Sentences with phrase «fuel into the mechanical energy»

A prime mover turns a fuel into the mechanical energy used to drive a product; changing prime movers does close to zero to solve the problem.

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Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have concentrated 3,000 «suns» of solar thermal energy into a solar reactor at 1,500 °C for thermochemical splitting of H2O and CO2 into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas), the precursor to kerosene and other liquid fuels.

While these fuels may have brought into the production process primarily to increase profits for the owners of a business, the mechanical work of machines has had secondary benefits for workers especially with the advent of consumer durables and Fordism, the ability of those in the lower middle and working classes to afford major energy using devices like automobiles.