Camping gear

Highly porous membranes are prepared by a process based on the fibrillation of high-molecular-weight PTFE. Since they have a high permeability for water vapor and none for liquid water, it is combined with fabrics and used for breathable waterproof garments and camping gear. Other uses for these membranes are for special filters, analytical instruments, and in fuel cells.13... 

Peter, Kieran, and Kieran s girlfriend ended up all moving into a rustic cabin—no electricity, no heat, seventeen miles down a dirt road to nowhere—the sort of place that, in winter, you never knew if you were going to make it to your destination, or run into a snow squall that left you stranded. The car was always packed with food, water, and camping gear, just in case. 

The people (or teams of people) are allowed to use standard mountain climbing and camping gear (such as ropes and backpacks) but not sophisticated electrical mechanisms such as engines. 

Fig. 2.15 A helicopter of the New Zealand Air Force on Shapeless Mountain of southern Victoria Land is being loaded with the camping gear of an American fieldparty in December of 1994. This example of international cooperation is characteristic of operations in Antarctica (Photo by G. Faure, December 1994)...

Today, DuPont sells hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Kevlar every year. Kevlar is particularly well known for its use in bulletproof vests. With this application alone, Kwolek s discovery has saved thousands of lives. In addition, Kevlar is used to make helmets, radial tires, brake pads, racing sails, suspension bridge cables, skis, and high-performance hiking and camping gear. 

The next day was March 13. The camp in the forest, the hallowed-seeming spot where the transforming experiment had occurred, was dismantled. All the artifacts that set it apart from dozens of other Witoto huts were tucked away, and it was returned to its native anonymity. Outside, in a pile, we left quite a cargo trove behind us, for our forced evacuation by airplane left precious little room for any gear some insect and plant specimens would leave with us, the cameras, the notebooks on the experiment—that was it. The things that we left would be swiftly assimilated by the tolerant Witotos who owned the site of our attempted probe of hyper-space. 

Fig. 6.4. Different patterns of bursting obtained in the model for cAMP signalling. The time course and corresponding phase space trajectories are obtained by munerical integration of eqns (6.3) by means of Gear s method (NAG subroutine D02EBF) for the parameter values of fig. 6.2 from top to bottom, the values of fceand v = vI/a are (in min ) (1.8,2,4) and (0.18,0.2,0.4) (Li ct at, 1992b).

Camps M, Loeb LA (2004) When pol 1 goes into high gear processive DNA synthesis by pol... 

Patrick, K. L., 1994, "Satellite PCC Plant, Union Camp Mill Shift Alkaline Machines to Fligh Gear", Pulp and Paper, Apr., pp 81-87. 

We started out with several hours drive to the beach, our car loaded down with four of us and all the gear. Car = gasoline = fossil fuels = carbon dioxide. Whew That s a bad start. We pitched the tent (nylon), blew up the air mattresses (vinyl), and set out our coolers and camp furniture (aluminum and more plastics and synthetic fabrics). That s another load of materials sourced ultimately from fossil els, except for the aluminum, but it requires a huge amount of electricity for its production. We are pretty comfortably set up with a gas camp stove and gas lantern for cooking and lights—oops, more fossil fuels, more CO2. 

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