transportability

Ammonia's transportability is especially attractive to industries reliant on long-distance transportation, such as maritime shipping, and countries with limited available space for renewable resources.

The Pentagon also will consider mobility, growth, lethality, weight, logistics, transportability, manning, and training when picking a winning design, Army officials said.

The vehicle, based on the architecture of the commercial Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 midsize truck, weighs about 5,000 pounds and is “light enough to be sling loaded from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter and compact enough to fit inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter for air transportability,” the company said in a press release.

It could also upend agriculture, boosting the health, shelf life, off-season availability and transportability of fruits and vegetables, said Haven Baker, chief business officer of Pairwise, a North Carolina-based startup that uses Crispr technology both to edit large-scale crops like corn and soy, and specialty crops like berries and snackable vegetables.

Farming practices—irrigating and applying fertilizers to stimulate growth at the expense of phytochemical richness—along with genetic selection for yield, appearance and transportability diminish the flavor, phytochemical richness and nutritive value of fruits and vegetables.