In a blowout, the BOP has the ability to guillotine-slice through the pipe and seal the well.
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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.
At present, Superbot units respond to direct instructions, such as to form legs and climb a hill or reconfigure into a snake-like shape to go through a pipe.
Back on land, mining-company engineers say new techniques, such as dissolving minerals and sucking them up through a pipe or extracting ore with high-powered water jets, could increase recoverable reserves.
Authorities have been conferring in a nearby church and communicating with Dykes through a ventilation pipe to the underground bunker.
Three competitors in America accused the company in August 2011 of evading duties by trans-shipping drill pipe through its plant in the UAE.
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For days, officers communicated with Dykes through a plastic pipe that rose up from the bunker, which was similar to a tornado shelter and apparently had running water, heat and cable television.
Late in the evening, the man had the child in some sort of underground bunker or storm shelter, and SWAT team members were communicating with him through a PVC pipe, CNN affiliate WSFA reported.
Older networks were built for voice traffic with a data pipe running through it, but newer networks are for data only.
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In its update yesterday, McMoran says it is injecting a barite solvent to clean out the perforations, or holes in the drill pipe, through which the gas will flow.
But it could escape through imperfect joints in well pipe closer to the surface.
Investigators have communicated with the suspect through a length of PVC pipe that extends out of the bunker.
Each day 230, 000 gallons of sewage pass through before discharging, 99% decontaminated, through a 10-inch pipe into the harbor where fresh-faced grade-schoolers learn to tack.
Or, to get back to our earlier metaphor, as if you could compress the entire city's sewage through a single ordinary water pipe.
To activate the altered neurons, they usually use a laser tuned to the proper wavelength and pipe the beam through a fiber-optic cable implanted in the brain tissue.
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"I worry sometimes that I'll be like parents who lived through the Depression, saving old pipe in the basement, " he says.
Another method would be to pipe the light in through tiny cables.
The 60cm (2ft) pipe will be laid through the Cranborne Chase and the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty from Corfe Mullen to Salisbury.
That's double the amount of data used streaming the same video over a 3G link, because the fatter pipe lets more data through.
Environment Agency Wales says the fish passed through the mesh covering an inlet pipe while the lake was being emptied for a safety inspection.
But investigators found that due to their small size, the perch and roach passed through the mesh covering an inlet pipe while the lake was being emptied, and died as a result.
About 40 gas engineers worked through the night to repair the fractured pipe, according to United Utilities.
Recording equipment will measure exhaust pipe emissions of vehicles travelling through the sites.
During the six-day standoff, officials talked to Dykes and delivered medication and toys to the boy through a 4in (10cm) ventilation pipe.
During the six-day standoff, negotiators talked to Dykes and delivered medication and toys to the boy through a 4in (10cm) ventilation pipe.
Each day 870, 000 liters of sewage pass through before being discharged, 99% decontaminated, through a 25-centimeter-diameter pipe into the harbor where grade-schoolers learn to tack.
Negotiations are being carried out between the suspect and authorities through a 60-foot plastic ventilation pipe that leads from the bunker, authorities said.
It was only a few months ago that DARPA initiated their ambitious Robotics Challenge that reserves a cash prize for a (probably) humanoid robot that can drive to a disaster area and perform several rescue functions including breaking through rubble and closing off a leaky pipe.
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The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering project, or SPICE, is a British academic consortium that seeks to mimic the actions of volcanoes like Pinatubo by pumping particles of sulfur dioxide, or similar reflective chemicals, into the stratosphere through a twelve-mile-long pipe held aloft by a balloon at one end and tethered, at the other, to a boat anchored at sea.
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