But look out: Demand for SUVs, while still very strong, is flattening (see chart, below), while overall light-truck plant capacity is still growing fast.
The commanding officer of the Light Dragoons, Lt Col Sam Plant, said Sgt Davidson was "a simply superb soldier and a wonderful man".
The infrared light that is reflected by a plant shows how efficiently photosynthesis occurs in that plant and can provide insight into its general health.
They complain that even the small hydroelectric plant being built nearby will light only one light bulb per household here.
Dr Hoch's team extended this idea, arguing that as a plant starts to disassemble its light-gathering apparatus in preparation for winter, its leaves become particularly sensitive to light damage.
In 2006, the company won the green light to close a Tyler, Texas, plant and the outdated Union City, Tenn.
"In light of the evolving developments at the Tepco nuclear power plant, in particular, we regard these projections as uncertain, " it said.
Moreover, the creators have already found a Minnesota-based firm willing to mass produce the nanobandages should they receive the green light, but the professors are hoping to build the new manufacturing plant in Ohio if at all possible, and have products on retail shelves "by 2008" at the latest.
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Dr John Morgan, head of the Forestry Commission's plant health service, said the work would help shed light on "the history and nature of the introduction of new pests like Chalara, and in helping to understand how we tackle the disease that's arrived and to understand what the risk of spreading is".
There's even a "white tag" market: When I install a more efficient light bulb, I can sell that efficiency gain to the fossil fuel power plant, just as if it's a green tag.
The device, which resembles the sawed-off head of a driver golf club, uses its Plant Care Engine (or PCE as its literature so abbreviates) to detect such important plant growth criteria as water, fertilizer, humidity, temperature and light.
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Jim Haseloff, a plant biologist from the UK's University of Cambridge says the bio-light is a very provocative idea.
The new model will be based on the existing award-winning NV200 currently produced at the plant and will be an important and innovative addition to Nissan's global range of light commercial vehicles (LCV's).
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Supermarket giant Tesco has recently been given a green light to build Britain's first ever straw-powered Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant to meet the electricity and heating needs of one of its distribution centres.
Sellafield nuclear plant bosses have been condemned as throwing the industry's future "into doubt", in the light of a damning report into its safety standards.
Having enough power for heat and light have become serious concerns in the Tokyo area in the midst of the emergency unfolding at the Fukushima nuclear power plant to the north.
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