Sentences with phrase «plant wastes like»

Not exact matches

In some cities, like San Antonio, Texas, Waste Management simply closed its plants; in other cities, the company is auditing waste streams and strictly enforcing years - old contract agreements with cities that commit to not going above a certain percentage of contamination.

Get dirty by collecting weeds, leaves, dying plants and some kitchen waste like veggies, fruits and coffee grinds.

These improvements would funnel more waste water into the Metro plant instead, paving the way for business development in places like Radisson.

Some state legislators and environmental advocates see it as a chance to make sure oil and gas wastes from hydraulic fracturing in neighboring states like Pennsylvania stay out of wastewater plants and landfills.

Like his running mate Ms. Overby, he questioned the budgetary decisions regarding the scavenger waste plant.

, Wind farms make like a fish, Why our walls should really have ears, Squeezing solar juice from jellyfish, Perfecting the plant way to power, Wave power line jacks into the grid, Fighting the efficiency fallacies, Don't burn plant waste, bury it, Plug - free electric cars» hidden cost.

So what we might like as the effect in a beer or wine is a waste product from the organisms that are excreting this, and those yeast took in Dave as a [n] atom of carbon in a maltose sugar molecule that the brewmeister made — it's part of the beer - making process — and I tracked this back in a few paragraphs to being in the grain of the barley plant, in the starch of a barley plant and then coming from the atmosphere as a CO2 molecule that entered the leaf of the barley plant.

Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don't like to think about what happens to the waste they flush down their toilets.

That cellulose could come from a native plant like switchgrass, or even from municipal waste.

EnvironVeolia and Suez Environnement are investing in biogas - fired power plants to recycle organic waste from the likes of food maker Danone and grocer Carrefour.

, Wind farms make like a fish, Why our walls should really have ears, Squeezing solar juice from jellyfish, Perfecting the plant way to power, Wave power line jacks into the grid, Fighting the efficiency fallacies, Don't burn plant waste, bury it.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

Such boreholes could not house most of the country's waste, like fuel rods from nuclear power plants, but could have potential for smaller, long - lived radioactive materials.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

For example, in waste - water treatment plants and oil refineries, there are groups of microbes that work together in an assembly line, each eating the waste products of the preceding one, leading to the final processing of waste into something like methane that is released into the environment.

Ordinarily, it is wasted when plant biomass, including cellulose, is converted into biofuels like ethanol.

Things like reducing food waste (No. 3 on the list), composing (No. 60), and eating a plant - based diet (No. 4) can start with your next meal, while switching over to an electric vehicle (No. 26) and supporting wind energy (No. 2) are longer - term goals.

Visit your local stationers and see if they can print your invites on recycled paper, or check out websites like Paper Culture, which prints invites on post-consumer waste and wood alternatives — and plants a tree for every order they receive!

Just like seaweeds and chai seeds, it's a gelatinous plant meaning it absorbs toxins as it moves through the body and eliminates this waste.

I'd like to start a pledge for fellow movie critics to adopt in the future, so if you write about movies and are reading this — well, let me just say that I'm sorry — but hopefully this will make the world a better place: for every bad movie that I have to review, I will go plant a tree, so the time I spent hearing my brain cells exit via my eardrums at the multiplex won't be completely wasted.

The 320i, like its more powerful siblings, also makes use of Stop - Start technology that shuts down the engine while idling, saving what would be wasted fuel, and restarting the power plant when the brake is released.

Landscape maintenance contractors simply program into the system a few key environmental factors, like what sorts of plants they've planted and what the soil type is; WeatherTRAK will then water the landscape on schedule with minimal waste.

So would something like a cell phone made from plant waste be practical?

Simple examples exist today, like co-generation power plants that use their waste heat to generate energy to heat and cool homes, or in a particularly popular example given that evening, the Brooklyn Brewery sharing its waste for livestock feed or energy generation.

Using plant waste this way means you couldn't simply burn it for fuel, reducing the world's biomass potential; and there are the carbon costs of transporting it and processing it and such like.

«The Chevy Carbon Reduction Initiative takes Chevrolet's commitment to the environment a step beyond providing fuel efficient and electrified vehicles like the Volt from plants that do not send any wastes to landfills.

And just like existing nuclear power plants, they produce long - lived, highly radioactive nuclear waste for which no safe management and permanent storage exists.

Thus, Trump's budget might threaten projects like a $ 3.8 billion plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, meant to turn oil - refinery waste into valuable chemical projects and to capture carbon for oil recovery; that project relies on a $ 2 billion Department of Energy loan.

Industrial wastes and other organic materials could easily be gasified to both produce electricity and fuel as well as to eliminate some of the land area needed for landfills — land area that could be used for other things, like harvesting plant biomass.

Like that nuclear plant, it would use treated waste water.

Examples include refining ways to securely handle radioactive waste from nuclear reactors; testing repositories for carbon dioxide captured at power plants; and, perhaps more important, improving the electricity grid so that it can manage large flows from intermittent sources like windmills and solar panels.

Waste materials like dry leaves, coconut husk, other types of dry plant waste, paper, etc. can be burned under controlled conditions in a chamber.

It turns out the five Great Lakes also have garbage patches of their own, fed by plastic debris from waste like discarded planting supplies.

Fisker's Second PHEV Will Cost About $ 40k After Tax Credit It seems like Fisker is wasting no time spending some of the DOE money it recently got: It is announcing today the purchase for $ 18 million of an idle GM plant in Wilmington, Delaware.

I recently wrote about a technology that aims to capture the waste heat from power plant and vehicle combustion with the potential to power 11.4 million U.S. homes and small scale applications like heat exchangers in showers have become more popular.

Today, the plant is capable of digesting daily one tonne of waste — producing three kilowatts of energy — enough to power 120 street lamps.The conversion process begins with the manual segregation of wet waste, dry biodegradable waste and recyclable solids like glass, metal and plastic.

CSP, just like any thermal power plant, produces waste heat as a byproduct.

-LSB-... published costs of nuclear - generated electricity never take into account the total lifetime cost of nuclear plants, including decommissioning, maintenance and waste disposal, so one is never able to compare like with like (it's the only form of electricity in which overall costs are ignored)-RSB-

Or to point out that the published costs of nuclear - generated electricity never take into account the total lifetime cost of nuclear plants, including decommissioning, maintenance and waste disposal, so one is never able to compare like with like (it's the only form of electricity in which overall costs are ignored).