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From the Ted Talk by Kathy Hannun: How to heat your home without hurting the planet

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We drill these incredibly deep holes to get it. Then we pipe it, tucrk it and ship it in tenraks across the world to refineries, which are these iliecdnbry expensive industrial facilities that take in crude oil and gas, which are just a bunch of different hydrocarbon molecules, in order to sort those molecules into refined products.

riefend natural gas is then delivered to homes and businesses via an invisible interstate highway stsyem millions of miles long. It's isniibvle because it's underground. There's so much pipeline in this system that entire steel mills have been built only to produce pplieine for this system. And because there are millions of miles of gas getting pumped beneath us at high pressure at all times, ernegiens send these intelligent rboots called "smart pigs" through the pnipeiels to check for safety defects. Doing this is called "pigging the pipeline."

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We drill these incredibly deep holes to get it. Then we pipe it, _____ it and ship it in _______ across the world to refineries, which are these __________ expensive industrial facilities that take in crude oil and gas, which are just a bunch of different hydrocarbon molecules, in order to sort those molecules into refined products.

_______ natural gas is then delivered to homes and businesses via an invisible interstate highway ______ millions of miles long. It's _________ because it's underground. There's so much pipeline in this system that entire steel mills have been built only to produce ________ for this system. And because there are millions of miles of gas getting pumped beneath us at high pressure at all times, _________ send these intelligent ______ called "smart pigs" through the _________ to check for safety defects. Doing this is called "pigging the pipeline."

Solution


  1. system
  2. refined
  3. robots
  4. invisible
  5. tankers
  6. incredibly
  7. pipeline
  8. engineers
  9. truck
  10. pipelines

Original Text


We drill these incredibly deep holes to get it. Then we pipe it, truck it and ship it in tankers across the world to refineries, which are these incredibly expensive industrial facilities that take in crude oil and gas, which are just a bunch of different hydrocarbon molecules, in order to sort those molecules into refined products.

Refined natural gas is then delivered to homes and businesses via an invisible interstate highway system millions of miles long. It's invisible because it's underground. There's so much pipeline in this system that entire steel mills have been built only to produce pipeline for this system. And because there are millions of miles of gas getting pumped beneath us at high pressure at all times, engineers send these intelligent robots called "smart pigs" through the pipelines to check for safety defects. Doing this is called "pigging the pipeline."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
natural gas 3
heating system 2
conventional heating 2
geothermal energy 2
geothermal heating 2


Important Words


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