Sentences with phrase «plants millions of years»

When we release energy by burning coal, we release sunlight energy stored by the plants millions of years ago.

But some of the energy on your plate could soon come from sunlight captured by plants millions of years ago, thanks to plans to make animal feed from fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

One of the most popular Kickstarter launches of the last several years was the Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow in the Plant Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow in the plant that could glow in the dark.

(That figure would have been higher but for the sale this year of a $ 109 - million former sorting plant in downtown Vancouver.)

The project, a massive four - train plant that would produce up to 26 million tonnes of LNG per year, is located in a remote corner of northwest British Columbia.

Farmers planted more than 300 million acres of them last year, an 80-fold increase since 1996.

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport does a brisk business in «scorpion suckers» (hard candy with a scorpion in the center), and racks up a million dollars in sales of cactus plants each year.

The Clough - AMEC Foster Wheeler Australia joint venture has won a five - year contract to provide maintenance services at Yara International's liquid ammonia plant near Karratha, with the value of the work believed to be about $ 100 million.

More than 320 employees in 20 quarries and six plants across Canada and the U.S. produce its materials, using 1.5 million cubic feet of rough blocks each year.

Last year, Electronic Arts bought PopCap Games, maker of Bejeweled and Plants Vs. Zombies, for $ 750 million.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

With roughly 175 million gallons of sewage flowing into the city of San Diego, Calif.'s Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant (PLWTP) each day, the Metropolitan Wastewater Department (MWD) had so much excess methane gas that for a number of years... Continue reading →

And although prospective US wheat plantings of 47.3 million acres were above last year's 46.0 - million - acre total, wheat stockpiles are expected to push materially below 2017 levels.5

In 1950, the plant employed 30,000 workers and could produce six million tons of steel per year when running at full capacity.

INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons of advanced biofuels and 6 MW of biomass power from plant waste and trash per year.

The candy giant has built a $ 270 million plant — its first in North America in 35 years — in Kansas that will churn out millions of chocolate bars and other sweets each day.

Look to Kansas, where candy giant Mars Inc. is operating its first new plant in 35 years to churn out millions of sweets every day.

If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.

Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.

An article in Scientific American last year titled «Inside a Western Town That Refuses to Quit Coal» said the plant emits nearly 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, earning a spot among the top 20 carbon - producing power plants in the country.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

Sony's LCD television factory in Slovakia will double its production by the end of the year, making the plant the largest in the world, able to produce four million flat TVs annually.

But the church had been missional for ten years, and it hadn't grown, multiplied, or planted any other churches in a city of several million people.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

Middlebury, for example, spent a one - time $ 12 million on a biomass gasification plant, and spends almost $ 5 million per year to achieve its goal of becoming carbon - neutral by 2016.

Mate with the strongest, cutest boob sucker chick, who got strong, and bingo, we've got a dominant offspring, who by the way, will kick the weak (non boob suckers) butz again, and guess, what, bingo... add a few billion years, ok, million, and... you guessed it... bingo, we've got species, plants and animals, changing, reacting to several billion, ok, million years of actions.

Plants came out upon the land some six hundred million years ago, after the planet earth had shaped itself through a great series of transformations forming the continents, the mountains, the valleys, the rivers and streams.

So god created the plants on Day 3, then waited millions or billions of years to create the sun on Day 4.

Today, the plant converts 30,000 tons of paper into 150 million blanks a year.

The 280,000 ft ² plant produces 175 million pounds (Mlbs) of finished sliced processed meat protein products a year (turkey, pork, chicken and beef) supplying a range of food service companies (such as Subway) and retailers across the US (as co-packer and private label manufacturer).

In the U.S., approximately 38.3 million pounds of pesticides were used on approximately 8.6 million acres of cotton planted in 11 states in 2014 (the most recent year for which data are available), amounting to an approximate average of 4.4 pounds of pesticides per acre of cotton grown.

In the year to June 30, 2017, Murray Goulburn reported a loss of $ 370 million loss after a series of writedowns and processing plant closures.

The 120,000 ft ² plant was capable of processing 150 million pounds of pork per year, which corresponds to around 3,600 hogs per day.

We made a stop at a packing plant that sees millions of California Avocados pass through its warehouses every year.

Mr Newton said that some reports suggested only 50 per cent of the sorghum crop had been planted in the key Darling Downs region — which usually produces 1 million tonnes of sorghum a year — due to the dry weather.

Crimson Wine Group Buys 66 Acres of Walla Walla Valley Vines: Less than a year after snapping up Washington's Seven Hills Winery for $ 5.75 million, Crimson Wine Group has purchased a significant part of the Walla Walla Valley vineyard that Seven Hills founder Casey McClellan planted...

In 2016, Oregon State University entomologist George Poinar, Jr. announced the discovery of a new plant species that's a 45 - million - year - old relative of coffee found in amber.

CST was amongst the finalists for two categories NSW Division of the Institute of Engineers annual awards with its Recycled Water Treatment Plant / Green Energy plant for $ 120 million BlueTongue Brewery completed last year at Warnervale NSW by Pacific BeverPlant / Green Energy plant for $ 120 million BlueTongue Brewery completed last year at Warnervale NSW by Pacific Beverplant for $ 120 million BlueTongue Brewery completed last year at Warnervale NSW by Pacific Beverages.

Multiplied over a plant over a year, this output can and does add up to millions of dollars saved on fossil fuels, says Mr Bambridge.

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

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«The UASB plant has reduced the concentration of fruit sugars in the effluent, saving us $ 2 million a year in discharge fees, although there is still some daily discharge to the Queensland Urban Utilities sewage treatment system,» Golden Circle said.

Once planted, the seedling thrived and is credited with the spread of over 18 million coffee trees on the island of Martinique in the next 50 years.

«The DMPI plant has substantially exceeded even the high environmental goals set by the company for the treating more than 13,000 cubic metres a day of wastewater, or nearly five million cubic metres a year.»

Members of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) have completed a five - year project to install low carbon refrigeration systems in over 4,000 supermarkets, four million ice cream and drinks chiller units and industrial plants worldwide.

In one of the largest single investments by Nestle in Germany for many years, the international concern has freed - up some EUR117 million for renovation and expansion of its Biessenhofen baby nutrition plant in Franconia.

They set a goal to reduce plant water usage by 1 million gallons, and by installing a reverse osmosis system, they achieved a savings of 1,264,323 gallons in 2014 and expect to achieve similar savings in subsequent years.

Orton undertook the $ 40 million restoration of the historic Ford Assembly Plant several years ago to create a state - of - the - art event center that would capitalize on its landmark architecture and unique waterfront site to attract dynamic events to the East Bay.

Starting 12 years ago with a wilderness, Alec and Justine Cushing may soon acquire control of a $ 15 million winter sports plant

Today, the South Dakota company's revenues have plummeted from more than $ 650 million to about $ 130 million a year, and three of its plants are shuttered.