The high temperature is especially troublesome at a power plant with a long history of rigging safety tests to produce desired outcomes, falsifying safety records, and lacking even a minimal sense of the catastrophic possibilities associated with nuclear power production.

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The plant would generate 10 megawatts of power by exploiting natural temperature variations in tropical seas, and unlike other renewable energy sources it would operate nonstop 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

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The device, which resembles the sawed-off head of a driver golf club, uses its Plant Care Engine (or PCE as its literature so abbreviates) to detect such important plant growth criteria as water, fertilizer, humidity, temperature and light.

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Plant ecologists know that the northern limit of the forest is determined by the mean July temperature.

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In Sweden he visited a plant where refuse is rotated in an unused rotary kiln for three days, allowing bacteria that thrive in that temperature to quickly degrade it into fertilizer and bits of plastic.

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