How efficient are the manufacturing processes from material use, energy consumption, emission and waste generation viewpoints?
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For Interface, the EPD process has encouraged it to reduce energy and material consumption (particularly oil), waste generation and emissions.
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GM, for example, had to hire resource management employees in each facility to track and report waste generation for their site.
This is a developing predicament: In both China and India, for example, solid-waste generation is expected to double in the next 20 years.
The solution is not in reducing waste but in making waste generation and consumption a cyclical process, mimicking the way nature does this task.
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The No. 4 unit doesn't have live fuel in its reactor, but still holds waste fuel from earlier generation operations.
The proof is in the pudding on this point: every dollar of public-sector funds received by these projects was being matched by nearly four dollars in private-sector investment toward buying and installing the systems that generate on-site electricity and use waste-heat created during generation.
Lynch has his sights set on three core pillars for NASCAR Green: Waste, Emission, and Power Generation.
The runner-up is the waste-reducing plastic shell enclosing the second-generation iPod nano .
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But others point out that CCS is able to eliminate CO2 production from industries such as cement and steel, as well as electricity generation, again through absorbing it from waste gases.
It is charged with deciding safety issues for the major nuclear programs such as relicensing existing reactors, evaluating proposals for nuclear waste disposal designs, evaluating new designs for the next generation reactors and the small modular reactors.
From wind and solar, to waste and biomass to energy, fuel cells, co-generation, natural gas, and smart grid, speakers and attendees discussed a diverse portfolio of advanced energy technologies that are being developed and deployed in Ohio.
Industry heavyweights like Cosan (CZZ) are also researching ways to make fuel ethanol friendly for jet fuel, and turn sugarcane bagasse, the leafy waste of the cane stalks after they are crushed into sugar molasses, into second generation ethanol, as well.
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