As the West approaches a saturation point with the site, Facebook is looking to emerging markets in Asia, South America and Africa to fuel its next stage of growth.

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The second stage, which burns a solid fuel, was produced by South Korean engineers.

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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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Last year the time was right to float Swisher again, to raise capital to fuel Huizenga's next stage of the roll-up.

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August's botched launch involved a Soyuz-U. An inquiry into that incident eventually traced the problem to a blocked fuel line, again in the third stage of the vehicle.

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He said that the next stage of the firm's work would be to produce a liquid fuel.

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Chevrolet, as noted, is focused on small, fuel-efficient cars and crossovers, with Cruze and Aveo taking center stage alongside the hot-selling Equinox crossover.

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We live in a world that needs alternative forms of energy which are not hydrocarbon based, forms of energy that do not contaminate at every stage of their lifecycle, that do not place benzene and formaldehyde in our air, diesel fuel in our aquifers and more benzene and formaldehyde as we drive our kids to work.

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Kansai's announcement is the latest stage in a problem for BNFL that began in September, when a British newspaper, the Independent, revealed that fuel quality control data for another batch of Mox pellets had been falsified.

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