Hodel's Summit Power Group aims to build the first low-emissions coal-gasification power plant in oil-rich west Texas.
In the run-up to polling day, angry federalists in eastern Libya who want more power for the oil-rich coastal province of Cyrenaica (Barqa in Arabic) stormed several polling centres in Benghazi, the main city of the east, where the revolt against Qaddafi began a year and a half ago, and blockaded oil terminals.
Later this month, the Koch brothers will join other super-rich power players at a Koch Industries-organized strategy session, planning ahead for the 2012 elections.
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With that, Doosan plunged into full-scale production of power plants for turnkey transfer to oil-rich nations, two-thirds of its business today.
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This would spur both industrial development in places like the Great Plains--rich in everything from fossil fuels to wind power--while keeping energy prices down for U.S. consumers and firms.
They can try to compensate by easing credit standards, effectively encouraging the non-rich to sustain purchasing power by borrowing.
And poor countries that do have universal electricity today draw far less power, on a per-capita basis, than rich ones.
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That means building futuristic structures that use wastewater and solar power to produce hydroponic (grown in a nutrient-rich water, without soil) and aeroponic (grown in water-saturated air) crops.
Hello, can we say rich-white-male-power-entitlement-issues?
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Bankrupt state-run electricity boards, an acute shortage of coal, skewed subsidises which end up benefiting rich farmers, power theft, and under-performing private distribution agencies are to blame, say experts.
As environmentalists point out, rich countries that spurn coal-fired power while exporting the rocks to countries with less ambitious emissions targets are merely shifting the problem around the globe.
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It was only during the subsequent job-rich recovery that the effects of curbs on union power and sharper incentives to work materialised.
Consumer demand for more powerful chips could pick up once households have broadband connections to video-and graphics-rich Web sites, which require a lot of processing power.
Those anxious that the rich world's economic power is ebbing might welcome a few emerging-market slip-ups.
Mr Berisha's new power base is up north in Shkodra, now becoming rich again from smuggling with next-door Montenegro.
In his book he sets out to show how the rich and powerful have used buildings - including monuments - to project their power or influence on to the rest of us.
The San Diego-based company makes the chips that power your handsets and drives a mighty return on capital from rich royalties.
Equatorial Guinea, an oil-rich former Spanish colony, has been ruled by President Teodoro Obiang since he seized power from his uncle in 1979.
PAS. It has long held power in the northern state of Kelantan but in the election it also won control of neighbouring oil-rich Terengganu.
The processing power is supported by 8GB of Internal memory and 1GB of RAM so that users can play feature-rich games, multitask and consume limitless media.
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But sceptics note that rich, single-minded Finland is over budget and behind schedule with its new nuclear-power plant.
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Biden also met with Iraqi leaders in the disputed and oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, where Arabs, Turkmen and Kurds are jockeying for power.
One of the reasons we in the developed world are as rich as we are is our astonishing easy access to low-cost, clean, reliable electrical power.
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By the second half of the Middle Ages (1000-1500 AD) the wind and water-powered agarian revolution of the previous few centuries made Christian Europe into a rich, populous and expanding power.
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