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I just made a nice "Bill Gates wallet size" photo. It is a 5x7 FOOT print. One piece of paper, 60 x 88 inches. It is of a oil refinery. The tanks with heavy oils use floating lids so you can tell some are full and some are almost empty. It is really amazing that with all that equipment and pipes and tanks they know how to make the proper product flow out the correct pipe.
Yup. Like a spiderweb and every line-up can be different and they have to be perfect, one wrong valve and it can cost $10 million.
Old 05-17-2011, 04:58 PM
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