Mobile devices must be able to process the data coming through the pipe efficiently and effectively in order to make the experience useful to people.

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Once a design is set, different bits of the manufacturing process are tried out on computer: a virtual pipe-bending machine, for instance, makes sure that the fuel lines which snake their way through the airframe can be created without wrapping themselves around the machine and bringing it to a halt.

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There have been some minor instances of hydraulic fracturing fluids reaching non-drinking groundwater, but these occurred due to factors such as above-ground pipe leaks that have nothing to do with the hydraulic fracturing process itself.

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INPEX, a Japanese company, plans to pipe gas from the Ichthys field, under the Indian Ocean, and process it in Darwin for export as liquefied natural gas (LNG) from 2016.

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