The walls were thin, the roof leaked, and the building was broiling in the summer and freezing in the winter.
But this year the gates will remain closed, with the long periods of freezing weather over the winter blamed for damage to the drains and pump house.
In addition, there will need to be access to large sources of energy to keep the ponds from freezing in cold winter climate areas, and for processing the algae into fuel.
Under freezing winter conditions the output can be miniscule because very cold weather and high winds require turbines to be shut down to avoid damage.
One, admittedly very difficult, question is how to charge market prices for energy to those who can afford them, while protecting the really poor from freezing in winter.
Shantry admits he is not missing the freezing conditions of the English winter but he is keeping in touch with his Worcestershire colleagues who are in back in pre-season training.
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They mounted sensors on white whales to measure the salinity and temperature patterns of the fjord during its initial winter freezing.
Swans, ducks and wildfowl that fled the harsh winter in their Arctic encounter freezing conditions at a reserve that straddles Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
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Populations who live in parts of the world where winter is an extended, freezing affair, often have conflicted emotions about it.
Inside the greenhouse, lines of bright sodium lights shine down on the growing tomato plants, and the temperature remains a constant, warm 23C -- even in the depths of winter when outside temperatures drop well below freezing.
After unusually mild temperatures this winter in Paris, it has been freezing the last few weeks.
The film started out as a project for 21 BAS personnel and contractors to help occupy their free time during the winter when the continent is locked in darkness and freezing conditions.
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Some 22 months into the war -- and despite the world's sympathy -- they face a winter of freezing temperatures and uncertain food.
In winter, when the continent is locked in darkness and freezing conditions, staff learn skills such as woodwork and black and white photography to help while away their free time.
In Germany, a week of freezing temperatures and this winter's biggest snowfall led to hundreds of road accidents, with the country's third busiest airport--Duesseldorf International--forced to close on Sunday.
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