Sentences with phrase «oil powered farming»

It also lent itself much more directly than coal to being converted into food for people.The use of oil powered farming machines, oil and gas (an oil byproduct) based herbicides, insecticides, and fertilizers, and oil based long distance food transport, has allowed us to convert oil into food pretty directly.

Not exact matches

He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

The media speak of Algae oil, several recent articles in the media, or grasses that increase existing ethanol yields by up to 250 % (recently reported again in the UK media), of CCS trials in Australia, of CCS ready power stations (hillarious to be fair) and of wind and solar farms portrayed as if they will solve our carbon emissions issues.

He has reported on wind farms, geothermal fields, solar power plants and oil fields.

By Ari Phillips «Mexico Building Latin America's Largest Solar Farm To Replace Old, Dirty Oil - Power Plant» CREDIT: shutterstock Last week President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Mexico for what's traditionally called the «Three Amigos» meeting.

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Mexico Building Latin America's Largest Solar Farm To Replace Old, Dirty Oil - Power Plant.

Mike Mason, Chairman, Tropical Power says, «Through the Gorge Farm Energy Park we aim to displace expensive and imported generation fuels — like diesel and heavy fuel oil — from Kenya's distributed powerPower says, «Through the Gorge Farm Energy Park we aim to displace expensive and imported generation fuels — like diesel and heavy fuel oil — from Kenya's distributed powerpower mix.

Both farming and food processing yield huge amounts of waste matter like food peels, oil and animal matter that can be biologically processed to produce gas that can be used for heating homes, for generating electricity as well as in a refined form used to power cars.

T. Boone Pickens, well known for oil and wind power development (and a Plan By His Name) still has to take delivery on a bunch of GE Turbines, but it looks like the Biggest Wind Farm

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The resulting large - format book, Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth explores the impacts of the global energy economy: from oil spills and mountaintop - removal coal mining to oversized wind farms and desert - destroying solar power plants.

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True, as the great video from Huguenot Street Farm showed, compost can be made without animals, and a solar powered tractor is a great fossil - fuel free alternative to oil.

Our achievements include advising Morocco's state - owned power utility on procuring and developing the country's 850 MW wind farm public - private partnership programme, acting for Angola state - owned oil company Sonangol on its USD 7 billion development of a major oil refinery, and advising numerous lenders on Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme projects in South Afpower utility on procuring and developing the country's 850 MW wind farm public - private partnership programme, acting for Angola state - owned oil company Sonangol on its USD 7 billion development of a major oil refinery, and advising numerous lenders on Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme projects in South AfPower Producer Procurement Programme projects in South Africa.

In Estevan the main industries are coal, farming, oil and power.