Sentences with phrase «required by the plant»

Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil using an inert medium (sand or gravel) and a water and nutrient solution containing all the elements required by the plant for normal growth.

The amount of moisture required by the plant and the amount available both vary with wind speed.

Conducted general electrical maintenance as required by plant operations in all areas of the Conoco Phillips Refinery and Carbon Plant.

Systems can range from something as simple as plant pots hung on the vertical frame, to highly sophisticated modular, hydroponic panels from which the water and nutrients required by plants are precision delivered and electronically monitored.

Not exact matches

To use MOX fuel rods, civilian power plants would have to modify their reactors, requiring lengthy relicensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

This decision follows an announcement by Toshiba, owner of bankrupt Westinghouse, which was building the plants, that it would make a final payment to Santee Cooper and SCANA of $ 2 billion to cover its guarantees on the project, an amount significantly below the $ 11.4 billion required to complete the project.

Approached more and more by other dispensaries hoping to get a leg up in quality, the folks behind Pinnacle began offering their services not only as consultants for the physical breeding of plants, but for the entire infrastructure required to begin a new cannabis business.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

As you may know, Sovereign Grace Ministries, an association of Reformed church plants, is facing a significant lawsuit that alleges church leaders covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person.

The chemical corporation Monsanto has turned this potential into huge profits by patenting seed stock that is compatible with its own pesticide, Roundup, and manufacturing sterile «terminator» seed that requires farmers to buy each year's planting seed from the company.

The monarchical type of sovereignty was, for example, so ineradicably planted in the mind of our own forefathers that a dose of cruelty and arbitrariness in their deity seems positively to have been required by their imagination.

We accomplished this by commencing with purposive and conscious actions of humans (e.g., in the construction of a building structure), which required the sustenance of other entities (plants, animals, planets, galaxies, etc.) within the spatial and temporal framework of an evolving universe.

There is nothing logically self - contradictory in the idea that we and other animals could have existed without requiring food (as angels presumably do) or by getting our nourishment directly from the atmosphere or the ocean (as do some plants).

I could go on for days about how awesome this little nut is — full of plant - based protein, completely satisfying, good at stabilizing blood sugar throughout the day, uber sustainable and requiring very little water for growth, super affordable, genuinely liked by almost every kid on the planet, providing a slew of health benefits, etc... but I do understand that some schools don't allow peanuts because of allergies.

Only those plants that create fluid milk are required by law to be regulated or pooled.

Glass composition can be controlled by analyzing each new shipment of raw materials and its respective glass chemistry, requiring an analytical laboratory at each glass plant.

Common threats include: loss of nesting and roosting sites, habitat fragmentation by conversion or destruction of vegetation, habitat fragmentation by excessive exposure of nectar plants to herbicides and pollinators to pesticides, over-hunting, disruption of nectar corridors required by migratory pollinators, and competition by invasive species65.

The group also asks its members to support the inclusion into the House bill of The Healthy School Meals Act (which would require more plant - based meal options in accordance with recommendations made by the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association) and to provide comments to the House supporting changes to the Farm Bill (in 2012) to increase federal support for local, organic diversified agriculture.

The report authored by the chief energy policy adviser to government, the Energy Commission, says the amount required will expended on natural gas, light crude oil, diesel and heavy fuel oil to power the various thermal plants as the country looks to contain the threat of erratic energy supply on the economy.

The prosecution says Competitive Power Ventures, run by defendant John Galbraith Kelley, gave Percoco's wife Lisa a $ 90,000 - a-year teaching job that required only a few hours of work in exchange for Percoco's help to ease state rules to get a power plant built.

Herbicide - resistant plants require the companion herbicide to be approved by the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD).

The prosecution says Competitive Power Ventures, run by defendant John Galbraith Kelley, gave Percoco's wife Lisa a $ 90,000 a year teaching job that required only a few hours of work in exchange for Percoco's help to ease state rules to get a power plant built.

, introduced by Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D - Westchester), would require the PSC to adjust the ZEC price in each region «to reflect the benefits attributable to the continued operation» of the plants, in recognition of the limited connection between upstate energy supplies and downstate demand.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY — The Rockland County Legislature voted Tuesday evening to request the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation schedule a hearing on United Water's proposed desalination plant, as well as to reopen proceedings requiring United Water to develop water supply source plans.

Constantinides proposed an addition to PlanNYC requiring that at least 20 percent of new constructions be carbon neutral by 2030 and a study of the Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant in Astoria to see if it could be into a park, similar to Riverbank State Park, which is built over a sewage treatment facility on the East River.

Though in October 2009 Cameron pledged to introduce rules requiring new power stations to be as clean as a modern gas plant, he reneged on this in November 2010 by allowing new coal plants to pump almost double that level of carbon emissions,

The Obama plan requires existing power plants to cut carbon emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by the year 2030.

It refers to the phenomenon that a typical carbon capture system requires a great deal of electricity and thus saps power from a power plant and can cause electricity costs to spike by 70 percent or more.

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.

By contrast, traditional ethanol requires new equipment and uses edible plants like corn and sugar that need rich farmland to grow.

EPA requires states to cut their power plant carbon dioxide emissions rates by varying amounts by 2030.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

EPA has already drafted a rulemaking to revoke the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which requires power plants to cut emissions 32 percent by 2030 (Climatewire, June 12).

The EPA rules require new and existing coal - and oil - fired plants to reduce air pollutants — including mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel, hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid, among others — by 2015.

Phloem tissue is responsible for translocating nutrients and sugars (carbohydrates), which are produced by the leaves, to areas of the plant that are metabolically active (requiring sugars for energy and growth).

The CLF argued that adding more fossil fuel generation — even an efficient gas - fired plant — would prevent Massachusetts from cutting its carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by the year 2050, as state law requires.

Simply incorporating the gene, known as Bt, into a plant gives it resistance to pests, without requiring periodic spraying by the farmer.

One area that requires scientific expertise is environmental assessment, in which the site that will house the turbines is studied to determine whether drinking water, plants, or animals will be affected by a new wind - power facility.

Plants that require animal pollination contribute 98 percent of the total vitamin C supplied by major global crops, 70 percent of vitamin A, 55 percent of folic acid and 74 percent of lipids.

More than 94 percent of flowering tropical plants and 75 percent of the world's leading food crops require pollination by animals such as bees, bats and hummingbirds.

In effect, PowerGen is saying that it can reduce its emission of sulphur dioxide by 60 per cent — as required of large combustion plants by a directive from the European Community — without installing FGD equipment at Ferrybridge.

By 1973, however, oil company scientists had turned up evidence of a large offshore fault 2.8 miles west of the plant, requiring PG&E to spend $ 2.2 billion on re-engineering to withstand a 7.5 - magnitude quake.

Tomatoes are already an ideal model species for plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) just made them even more useful by cutting the time required to modify their genes by six weeks.

The decision allows Scotts to bypass the years of environmental testing and consultation typically required by the regulators for GM plants, although the company says there are no plans to market this particular variety.

As the second - biggest coal - fired facility west of the Mississippi, Colstrip's power plant could be affected by the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which would require Montana to reduce carbon emissions 47 percent by 2030.

Seedlessness in table grapes results from the abortion of the embryonic plant that is produced by fertilization, a phenomenon known as stenospermocarpy which requires normal pollination and fertilization.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

«Since plant immunisation by BABA is long - lasting, primed crops would require fewer applications of fungicides, thereby increasing sustainability of crop protection.

By avoiding the need for gas exchange during the day, they reduce evaporative losses through their leaves and so require much less water per unit of biomass than other plants.

On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list by 2018.