Bats inspire detectors to help prevent oil and gas pipe leaks

ScienceDaily
Jan 30, 2020, 11:54 am214 pts
Engineers have developed a new scanning technique inspired by the natural world that can detect corroding metals in oil and gas pipelines. By mimicking how bats use differing wavelengths of ultrasound to detect objects, hunt, and avoid predators, engineers have developed a new system that combines two separate…

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