Currently, ash from its boilers is mixed with water and piped overboard.

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In the context of hospitals, the heat is usually used to provide hot water, reducing the need to operate less efficient boilers.

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From there the trash is fed into three boilers that burn at 2, 000 degrees, heating water to create steam that spins a 60-megawatt turbine.

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Grizzled, his peculiar aviator glasses bent and smudged, Nawab tended the household machinery, the air-conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, and pumps, like an engineer tending the boilers on a foundering steamer in an Atlantic gale.

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