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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Two Sandia National Laboratories engineers working on a way to make natural gas drilling equipment better say it also can help make lighter weight airplanes, better electric cars and earthquake monitoring systems.
Randy Normann and Joe Henfling have been working on electronic components for drilling that could handle temperatures of 600 degrees Fahrenheit for long periods.
They gave one to the U.S. Geological Survey to test in California — and geologists ended up capturing the devastating Dec. 26 Sumatra earthquake that triggered a tsunami and left nearly 183,000 people in 11 countries dead and 129,000 missing.
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