Doshi has recruited engineers from Miami and Atlanta for his venture, but he got some key technology nearby: To perfect the design of a filter, he got computational engineers at the SimCenter at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to model thousands of air- and liquid-flow variables.

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To do that they need not one but two energy-hogging air chillers, one to make liquid oxygen and another to remove CO 2 from the flue gases.

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While playing some slow-motion video of liquid flying through the air throughout the event, it was impossible to take our eyes off the thing.

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In addition to all this, the Genesis uses liquid cooling around the motherboard, and an air-based system on the video cards.

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The crisis began in August when 528 cubic metres (116, 000 gallons) of toxic liquid unloaded from a ship called the Proba Koala were dumped in 11 open-air sites in residential areas around the commercial capital, Abidjan.

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