But the industry feels that once the new plants with modern safeguards get up and running, those facilities will prove their value.

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The remaining solid waste with the help of modern sophisticated machinery is treated in special plants constructed for that purpose.

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The massive shale gas resource in America, coupled with the high-efficiency and low emissions of modern gas power plants, gives us a handy solution to future power needs.

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While the state law took effect in 2006, its efforts to minimize mercury began before that with Xcel Energy converting older coal plants to combined cycle natural gas facilities and by using modern technologies.

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The evidential value of entomology may come as no surprise to lovers of crime fiction, but the fact that it is scientists at the Natural History Museum - more normally associated with the fossilised remains of long dead plants and animals - who are pushing the boundaries of modern forensic science, comes as something of a revelation.

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Made from personally selected blue agave plants, multiple distilled with pure spring water, it gets its platinum color from ultra-modern filtration, and is finished by hand with an extra anejo tequila which has rested in oak barrels for five years to enhance the flavor.

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Many Midwest coal plants were built back in the Eisenhower and Kennedy years, and have not yet been retrofitted with modern pollution control equipment.

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As margins come under pressure, especially in the civil business, Boeing can at least take heart from the fact that its factories now look (and, with luck, will perform) a bit less like giant garage workshops, and a bit more like modern manufacturing plants.

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