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...frame supporting five 6-m diameter turbines to the floor of the Severn Estuary. The tubes will translate the power of the tide as it ebbs and flows into one megawatt of electricity, enough to power about 500 homes. The project will be a test run for much larger rigs, with up to 50 turbines apiece, that could produce enough electricity for a small town. The inspiration for the turbines came on a calm day in 1997 when Richard Ayre, managing director of THG, was working for the marine national park in St. Bride's Bay, Pembrokeshire. Trying to place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing Energy's New Wave | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

...have a bucket rig and I think it helps us follow each other better,” Bates said...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lights Challenge No. 1 Tigers at Sprints | 5/16/2003 | See Source »

...German company, Kopp Media, specially engineered portable rig for Buttner and his high definition (HD) camera. In order to accommodate the length of the shot, a French company developed a special hard drive with twice the capacity of traditional HD camera: 100 minutes of uncompressed images compared to a usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Preview | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...fuel-efficient compact is sneering at my moral deficiencies. I might as well be wearing a scarlet letter (three of them, actually). I want to scream, "But I live on a dirt road! I have a farm! See all the mud on my fenders! I need this rig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Luv My SUV | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...proposed, and rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption involving a hammer, a vial of poison and a quantum triggering device. If an electron is in one position, the hammer will remain safely cocked. But if the electron moves into the opposite location, the hammer will drop, smashing the vial and killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purr of the Qubit | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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