Sentence examples for stack of equipment from inspiring English sources
HOUSTON — At 53 feet tall and 325 tons, the blowout preventer that occupies center stage in the worst American oil spill in two decades is a huge stack of equipment.
The procedure may involve a "junk shot," an attempt to choke off the oil flow by bridging gaps in the blowout preventer, the giant stack of equipment that failed when the accident occurred on April 20.
Mr. Wells said that he really came to appreciate the skill of the R.O.V. pilots during the early days of the disaster, when he and others were trying to figure out how to activate rams on the blowout preventer, the huge stack of equipment on the seabed that failed to seal the well as designed.
Rather than having stacks of equipment manuals and building specifications stored in a warehouse, the data can be compiled on disks or cartridges and kept in a single desk drawer.
He knew that beneath a typical 150-foot-high cell phone tower sat floor-to-ceiling stacks of equipment designed to detect and transmit digital phone calls.
"All of this is used in one form or another," Shimpi says, gesturing toward the stacks of equipment.
The root of the problem appears to be a towering stack of heavy equipment 5,000 feet below the surface of the gulf known as a blowout preventer.
They have continued to focus their attention on a 40-foot stack of heavy equipment 5,000 feet below the surface of the gulf — and several hundred miles from Houston.
Mr. Wells said that after the old cap was lifted off, the robots began removing six bolts that attached a remaining stub of riser pipe to a flange on the failed blowout preventer, the stack of safety equipment atop the well at the seabed.
If you airlifted a stack of techno equipment into South Central LA, spent a year training disenfranchised shortys and then initiated a full-on race war riot, you'd have a Kid606 track.
Entering the lab, the first thing you think is, "so, this is it?" There's not much to see except a worn-looking blue-gray carpet, a stack of computer equipment and a weird looking helmet attached to a fat electronic umbilical cord.
