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My friend, Nathan, is an
electrician at the university where I
work. He put in long hours recently
because the campus was finishing a
new natural gas heating facility to
replace the old coal-fired one. It is
huge, and the equipment inside
warms every building on campus
with heat to spare.
To use the surplus heat, turbines
were installed that generate enough
electricity for most of the campus. It
