Not exact matches
«What will happen as they go
into the dry season is all that new growth and greenery will dry out and it will just end up being more
fuel for potential
fires later this summer and autumn.»
It is also a way to visually show where the revenue and cost lines cross, i.e. where we start to make a profit on each user or customer (which ultimately is what gets investors excited to pour more
fuel on the
fire), and where the «search
for business model» crosses over
into «execution of the business model.»
A leakage of gas from one of two gas
fuel stations in the enclave around the Atomic Junction reportedly triggered
fire, which extended to an adjoining Total Filling Station causing two explosions that sent fireballs
into the skies.Hundreds of passengers, traders and residents in and around the Atomic Junction area fled their homes and workplaces
for safety as the explosions lit the skies and caused severe heat waves.Electricity supply to most part of the area was cut off as some transformers were affected.
The shape even fed
into the name — Solyndra — as well as promising half the installation cost in one third of the time, enabling «grid parity» (that is, a price competitive with electricity from fossil
fuel —
fired power plants) at some imminent date
for the first time in the history of solar power.
Instead, the biggest threats seemed to be grazing livestock,
fires, and the longhorn beetle, which burrows
into trees» bark, kills them, and leaves them as ready
fuel for forest
fires.
Fortunately
for the driver, the damage could have been much worse if they actually crashed
into a
fuel pump which may have caught
fire and exploded.
Buttonwood divides the quantitative approaches to investing
into at three different types and their potential
for providing a stabilizing influence on the market or throwing
fuel on the
fire in a crash:
- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the
fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's
fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned
into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look
for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down
into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out
fire and clear the way
for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin
for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around
fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge
for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».
It's been fiercely debated (read: argued via deafening screaming matches) ever since Ocarina of Time was released;
fuel was only added to the
fire when the OoT manga, while non-canon, chose to support the side of Zelda actually transforming
into a boy
for the seven years Link slept through.
Solar cooking has a lot going
for it, such as the fact that it doesn't require purchasing or burning any
fuel at all (ever), it doesn't release any sketchy stuff
into the air, it doesn't heat up your house like an oven does, it doesn't (usually) present a
fire danger when used in the backcountry, and it's drop - dead simple in terms of materials and operation.
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In addition to being used to simply produce cyclic carbonates, North believes it could also be retrofitted on coal -
fired plants: «If our catalyst could be employed at the source of high - concentration CO2 production,
for example in the exhaust stream of a fossil -
fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it
into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.»
So The New York Times and various other papers all ran pieces suggesting Soon was on the take from the fossil -
fuel crowd and thus bringing
into disrepute the Harvard - Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics, who should
fire him.
Rich timber Rather than hiding away the
fuel for your
fire, turn it
into part of its allure.