At Kalunborg waste heat from industry is used to heat nearby homes.
Ivanpah is a solar concentrator project, using fields of mirrors, known as heliostats, to concentrate sunlight onto a solar receiver on top of a tower. (This project when finished will include 173, 000 heliostats.) The concentrated sunlight is used to heat water, generating steam which is used to turn a traditional turbine and generator to produce electricity.
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Most of our natural gas usage is residential, used to heat buildings, and hot water.
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In a typical PCR machine a large aluminum block is used to heat and cool the DNA samples.
This is then used to warm the gorilla enclosure, "but could be used to heat about 25 homes, " he adds.
Meanwhile, wind and building-integrated solar modules with high efficiency photovoltaic materials can supplement our electrical generation capability, as stricter building codes and improved insulation can decrease the energy used to heat and cool buildings.
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With a combined heat and power plant, some of those 76 wasted BTUs that were going out the stack are captured, generally as steam or hot water that can get piped around and used for heat.
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The four adults held captive -- Edwin Sanabria, Herbert Knowles, Tamara Breeden and Derwin McLemire -- were locked in a pitch-black, 13-by-7 foot room that housed the former boiler used to heat the building, police said.
Secondly, when considering end-to-end efficiency, it is much less energy-intensive to heat water by direct use of natural gas on-site, rather than by using that natural gas to first make electricity that is used to heat water because of the large conversion losses at power plants.
He said well-designed systems can operate effectively in the UK, delivering in excess of three units of heat for every unit of electricity used to pump the heat in and around the property.
Conversely, the technique can be used to concentrate heat in one spot so it gets hot rapidly.
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When the Heat used a 9-0 run to take a 60-54 lead early in the third quarter, Indiana answered immediately with a 10-0 run to regain the lead.
It used to be that the first heatwaves of summer produced disproportionate mortality, and then, as people got used to the heat, a similar warm spell killed fewer.
Although it doesn't quite have the wow factor of Cornell's invisibility project, the thermal research may prove to be more practical because it also can be used to manage heat and improve cooling in components such as computer chips.
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Then by motorcade it's off to Aavid, a worldwide maker of heat sinks used to cool off heating units on appliances.
The anceint Anasazi Indians in the desert SouthWest US used passive solar to heat and cool their cliff side dwellings 1, 000 years ago.
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He said the technology could be used to capture waste heat from a conventional 500-megawatt thermal power plant to boost electricity out by 200 megawatts.
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The global average temperature for last year would have been a record 15 years ago, an indication that what used to be unusual heat is more commonplace.
Sabre Industries, which provides wireless towers, monopoles and transmission structures, and Nobao Renewable Energy, a Shanghai-based provider of heat pumps used to cool commercial buildings, did not price as expected.
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Combined heat and power (CHP) systems have long been used to generate electricity and use the waste heat for other purposes, especially for industrial processes.
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The heat can be used to boost the thermal expansion of the liquid air.
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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.
In addition to bathing, saunas would have been used for chores requiring high heat, such as curing meats, and practices requiring sterile environments, such as preparing to bury the dead.
While the trademark pop video style that he used in Miami Vice and Heat worked well, it really is not necessary here, where audiences expect only to find out about Ali.
It develops anaerobic digesters that convert organic waste into biogas used to generate electricity, heat, natural gas and motor vehicle fuel (CNG). quasar already operates eight facilities in Ohio, and several more are in process in the Buckeye State and elsewhere.
It was used as a coolant to remove heat from the electrical systems on the orbiter engines.
PCBs are used in many industries: as heat-exchange liquid in transformers, in paint additives and in making plastics.
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