He dreams of building gigawatt-size plants, of shipping solar thermal power to the cloudy Northeast and of using molten salt to store energy so thermal plants can power homes at night. (Nevada Solar One is only for daytime peak loads.) He envisions mirrors in space that can soak up sunlight 24 hours a day.

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Jones says Skyonic's exhaust scrubbing technology is cheaper than traditional wet limestone treatment, and it can be scaled to fit small and medium-size coal plants.

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Given 326, 000 gallons in 1 acre-foot, that would mean building roughly 10 plants the size of Poseidon's.

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It houses 5, 000 plants, covers an area the size of 10 tennis courts, and has taken more than two years to build.

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The segment of the market most likely to be hit is notebook PCs, as the plants knocked out by the floods specialised in that particular size and format.

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Though covering an area little more than 1% the size of North America, it has about 8, 000 more species of plants.

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New to the Cyber-shot line, the TX30 model features a Magnifying Glass Plus mode that zooms in for a fascinating super-size, magnification (up to 15x) of close objects such as fish, plants, insects and more.

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It is written in an elegant, clerical hand, on four sheets of parchment, each two feet wide and a bit more than two feet high, about the size of an eighteenth-century newspaper but finer, and made not from the pulp of plants but from the hide of an animal.

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