Brown says LTE gives the cars the ability to do fast license plate checks and feed video to dispatchers.

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One of Pierce's customers, a professional sports franchise, wanted to buy a super-fast fiber-optic connection to its stadium to feed live games.

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"The challenge has to do more with genetics, and the right balance for this fast growing bird, " says Martin Humphries, Feed Sales Director for an English specialist poultry feed supplier.

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He fed them a mix of vitamins and racing pigeon feed, to make them strong and fast, and spiked their diet with pickling lime, to stanch the bleeding when they were cut.

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There are pilot-projects with fast-growing trees that can be pollarded for firewood, and drip-feed irrigation for saplings.

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The energy concerns of the future have also been taken into account with grand schemes of super-fast charging batteries supplied ultimately by solar or wind power connected to the stacking stations that could even feed back into the energy grid of the city itself.

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