Computing Science
Magazine
January-February 2009
January-February 2009
Volume: 97 Number: 1
Colorful lights and clouds of steam make for an interesting predawn image of a coal-fired power plant in Point of Rocks, Wyoming, but it's really a picture of wasted energy. All that steam venting into the air could be used to heat homes, perform industrial processing or generate electricity. In "Getting the Most from Energy," Thomas Casten and Phillip Schewe explore the reasons why the power industry has come to waste so much of its fuel as heat, and how that heat could be used to greatly improve the efficiency of the energy-conversion process in the United States. Waste heat from industrial plants, such as one that melts quartz to create silicon, is a source of energy that does not require the expenditure of any additional fuel.
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Healing Heat: Harnessing Infection to Fight Cancer
Uwe Hobohm
Biology Medicine
Modern immunology plus historic experiments suggest a better way to gear up the human immune system to battle malignant disease
Kashmir Valley Megaearthquakes
Susan Hough, Roger Bilham, Ismail Bhat
Environment Physics
Estimates of the magnitudes of past seismic events foretell a very shaky future for this pastoral valley
The Bones of Copernicus
Dennis Danielson
Astronomy
Twenty-first-century cosmologists, historians and archaeologists continue to seek a true portrait of the great astronomer and his contribution
