Sentences with phrase «older plants»

If efficient use of old plants can supply the needed electricity, providers can avoid the large expenses involved in building additional ones.

I also plant to dig out a few old plants on the side walk at the entrance way, then do concrete to make it wider.

In addition, many older plants supply electricity to small towns with stagnant power demands, giving little incentive for utilities to invest in a newer model.

What's strange about the fall of nuclear energy, especially older plants, is that it's losing primarily to natural gas in capacity bids and in new construction.

Our in house design and installation teams can repair and update older plant equipment considerably extending the life of the plant.

If these improvements are not «reasonably achievable,» then older plants should be allowed to operate for a limited grace period before being permanently shut down, the letter says.

The hotel still keeps the natural surroundings by maintaining the trees and other old plants.

That also means that if older plants of any kind are being replaced, the cost of electricity from new plants will likely be more expensive.

Many power plants today are being modified to lower emissions and a number of older plants are being retired.

Ford overhauled the 55 year old plant in 2009 that used to make the Expedition and Lincoln Navigator full size SUVs.

-1 Thessalonians 4:11 (ESV) It was a quiet, work - with - my - hands kind of day, and here's what I can tell you: putting old plant stands to good use is fun, and doing math is not.

Meanwhile, «nuclear is dead» think pieces mushroomed in the press as old plants closed and new projects floundered in delays and cost over-runs.

It's always gratifying to teach Laurel about recycling and repurposing in a fun way, such as when we recently gave new life to old plant pots.

In Ludchen, a 44 - year old plant manager with 10 years of service was terminated after it was alleged he made anti-semitic comments about the plant owners.

The compound leaves of Potomacapnos apeleutheron identify the 120 million - year - old plant fossil as the earliest known North American member of the eudicots, the largest group of flowering plants.

The research team highly recommends conducting further studies and intends to analyze even older plant resins.

It says the UK would have to spend a minimum of # 780 billion to meet its power needs out to 2050, including the cost of replacing old plants as they close.

Several older plants are also being recommissioned and upgraded.

Numerous microorganisms and earthworms commune underground, using energy to eat old plant matter and leaving natural fertilizers in the dirt for next year's crop.

It was a quiet, work - with - my - hands kind of day, and here's what I can tell you: putting old plant stands to good use is fun, and doing math is not.

They thrive on dead organic matter such as old plant remains, which they eat, chew and mix with soil before they excrete it.

Contrary to the power industry's claims, requiring older plants to install the same cooling technology as their modern counterparts would cost consumers pennies or at most a few dollars per month on household electric bills.

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And old plants like Sporn, running since 1950, will never get such pollution controls.

This means that the number of sagebrush plants will increase still further as older plants die off and are replaced by new seedlings.

This variability may be a result of cross-talk with endogenous HK components [20], and / or accumulation of GUS in the two - week old plants tested.

By covering dirt with leaves, sticks, old plant stalks and other natural materials, you will not only make it less attractive to cats, but also improve habitat for bumblebees and other ground - nesting insects and help fertilize the soil for your plants, Lawson says.

The KDHE has denied a permit for a coal plant that would have been more efficient (read, more MWH per ton of coal and less CO2 and other pollutants per MWH) than older plants whose permits they will be renewing as a matter of course over the coming months and years.

In addition to revamping old plants, Denmark has built stronger connections to nearby Germany, Sweden and Norway so it can sell excess electricity on windy days.

BNEF expects the nation's coal - power capacity in 2040 will be about half of what it is now after older plants come offline and are replaced by cheaper and less - polluting sources such as gas and renewables.

Samples of 400 - year - old plants known as bryophytes have flourished under laboratory conditions.

that in 2010, «Construction did not begin on a single new coal - fired power plant in the United States for the second straight year,» with plans for 38 new plants dropped and even more older plants scheduled for retirement.

Operators say that upgrading older plants to satisfy MATS requirements isn't economically feasible.

The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, which coordinates efforts across the country to retire old plants and prevent new ones from being built, tallies 149 coal plants that plan to retire or switch fuels out of more than 500.

My chiltepins didn't germinate either, but I have 7 - year - old plants in pots so I don't really need any more of them.

A hulking 10 - year - old plant on the outskirts of Kristianstad uses a biological process to transform the detritus into biogas, a form of methane.

In Mongolia, 298 - million - year - old plant fossils paint a portrait of what life was like long before the dinosaurs.

Although the new plants will benefit from modern pollution control technologies and will replace older plants without such advantages, the root of the problem remains: brown coal, or lignite.

I ate strawberries from my grandfathers years and years old plants.

Many older plants have proved unprofitable, and some are being decommissioned at considerable expense, leaving in their wake contaminated buildings and piles of spent fuel all lit up with no place to go.

as well as the several older plant - based doctors still alive today: Dr. Ellsworth Wareham (age 100) Caldwell Esselstyn (age 81) T. Colin Campbell (age 81)

One hundred years ago, farmers understood the importance of soil for nutrition and they replenished with manure, old plant matter and so on.

The idea of biochar was inspired by a rare type of humanmade soil found in the Amazon Basin, terra preta — Portuguese for «black earth», so named because the soil is rich in black carbon generated by the partially burned remains of old plants, much like charcoal.