Few of the tourists strolling around the museum grounds realise that beneath them are 60 scientists, a particle accelerator and a battery of research equipment dedicated to soliciting secrets from the vast collections of French museums.

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To run communications and surveillance equipment, soldiers now must tow diesel generators or giant battery packs behind trucks.

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Compared to the early polar explorers of the 1900s, Fiennes's team will benefit from some innovative equipment, including boots with electrically-heated insoles, battery-powered heated clothing, radar to spot dangerous crevasse fields and a specially designed breathing apparatus to enable them to survive at temperatures that will regularly reach -70 degrees Celsius and perhaps even lower.

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Richard Walsh, a Massport spokesman, said the jet's auxiliary power unit battery, which is housed in a small compartment known as the aft electrical equipment bay, exploded after crews believed the fire was extinguished.

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The first battery became operational last Saturday in the city of Adana, NATO said, and more equipment arrived Wednesday in the port city of Iskenderun.

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The firm added that its technology - dubbed Qualcomm Halo - could be used to keep vehicles' battery charges at between 40-80%, thereby maximising the life expectancy of the equipment.

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The Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) platform DARPA currently provides for the DARPA Robotics Challenge has a battery life of just 10 to 20 minutes.

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The need to engineer energy storage equipment that could work well with solar or wind power plants has prompted many private and public investments in battery and other storage technologies.

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