Using a magnetic gate like this has potential to reduce the heat involved in processing large amounts of information, which could lead to much faster chips.

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Lummus Technology, which generated 7.4% of revenues, offers licenses for proprietary processes used in petrochemical processing, refining, performance catalysts, gas processing and heat transfer.

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The key factors for phones are the heat generated, speed of processing, and battery life.

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The usual forms of processing that involve heat treatment were found to denature, or destroy, the useful proteins in the mussels.

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The two other possibilities, which were ruled out, were on-island heat treatment - in an incinerator, gasification or pyrolysis plant - or a further stage of processing to produce a fuel product, which would also be shipped off-island.

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