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• n  rising current of warm air
• a  relating to or associated with heat
  thermal movements of molecules
  thermal capacity
• a  of or relating to a hot spring
  thermal water
• s  caused by or designed to retain heat
  a thermal burn
  thermal underwear

• Drive a stick into the ground anywhere in Hungary, the saying goes, and thermal water will come surging up.
• The advantages of concentrated solar power (or solar thermal, as it's also known) is that utilities can build commercial-scale plants that could potentially replace fossil fuel .
• The thermal dye fuses to the paper so you can't even scrape it off with your fingernail.

• thermic
• caloric

• nonthermal

News & Articles

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• DCNS and Ocean Thermal Agree to Develop Power Plants Together
  Ocean Thermal Energy Plc, a London- based clean-energy technology company, agreed to work with French engineering company DCNS SA to develop and build plants to generate power using differences in sea temperatures.
  June 11, 2013 - Bloomberg
• Aboard thermal airship, Greenpeace takes to the sky
  Cruising slowly above the Gastineau Channel at about 15 to 20 miles per hour, as the cruise ships left the downtown port and the setting sun descended behind the Chilkat Range Saturday evening, the pilot of the Greenpeace thermal airship navigated turns and altitude to keep the aircraft between 50 and 200 feet off the water."We fly low, relatively low because we want the message to be seen," he ...
  June 11, 2013 - Juneau Empire
• Ocean Thermal Energy Plans $12 Million Share Sale on AIM
  Ocean Thermal Energy Plc, a renewable energy company that can produce power from the sea, plans to raise as much as 8 million pounds ($12.4 million) by selling shares on London’s Alternative Investment Market.
  June 9, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Larry Page in Wired News
  Page added, "There has been tremendous work already on renewable energy. Technologies have been developed that can mature into industries capable of providing electricity cheaper than coal. Solar thermal technology, for example, provides a very...
• Janet Napolitano in AOL News
  ...said Tuesday that the department would "redeploy" $50 million of stimulus money from the project to other tools to protect the border including "mobile surveillance, thermal imaging devices, ultra-light detection, backscatter units, mobile...
• Bob Cameron in BusinessWeek
  Centennial is strategically placed to take advantage of strong demand for thermal coal, with long term domestic contracts expiring in coming years,Chief Executive Officer Bob Cameron said.