Since the USGC pipeline flows are basically base load and at capacity, only pipeline expansion would make a difference and this is more of a question of what customers want to make the ship and pay financial committments to underwrite the pipeline expansions.

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But the difference here is a matter of degrees: in the fourth quartile, expansion of CHIP by two children was associated with the loss of private insurance by one child.

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The main difference between the thermoacoustic system and Stirling's original idea is that, instead of using thermal expansion of the working fluid to push the piston, it uses powerful pulses of sound.

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And that is the big difference between the foreign giants and their Asian competitors: the foreigners have the resources to stick to their expansion plans, while local firms are pulling back further with each additional piece of bad news.

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