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

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Valuable data could be collected with an NEO trial run, particularly testing Orion's high-speed heat shields.

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In one lab at UWM researchers discovered how to manipulate heat and light to speed up the growth of yellow perch, increasing the food yield by 12 times.

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This is equally as important as raw speed, because heat and power consumption have a direct impact on performance and battery life.

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Within the last year he has made four investments in startups and joint ventures that are experimenting with techniques like incinerating trash with a plasma, speed-composting organic waste and using heat and chemicals to turn trash into ethanol.

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He also wants to speed up sales of home appliances that use efficient heat pumps--made, of course, by domestic manufacturers.

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While earlier chip designs prized speed, while hogging power and generating way too much heat, the new chips are built around cool-running "cores" that can be paired up to get more done.

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The drive features high-speed USB 3.0 and FireWire, and has a built-in heat sink to silently dissipate heat.

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You put some heat into the envelope to get you up and then you float with the atmosphere, there is no speed involved.

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Rather than dwell on the old performance metric of speed, Otellini, in his first Intel Developer Forum speech as CEO, focused on power consumption and heat dissipation of semiconductors.

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