Overview: Combustion in the modern world: fire is essential for heating, industry, transport.Comparison of combustion in machines with photovoltaics, wind and nuclear.Thermodynamic principles: heat, work, worki.Keep on running by clever burning! This book reports how humans created materials, machines and power plants with the help of fire and which fuels, with their advantages and disadvantages, they have used so far. "Climate rescuers” of all stripes, whether qualified for such challenge or not, want to eliminate the fire completely and replace it with electricity from photovoltaics and wind
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