This is a Japanese carmaker that routinely turned down the heat at its employee dormitories during working hours and labeled photocopy machines with the cost per copy to discourage overuse.

这家日本汽车公司通常关闭工作时雇员宿舍的暖气并在影印机上标记每次影印的成本以期杜绝滥用。

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But there are materials that can directly convert heat into electricity without running some working fluid through a traditional generator.

而现在有种材料，无需工作流体通过传统发电机就可以直接将热能转化为电能。

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Improved heat transfer, insulation and combustion creates less heat and smoke, resulting in improved working conditions.

改良的传热、隔热以及燃烧产生的热量和烟更少，这最终改善了工作环境。

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More fundamentally, however, is the violation of gender role boundaries that causes the impression that moms will be inattentive workers, and turns up the heat of employer and co-worker anger against working mothers.

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So computer architects and researchers are working on new ways to bring PC heat and power consumption down--and improve performance in the process.

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His two-story house in the Far Rockaway section of Queens hasn't had working heat since Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters destroyed the oil burner in the basement.

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