Sentences with phrase «model plant for»

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AM General continued building that model until 2006, after which its plant went back to making Humvees for the military.

Quitting Korea would, however, not be an easy call for GM as it relies on those plants as a key export hub - building vehicles for the United States and Latin America, although it could build models such as the Chevrolet Trax elsewhere.

Panasonic is prepared to move up its investment plans for Tesla Motors» battery plant if needed to meet strong demand for the electric car maker's upcoming Model 3 sedan, an executive at the Japanese electronics group said.

Now, Elon Musk is keeping vigil at the Gigafactory, where the Model 3 is manufactured, spending most of his waking hours — and then some typically meant for sleeping — there, even conducting Wednesday's call from the plant.

A faster ramp - up of the battery plant would be crucial as Tesla has said it would respond to brisk demand for the Model 3 by tooling up its factories to build 500,000 vehicles a year in 2018, two years earlier than planned.

Japan's Honda Motor Co said on Sunday it would slow production for a week at plants in Ohio, Indiana and Ontario, Canada, as parts it ships from Asia have been held up by the dispute, affecting models including the Civic, CR - V and Accord.

Wisconsin's proposed $ 3 billion in tax breaks for Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group to open a U.S. plant there served as a model in for Pennsylvania leaders in their discussions.

The organization cited St. Louis» BioSTL bioscience economic development coalition — established in 2001 to build on plant and life science strengths — as a model for cities endeavoring to create economic growth through regional strengths.

Ford has a new model for its factory floor at its Fiesta plant in Cologne, Germany.

T) said on Sunday it would slow production for a week at plants in Ohio, Indiana and Ontario, Canada, as parts it ships from Asia have been held up by the dispute, affecting models including the Civic, CR - V and Accord.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The new plant will have the capacity to build 300,000 vehicles annually, with production split evenly between the two lines for each company to produce the Toyota Corolla and Mazda's crossover model that will be newly introduced...

I have finally found a resource book that fits my thinking, lays open the world of content and links in a fascinating manner and has planted seeds in my business model for literally years of future research, exploration, study and growth.

In Searching for Sunday I feature several unusual church plants that are thriving in their communities, and many are associated with mainline Protestant denominations that were willing to take a risk on unconventional models.

Faribault is participating in statewide and international energy efficiency studies that will use the company's plant operations as a model for future sustainable manufacturing facilities, King says.

My stringy and nearly leafless heirloom tomato plants — the ones I was so excited to cultivate so I could pluck juicy mater orbs straight from the vine and take a big old bite out of their still warm flesh — are as lifeless and lilting as a 6 foot, 95 - pound fashion model prepping for her fall debut on the catwalk.

Nuijten, E.H.A.C.P.; Janmaat, Leen and Lammerts van Bueren, E.T. (2013) New models for plant breeding: Key elements for collaboration within the food chain.

A number of sustainability initiatives have been included in the project to make the plant a demonstrative model for future sustainable projects in the region.

As consumers wake up to the importance of choosing clean ingredients for all parts of their bodies, plant - based formulations, green chemistry practices and mission - based business models are taking center stage.

Made possible by Stichting RAUM In collaboration with Studio RNDR With support of Seppe Salari - consultant plant physiology WUR, The Association for Vertical Farming & Sander Fraser - 3D modeling.

In my review of the show, I'd criticized Jamie Oliver in a big way for failing to tell viewers that Carpinteria High, the school he held up as a model for excellent food (and it did look fantastic, no question about it), was the recipient of a generous grant from the Orfalea Foundation which assisted with staff training, the purchase of kitchen equipment and the planting and maintenance of the school garden.

We also used two syringes to show water travelling up the stem of a LEGO plant, which is quite a nice model for younger children.

More important than his legacy of helping to spare us the Jamesport nuclear plant, and likely the others which were sure to dot the eastern Long Island landscape, was his inspiration for all of us, especially young people who seek role models for public service: that when you hold on to what you know is right and work hard, even struggle, to make the world a better place, you're more than just an idealist, you're someone who can make a real and lasting difference.

The administration's treatment of nuclear facilities could serve as a national model for other states, where nuclear plants are also struggling to compete against cheaper power sources.

One part of the model involves the state fronting the cost of building and equipping plants for private companies.

Then they used the same «plant logic» in sophisticated architectural design software to model a supporting structure for a building.

It also is one of several U.S. proposals that demonstrate a viable financial model for capture technology, as the plant will produce byproducts ranging from CO2 to sulfuric acid worth as much as $ 50 to $ 100 million annually, analysts say.

«I was interested in the evolution of cooperation,» she says, «and fungi and plants are models for understanding how symbiotic species interact — how the relationship is policed and maintained.»

Existing models tend to be based on localized data and do not account well for how plants respond to regional fall conditions, he said.

When the team combined OCO - 2 data from selected passes over certain power plants in the United States with computer models of how emissions plumes would disperse, its estimates of those plants» emissions fell within 17 % of the actual amounts those facilities reported for those days, the researchers report this week in Geophysical Research Letters.

He developed practical models which will help to predict the consequences for nuclear power plants of fires caused by aircraft impacts.

The research team used a model plant called Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant, for the study.

For those countries, Ummel said, emissions information is based on both back - channel information gathering and modeling to predict the amount a particular plant would likely emit based on its size and other factors like the type of coal it uses.

The model accounted for factors such as the number of cars that will be in use, the type of plants producing power, and the improvement of power grids.

«In our study, we used two mutant strains of the model plant Lotus japonicus to investigate whether the host plant actively makes up for this deficiency.»

Chao and colleagues found CTL1 while screening for genes that control ion homeostasis in the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana.

Moving forward, Smith's group seeks to further validate molecular dynamics simulations as a predictive tool by modeling a genetically modified form of switchgrass, another plant targeted for cellulosic ethanol.

The kite and cable model is designed to facilitate placing tidal turbines in deep water, where the stronger current has the potential for providing greater power but also makes it extremely difficult to plant a turbine in the seabed.

This study suggests that plants are emerging as model objects to study general questions related to anesthetics, as well as to serve as a suitable alternative test system for human anesthesia.

Cucumber is a major vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model system for sex determination and plant vascular biology.

«This could have potentially big implications for the agricultural industry,» says Dr Pullen, «Our model plant is in the same family as cabbages, so it's easy to imagine creating giant cabbages or growing them to the desired market size faster than at present.»

«The surprising model result is that while this can lead to fitness losses for individuals, the population effects can be positive for pollinators and plants under some circumstances.»

The plant - gathering and hunting economy of the San has been extensively studied as a model for how people lived until relatively recent times, when animals and plants were domesticated.

Indeed, Williams and co-authors expanded the Brewbaker dataset by including 2,511 species for which they modeled trait evolution (tri - vs bicellular pollen) using a modern (2013) seed plant phylogeny and two different sets of analyses.

To determine the extent of carbon dioxide's contribution, researchers ran the data for carbon dioxide and each of the other variables in isolation through several computer models that mimic the plant growth observed in the satellite data.

The next step for the model, she said, is to try to determine which individual species of phytoplankton will bloom where, based on nutrient amounts, temperatures and other factors — using satellites and other tools to determine which kind of microscopic plant is where.

«When you think from a climate point of view, you're not having carbon uptake across all this landscape for many decades when there's very little plant cover,» study co-author Steve Running, a University of Montana professor who models ecosystem functions, said.

«Setaria viridis is a small plant that can produce a lot of seeds faster, has a pretty simple genome and can serve as a model for research.»

The mathematical model developed for the latest work determines how termite mounds affect plant growth by applying various tools from physics and mathematical and numerical analysis to understand a biological phenomenon, said first author Juan Bonachela, a former postdoctoral researcher in the research group of co-author Simon Levin, Princeton's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology.

To construct the estimates, the researchers used data on locomotive diesel consumption, pipeline pumping station electricity consumption, locomotive and power plant emission factors and the AP2 integrated assessment model, which maps county level emissions to costs for counties affected by the emissions.