Word: thermal
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...routinely transport nuclear materials, so far without serious accident. To keep up with the demand, shippers have doubled the capacity of the average tank car, to 100 tons. Federal safety standards that took effect last September require new tankers to be equipped with crash shields to prevent punctures and thermal liners to reduce the chance of explosions. But shippers have until 1981 to remodel the 23,000 tank cars that are used to ship dangerous substances. Only about 20 now meet the new standards. Moreover, as an economy measure, railroads have increased the length of their freight trains. Declared...
...conclusion, Metzenbaum said he supports a mandatory conservation bill that would encourage development of solar and thermal energy while seeking to find alternative uses of coal...
...water was heated to a soothing 80°, so the pool was full of happy swimmers. But not so happy was Lifeguard Steve Tourville. Watching over his charges, he sat in his chair wearing a suit of thermal underwear and three sweaters. Is this a Colorado ski resort scene? No, just an unusual 36° day at Walt Disney World in Florida. Across a broad sweep of the country last week, winter howled in with bone-numbing force. In the nation's capital, temperatures dropped 20°, to near zero, during a one-hour period...
Lindbergh was a thorough professional, but he seemed to suggest a wonderful elan, a sense that anything is possible. That deep urge for individual adventure remains. Sometimes it merely involves robust hobbies - banging down white-water canyons in rubber rafts, hang gliding on the thermal currents, roping up the faces of cliffs. But beyond weekend diversion, there remains a vast array of exploration and adventure. It ranges, says Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell ("Rusty") Schweickart, "from the massive NASA kind of exploration to some intermediary type, such as Jacques Cousteau's efforts, where there is no question that the driving...
...British thermal unit, a measure of energy based on the quantity of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit...