If built as planned, Shell's two GTL plants (one scheduled to open in 2008-09 and the second in 2010-11) will have a combined daily capacity of 140, 000 barrels, as compared with Sasol's two 34, 000-barrel-a-day plants in Nigeria and in Qatar.
Today Chinese engineers at Wanxiang America's Elgin, Ill. headquarters talk to customers by day and plants in China at night.
Chinese engineers at Wanxiang America's headquarters in Elgin, Illinois, talk to customers during the day and plants in China at night.
The conventional wisdom is that dirty, polluting coal is the fuel of the past, and that any day now the power plants that burn coal will be phased out and shut down.
Every day four waste treatment plants feed more than 250 million gallons of nitrogen filled wastewater into the bay, a massive expanse of 20, 000 acres of water sitting where Brooklyn and Queens meet at their southernmost point.
On Andy Beauchamp's street in the notoriously irritable south London neighborhood of Peckham, for example, almost every single doorstep is dressed with flower-filled planters and over-flowing window boxes after Beauchamp decided one day to start sticking plants in front of his neighbors' homes.
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Best of all, geothermal plants provide power 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and thus are among the few sources of renewable energy that can replace baseload plants powered by fossil fuels.
"I like the plants that people walk by every day without noticing, " she said.
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Example: 20% of workers at some of Michigan's unionized auto plants fail to show up on any given day.
It has also handicapped public institutions in the U.S. in the development of plants that can handle the challenges facing present-day agriculture and forests.
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He's a leader in helping Ford wring out waste and simplify work rules to boost productivity. (Many Ford plants, in fact, are adopting four-day workweeks, fewer job classifications and lower pay for janitors, just like GEMA.) But Sullivan objects to how few jobs at GEMA are left for UAW workers earning top-tier wages.
Build enough coal-to-liquids plants and places like Montana and West Virginia could one day become major petroleum producers.
Located under maple trees, the bed is filled with plants that require only a few hours of sun a day.
And it remains so to this day when compared to biodiesel, a fuel made from oils of plants and animal fat.
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Their West Hershey plant consumes between 300, 000 and 350, 000 gallons of milk a day mostly from a 90-mile radius surrounding the plants.
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The biggest success story may be Singapore, which has four waste-to-energy plants that can process 7, 600 tons of waste per day.
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First, all of these technologies are becoming less expensive each year with every prospect that one day they will be fully competitive on their own with existing fossil fuel plants or new natural gas plants.
Big Three workers get an average 46 minutes of break time per day, compared with 20 to 30 minutes for workers at Japanese-owned plants.
In the fishing port of San Antonio, nine of ten fishmeal plants have closed, and the tenth is handling 20 tonnes a day instead of its usual 100.
Its plants have capacity to slaughter as many as 110, 000 hogs a day.
Gas prices spiked on short supply, and Sempra, struggling to keep U.S. power plants supplied with gas, cut off its 75 million cubic feet a day of gas deliveries to Rosarito.
During August, I took a 4, 000 mile, 11-day road trip for Gadling.com, from Michigan through all the Southern states with automobile plants.
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And we should not in any way minimize that, or take that away, that that certainty and pride from the leadership and the workers in these plants and in these communities that have made that sacrifice and have worked hard every day, it shouldn't be minimized.
The day starts at dawn with a 6.4km walk along a winding dirt road to the coffee plants, continues with hours plucking coffee cherries from bushes planted along the steep hills, and ends with the return hike at dusk.
That day he went to the Leeds General Infirmary where Booth seemed more concerned about having to move her cannabis plants than her son's condition, according to prosecutor Thomas Storey.
"At the rock-crushing plants they literally blow the whistle, Fred Flintstone-style, and everyone goes home for the day, " says Brewster.
Substitute enough new plants for old, and U.S. gas consumption, currently 62 billion cubic feet a day, could drop by as much as 1 billion cubic feet a day.
Workers in many of Thor's plants are paid not by the hour, but by how many RVs they get out the door each day.
While the facility would only operate at full capacity for 12 hours a day, the technology is designed to work without water, which is often used in cooling systems for solar thermal plants and is a precious commodity in Arizona.
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