The Creditanstalt moment was when the ordure really hit the rotating device in the 1930s.

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But it suffers from a fatal flaw, which is that the tips of the rotating piston on which the device relies tend to become worn.

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Navigation through it can be done through waving your hand over the device, swiping or rotating the orb like a dial.

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The Sunshine to Petrol project is testing a prototype device called the Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (called CR5 for short) which turns CO2 into carbon monoxide which could then form part of a liquid fuel.

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That white dome atop the van, which is similar to the device that'll soon be mounted on JetBlue's fleet, maintains a constant connection by rotating instantly as the van moves -- if the vehicle's heading changes, the antenna array will turn, too, so it's always pointed directly at the sat in the sky.

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