Sentences with phrase «directly over the plants»

This light and porous material is draped directly over the plants and traps solar energy, warming the plants by 5 degrees F. during the day.

Not exact matches

While this company's bond did not directly invest in increasing fossil fuel output, refineries are still processing fossil fuels and any investment in making refineries more efficient, as this bond is aiming to, will likely extend plant operating lifetimes and therefore indirectly increase emissions over time.

According to the analysis, which examined only plant - based foods that directly replace animal products, over the past year plant - based foods saw growth of 8.1 percent, with the total market for the sector expected to top $ 3.1 billion in sales in 2017.

If the current private owner can not justify keeping the plant open and a new owner can not be found, then it should be taken over by the New York State Power Authority (NYPA), and managed directly under that body.

Two principal techniques were used to reconstruct past climates over the past 3000 years: at close intervals throughout a vertical column of peat, the researchers investigated the degree of peat decomposition, which is directly related to climate, and also examined the peat matrix to reveal the changing amounts of different plants that previously grew on the bog.

The only product in our diet coming directly from a plant's sap, this natural sweetener features over 65 antioxidants that can help delay or prevent diseases caused by free radicals, such as cancer or diabetes.

Make much better use of sunlight directly and through the storage of energy in plants (that have evolved very efficient strategies of energy extraction over millenia and whose methods of energy extraction and storage we would do well to respect and emulate).

All of this is reason for everyone and his brother, aunt and sister to greatly reduce their own GHG emissions, and to scream bloody murder till every corporation, institution and governmental body they have any influence over to immediately institute policies to rapidly bring down GHG emissions and look at reliable ways of drawing down atmospheric CO2 levels directly (especially replanting grasslands in the north, tree planting toward the equator where albedo change is not an issue).

It is a key economic stimulator for the region with almost 200,000 people benefiting, both directly and indirectly, over the 25 year life cycle of the plant.

Over and over again and for years our representatives at local, state and federal levels have been presented with «complaints», letters, victim impact statements, shown vividly by video, rare on - site visits to affected homes and are directly and indirectly aware of the full impacts of these power plants on peoOver and over again and for years our representatives at local, state and federal levels have been presented with «complaints», letters, victim impact statements, shown vividly by video, rare on - site visits to affected homes and are directly and indirectly aware of the full impacts of these power plants on peoover again and for years our representatives at local, state and federal levels have been presented with «complaints», letters, victim impact statements, shown vividly by video, rare on - site visits to affected homes and are directly and indirectly aware of the full impacts of these power plants on people.

NRDC has for over 40 years sought to close nuclear plants directly and indirectly by lobbying for laws including federal subsidies and renewable energy mandates that discriminate against nuclear.

In South Australia, concerns over high levels of renewables causing grid instability at times of summer peak demand, combined with a couple of large - scale power cuts, have led the state government to propose investing directly in battery storage and a gas - fired power plant.

The bill is expected to be $ 690 million dollars, and will be first paid by customers (directly or indirectly), but over time it will more than pay for itself in electricity savings and a reduced need to built new power plants.