Sentences with phrase «scale plants such»

She notes that in the future, large - scale plants such as Diablo Canyon may not be needed.

Not exact matches

While reverse osmosis is touted as a cheaper, lower - energy alternative to large - scale distillation, Carlsbad's $ 1 billion construction project is a reminder that such plants still may not be practical for every water - scarce community.

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

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 an example of using organic mechanisms to control pests, one of Organic Crop Protectant's products, Eco Oil, attracts natural predators such as lady beetles to attack plant pests such as scale, aphids, mites and leafminers.

In the meantime, efforts to grow Jatropha — already planted in quantity in Africa and India — may be scaled up, whereas other feedstocks that can be rotated with wheat, such as Camelina — a relative of canola — will play a role.

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

Lead researcher Dr Morgan Beeby said: «We are used to observing evolution at the scale of animals or plants, such as the giraffe's neck slowly getting longer over time to reach previously inaccessible food.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

For plant oil — based biofuels, such as jatropha, the main obstacle is the lack of research and practice in large - scale commercial cultivation, as well as mechanized harvesting.

At an industrial scale, compost, such as manure, is produced by mixing plant and animal waste.

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.

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.

«By controlling the geometry and growth rates of groups of cells, you could then scale this up to control the size and shape of an organ such as a leaf, which is crucial for plant productivity.»

He advocates large - scale plantings to aid energy independence in expanding economies such as China and India and to boost exports in the less developed countries of Africa.

They also pose natural and economic threats, competing with native ants and pollinators, and protecting plant pests such as aphids and scales in return for the sweet honeydew secretions that these insects produce.

But several obstacles, including high upfront costs and securing a partner for a long - term project, kept such efforts from growing into a scaled power plant, according to sources familiar with the testing program.

Although some CAM plants such as pineapple and agave are already cultivated on a large scale, they are not currently employed for biogas production.

The ubiquity of these markers and the fact that these polymorphisms show variation at such a fine scale (i.e., at the individual level) makes them ideal markers for many applications, such as population - level genetic diversity studies and genetic mapping in plants.

We focus on developing computational methods and tools for (a) analyzing large - scale gene expression data related to human cancer in search for gene markers and disease sub-categories, (b) identifying regulatory elements such as miRNA precursors and their targets in whole genomes of plants and mammals, (c) building theoretical models of gene regulatory networks.

Self - organized vegetation patterns are widespread in arid lands and elsewhere, and Rietkerk et al. [11]--[12] as well as Couteron and Lejeune [13]--[15] proposed that such patterns are the result of nearby positive and distant negative feedbacks created by plants and physical processes occurring at different scales and intensities.

Ecosystem impacts include changes in basic processes such as photosynthesis; large - scale shifts in the distribution of plants and animals; and increased threats from fire, pests and disease.

No other human beings on the planet get to really see the amazing changes on such a large scale unless they are working in an environment that practices a whole food plant based diet as there first line of medicine.

Given the fact that plant - based diets can prevent the most common diseases of Western civilization, however, a large - scale study such as the China Project can give a valuable detailed insight into which plant - based foods and diets could be the most beneficial to health.

analysis of large scale projects such as dams, desalination plants and water transfer projects 3.

«Each year, thousands of pets are brought to emergency rooms due to holiday - related illnesses and injuries such as ingesting holiday decorations or plants, ligament injuries from scaling holiday decorations and over-excitement from holiday guests,» Healthy Paws» C.O.O Steve Siadek said.

Alongside Rodin's work, large - scale books with Kiefer's illustrations will be on view, as well as his paintings and vitrines containing historical artifacts such as desiccated plants, scraps of fabric and stones.

His work, which is shaped by historical, mythological and spiritual themes, is always large - scale and uses materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead and dried plants.

Donald Sultan is one of the leading American contemporary still life artists, known for his large — scale, «catastrophic - event» paintings that incorporate nontraditional materials such as Dead Plant, November 1, 1988, as well as his sensuous charcoal drawings of iconic presentations and abstract depictions of fruit such as Black Lemons, May 20, 1985, both in the Modern's collection.

Will such initiatives include quick agreement, for instance, on new large - scale demonstration projects for capturing carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants and stashing it in the earth?

Evidence on the ground reinforces such assertions, most notably the startup in recent days of China's first large - scale plant for turning coal into liquid fuels, in Inner Mongolia.

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

She says the method is not particularly expensive or difficult, and could be adapter to smaller scales, such as households, as well as for use at existing sewage treatment plants.

As an aside, I'd love to see an increase in the small - scale harnessing of hydo - electricity by Power Companies, or by anyone else — there's such an older small Pacific Power plant right up the road from me which has a small dam about 1200 ′ higher, actually located in a Wilderness Area — the original Wilderness boundaries were expanded a little.

However, if you plan to build new power plants to match supply to demand at all times, you're running into the same problems: it takes too much resources, money and time to go nuclear at such a scale.

The next step in the development of OTEC is the installation and operation of a pre-commercial plant sized such that it can be scaled to 100 MW.

However, even today's most sophisticated Earth system models suffer from uncertainties that stem from the difficulty of simulating small - scale or complex processes, such as raindrop formation and carbon uptake by plants.

Photovoltaic panels have plummeted in price over the last few years while companies such as First Solar and SunPower have devised strategies for building large - scale power plants with technology that in the past might have ended up on roofs or in small, ground - mounted projects.

At the same time, this technology is opening up new business areas, such as the development of intelligent energy management systems or the consolidation of decentralized generation systems into virtual power plants or decentralized single home storage systems into virtual large - scale storage systems.

But something very important and very obvious changed over the geologic time scales involved that makes such simple comparison irrelevant: Plants.

The large - scale demonstration of the technical and economical feasibility of new technologies, such as CO2 capture and storage in coal plants, also urgently requires significant public sector support.

Because enrichment and reprocessing plants are expensive and are uneconomical for smaller - scale programs, this is the kind of carrot that might make such programs more acceptable.

U.S. spending on big, near - commercial technology projects in other countries, such as full - scale clean coal plants in China, should be approached cautiously, as it is likely to raise political ire.

Such limits would require the new plants to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which has not been used on a wide scale.

On a commercial scale, the plant would require a heat host, such as a power plant, that could provide the vortex engine with a constant supply of hot water «fuel.»

I do not categorically reject utilization of nuclear power, but I doubt that such plant that circulate both liquid sodium and water near presence of various radioactive nuclides including plutonium can be safely operated in industrial (rather than laboratory) scale.

The scope and scale of agricultural emissions are more complex to manage, he said, because they are not measured in a straightforward way but are related to such factors as how the land is irrigated, the planting cycle and the type of crops.

Temperature increases on such a scale will harm plant and animal species and even bring about some extinction.

This time scale is also roughly that of humanbuilt infrastructure such as roads, water treatment plants, tunnels, homes, etc..

startups such as Infintree, Global Thermostat, Climeworks and Skytree are developing technologies that are being tested in greenhouses to feed CO2 to plants, which can eventually be scaled to provide CO2 for myriad other applications, from fuel synthesis to underground storage.