At the event, HGST is comparing the power consumption between a helium-filled drive and an equivalent air-filled drive side-by-side, demonstrating a reduction in power consumption for the helium-filled drive of 23 percent.
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Sunday is a light air travel day, but by Monday the effects of the furloughs should start to "snowball, " creating an air travel mess the equivalent of having a "Hurricane Sandy in the North and Hurricane Katrina in the South, " said Lee Moak, president of the pilots union.
The motor is guaranteed to last for five years, and the firm estimates over its lifetime it should be able to pump the equivalent amount of air needed to fill 26 million party balloons.
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From June 2005 to June 2006, he served as Special Assistant (for Values and Vision) to the Secretary and Chief-of-Staff of the U.S. Air Force, with the equivalent military rank of Brigadier General.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart, a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
"Aviation delays will grow without significant reforms as forecasters predict that air traffic will increase by the equivalent of two major hubs a year, " she said in a recent statement.
In 1990 an equivalent gun would have used 15 times as much compressed air as water, and thus been far more expensive to run.
Cruising down the river from one campsite to the next, looking up between oar strokes to ogle the canyon walls, is the outdoorsy equivalent of riding around a new city in an open-air tour bus.
When connected to a computer via the included wireless adaptor, the inMotion Air achieves an astounding range of 100 yards, that's the equivalent of an entire football field, to stream playlists, internet radio or other audio content.
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