I pictured Baghdad as Black Hawk Down's Mogadishu, all claustrophobic and high-contrast gun battles with desperate men in dark alleys, and mostly I heard Ride of the Valkyries, that grim killing opus in Apocalypse Now, retrofitted for our urban assaults and nighttime raids.
One was retrofitted with special insulation, ground source heat pumps and other systems which have now become mainstream.
They say any unused water can be stored in a newly retrofitted dam and tapped if drought persists.
They still live off their brawn rather than their brain, and they may be able to live happily with organisational structures that are, as Mr Bryan puts it, "retrofitted with ad hoc and matrix overlays", and that are ill-suited for knowledge workers.
Unlike the other processes it cannot be retrofitted to existing power stations.The upshot is that there is no free lunch.
The control villages had to be retrofitted after the project was under way, by asking villagers in the control sites what things had been like three years before.
In fact, their vertically oriented organisational structures, retrofitted with ad hoc and matrix overlays, nearly always make professional work more complex and inefficient".
Best of all, the process can be retrofitted on to existing power plants.The process involves feeding coal into a gasifier that is injected with steam, oxygen and flux (a compound that creates spots for the chemical reactions to occur).
Existing buildings can be "retrofitted", but that costs two to three times as much.The other key point is that these measures need not be applied universally.
But on October 2nd it attracted global attention by powering up an ageing coal-fired power plant that had been retrofitted to capture 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
The brogue softened Bond's imperial English inheritance, making him fit for a mass market, says James Chapman, a professor of film studies at the University of Leicester.Fleming was so inspired by Sir Sean's performance that he retrofitted Bond's Scottish back-story into later books.
