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Thousands of people are expected in Camborne later to celebrate its famous son Richard Trevithick, who invented high-pressure steam power.
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Gas turbines, steam turbines, nuclear power plants, high-speed trains, these are the areas he believes Hitachi can still be a world beater, especially in the developing world.
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Scalding hot, but non-radioactive steam explodes from the Mihama nuclear power plant.
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KHIC, also widely known as Hanjung, had been in the Gulf since 1986, providing heat-recovery steam generators for the Jebel Ali thermal power plant in the United Arab Emirates.
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There are many nontrivial ancillary challenges too, especially the secondary procedure of actually getting the energy out of the reactor into a useful form, i.e. heat to drive steam-turbines as with all other kinds of thermal power stations, to generate electricity.
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But Ragnarsson says Iceland's volcanic landscape is a world treasure and should not be criss-crossed with steam pipes and transmission lines or pocked with power plants.
NPR: Lured by Clean Energy, Industry Heads for Iceland
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Tellingly, about two-thirds of bids for solar energy contracts last year (by electricity generated) were for photovoltaic projects and only a third were for solar thermal power plants, which deploy vast arrays of mirrors to heat liquids and produce steam to drive an electricity-generating turbine.
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