Its device is basically a giant still, 6 feet tall by 20 inches wide, that uses low-cost heat to evaporate and then condense water from dissolved salts and other industrial contaminants.
He believes he has developed a system to capture CO2 from the atmosphere at low heat and potentially at low cost.
They had one model they used to send out for the heat shield on Curiosity and it cost them five thousand bucks.
You can hire a motorcycle taxi for 50 baht per hour or, if you can bear cycling in the heat, a basic bicycle will cost 40 baht per day.
Until a couple of years ago, plastic chip packages either couldn't stand the heat put out by microprocessors or cost up to several times as much as ceramics to whip up with the necessary properties.
Service Corp. executives deny the allegation, but the truth is probably even more embarrassing: They had no way of knowing what the contracts would cost them, because in the heat of the acquisition binge they had allowed the contracts to pile up at the regional level.
Meanwhile, the controversy over the incredibly high cost of breakthrough cancer drugs continues to heat up.
As some of the heat goes out of the world economy, the cost of oil (and energy generally, another large input in petrochemicals) may fall.
And the cost curve of the collection technology solar panels, small and large wind turbines, geothermal heat pumps, small hydro, tidal and wave technology, biomass converters is following the same cost curve dynamics as when we went from centralized mainframe computers to desktop computers and from centralized telephone communication to distributed cell phone networks.
The processor threw off a lot of heat, could be used for only 12 hours a day, cost two to three times as much as a standard server because it was produced in small numbers, and had an Intel processor warranty of just one year.
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So, if Congress wishes to outlaw medical malpractice as a way of lowering the cost of healthcare, they are going to take a lot of heat as the real numbers become available to the public and we all discover that completely doing away with medical malpractice suits would, at best, have a negligible impact on our problem.
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"The efficiency of conventional heat engines is limited both by the laws of thermodynamics and practical concerns over the cost of building and operating complex engines, " says Los Alamos researcher Scott Backhaus.
But manipulation must often seem like a good idea in the heat of the moment--when a company is facing bad news on an important product that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to develop.
"We do have to do this, but at what cost, " she asked, citing concerns that some consumer may not be able to afford to heat their homes if energy prices continue to increase.
For example, if you plan to add geothermal heat pumps, residential small wind turbines or solar energy systems, the credit is equal to 30% of the cost with no upper limit.
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