Sentences with phrase «plants have become»

Even fossil fuel - burning power plants have become more efficient, and electric cars provide an alternative to gas - guzzlers, while better building design and more advanced electrical equipment mean we can enjoy modern facilities without rising emissions.

«Solar thermal power plants have become a real alternative to conventional fossil fuel power plants because they are able to generate clean electricity in a dependable and cost - effective manner,» said Steve Russo, head of SCHOTT's Solar Thermal business in North America.

The relationships among the major groups of vascular plants have become clearer in recent years.

Plants have become my current favorite ways to decore.

Dozens of studies have shown that flowering times for many spring - flowering plants have become earlier as a result of recent climate change, but it is uncertain if flowering times will continue to advance as temperatures rise.

«It's fascinating to see the extent to which so many plants have become synonymous with traditional diets in countries many thousands of miles from where those plants first appeared,» said lead author Colin Khoury of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and United States Department of Agriculture.

This is why low maintenance plants have become so popular with homeowners who want to create an impact in their outdoor space, but also wish to simply pop plants in the ground then not have to worry about them anymore.

Church planting has become popular these days.

As a result, the plant has become a marketing tool for the company.

In this short period of time, raw honey from the Manuka plant has become acclaimed for its natural antibacterial and healing properties, which are not present in processed honey.

Snow wants to do more studies «to figure out if these plants would become a lot weedier.»

If it could not fool the wasps, the plant would become extinct.

This is why the robust and undemanding plant has become the focus of attention of the rubber - producing industry.

Removal of the protein renders the plant insensitive to the fungus — in other words, the plant has become deaf,» said Paszkowski

A native to the Mediterranean, this thorny yellow - blossomed plant has become a bane to ranchers in the West as it outcompetes native grasses and degrades pasture quality.

Jul 20, 2010 — The Marysville Auto Plant has become the first Honda plant outside Japan to manufacture * 10 million vehicles with the production this morning of a Honda Accord Sedan.

Since then, the plant has become a force for economic development, creating thousands of well - paying jobs.

And when a host plant has become overrun, the little bugs develop wings and search for a new victim.

After a fictional second explosion at Chernobyl, the land surrounding the nuclear plant has become a wasteland known as the Zone, where mutant creatures and humans roam and the laws of nature no longer apply.

But by the early 1980s, the power plant had become increasingly automated leading to major unemployment, rapid depopulation and in some cases, the abandonment of entire workers» villages.

If built, the plant would become Benelux» largest PV project, according to Segaar.

Moreover, building new coal plants has become uneconomic — it is very capital intensive, the EU energy market is experiencing an intense overcapacity and renewable energy technology has become more cost competitive.

From the toxic sludge, toxic air, water pollution and the haze it belched into protected wilderness areas, this plant had become a huge problem for the state, including its most special places — national parks and wilderness areas.

Predictably, the UK's first shale gas fracking plant has become the site of «direct action».

These new leaves are very large now and the tree is so full of these leaves the plant has become top heavy.

Not exact matches

Obama spoke from a former steel plant which has been renovated to become a pipe - making plant which recently announced plans for a $ 650 million expansion, in part made possible with a $ 20 million investment from the stimulus package.

Limestone Building Blocks Company has been handed a $ 65,000 fine after a worker at its Nowergup manufacturing plant was seriously injured when he became trapped in a block - making machine last year.

Even though its roots are planted firmly in the mystique of its uncompromising off - roading prowess, the G - Wagon has now become the SUV of choice for the posh suburbanite or the Hollywood starlet looking for something «different».

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

Coulson said last month that while the funds to be raised in the IPO would be relatively modest, becoming a publicly listed company was a «very logical progression» for the company he has transformed from a small, single plant to one that operates out of over 100 facilities in 22 countries.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo committed $ 750 million to fund the project, on the condition that SolarCity would generate 1,460 direct manufacturing jobs at the facility and spend $ 5 billion in related area investments in the next decade when the plant becomes fully operational.

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

Akebono cherries, which seem to display superior performance in our rainy Pacific Northwest climate, have become been much more prevalent in Park Board planting programs.

If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.

Colstrip is one of the top carbon - producing plants in the U.S. and has become a target of environmentalists and lawmakers in the fight against climate change.

At the Century plant, the jobs, already taxing, have become harder with cutbacks.

Of course, after all when it's time for the farmer to plant as opposed when it's time for the farmer to reap the farmer has to automatically become a different person.

Though it is the smallest of seeds, yet, when it has grown up, it is the largest of garden plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and roost in its branches.»

And all about it the ether had become alive, vibrating palpably beneath the crude substance of rock and plants as in summer the landscape quivers behind the overheated soil in the foreground.

The most pressing question, was, perhaps: «If Dante had the scientific information we have now, would he still think the fetus was more plant - like before it became a human?»

There Statius explains to Dante the generation of the embryo, and how the embryo passes through various stages before it can be considered a rational human: «This active power,» reads Robert M. Durling's translation, «having become a soul like that of a plant, but different in so far as it is still under way, while the other is already in port,»

Man of God and God fearing is what is counted for a man to represent a mixed culture and beliefs nation for which he has to be aware of those cultures and beliefs of those other nations in order to be able to plant respects to become between those mixed cultures and beliefs as such gives the assurance of mutual understanding between the nation with other overseas nations or even with those within the country of mixed cultures and beliefs...!

One of the reasons that I have felt forced to take this charge very seriously is that it has become clearer and clearer that the present destruction of the environment is continuous with that which has been taking place ever since the domestication of plants and animals.

It is statistically impossible for so many things (i.e. life forms, plants, water, etc.) to have formed in concert and become what we now know as human life.

The meaning of our existence as unfinished creatures in a life which has its times of planting and its times of reaping becomes an insoluble riddle.

We have examples of growth in the case of the seed developing into a plant, the young into the adult, the immature becoming mature.

The shamrock has become a huge symbol in Ireland in large part because the plant is everywhere, but also because of its connection to St. Patrick.

If not, he may become more defensive for the time being; but, the seeds of recovery may have been planted.

Fawkes was the guy tasked to plant the charges in Westminster Palace, but because the plot was unsuccessful and Fawkes was caught, he has become the face of the rebellion.

Their activism reflects the growing diversity among their denomination; a report released last month showed a majority of Southern Baptist church plants are predominantly non-Anglo, and LifeWay Christian Resources has become the world's largest commercial publisher of Spanish Bibles.