The heat released by the molten salt is used to create steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.
It's the extra heat released when the water vapor condenses that is like a driver flooring a car's accelerator.
Traditional light bulbs pass electricity through a filament, which results in energy being released as both heat and light, leading to a lot of heat being wasted.
Placing the reactors underground would make them less vulnerable to the shaking from earthquakes, and the surrounding earth would absorb much of the heat released if an accident occurred, Genoa said.
DuPont is fighting a similar battle over perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical used to manufacture Teflon nonstick coatings that lawyers say lingers in cookware and can be released under high heat.
While that argument makes the alarmist blogs and MSNBC, it neglects that, everything else being equal, if hurricanes are becoming rainier, they must be getting stronger, as the fuel that drives the kinetic whirl of the tropical cyclone is the heat released by the condensation of water.
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The malfunction, which released flammable electrolytes, causing heat damage and smoke, was the second of two recent serious incidents.
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As the pressure was released, the ammonia recondensed and absorbed the heat inside the box.
But I have to say the fact that "In the Heat of Sun" was not released in the U.S. market was a loss for the American audience, because I went to the San Francisco Film Festival with this film.
First, one caution: The last time I wrote about a list released by CareerCast, I got a lot of heat from readers.
But as the heat mounted, his campaign last week released a letter that claims Mr. McAuliffe had resigned from GreenTech by Dec. 1, 2012.
IMechE says this process is only 25% efficient but it is massively improved by co-siting the cryo-generator next to an industrial plant or power station producing low-grade heat that is currently vented and being released into the atmosphere.
For instance, the World Bank just released a report, "Turning Down the Heat, " which explores a world with four degrees Celsius of global temperature growth.
One theory is that an initial warming changed the distribution of heat in the oceans so that deposits of gas hydrates on the sea floor were released, with carbon dioxide and methane rising to the surface and entering the atmosphere, causing further greenhouse warming.
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