Sentences with phrase «generating plant off»

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however obama simply laughs off questions about marijuana helping the economy when you can be d@mn sure it would generate a lot of revenue, not only from the medical and recreational sale but from the over 25,000 uses the plant has.

Hydroelectric plants, for instance, often draw on reservoirs to generate additional electricity at peak times, and then pump some of the water back uphill in off - peak periods.

Now rumor mill has it that production of the screens is supposed kick off at LG and Samsung plants from November but there could possibly be an issue in the yields that such a screen could generate.

What's interesting here is that 1) the majority of old KHD's revenue and profit was generated by the industrial plant technology, equipment and service company, KID, 2) KID was the company that was being «spun off» not the much smaller mineral rights company, 3) KID was being listed exclusively on the Frankfurt exchange with some hope for US holders that there would be an ADR, and 4) the company clearly stated that it would make no statement about the tax implications to US investors.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan by Paul May and a chart by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation» by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.

Corporations like Dominion Resources and Duke Energy are investing in gas transmission pipelines and gas generating plants only because they think they can profit from them now, and force captive utility customers to bear the cost of paying off the worthless assets later.

There are currently dozens of massive proposed mines, off - and on - shore oil and gas development and fossil fuel generated power plants on the table.

With natural gas generating a large percentage of our electricity we can just turn off the gas plants and save fuel when the Sun is shining or wind blowing.

Pumped - storage hydroelectric plant: A plant that usually generates electric energy during peak load periods by using water previously pumped into an elevated storage reservoir during off - peak periods when excess generating capacity is available to do so.

And because solar panels have zero marginal cost — once they are installed and paid off, they generate power for free — grid operators take their electricity instead of resorting to more expensive «peaker» natural gas plants.