The company has moved huge emergency generators, each the size of a tractor-trailer, into the area to provide power to rescue workers and to begin lighting some buildings.
Each of the 40-foot-long lemon containers, roughly the size of a tractor-trailer, will then be destroyed at the Ameri-Fuel incinerator two miles up Newark Bay from where the Rio Puelo is now docked.
"We've got a sump pump over here," said Dan Goodman, the assistant operations manager, leading him around to the other side of the giant diesel generator, which is the size of a tractor-trailer.
On a rainy summer morning, he gathered his crew at the corner of Houston and the Bowery to paste a black-and-white photo a closeup of Two Bears' eyes, enlarged to the size of a tractor-trailer on a freestractor-trailer onlel to the sidewalk.
On a rainy summer morning, he gathered his crew at the corner of Houston and the Bowery to paste a black-and-white photo — a closeup of Two Bears' eyes, enlarged to the size of a tractor-trailer — on a freestanding wall parallel to the sidewalk.
A printer that can print a house by depositing cement, layer upon layer using a printer the size of a tractor-trailer, is already in development.
The most likely part to withstand the inferno, at least partially, is the capsule's docking mechanism, a sturdy 200kg metal ring the size of a rear tractor wheel.
Most of it arrives on ships, in metal containers the size of a trailer on a tractor-trailer truck.
An industrial scale system could be the size of a propane tank on a tractor-trailer that will use 20 million kilograms of carbon a year, he says.
The size of a bacterium can vary by eight orders of magnitude if the smallest were the size of your hand, its giant cousin could fit 4000 tractor trailers inside itself.
