Not exact matches
As they incessantly shake or spin or crawl around the cell, these machines cut, paste and copy genetic molecules, shuttle nutrients around or
turn them
into energy, build and repair cellular membranes, relay
mechanical, chemical or electrical messages — the list goes on and on, and new discoveries add to it all the time.
«Multilayer polymers spring
into action:
Mechanical vibrations
turned into electrical
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.
Wind turbines convert the kinetic
energy in the wind (the
energy the wind has due to its motion)
into mechanical energy — the wind
turns the blades of the wind turbine, and the blades
turn a shaft inside the turbine.
As the blades of a wind turbine
turn, the kinetic
energy of the wind is converted
into mechanical energy, which is transmitted through a drive shaft to an electrical generator in the nacelle.
Any other form of
energy can be
turned into heat, either partially, or completely; and what lay folks refer to as «heat» is simply the result of
turning some other form of
energy; which can include EM radiation; once again, all the way from down to but not including DC, up to the end of the gama ray spectrum (orbeyond),
into the waste
mechanical energy of some physical matter; and for most people that is a result of absorption of EM radiation by mostly water in the human body; that's what WE feel as «heat».