The trick, he says, is to harness material efficiency so people can enjoy goods that are equivalent or almost equivalent.
It would be capable of not just negotiating its environment but also intelligently manipulating objects--a level of functioning almost equivalent to a human servant.
"It was that the immune system overreacts, because they have almost the equivalent of metallic chemical, " Travolta said.
Social media is almost the equivalent of speaking loudly at a crowded party -- people beyond your intended recipients will hear your words.
The firm will add 1, 500 megawatts of additional production to its existing fleet, which is almost the equivalent of a new nuclear facility, he adds.
The firm will be adding 1, 500 megawatts of additional production to its existing fleets, which is almost the equivalent of a new nuclear facility, he says.
It wasn't because we were leaving, just because she was overwhelmed that we'd paid her almost the exact equivalent of her life savings for three days work.
This week, at the equivalent of almost DM3.17, sterling was at its highest since 1989.
This five-year shortfall is equivalent to almost a year and a half of annual Defense Department funding.
She struggled to meet a monthly bill that was equivalent to almost half of her cash income, but could not keep up payments and is now trying to go bankrupt.
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The Local Government Association has calculated that households in the UK send more than 26.8million tonnes of rubbish to landfill every year - the equivalent of almost half a tonne for every person in the country.
Credit ratings agency Fitch has said the country, which has a population of one million, would need 4bn euros to support its banks, the equivalent of almost a quarter of its GDP, or economic output, last year.
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Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.
Statoil's recent gas find alone is estimated to hold almost a billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe).
Before Walt was through, however, he had almost singlehandedly turned banking from the equivalent of a small, sleepy town into a hyperenergetic New York-like metropolis.
As our economy continues to recover and demand rebounds, oil prices are almost certain to rise, the equivalent of a heavy tax on our GDP.
Ms de Brun said waiting lists now totalled almost 50, 000 - the equivalent of 28 per 1, 000 people in the province compared to 16 per 1, 000 people in Scotland.
Tim Critchley, one of the founders of Pogo Technology, said this system meant data flies around at the equivalent of 50kbps - almost the same speed as the fastest computer modems.
We could almost hear his scream of whatever the Arabic equivalent is of "GET SOME!"
Before Walt was through, he almost single-handedly turned banking from the equivalent of a small, sleepy town into a hyper-energetic, New York-like metropolis.
Companies that bid for a few large regions to obtain nationwide spectrum paid almost twice as much as firms with the equivalent amount of spectrum assembled from hundreds of licences in smaller areas.
Ms Baillie said that since 2009, almost 4, 000 whole-time-equivalent NHS staff had left their jobs, including more than 1, 700 nurses and midwives, leaving the number of nursing and midwifery posts in Scotland's NHS at its lowest point since 2006.
If so, the fall in the euro over the past year is equivalent to a cut in interest rates of almost two percentage points.
However, once licensed, our clients got almost no traction selling downloads because their users needed the equivalent of a computer science degree to figure out how to acquire a track and transfer it onto one of the handful of compatible portable music devices in the market.
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According to the International Telecommunication Union, there were almost 6 billion mobile subscriptions at the end of 2011, which is equivalent to 87 percent of the world population.
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Looking back on her feat, the gymnastics equivalent of the first four-minute mile in athletics, Comaneci almost downplays her achievement.
One of the top-ten privately owned oil producers in the world, in 2010 TNK-BP churned out 1.74 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from its assets in Russia and Ukraine and processed almost half that amount through its refineries.
Silver equivalent sales volumes in the fourth quarter at 9.1 million ounces were almost 80% higher than the prior quarter.
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In 1993, a year before Serevent made its debut, a Glaxo study found 12 asthma deaths among almost 17, 000 patients on Serevent for four months, three times the death rate in an equivalent control group of asthma patients.
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