Purifying oxygen and raising steam, however, both consume energy.

提纯氧气提升蒸汽都要消耗能量。

Both Helion and TAE plan to generate electricity directly, rather than raising steam to run a generator.

Helion 和 TAE 都计划直接发电，而不是提高蒸汽来运行发电机。

If this system can achieve ignition, the heat generated will be absorbed by the liquid lithium—whence it can be extracted to raise steam.

如果这个系统能够实现点火，产生的热量将被液态锂吸收——从那里可以提取以产生蒸汽。

Solar-thermal power stations, which employ mirrors to concentrate sunlight on boilers and thus raise steam to generate electricity by turning turbines, are far from cheap compared with gas-fired stations.

太阳能热发电站利用反光镜将太阳光集中到锅炉上，因而提升蒸汽转动涡轮机来产电，与燃气站相比一点也不便宜。

The proposal is to capture this as heat by intercepting the neutrons in an absorptive blanket and then use it to raise steam to generate electricity.

该提议是通过在吸收毯中拦截中子来将其作为热量捕获，然后用它来产生蒸汽来发电。