Without photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into energy, the trees effectively starve.
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Currently, more than 2, 000 smaller operators process meats in plants that are inspected by one of 27 states with their own inspection programs, including Ohio, Texas and Virginia.
Our customers depend on standard parts and designs, so we must maintain consistency and process control among plants and operations that are often a half a world away.
The idea is that pre-screening sites will streamline the process for siting power plants, reduce costs and enhance overall energy planning.
In China, Christmas light recycling plants will process some 20 million pounds of Christmas lights and recycle them into useful products.
He also called on the Department of Energy to work with Congress to reduce uncertainty in the licensing process of nuclear power plants.
But it seems to be in no hurry to meet this target, as the licensing process for new power plants has been slow.
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It interferes with the reactions involved in photosynthesis, which is the process in which the plants produce the sugars to fuel their growth, leaving the plants weakened.
The biggest success story may be Singapore, which has four waste-to-energy plants that can process 7, 600 tons of waste per day.
The verbund process is replicated at BASF plants in Louisiana and Texas, as well as in Belgium, Malaysia and, as of this year, Nanjing, China.
The next stage of the project, to be carried out this month, is to take 50 grains from each of the successful plants and repeat the process with them.
Experts say removing cadmium from the soil is a costly process that would likely require seeding certain plants for long periods to help remove toxicity.
Weaving of Mosi (fine ramie) in the Hansan region (Republic of Korea): Weaving of Mosi is a process involving harvesting, boiling and bleaching ramie plants, spinning yarn from the fibre, and weaving it on traditional looms.
In 2007, the Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency began the process of examining four potential designs for new nuclear plants.
U.S. horses slaughtered in Mexico (as well as Canada) for export to the EU are slaughtered at EU-approved plants using the same captive-bolt process that was used in the U.S. when slaughter houses still killed horses here.
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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.
It has put in place a rehabilitation program that aims to reshape the dunes and bring the forest to its pre-mining state by putting the indigenous plants back into the ground after the extraction process.
The company this morning said that the Public Prosecutor of Brindisi, Italy has brought charges against certain officers of Global Solar Fund subsidiaries alleging that they have failed to comply with the necessary permitting process and building regulations for 12.7MW of PV plants in Italy.
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It has withheld permits for coal mines, tightened pollution controls for power plants that use coal, and is in the process of drafting regulations on greenhouse gases.
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Chrysler's plan is to replace its antiquated Wrangler factory in Toledo with four separate plants, each one dedicated to a specific manufacturing process and connected to the others by conveyor belts.
Developers in California often size their projects at 49.9 megawatts to avoid the licensing process by the California Energy Commission, which oversees thermal power plants with 50 megawatts of annual capacity or more.
Ilya Raskin of Rutgers University says plants can help clean up hazardous waste sites through a process of phytoremediation.
Royal Dutch Shell ( RDS - news - people ), has put his experience with petrochemical plants to work, making sure that steam used in the pretreatment process is recycled in other stages.
In the process, germs would be souped up to make ethanol, biobutanol or other fuels from plants like corn.
This process, known as carbon leakage, may increase overall global carbon emissions since more efficient plants in Europe are closed in favor of less efficient plants outside.
Radiation is a threat to human health at every stage of the process, from uranium mining to plant operation (even in those new ultra-safe plants) to waste disposal.
Legge notes that newer fossil fuel plants use the heat that was once wasted to turn an extra steam turbine, a process known as combined cycle.
The new technique works by taking advantage of plants' ability to generate an electrical impulse when struck by light - part of the process of photosynthesis.
Or they can be introduced with uranium 235, which in this process has a much lower risk of an uncontrolled reaction than it does in today's nuclear plants.
Over 17 years it has built seven plants (five others are in construction) nationwide and has become quite nimble at navigating the permit process. (It's easier to get approvals if you're a private company than if you're a public utility.) In 2004 LS filed a proposal to build a 1, 600-megawatt, supercritical pulverized-coal plant in White Pine.
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