Conventional turbine generators are used with the dry steam resources. The steam is used directly, eliminating the need for boilers and boiler fuel that characterizes other steam-power-generating technologies. This technology is limited because dry-steam ...

Same as bipolar electrode.

Sea Training/Supply Vessel.

A form of solar concentrating collector that does not track the sun.

A line used for capsizing the sea anchor and hauling it in.

To reach the end; to bring one object hard up against another, as when two blocks in a block and tackle arrangement are brought together.

Wind with a speed between 34 and 40 knots (39 and 46 mph); Beaufort scale number 8.

Pieces of plank bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the foretopmast stays through.

National Contingency Response

The process of changing regulatory policies and laws to increase competition among suppliers of commodities and service. The process of deregulating the electric power industry was initiated by the Energy Policy Act of 1992. (See also Restructuring)

To send electricity through a electricity transmission and distribution network; a conductor or power line that is carrying current.

A measure of the relative flame spread, and smoke development, from a material being tested. The flame spread rating is a single number comparing the flame spread of a material with red oak, arbitrarily given the number 100 and asbestos cement board with ...

To enter a port or harbor

The duct(s) of a forced air heating/cooling system through which heated or cooled air is supplied to rooms by the action of the fan of the central heating or cooling unit.

The amount of work done on or by a system is equal to the amount of energy transferred to or from the system.

The reciprocal of polarization resistance (di/dE).

Cracking or fracturing that occurs through or across a crystal or grain. Also called transcrystalline cracking. Contrast with intergranular cracking.

A photoelectric spectrophotometer which is used in the determination of the ozone content of the atmosphere.

A type of atmometer. It is a pan used in the measurement of the evaporation of water into the atmosphere. The NWS Class A pan is a cylindrical container 48 inches in diameter and 10 inches deep.

A balloon having a detachable tail which is released when the balloon has undergone a predetermined expansion. It thus serves to measure approximately the density of the atmosphere at the point of release.