People in the television industry in New York say that starting over at the Empire State Building could be prohibitively expensive because of the need to rewire the 1930 structure, in addition to developing new equipment.
The company plans to split into two units, one of which will develop new equipment for high-speed online services, said a spokeswoman, Brenda Ropoulos.
They are churning out solar panels for the American and European markets, developing new equipment to manufacture the panels and branching into turbines that generate electricity from wind.
Google also says it has developed new equipment to inflate its balloons.
Tarter, 68, got involved in the SETI search in the 1970s, joining a small group of NASA scientists who were developing new equipment and strategies to make systematic SETI radio observations.
This means developing new equipment that uses pulsed power technology to create and measure miniature nuclear blasts, a procedure described in minute detail by the scientists, Russian and American, who helped invent it.
To develop new products, buy new equipment or expand geographically, an enterprise has to spend money — on marketing research, product design, prototype development, legal expenses associated with patents, lining up contractors and so on.
The new morgue - the Val McDermid Mortuary - will be the first in the country to use the Thiel method of embalming, which the university said "gives surgeons, dentists, scientists and researchers a more realistic method of testing techniques, practising procedures and developing new equipment and approaches".
"People are always developing new equipment," Cordey says, half grinning, half sighing, as I imagine him waving at an enormous pile of Peli cases stacked in the corner of his no doubt stacked-to-the-rafters office, "which is perfect for us.
