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And they stated it so simply as it was passed through legislation: "We have millions of pounds of good food going to waste, and we have poor people that are going hungry."

And we said we could redesign the 115-year-old gypsum drywall process that generates 20 billion pounds of CO2 a year.

Weighs about 70 pounds, has a wire about an inch in diameter.

Now, many of you are probably saying, "Wait a sec, is this tough to do?" (Laughter) Imagine, if you will, dragging a sled, as you just saw in that video clip, with 170 pounds of gear, in it everything you need to survive on your Antarctic trek.

I'm telling you, crossing these things with 170-pound sled, that sled may as well have weighed 1,700 pounds, because that's what it felt like.

To put that into context, The U.K. government spends about 12 billion pounds a year on foreign aid.

So when you talk about expensive power, the cost per kilowatt-hour to supply battery power to something is on the order of two to three hundred pounds.

And it weighs 300 pounds and you can't skydive in it.

It weighs about 15 pounds.

When my daughter Fiona was born, she weighed 4 pounds, 12 ounces, or 2.15 kilograms.

And they came up with a very good engineering solution, which was to spend six billion pounds building completely new tracks from London to the coast, and knocking about 40 minutes off a three-and-half-hour journey time.

Now what is the hedonic opportunity cost on spending six billion pounds on those railway tracks?

Now, you'll still have about three billion pounds left in change, and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down.

One of these weighs 50 pounds, 30 pounds and 10 pounds.

Here is a lump of flesh, about three pounds, which you can hold in the palm of your hand.

He's 160 pounds.

I had to drop 50 pounds in three months.

In London, for instance, where the BAE got away with a huge corruption case, which the Serious Fraud Office tried to prosecute, 100 million British pounds, every year for ten years, to one particular official of one particular friendly country, who then bought for 44 billion pounds of military equipment.

Justin here, 12 years old, he's 350 pounds.

In this country, if we win the election, we are going to make all government spending over 25,000 pounds transparent and available online, searchable for anyone to see.

I purchased a 100-pound load cell, thinking, no animal could produce more than 100 pounds at this size of an animal.

So these are actually some old data where I had to find the smallest animals in the lab, and we were able to measure forces of well over 100 pounds generated by an animal about this big.

And actually, just last week I got a 300-pound load cell up and running, and I've clocked these animals generating well over 200 pounds of force.

That means it takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna.

And, most recently, Charlie Simpson helped to raise 120,000 pounds for Haiti, on his little bike.

I'll build you an arm that's under nine pounds that has all that capability in one year.

I could give you fine motor control, or I could let you curl 40 pounds; I probably can't do both.

This weighs 6.9 pounds.

And generally arrive about 30 pounds lighter at the other end.

And the average size trophy fish weighed 250 to 300 pounds, goliath grouper, and if you wanted to go out and kill something, you could pretty much count on being able to catch one of those fish.

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