Sentences with phrase «on scaling the plant»

Not exact matches

A large - scale facility that sits on 360 acres, the Nevada Solar One plant uses 850 gallons of water per megawatt hour, the SEIA states.

Quantum physics governs the universe on incredibly small scales — including at the level of molecules inside chloroplasts, the structures inside plants where photosynthesis happens.

Canadian regulations only affect existing coal plants once they have been producing for approximately 50 years or plants undergoing major refurbishment: Their effect will not be felt on a large scale for decades.

«What that imposes on us is the need to ensure the design of the power plant we put together is consistent with the utilities» view of the power grid, consistent with what's available on the vendor market and (the need to) build them on a scale to change the nature of energy supply, and that it isn't just a physicists pipe dream.»

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

LITHIUM Australia has advanced front - end engineering and design studies on its SiLeach large - scale pilot plant as it seeks to prove its SiLeach hydrometallurgical process can operate at a commercial scale.

GFI's mission of developing plant - based and cellular alternatives to animal products has the potential to reduce farmed animal suffering on a large scale.

I'm not saying that evolution or adaption doesn't occur on a small scale — it certainly does — and is observable and measurable within certain limitations as any professional breeder in plants or animals will attest.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

Please note that any observations and conclusions are highly subjective, as they are based on our small - scale test with just a few plants.

Maybe I just exist on a different scale, having grown up in a family where we plant scotch bonnets in the backyard in summertime.

Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.

The full line system is based on modern processing technology using sanitary membrane plants and advanced evaporation and drying equipments from its Anhydro and APV product lines for large - scale production of WPC.

«At the same time, Fonterra in New Zealand has continued to invest in new and improved processing plant and technology which now leaves Australian companies with comparatively uncompetitive processing costs on large scale commodity products.»

In the short term, MycoTechnology is working with a third party toller to manufacture PureTaste on a commercial scale, and says the price will be a bit cheaper than whey protein but a bit higher than plant - based proteins such as pea, but said this was warranted because it had a superior nutritional profile and organoleptic qualities.

As the 68,000 - square - foot plant scales up production, more and more restaurants will be able to serve the plant - based Impossible Burger on their menus.

The new facility features a pilot plant that will enable the company's scientists and engineers to test new ideas on a factory scale.

Depending of the scale of the anaerobic plant employed, the green energy generated can repay the cost of the anaerobic plant within as little as two years — and go on generating profit virtually in perpetuity.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

SolarCity is among the largest installers of rooftop solar arrays on Long Island and the U.S. Cooper said construction of the solar - panel plant is «proceeding well, and we are looking forward to working with New York state to accelerate the full - scale production schedule.»

It affirmed that the Kainji plant serves as a demonstration of innovative small - scale electrification solutions which is the first renewable energy power plant in Nigeria that combines more than one technology, and is able to operate both off - grid and on - grid.

Not great, but the carbon has to first be removed by those plants (either very short term or on a scale of decades or centuries) before burning them can put it back into the atmosphere.

Now, researchers think we could be on the cusp of a CO2 - recycling revolution, which would capture CO2 from power plants — and maybe even directly from the atmosphere — and convert it into these fuels at scale, they report today in Joule.

The optics are designed to cover 120 degrees for full coverage of your tank.The grow light casts a bluish tone due to the white LEDs on the Kelvin scale, but it's the other LEDs that really «feed» your plants!

The focus of this technology is on the large - scale reduction of carbon emissions from fossil - fuelled power plants.

The pilot plant allowed us to see the chemistry on a much smaller scale, between that of the lab, which we are used to, and the industrial scale, allowing us to better understand the large plant.

The Isophytol plant showed us how chemistry looks on a huge industrial scale which, while impressive, is difficult to take in.

They found that returning Earth to 350 ppm by 2100 requires planting trees on an epic scale, as well as substantial investments to boost soil fertility so it holds more carbon.

They concluded that it could be feasible to produce hydrogen in factory - scale electrolysis facilities at costs ranging from $ 1.60 and $ 10.40 per kilogram — competitive at the low end with current practices based on methane — though some of their assumptions were based on new plant designs and materials.

He wanted a device that could be scaled to an industrial size, on par with a coal - fired plant.

Whether secondary forest can help avoid large - scale species extinctions also depends on the extent to which animals and plants accustomed to old - growth forests can successfully recolonise new areas.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

Several companies are already using renewable sources of gas to make hydrogen at large - scale steam - reformation facilities and on - site production plants.

For a typical paper - recycling factory, one Emefcy fuel cell module, which is about the size of a cubic meter, could treat about three cubic meters per day of wastewater depending on the amount of organic material present, according to Cohen, and the modules can be scaled to meet the needs of larger or smaller plants.

It is hoped that graphene - oxide membrane systems can be built on smaller scales making this technology accessible to countries which do not have the financial infrastructure to fund large plants without compromising the yield of fresh water produced.

Nuclear generating plants are generally the largest on our system because of the necessary economies of scale.

«Our study shows that it would be relatively cheap to secure the future of the forest — and protect its plants, birds and other animals — by paying land owners on a large scale to set aside land for conservation.

In a research collaboration with Sydney Water, the team has demonstrated the success of the approach in laboratory tests on filtered water from the Nepean Water Filtration Plant in western Sydney, and is working to scale up the new technology.

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

As for Mercier, the scale - up of his project from less than 1 percent of the cement plant's gas to a commercial level will depend more on money than on technological success, he said.

Past studies showed that plants in nutrient - poor environments use animal - derived nutrients on a large - scale basis.

CATASTROPHIC meltdowns of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had less to do with the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March last year, and more to do with the plant owners» and government's failure to anticipate and prepare for emergencies on such an epic scale.

These small cliffs, crevices and canyons are on a grand enough scale to protect plants from grazers, predators and the drying power of sun and wind alike.

Those emissions are dwarfed by others sources on the global scale, such as cars and power plants, amounting to just 5 percent of total global carbon dioxide emissions.

«The demo system can process up to half a kilogram of molten material and is somewhere between a lab and a large - scale plant,» Diehl goes on to specify.

«The next step is to create an in silico plant to virtually simulate the amazingly complex interactions among biological scales,» said U. of I. plant biology professor Amy Marshall - Colon, a co-author on the report.

The cost of building and operating a CO2 capture process to treat 90 percent of a plant's emissions is a major reason the energy industry has been reluctant to embrace carbon capture on a large scale, Bara said.

Another one has the International Energy Agency working with General Electric Co., Veolia Environment and others on a small - scale renewable energy plant in Morocco.

However, this technology has never been adopted on a wide scale, because it requires complex and expensive chemical plants that must run at temperatures greater than 800 °C in order to carry out the transformation.

Long - term, broad - scale ecological data are critical to plant research, but often impossible to collect on foot.