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Putzmeister Solid Pumps-Hydraulic-Driven Solids Pumps for Drill Cutting, Mud and Slurry Handling

2013-02-05 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

Putzmeister Solid Pumps is focused on the power, offshore, maritime, and oil and gas industries.

Drill reaches deep Antarctic lake

2013-01-28 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: An American attempt to bore down into Lake Whillans, a body of water buried almost 1km under the Antarctic ice, has achieved its aim. Scientists reported on Sunday that sensors on their drill system had noted a change in pressure, indicating contact had been made with the lake. A camera was then sent down to verify the breakthrough. The Whillans project is one of a number of such ventures trying to investigate Antarctica's buried lakes. In December, a British team abandoned its efforts...

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How the marine snail will help build better batteries, solar cells, and drill bits

2013-01-18 17:16:05| Extremetech

The rasping organ of the humble marine snail assembles tools from the hardest known biomaterial -- fiber-reinforced crystalline magnetite. Fortunately, the marine snail has been slow to file its patents and others have now jumped in to command this newly revealed tool for themselves.

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