Costs for coal are highly dependent on the cost of gasoline, and the costs for wind are highly dependent on material costs like steel and concrete as wind requires about 10 times the amount of steel, concrete and copper per kWhr than any other energy source.
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Nearly half the GDP is spent on capital improvements (usually things that involve concrete and steel).
They still bar building material such as concrete, steel and pipes, as well as industrial equipment.
It is sometimes used in combination with modern materials like reinforced concrete or steel for building houses and bridges.
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Further on, at St John the Baptist Catholic Church, police and soldiers were behind more razor wire, concrete and steel.
The explosion sent the walls tumbling down, burying the 18-year-old up to her chin under three floors of collapsed concrete and steel.
There is also the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, a still-unfinished plan that has mutated from wood to concrete to steel.
Instead of asking why Russia needed new missiles, Washington agreed that Moscow could simply modify ninety SS-18 silos with concrete and steel rings.
The original peat central barrier has been replaced with concrete and steel, while the Belfast end has been widened to three lanes each way.
Workers have removed 349, 650 tons of concrete, steel and other rubble.
Only concrete and steel buildings appeared to have withstood the wash.
Such activity creatively destroys many old bankable assets, such as real estate, storefronts and inventory, turning them into "legacy problems" -- albatrosses of land, concrete and steel.
When used with Amped Wireless High Power Wi-Fi Access Points, the PLA2 can be used to extend Wi-Fi coverage through concrete or steel walls to eliminate Wi-Fi dead spots.
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Powerline solutions also provide a simple way to help extend the home network into rooms such as basements, attics, garages and back houses that may have dead spots or a limited wireless signal due to building materials, such as concrete and steel.
" Jake van der Kamp, a columnist for the English-language daily South China Morning Post, called the cyberport a bad approach to fostering a high-tech industry "for the simple reason that concrete, steel and glass do not produce better neural connections in the brain.
Among the efforts, Chinese officials ordered new buildings to use concrete reinforced with steel, while older buildings were to be retrofitted with reinforced concrete and masonry bricks.
They'll look at the things like the integrity of the concrete and the steel.
This can be seen to represent the allure of real estate in a city composed almost entirely of brick and concrete and stainless steel that is nonetheless constantly in motion.
"You know you've got cement, concrete blocks and steel, and the ice goes through it like it's just a toothpick, " Dennis Stykalo, who also lost a home to the ice, told the CBC.
The steel and concrete bridge was opened in 1875 and was last used in 1968.
Going from Osaki through Gotanda to Shinagawa, the buildings become bigger and taller, more glass and steel than concrete.
It has been reduced to a horrible mass of contorted steel and concrete.
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The fire illustrates the difficulties rescuers have faced in getting people out of the tangled mass of steel and concrete.
Clothing and shoes were scattered through the concrete rubble, broken steel bars and shattered wooden window frames littering the streets.
An impressive 3-ton steel and concrete bank vault door is useless if the back of the vault is made of drywall.
It was a steel and concrete arch bridge like many in the country that are carrying more and more traffic every day.
Modern architecture is notable above all for the use of steel and concrete, and to a lesser extent wood, as building materials.
As environmental concerns become ever more prevalent, some architects are moving away from the glass, steel and concrete model of modern city building.
As a pre-fabricated structure it also took less time to construct and was cheaper than a conventional steel and concrete building, says Liddell.
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