Texas High Speed Rail Project will have Bechtel for project management

Texas Central, developers of the high-speed train between North Texas and Houston, announced an agreement today with Bechtel to work together on project management services. Bechtel has completed more than 300 major train and subway projects, including the Channel Tunnel High Speed 1, Crossrail in London, Riyadh Metro and Dulles Corridor Metrorail in the Washington, …

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USA will deploy hypersonic weapons a few years after Russia and China

The US has tripled the annual funding level for hypersonic weapons compared to prior years. However, Russia appears to already be deploying hypersonic weapons as the warhead for missiles. Russia has three hypersonic weapons under development. China appears likely to deploy its hypersonic missile weapon in 2018 or 2019. Russia and China will be able …

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Air pollution deaths at 7 million per year are like unending WW2 scale deaths

Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world. New data from WHO shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. Updated estimations reveal an alarming death toll of 7 million people every year caused by ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution. This is World War …

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Bricklaying robot that increases human productivity by five-fold

Construction Robotics has a bricklaying robot commercially available and doesn’t actually replace a traditional mason. It works in collaboration with a mason, increasing their productivity up to five-fold. SAM, short for Semi-Automated Mason, is a brick laying robot designed and engineered by Construction Robotics. SAM100 is the first commercially available bricklaying robot for onsite masonry …

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