Among the targeted infrastructure was everything from systems that control traffic lights in large cities to nuclear plants, water treatment plants , large manufacturers, defense contractors and high tech companies.
The place was homey, paneled in dark wood with lots of big, leafy plants and large, stained-glass windows.
The shortage is being felt at meatpacking plants and large feedlots, where industry giants such as Cargill Inc. fatten cattle before slaughter.
Sam Laidlaw, the boss of Centrica, a British utility, thinks it will take at least 15 years, and probably 20, to roll out CCS plants in large numbers.
After taking samples from 21 spots along the coast, researchers expected to find the most caffeine pollution in areas near wastewater treatment plants, large population centers or rivers and streams emptying into the ocean, said Elise Granek, assistant professor of Environmental Science and Management at Portland State.
Employees in large plants find their jobs more at risk than do employees at small ones.
It was a key element of the deal Washington made with Pyongyang to provide North Korea with fuel for electric power plants until two large civilian nuclear stations are completed.
In the UK, several coal plants are due to close before the end of 2015 under the EU's Large Combustion Plants Directive, which is designed to limit emissions of pollutants from ageing plants.
That equates to 40, 000 megawatts of electricity, or enough to displace 80 large coal plants.
It is always hard to disentangle the weeds from the plants in such a large field.
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Indeed, Tampa and El Paso have large desalination plants that are seldom running at full capacity.
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These plants continue to emit large amounts of pollutants that harm public health.
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And while around two dozen large scale plants have been proposed, it is unclear how many will actually come on line.
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Ministers are proposing that all large coal plants will be required to capture carbon emissions by 2025, and new ones from 2020 onwards.
Large power plants would achieve significant fuel savings and thus greatly reduce their carbon dioxide emissions as a result of such an increase.
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The local business operates from about 133 service centres in 31 countries and rents out products ranging from small generators to large cooling plants.
In meetings in recent days, representatives of electric power utilities that rely heavily on coal-fired plants, and some large unions, have taken their concerns to the White House.
Water purification plants (especially in large cities which recycle their sewage waste right back into the drinking supply) will hopefully get prioritized for energy allocations when rationing starts.
But for the most part, large power plants cannot shutdown for just one hour as there are thermal and mechanical concerns that put the plant at risk of being damaged for doing so.
As the industry shifts from large central plants to a diverse collection of windmills and biogas generators, managing the complex balance of supply and demand will require fat communications pipes and complex calculations.
Big solar power companies, just like the cutting-edge ethanol and biofuel companies also popular with venture capitalists these days, usually need to tap the debt markets and borrow money to build large production plants.
The Mobile Repair and Operations (MRO) prototype has been built to help maintenance workers who are often called on to find and fix equipment on large industrial plants they have never visited before.
Mr. Bush appreciated, moreover, that these burdens would not be equally shared by other leading developed nations (Britain and Germany being spared significant economic dislocation thanks to their previous closure of obsolete greenhouse gas-emitting steel plants) or by large developing nations like China and India.
Experimental studies have generally shown that plants do not show a large response to CO2 fertilisation.
The cellulose, which is produced in large amounts by plants, including grass stems, etc.
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Today, CND waste is sorted in large mechanized processing plants or manually, by people.
Shih's Acer has several large computer assembly plants in China, as do many of its component suppliers, most of whom manufacture in Dongguan, Guangdong province.
The entire process takes place in near-freezing conditions and such plants are usually built with large amounts of flammable foam insulation to maintain a constant temperature.
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