As early as the 1980s, large industrial and commercial customers began installing onsite cogeneration systems for heat-intensive applications.

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Unlike conventional combined heat and power (CHP) applications, micro-CHP produces relatively small amounts of heat and electricity.

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It issued a press release in January trumpeting new technology that cheaply upgrades the kind of heavy oil found in Venezuela and mined out of Canada's tar sands with rapid applications of heat using sand as the heat carrier.

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The turbines will provide Russia with high-performance, mid-sized power blocks in combined heat-and-power applications.

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We've already seen bids to cloak magnetic fields, which could find use in security applications, and even cloaks for heat that might keep future computers' processors cool.

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Fab 15 will be TSMC's next "green fab" following Fab 12 and Fab 14, incorporating green concepts in energy conservation and pollution control in its design, including a process water conservation rate of 85%, reclamation of rainwater, recirculation and reuse of general exhaust heat, and development of solar power generation and LED lighting applications.

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The Technical Solutions segment designs, manufactures, markets and services products that guard and protect some of the world's most sensitive electronics and electronic equipment, as well as heat management solutions designed to provide thermal protection to temperature sensitive fluid applications.

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Preparation is expected to heat up over the next week because Jan. 4 is the final day to resubmit applications to the FCC.

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