But with all the hype surrounding nanotech materials today, Quasam ought to do a little better than that.
The pressures are too great, and no engineering or materials conceivable today would allow us to build livable-sized spaces on the deep sea floor.
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Given today's materials and know-how, automotive engineers reckon a 10% reduction in vehicle weight yields a 6% improvement in efficiency.
Today Aurora Building Materials Ltd has 60 employees, but he expects that this new government contract will mean that its workforce climbs to include between 150 to 200 people.
"Today we have materials like Kevlar and carbon fiber in tires that can handle the speed capabilities of these vehicles, " said Matt Edmonds, vice-president of TireRack.com, a tire retailing Website.
Agriculture still looks a big winner, and so do industrial materials, but it seems today there's relatively more demand in basic industries than for the finished goods that use them.
All the major indices were lower today, led by materials and energy.
Among the largest underlying components of ERX, in trading today , and The Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund ( AMEX: XLE) is up by about 0.1%.
In the 1970s Lamb and Casey's founder, Donald Lamberti, started hiring their own superintendents to look over the shoulders of the contractors building their stores and even bought the construction materials, a practice that continues today.
Additionally, in order to reduce the time to develop and deploy advanced materials, a Materials Genome Initiative is being launched today, and the National Science and Technology Council has released a white paper on that effort.
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Much of the technology that is commonplace today in manufacturing, advanced materials, software and electronics originated as projects sponsored by the DoD.
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In a process the researchers describe in articles published today in Science and Advanced Materials, they used a silicon needle with a tip about ten thousand times smaller than an ant to sculpt a polymer material known as polyphthalaldehyde.
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Where once a few strong columns could hold up the weight of the world, today we need a dynamic mix of materials and structures.
Dr Kanatzidis's group aims to make materials with higher figures of merit than those attainable with today's semiconductors.
"You're seeing some pretty decent action in the overall market, with today's leadership coming from the basic materials sector, " said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Banyan Partners.
For example, am I able to use the carbon fibres that are used by Airbus in order to have cheaper materials than the space-dedicated carbon fibres I use today?
To make their products, manufacturers -- some of whom are represented here today -- often have to import certain materials from other countries and pay tariffs on those materials.
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Solar power chip maker MEMC Electronic Materials (WFR) announced a series of restructuring steps today to better align the business to current and expected market conditions in the semiconductor and solar markets.
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Today's editions, thanks to more durable materials, are likely to survive in large quantities.
Indeed, the Anglo-Dutch multinational announced today that it had inked an agreement to acquire Koch Materials China , which is involved in the manufacture and marketing of bitumen--that black viscous residue taken from the distillation of crude petroleum--in the country.
Simply, the manufactured high-rises of today allow greater economies of scale regarding energy use, building materials, sewage and waste, and overall footprint on the land.
Today, advances in nanotechnology -- the science of impossibly small materials -- are rapid.
Today--thanks to runway fashion, an explosion of new materials and resurgent demand for premium and vintage-inspired hats--they're about creating an image.
In terms of reality in the marketplace today, currency is being perpetuated from currency without investment in labor and materials to produce added value.
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China's voracious demand for raw materials and U.S. appetite for gas and oil are driving the economy today, along with a domestic real estate boom.
The Cintiq 22HD touch closely replicates the experience of working with two hands when using traditional materials such as paints and markers, while giving the artist powerful capabilities that only exist in today's creative software applications.
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Even today, the T28 stands out as an elegant, premium device with top-notch materials and build quality.
And to have a commitment to return the materials and the technology would help reduce the break-out potential that is inherent in the NPT today.
Among the largest underlying components of SOXX, in trading today Broadcom Corporation ( NASD: BRCM) is up about 1.2%, Applied Materials Incorporated ( NASD: AMAT) is up about 1.7%, and Altera Corporation ( NASD: ALTR) is up by about 1.3%.
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Among the largest underlying components of SOXX, in trading today Broadcom Corporation ( NASD: BRCM) is down about 5.4%, Applied Materials Incorporated ( NASD: AMAT) is down about 4.7%, and Texas Instruments Incorporated ( NYSE: TXN) is lower by about 5.1%.
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