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Energy use and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of drones for commercial package delivery

The use of automated, unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to deliver commercial packages is poised to become a new industry, significantly shifting energy use in the freight sector. Here we find the current practical range of multi-copters to be about 4 km with current battery technology, requiring a...

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Autores principales: Stolaroff, Joshuah K., Samaras, Constantine, O’Neill, Emma R., Lubers, Alia, Mitchell, Alexandra S., Ceperley, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5811440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29440638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02411-5