Word: compressors
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...device measures the power and rhythm of each pedal push, as well as the cyclist's heart rate. He's even got gizmos working for him as he sleeps. Blake has pitched a plastic "high-altitude tent" atop his queen-size bed at his home in Victoria. A compressor pumps in air containing 15% oxygen, equal to the rarefied air 3,000 meters above sea level, compared with 21% oxygen at sea level. As Blake snoozes, his body compensates for the lower level of oxygen it is getting by producing more red blood cells. Because red blood cells carry oxygen...
Besides technical problems, the oil industry has been plagued by looting that has failed to subside. Gary Vogler, a former ExxonMobil Oil executive who has been appointed senior adviser to the Oil Ministry by the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, told TIME of looting at a compressor station in northern Iraq that disrupted operations there. "They took some motors and severely damaged the station," he said. "If we have many more of these incidents, it could have a major impact on starting up operations again." Vogler says the Oil Ministry is drawing up a list of sites that need...
...pump out large quantities of water--about 12,000 gal. a day--much of which has too high a sodium content to be used on the land. This water has to be stored in the large reservoirs that now punctuate the landscape. And the gas companies need pipes, roads, compressor stations and power lines to pump the gas out of the ground and into pipelines that run to Denver and Chicago. "It's a very complex mess, basically, and it is changing the landscape dramatically," says Jill Morrison, an organizer with the Powder River Basin Resource Council, an unlikely alliance...
Others aren't so sure. "When I bought this place, you could ride up on the ridge and see nothing," says Dube. "Now you see trucks, pipelines, compressor stations. It's funny, I tell people now I know what the Indians felt like when they saw the wagon trains coming...
...heart doctors remember all too well what happened to the handful of patients who were given artificial hearts in the 1980s. Each of them was tethered to a large external compressor that powered the device through tubes into the body. The first recipient, a retired dentist named Barney Clark, developed serious infections that ravaged his body. The artificial pump also triggered a lot of blood clots. The long, lingering death of one man in particular, William Schroeder, who was kept alive for 620 days with much of his brain destroyed, soured many physicians and the public on the artificial heart...