The Bell Labs of Energy
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Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Inc.
Exxon was so serious about its Bell Labs of Energy dream, it even poached Bell Labs executive research director Ed David. Garvey and Shaw designed a gas chromatograph to do the job, modeled after a machine Ray Weiss had developed at Scripps Institute. The device took about 10 readings per hour of the CO2 in both the air and the ocean as the tanker sailed the Atlantic and crossed the equator.
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