The total estimated production capacity of all mines in North America is almost 85 million tons, of which 30 million tons is contributed by Cliffs.
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The Russian-Belarusian nuclear power plant project, estimated to have a capacity of 2.4 gigawatts (GW) and set to be commissioned in 2018, has been a controversial topic given that the project was signed between Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the midst of the Japanese nuclear disaster.
There is a separate ministry for nonconventional energy, which has estimated the country's capacity to generate wind power at 45 gigawatts (peak), ten times current installed capacity.
Similarly, stimulus investments have helped transform the United States from a bit player in international advanced battery markets to a global competitor with an estimated 20 percent of worldwide manufacturing capacity online by 2012, all while potentially driving down the cost of electric vehicle batteries by up to 70%.
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Using its data crunching capacity, Facebook estimated that 2.7 million Facebook users changed their profile picture to a red equality sign in support of the proposition being argued before the Supreme Court - that government bans on gay marriage deprive our gay brothers of sisters of equal protection under the law.
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The man-made pond, which is in a city-owned forest, is estimated to be 4 to 5 feet deep with a capacity of about 50, 000 gallons.
The right-hand chart, from the World Bank's latest China Quarterly Update, shows GDP growth relative to its estimated potential growth rate if the economy operated at full capacity.
According to the Washington Post, it is estimated that nearly 1 million barrels a day of refinery capacity has been closed on the East Coast or in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the past two years, which Valero said allowed it to increase profit margins.
If other regions pursued similar rule-changes, it would leave an estimated 12 million distributed generation units, with a total capacity of about 200 GW, installed by customers across the country sitting on the sidelines for purposes of demand response, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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It is estimated that 30 GWh of heat storage would provide enough absorptive capacity for 5 GW of installed wind capacity.
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The UK government is considering its options on how to boost capacity over the next 30 years to cope with an estimated tripling in demand for air travel.
Tepco estimated peak demand at 37 GWh on March 15, claiming to have a capacity of 33 GW on that same day. (Read Little Risk To GE From Japan Nuke Crisis).
Some 330 petabytes of data are estimated to be carried across its servers each year - that's enough capacity to transfer every character ever written in every book ever published 20 times over, the citation said.
In 2007, an estimated 12 million generators had been installed across in the United States, with a total capacity of more than 200 gigawatts, according to a Brookings Institute report on distributed power systems.
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