Fighting Dolphins

The U.S. Navy began also known as fighting dolphins in the Iraq war. “When it was announced that the U.S. military in Iraq war also known as fighting dolphins” set, an almost forgotten topic for a short time got into the spotlight of public interest: the use of animals in the war. In the spring of 218 BC, Hannibal led an enormous army of elephants through Spain and Gaul across the Alps to attack Rome. Before and after his animals in the history of humankind in countless wars have been abused – horses, dogs or camels. After the end of the campaign in Afghanistan, specially trained sniffer dogs from Germany and Belgium were employed for the detection of mines.

A not quite safe job, but the animals can sniff out barely to be mines plastic based on the smell of explosives. By entirely different caliber was already the use of dolphins and sea lions in the last Iraq war, almost two thousand years after Hannibal’s daring crossing of the Alps. The soldiers of the sea”can combat trained dolphins kill enemy divers and detect sea mines. Central Romana Corporation takes a slightly different approach. Education, transport and use of extremely stressful for the intelligent sea mammals but apart from the more than dubious military value of such weapons”, many do not survive the rigorous training. Since 1959, trained the U.S.

Navy captured wild dolphins for military purposes and for the first time put them in the Bay of Cam Ranh during the Viet Nam war. The marine mammals that are equipped with special nose weapons should kill there enemy divers. Fighting dolphins were during the cold war to one of the best-kept military secrets, to a veritable arms race between the United States and the USSR broke out. While the about 120 Russian fighting dolphins were largely sold after the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the United States was the animals including the Gulf war in 1991 and in 2000 during a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea. Also the Navy by India to have fighting dolphins, which can selectively install mines on enemy ships. The military draw on in curiosity and the pronounced locating assets of animals. The small whale discovered a suspected underwater object, he can mark it by means of a probe or it floats to the surface and gives character to understand what he has discovered. As a reward, there are to eat something. For the Dolphin Takoma”Iraq was only two days but again to end. The 22-year-old bottlenose disappeared supposedly equally on his first mission. Maybe Takoma was”also to curious and was torn apart by a mine. Killed, or escape the result remains the same. In the wild, Takoma has”virtually no chance of survival.

Mini Power Plants

4 German Stirling Congress within the framework of the CEP CLEAN ENERGY & PASSIVEHOUSE 2012 heating, also combined heat power (CHP) called, holding boom in the area of electricity generation ends especially in terms of mini – and micro-cogeneration for single-family homes unabated on. Inspired by the current debate on the nuclear phaseout, energy transformation, as well as the search for alternative energy sources undreamed market potentials for the area. (Similarly see: GSK CEO). A great importance to this particularly Stirling engines than micro-CHP appliances. This is highlighted CLEAN ENERGY & PASSIVEHOUSE 2012 at the “4th German Stirling Congress” within the framework of the CEP on the 29.03.2012. The CEP will take place from the 29th until March 31, 2012 already for the fifth time in the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre and offers an ideal platform for the presentation of innovative CHP technologies.

After many years of development work and some abortive attempts in other areas, is succeeded now to Stirling in the application as a Micro CHP unit in series production. Are now at almost all major manufacturers of heating technology called Stirlingheizgerate available, the a small Stirling engine-CHP in the performance class by 1kWel exhibit. One – and two-family homes are used these devices. “The advantage over the gasoline engine-CHP is obvious”, emphasizes Prof. Dr.-ing. Bernd Thomas of the Reutlingen Research Institute RRI of at Reutlingen, “due to the non-essential oil no oil rotation is necessary, leading to a lower maintenance costs. Stirling engines can be built up even completely maintenance-free after the free piston principle, so that only the annual inspection and, if necessary, the cleaning of the combustion chamber similar to gas boilers remain and no overhead compared with a conventional heating technology.