Carbon trading would likely be limited to participants in the program like power producers and manufacturers.
Safety advocates say fertilizer-storage facilities are lower priorities for regulators than larger polluters, like power plants and refineries.
There are areas like power over Ethernet, all the little blue wires that hang out of the walls of buildings.
Most sales will be big-ticket items like power plants and locomotives, where profit margins rise rapidly after the overhead is covered.
The sorts of computer systems it enters are those that control critical infrastructures like power plants, refineries and other industrial targets.
While every sports fan appreciates the power of hope, few comprehend the zombie-like power variable rewards can have on the brain.
Projects like power generation, on the other hand, may cost hundreds of millions of dollars, since Google.org will endeavor to prove engineering concepts by building out power plants.
The upshot is things like power efficiency (and cost savings).
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Just like power utilities, the big banks have a commanding position in the market, which they can use for the benefit of their customers and the economy at large.
Like power plants, data centers, with their acres of servers, suck up millions of gallons of water a year for cooling (as an alternative to using electricity-hogging mechanical chillers).
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Steven Prince, founder and head of the division, wanted to hitch to an energy company looking to build assets like power plants, pipelines and LNG terminals that could backstop trading positions.
The secrecy and the cult-like power that Degollado held over his followers made sexual abuse that much more likely to occur and made his victims and witnesses to his crimes that much less likely to come forward.
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Furthermore, Doniger inexplicably ignores the fact that the EPA is already moving forward with efforts to limit carbon pollution from stationary-sources like power plants and is set to forge ahead in the absence of Congressional cap-and-trade legislation.
"I heard a great analogy once, that credit cards are kind of like power tools: They're a great convenience, they can get the job done faster, but they can be dangerous, definitely, in untrained hands, " he said.
"MOTOROLA XOOM brings PC-like power to a tablet, providing consumers with an easy-to-use, lightning fast experience designed with fun and productivity in mind, and we're thrilled to bring it to Canadians, " said Jeff Miller, corporate vice president, Motorola Mobility.
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Just as a number of pieces of legislation addressing the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure like power and water systems are being introduced into the Congress, the New York Times reports that some lawmakers might be getting cold feet.
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On Monday, Dillon Beresford, an analyst for security auditing firm NSS Labs, took aim at Siemens in a message to a mailing list devoted to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software used in physical systems like power plants and factories.
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This is especially true at very large and very small scales (think astronomy or particle physics), but also liminal spaces or large sociotechnical systems that cannot be experienced completely or directly (think cyberspace, but also large infrastructure systems like power grids, interstrate highway systems, etc.).
Given the challenges of financing major capital projects like power plants in the midst of the Great Recession, South Africa and the national utility, Eskom, have turned to the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank for assistance in financing new electric power stations.
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Maybe they would like more power and the union may like them to have less.
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She recommended that the nation begin relying less on nuclear power and more on renewable energy sources like solar power.
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On his follow through, he looks more like a power-hitter muscling a drive into the right-centerfield gap than a master ball-striker like Vijay Singh.
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The American message to China is, if you want to be treated like a big power, act like one.
Here's the dilemma for an Antonin Scalia or Chief Justice John Roberts, who typically vote with the conservative bloc: While they don't like expanding federal power, they like second-guessing the democratic process even less.
Incredibly strong and, fortunately, within the design limit for structures like nuclear power plants.
Fuel-saving technology like hybrid power and turbo-charging, they say, isn't enough to do the trick.
The eco-friendly pair renovated much of the home, updating the property with green amenities like solar power.
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Unfortunately, many key urban features like adequate power and sewage are only just starting to be built.
Batteries typically don't like deep power cycling (see your cellphone) and tend to get hot and fatigued.
The NGIPS platform is critical for clean energy, especially variable resources like wind power and solar photovoltaics.
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