Drone Attacks on Energy Assets?
…targets by the drones. Unfortunately, this attack raises the spectre of further incidents, owing to the rise of drone swarm technology. Ten Characteristics of Drone Swarms Drone swarms could emerge…
Inspection costs: drones versus traditional quality control?
This data-file estimates drone inspection costs, for the construction and resources industries, using bottom-up numbers from technical papers. $179.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Drones can be used to inspection mining,…
Companies in drones and drone services for construction?
The aim of this data-file is a simple screen of companies manufacturing drones and commercializing drone software. In includes 12 private companies and 4 public companies. For each company, we…
Drones attack military fuel economy?
…also included in the data-file. Military drones are transformational. Almost all the incumbent military vehicles in our data-file have fuel economies below 1 mpg. But the Reaper and Predator drones,…
Drone Delivery: the Energy Economics
This data-file quantifies the energy economics of drone-deliveries, after Amazon and Google both announced breakthrough progress in this space in 2019. 15 commercial drones are evaluated in the ‘drones’ tab, which…
Drones & droids: deliver us from e-commerce
…$500bn of cost across the OECD (pages 4-5) Drones and droids are 90-99% less energy intensive than delivery vans, and 70-97% less costly. The technology is maturing. Thus small, autonomous,…
The ascent of drones?
In 2019, we argued drones would be the single most disruptive technology to gain share in the 2020s, with potential to save over 500MTpa of CO2 emissions, while re-shaping urban…
Drones & droids: deliver us from e-commerce
Small, autonomous, electric vehicles are emerging. They are game-changers: rapidly delivering online purchases to customers, creating vast new economic possibilities, but also driving the energy transition. Their ascent could eliminate…
Energy Technologies and Energy Transition
…Increase Fossil Fuel Demand? (Feb-2020, 13-pages) Drones & droids: deliver us from e-commerce (Oct-19, 20-pages) Scooter Wars: are smaller electric vehicles better? (July-2019, 13-pages) Aerial ascent: why flying cars will…
More dangerous than coronavirus? The safety case for digital and remote operations.
Remote working, digital de-manning, drones and robotics — all of these themes will structurally accelerate in the aftermath of the COVID crisis. Our research outlines their economics and how they…