combustion
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The need for cooling meant redesigning the combustion chamber itself, and incorporating a new air-to-water heat exchanger.
It warned that removing the waste could expose any slow-burning deep-seated fires to open air, risking greater combustion.
From BBC
Small reactors take up little land—the nuclear combustion happens underground—but can produce 300 megawatts, enough to power 300,000 homes a day.
From Barron's
That includes gas-fired reciprocating engines, which are large internal combustion engines fed by natural gas that can provide on-site power.
From Barron's
“We know once somebody drives an EV. They rarely go back to internal combustion engine,” she says, adding that the presence of EV chargers is increasing, which should enable increased EV adoption.
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