David Custis Kimball - blog
You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've a two talented kids; the younger said, 'Stop with the lectures.' Then asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later, Me: 'OK, that's a great idea, thinkin' they might just read it someday.
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Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College Valedictorian - 1970; known endeavor: actuarial contributions to The Donald; since has contacted me and sadly is quite ill. Ask prayers for recovery; thanks for his brilliance and music.
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Environment, Science These are the typical projects of good Ocean Engineering studies. Optimizing the materials for the harsh environment include: reliability, corrosion, and toxins to name three. FAU is the home of the inventor of ‘chirping sonar’ which mimics the way dolphins echolocate. It uses a varied freq. (high being more defined) and low being more penetrating. The result was a machine which could ‘see’ about 50 feet into the seabed. It was used to find the lead and heavy metal contaminated soils at the mouth of the Rhine River in the Netherlands. They used this very watertight material to ‘beef up’ the dykes. That’s a two-fer. Get rid of the bad and then make it good by moving it to another spot. There might be some good use of this at the mouth of the Mississippi River around New Orleans. Ride on.The US Navy is trying to save some money by making their ships more fuel efficient. Keeping a ship’s hull free of barnacles, oysters, algae, and other marine life can decrease fuel consumption by up to 40 percent and increase speed by 10 percent. To do the job of cleaning, or “grooming”, a vessel’s hull, the Office of Naval Research has developed the Bio-inspired Underwater Grooming (BUG) robot (PDF format). The BUG is an autonomous robot that uses negative pressure vortex regenerative fluid movement (which civilians refer to as “suction”) to stick to the hull of a ship. Four wheels drive it forward while sensors including biofilm detectors and flourometers allow it to avoid obstacles and plan paths that will take it toward fouled surfaces. The Navy hopes BUGs will be online by 2015, saving up $500 million in maintenance costs per ship while reducing the Navy’s carbon footprint. The robot could also be used on non-military ships and yachts. For more info, see the ONR news release. (via robots.net - US Navy’s Bio-inspired Underwater Grooming Robot
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