Areva would buy the panels for its hybrid solar power plant, though it is unclear how exactly Areva plants to integrate the electricity-generating panels with its solar-concentrating mirrors and steam system.

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The new release supports the Steam Play licensing system, meaning a customer can purchase it for one desktop platform and play it on another at no extra cost.

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In addition, the SIP also put into place a system that provides a centralized source of steam for factories.

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Areva bought the Mountain View, Calif. company Ausra, a company that has developed a system of reflectors that concentrates and directs sunlight to create steam and spin a turbine.

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Your argument loses even more of its steam when bumped up against the reality of the current very progressive tax system.

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The gravity-based system responded as it was designed to, circulating water and steam in a continuous loop to keep the scale-model reactor at a safe temperature automatically.

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Tall buildings, walkable neighborhoods, and a good transit system reduce the average cost of face-to-face interaction in exactly the same way that steam ships and low tariffs reduced the average costs of shipping goods to the other side of the world.

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