet will transit across the face of the sun, will take 71/2 hours ... ET, according to NASA....
The Pakistani authorities have opposed military action against the Afghan Taliban leaders days after President Ghani called on Islamabad to take actions against the group’s leaderships based in Peshawar and Quetta cities. The country’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz has said such a policy had not brought results for 14 long years ... ....
The ship is powered by a GE LM2500 gas turbine-based system ... The ship is powered by a GE LM2500 gas turbine-based system ... The F125-class frigate propulsion module consists of one LM2500 gas turbine, two electric motors and four diesel generator-sets in a combined diesel-electric and gas turbine (CODLAG) propulsion arrangement....
Statoil has been entrusting MTU Maintenance with its LM series industrial gas turbines for many years, MTU having been responsible for the MRO of its LM2500™, LM2500+™ and LM6000™ series IGTs since 2006... The facility is a licensed level IV depot for all types of GE LM2500™, LM2500+™, LM5000™ and LM6000™ gas turbines....
In the military space, Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has chosen GE's LM2500 and LM500 gas turbines for its naval ships. To date, GE's marine systems' supplier IHI has packaged, tested and delivered over 70 LM2500 and more than 30 LM500 marine gas turbines. IHI handles in-country design, manufacture and testing of GE's LM2500 and LM500 propulsion modules for JMSDF programs....
In the military space, Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has chosen GE's LM2500 and LM500 gas turbines for its naval ships. To date, GE's marine systems' supplier IHI has packaged, tested and delivered over 70 LM2500 and more than 30 LM500 marine gas turbines. IHI handles in-country design, manufacture and testing of GE's LM2500 and LM500 propulsion modules for JMSDF programs....
In the military space, Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has chosen GE's LM2500 and LM500 gas turbines for its naval ships. To date, GE's marine systems' supplier IHI has packaged, tested and delivered over 70 LM2500 and more than 30 LM500 marine gas turbines. IHI handles in-country design, manufacture and testing of GE's LM2500 and LM500 propulsion modules for JMSDF programs....
(Source. GE EnergyPowerConversionFranceSAS). EVENDALE, Ohio - March 3, 2016 - GE's Marine Solutions announced it will provide LM2500+G4 gas turbines that will power the Italian Navy's new Pattugliatori Polivalenti d'Altura (PPA) multipurpose offshore patrol ships ... The PPA ships will be built by Fincantieri at its Integrated Shipyard of Riva Trigoso and Muggiano ... 'Our contract includes an order for seven LM2500+G4 gas turbines ... ###....
EVENDALE, Ohio -- GE's Marine Solutions announced it will provide LM2500+G4 gas turbines that will power the Italian Navy's new Pattugliatori Polivalenti d'Altura (PPA) multipurpose offshore patrol ships ... 'Our contract includes an order for seven LM2500+G4 gas turbines ... The PPA program continues a long tradition of LM2500 power combatants in the Italian Navy with the selection of the LM2500+G4....
GE's Marine Solutions announced it will provide a LM2500+G4 gas turbine that will power the Italian Navy's new Pattugliatori Polivalenti d'Altura multipurpose offshore patrol ship. The PPA's hybrid electric propulsion system also will use GE's shock-proof MV3000 drives and a GE-designed electrical network of motors as part of the propulsion system ... ....
The first LM2500+G4 gas turbine system made by GE Marine will be delivered in 2017, and the agreement foresees a further 6 turbines by 2022 ... More recently, the Italian-French FREMM programme adopted the more powerful and innovative LM2500+G4 turbine, the same system chosen now for the PPA ships....
GE Canada announced it recently extended a contract with Public Services and Procurement Canada to provide maintenance and logistics support services for a 15th year. The contract covers the Royal Canadian Navy's fleet of LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines that power Halifax-class patrol frigates ... ....
(Source. GE - General Electric Company). Florence, Italy; February 2, 2016. GE Oil & Gas (NYSE... In response to rapidly growing industry interest in GE Oil & Gas's world-leading testing capabilities, the company is expanding its Massa testing site, with a focus on supporting testing of the aeroderivative LM2500 gas turbine and becoming the global center of excellence for the testing of the LM2500 gas turbines for oil & gas applications....
NEW DELHI. The Indian Navy's design bureau is favourably considering nuclear propulsion for the second, and possibly a third indigenous aircraft carrier ... But there is no final decision yet on either. India's first indigenous aircraft carrier, IAC-I or Vikrant, is under construction at the Kochi Shipyard for delivery by end-2018 and it is to be propelled by four LM2500 gas turbine engines from the US GE ... ....