The two other possibilities, which were ruled out, were on-island heat treatment - in an incinerator, gasification or pyrolysis plant - or a further stage of processing to produce a fuel product, which would also be shipped off-island.

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Its members bring laptops to the stage, adding textures, processing, and selectively applying distortion.

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More importantly, the subsea smart grid set the stage for large-scale subsea processing, which would reduce the costs of developing deep-sea fields dramatically.

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To test the system's performance at the configuration stage, the K computer's processing speed was measured by the LINPACK benchmark program, placing it on the 37th TOP500 ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.

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Alex Molinaroli, president of Johnson Controls's battery division, said Shanghai authorities have indicated they won't permit processing lead there but may allow the company to perform late stage activity, such as charging batteries for the first time.

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