Colorado is one of many that has dealt with the explosion in energy extraction that analysts say may enable the United States to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer in a decade.
Van Gogh's happiness at seeing his young nephew sparked an explosion of artistic energy in the last few weeks of his life.
The party prefers to believe that the course China took then was right: brutal repression followed by an explosion of capitalist energy that has propelled it into the front ranks of the world's economic powers.
It's only later, on the training track, that I realise what kind of an explosion that pent up energy can release.
In a full meltdown, such as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union, the rods melt completely and the release of energy causes an explosion that contaminates the surrounding area with radioactive material.
Or they expend so much energy in containing an explosion (trembling in suppression) that they look as if they were having a stroke.
The space agency also increased the estimated amount of energy released in the meteor's explosion from about 300 to nearly 500 kilotons.
Supernovae are the result of the explosion of a massive star, and they release so much energy and light that they can actually be brighter than the combined light of an entire galaxy.
Earlier this year, a longtime subordinate implicated former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in the case of a mine explosion that killed 29 miners in West Virginia.
Think of nuclear fission: it generates useful energy but if it runs out of control you get a cataclysmic explosion.
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Stover, who was head of security at the Upper Big Branch Mine (operated by Performance Coal and owned by Massey Energy), was convicted of impeding the investigation of the mine explosion that killed 29 people on April 5, 2010.
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At the moment, that energy is supplied by engines, which run on the combustion of chemicals--basically a controlled explosion.
On Feb. 27, a Consumers Energy crew was replacing eight-decade-old pipelines in Royal Oak when a natural-gas explosion killed one resident and damaged 31 homes.
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