Arne Vogler, a senior research engineer and principal investigator at the Hebridean Marine Energy Futures project, said hurricane force gusts had also been recorded.

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"Nuclear-propelled rockets should only be used well away from the Earth, " says Charles Oman, a senior research engineer at MIT's department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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"The rates of return just aren't there, and it could take another 100 years before they are, " says Charles Oman, a senior research engineer at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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Steven Quintavalla, a longtime senior research engineer at the USGA labs, was looking for better ways to quantify how balls struck with drivers and other long clubs bounce and roll out on fairways.

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PowerRatings were created by Cesar Alvarez, a former senior engineer working on Microsoft Excel who is now director of research at Sherman Oaks, Calif.

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