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>> Can anybody suggest why this might be?
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> It's because heat represents a huge amount of energy.
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> For instance, the humble calorie, the amount of energy required to raise
> a single gram of water by one degree celsius, is the same amount of
> energy required to lift that same gram of water about 387 meters in
> Earth's gravity, or accelerate it from zero to 87 meters per second.
Damn... pitty we can't use heat to do *useful* stuff!
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