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Thermal in sentence

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We need to control just those aspects that are critical, like the structural, the thermal, the acoustical properties embedded in the form.
Sensors in specialized nerve endings detect mechanical, thermal, and chemical threats.
All of the heat comes from the thermal mass of the sea, all the power comes from the sun.
And of course, we have to design it so it can produce its own power, harvesting the thermal mass of the oceans, the force of the tides, of the currents, of the waves, the power of the wind, the heat and the energy of the sun.
As soon as the interior temperature of that dough crosses the threshold of 140 degrees, it passes what we call the "thermal death point."
What about if I put a thermal sponge in the middle, in the passageway between where the air has to move between hot and cold?
Half of each year's 100 billion pounds of thermal plastic pellets will be made into fast-track trash.
Like thermal radiation in a heater, neutrinos pump energy into the core, increasing the possibility of disrupting the star.
So we actually sort of designed the entire island as a single ecosystem, exploiting wind energy to drive the desalination plants, and to use the thermal properties of water to heat and cool the buildings.
And I realized that if I scaled them up, they would provide me with good spatial qualities, for ventilation, for thermal comfort, and for other things.
Bill Gross has several companies, including one called eSolar that has some great solar thermal technologies.
The thermal tiles fall off.
If we were bacteria, constantly buffeted by thermal movements of molecules, it would be different.
Sea levels are rising, and Kiribati, along with 42 other nations in the world, will be under water within 50 to 100 years due to climate change and the associated sea-level rise from thermal expansion and the melting of freshwater into the ocean.
And the location stuff in Budapest is especially interesting, even if they didn't use the wonderful old train station (designed by Gustave Eifel) or show the city's famous thermal baths.
Some have no particular resources and build thermal power plants or import expensive liquid fuels to meet their needs.
In particular, thermal electricity plants have replaced the country’s nuclear plants – offline since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 – and the weak yen has hit the import bill for oil and gas hard.
Secondly, between 2006 and 2008, China shut down small thermal power-generation units with a total installed capacity of 34.21 GW, phased out 60.59 million tons of backward steel-making capacity, 43.47 million tons of iron-smelting capacity and 140 million tons of cement-production capacity.
In Egypt, investment in renewable energy rose by $800 million, to $1.3 billion, in 2010, owing to the solar thermal project in KomOmbo and a 220-megawatt onshore wind farm in the Gulf of Zayt.
And these countries have the most suitable environment for solar thermal power production.
According to some optimistic studies, solar thermal power plants and wind farms in North Africa could not only boost economic growth there, but also provide more than 15% of Europe’s electricity by 2050.
And we are only just coming to grips with the cooling costs of thermal power plants in terms of finite water resources – let alone the future price of unchecked climate change.
Some renewables, such as solar thermal power and geothermal energy, are also notoriously water-intensive.
They are the great biological pump of global atmospheric and thermal regulation, and the driver of the water and nutrient cycles.
Within the next ten years, China will build 100,000 megawatts of wind-power generation plants (10 times the US amount), 50,000 MW of nuclear capacity, 10,000 MW of solar photovoltaic power, and 10,000 MW of solar thermal power.
Germany’s nuclear plants will be replaced by more thermal plants, implying a large increase in German carbon emissions – so much for Green concern with global warming!
In China and India, for example, this means that in certain regions there may not be enough water in the short term to run coal-fired thermal power stations and irrigate large fields to grow crops.
Simply put, one thermal kick was enough to initiate an internal dynamic that will now continue under its own momentum, regardless of any action that humans might take to prevent it.
In addition to the use of drones, conservation rangers are now equipped with heat-detecting thermal cameras and military helicopters, and can track elephant and rhino poachers, who reportedly use similar technologies (as well as automatic weapons) in pursuing their prey.
For example, if 20% of the world’s electricity were to be generated by wind turbines, then, considering their inherently low load factor of about 25% (compared to 75% for thermal stations using steam turbines), we would need to install new capacity of some 1.25 TW in these machines.
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