Word: superhot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corps of Engineers believes that electricity supplies could be increased significantly by expanding and improving existing hydroelectric power stations. Other alternatives will require technological breakthroughs. The fluidized-bed method of burning coal-essentially, burning a mixture of crushed coal and sand suspended on a column of air inside a superhot container-promises ultimately to make combustion more efficient while cutting down on pollutants. It is now in the experimental stage, but has yet to be made applicable to large-scale commercial operations. Unlocking oil from the vast deposits of shale rock in the West at present is uneconomical, produces gigantic...
...latest demonstration of Pele's power. In mid-September the volcano rumbled and then erupted. For several days, Kilauea tossed lava bombs, rock and ashes into the air. Then, with fire spouting up to 350 ft. above the crater rim, the volcano spewed out a fountain of fluid, superhot lava that glowed like a Dantean vision of hell...