How many carbon credits in a blanket of ash and a few trillion tons of Sulphur dioxide worth?
On May 24, 1989, the day before George Nakashima's 84th birthday, the second-largest collection of his prized wood furniture was reduced to a pile of ash in a house fire.
Questions like those are at the heart of a new book by Timothy Garton Ash, a British historian of Eastern Europe, describing a nine-month stay during 1980 in what was then East Berlin.
The Swach's cartridge, a key component of the system, resembles Edison's electric bulb and is made up of a composite of rice-husk ash (a highly porous material derived out of paddy husk) and fine particles of nano-silver, which inhibits bacteria growth.
There has been growing concern that the site, where volcanic ash smothered a Roman city in AD79, has been neglected.
The ash is a waste product of the Kingston Fossil Power Plant which is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The flight bans came amid fears that the ash - a mixture of glass, sand and rock particles - can seriously damage aircraft engines.
Surfing down the ash covering a volcano in Nicaragua, heliskiing in Chile, anaconda hunting in the Amazon and motorbike safaris in Namibia are all popular.
The simultaneous 2005 release of I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn was accompanied by television and award-show appearances, officially marking Oberst's entry into stardom.
Her mother, Sinita, 38, has said that, although Mountain Ash is a good school, her daughter's education suffered as a result of the move and the stress involved in the run-up to her GCSEs.
Mr Ash, a retired professional train driver with more than 50 years' experience, said it was possible he did not lock a reversing lever into place, which could have allowed the locomotive to slip between forward and reverse.
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn is the more electric record while I'm Wide Awake It's Morning is the more personal of the two. 2005 will introduce many to Bright Eyes, and may shift music's focal point from the coasts to Omaha.
Oh, and FMC owns a soda ash mine in Wyoming, digging the commodity (a.k.a. sodium carbonate) out of the ground at a fraction of the cost of manufactured soda ash.
Dalmia also is taking advantage of India's new global outlook by buying soda-ash companies abroad, expanding a soda-ash business that's already India's third-biggest.
The story itself revolves around a world blackened by ash which pours perpetually from a series of volcanoes turning the earth brown and the sky red.
Despite later cancelling its flights, the Irish carrier Ryanair claimed it had made a test flight through ash over Scotland and challenged a ruling some flights should be grounded.
D-shaped holes in the bark or new tree shoots emerging at the root zone of your ash trees may be a sign of infestation by the Emerald Ash Borer, an insect native to the Far East that targets ash trees, says Dave Dailey of Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, in Rochester, N.
In his love of angling for trout and other freshwater fish, Walton used a long rod of spliced ash and hazelwood, with a line of about the same length as the rod, made out of woven hair from a horse's tail.
In younger ash there is a distinctive smooth silver grey bark and sooty black buds.
Ash dieback was first confirmed in the UK in ash plants in a nursery in England in February 2012.
An Essex tree nursery owner who burned 100 ash trees as a precaution against a fungal disease says government action is "too little, too late".
Kraft is among the most highly regarded owners in professional sports, having created, out of an ash heap, a perennial winner on and off the field.
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Two large trees one oak and the other ash, each a century old toppled onto one end of his house of 43 years, caving in his bedroom and crushing two of his vehicles.
Ash had struck a deal with the verbal promises from Ross Mandell and others that these companies would one day go public, despite offering documents that clearly showed the risks that this may not happen.
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Liverpool's next game is the Europa League semifinal tie with Atletico Madrid on Thursday but due to the ongoing disruption to flights caused by an ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland, they will set off by road tomorrow.
While most of the freight will have been flown straight on from last weekend's season-opener in Qatar, the cloud of ash has created a no-fly zone over much of northern and central Europe and made it impossible for many team personnel to reach Japan.
The next day, when the cloud moved and I completed my journey, I learned that, after a similar belch of ash choked out all four engines of a K.L.M. flight into Anchorage in 1989, Ted Stevens finagled an earmark on an appropriations bill to secure federal funds for the Alaska Volcano Observatory, whose missions included the monitoring of volcanic activity and its attendant hazards.
The prize will go to the first person to come up with a way of quickly extracting an adequate amount of oxygen from simulated lunar regolith (volcanic ash is being used as a stand-in).
Things were made worse by the fact that the computer models of the ash cloud's dispersion gave only a very broad sense of where the ash might be.
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Ash is used in a variety of products, including baseball bats, railroad ties, and flooring.
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