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Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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little smarter, perhaps some <strong>of</strong> these things we<br />

could do GFE, rather than paying a lot <strong>of</strong> markup up<br />

front, so General Williams, we're coming to you with<br />

a decision memo and see if we can't cut those costs<br />

down even further.<br />

So it all is a moving target and what is<br />

new today is what we see, but God knows what we're<br />

going to have tomorrow. When you start looking at<br />

this sort <strong>of</strong> thing, there's no oil. It's kind <strong>of</strong><br />

like driving your car and not having to worry about<br />

the oil light going on. That's kind <strong>of</strong> neat. When<br />

you look at some <strong>of</strong> the other parts, we had certain<br />

functional space limitations which are removed now<br />

when you don't have this oil, which allows you to<br />

have longer refrigerant lines, et cetera.<br />

It's conceivable that we would have such<br />

things like this integrated into the air handlers<br />

itself and even drive the sizes down even better, to<br />

the point where you're actually plugging in<br />

electrical and a very limited amount <strong>of</strong> piping and<br />

plumbing that now is a spaghetti mess, if we start<br />

looking at these buildings overseas and trying to<br />

pull all those pieces <strong>of</strong> spaghetti. And David<br />

alluded to that.<br />

Finally, the NRC just came out very<br />

Free <strong>State</strong> Reporting, Inc.<br />

1378 Cape St. Claire Road<br />

Annapolis, MD 21409<br />

(410) 974-0947<br />

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