"I was tired of being outside, in the rain, snow, burning heat, " she said.
Cantering loosely down sand-covered roads sighting down a sine-wave of bonnet, lazy, dusty oppositelock applied at speeds rarely above a brisk trotting pace and the smell: scorched dirt, cooking tarmac, a whiff of hot oil, burning chrome and heat.
Without the discovery of and ability to produce fossil fuels, it is likely that mankind would still be mired in a Medieval form of existence, reliant on burning wood for heat, horses for transportation, and still living largely in the dark after nightfall.
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However, the biggest single source, accounting for about half of the global total, is the most traditional - the burning of wood for heat and cooking in developing countries.
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Engineers have built a contraption of water heater size that strips hydrogen out of natural gas while burning the carbon to provide heat for the home.
By augmenting the drug's surface area, Rabinowitz had increased its exposure to air, allowing it to quickly escape the heat and vaporize without burning.
Almost half of people in the world cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass in open fires or basic stoves.
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Those heat-trapping gases are from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Burning yak dung in a wood-burning-style stove was the only form of heat at night, Ms Lloyd said.
The science of global warming is politically controversial but generally accepted as fact by most researchers, who point to heat-trapping carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels as the major cause.
To get the color you want without burning the sugar, you may have to lower the heat after a while.
Aluminum foil as a piecrust protector: To prevent a piecrust from burning while the filling cooks, make a foil collar to deflect heat.
The more sophisticated missiles are programmed to steer towards heat (such as that given off by a fuel-burning jet).
The Olympic flame burning in a corner of the stadium seemed to be the only source of heat.
As the heat rises you're left with a partially heated room and a worrying burning smell.
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It is, first, an account of the many ways in which people have sought to produce energy by burning fossil fuels, harvesting the wind, brewing biodiesel and trapping the sun's heat.
But it is the heat that actually did it and you need a temperature - according to him - no greater than burning wood basically.
But the FF, inching through the stultifying heat for hour after hour, behaved impeccably: no glitches, no coughs, no smell of burning flesh emanating from the vents.
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