Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been an elaborate front. Last week federal prosecutors disclosed in a Fort Worth courtroom that as early as 1974, Estes was back wheeling and dealing. One deal involved conning a leasing operation of Borg-Warner Corp. of Chicago and other firms into paying for some nonexistent steam cleaners, used in washing down oilfield equipment. Estes then arranged for Wallace Oil Co. to pretend to lease some of the phantom cleaners. When the Chicago firm sent a representative to see its equipment, he was, according to a Justice Department official, "given a little bit of the run-around." Estes...
...efficiency of their coal and natural gas power plants through magnetohydrodynamics, or the use of powerful magnets to help generate electricity. In the process, a current-conducting plasma, or superheated gas, is passed through a powerful magnetic field that heats it even further, and then is used to generate steam to drive a turbine...
...easy work. The thermometers in the tunnels usually hover at about 100F, but temperatures as high as 120 have been reached. Supervisors must walk a tightrope between overheating the tunnels, which would make maintainance work difficult, and cooling them to the point where steam pipes lose their heat...
...tunnel's nerve center is a Honeywell Delta 2500 computer housed in the basement of the Science Center. The computer monitors temperature, steam flow and other tunnel functions. Supervisors work around the clock here, watching the computer and receiving calls that come from maintainance men throughout the tunnels by means of the intercoms and a separate telephone system located at intervals in the passageways...
...from two to ten feet below street level, and almost all of it is high enough to stand in. In two stretches, however, obstacles restricted tunnel construction and special designs had to be employed. One was the MBTA subway line. Squeezed between the subway tunnel and Massachusetts Ave., the steam tunnel shrinks to a mere 3 1/2 feet in height. Workers must lie prone on a rolling flatbed cart and draw themselves along by means of a rope pulley system. Most maintenance men go above ground to avoid this segment, using the pull-cart only when they must...