This is the current of water that takes enormous amounts of heat about as much as would be generated by a million nuclear power plants from the tropics and carries it to eastern North America and western Europe.

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They can carry five to 20 times more current in the same unit area while reducing the amount of energy lost as heat by 75-97% (depending on whether the current is alternating or direct), even after accounting for all the nitrogen-cooling paraphernalia.

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Thousands of fans braved the predictably English summer weather (torrential rain interspersed with steamingly unpleasant bursts of heat) to pack into the hall of the Brighton Centre to see and play both current and unreleased PC games.

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The administration has berated Europeans for not importing more goods from Asia and thus taking the heat out of America's growing current-account deficit.

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"Current indications are that this heat wave may continue for much of the upcoming work week, " the weather service's St.

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