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...Maloney said that the new plan, which measures fees in units of 100 cubic feet of water and effectively grants discounts to minor consumers, "shifts the onus to large user ships" like city universities and factory complexes...
Largest estimated natural gas reserves, in trillions of cubic feet...
...centerpiece of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of Europe's proudest achievements. LEP is a mammoth particle racetrack residing in a ring- shaped tunnel 27 km (16.8 miles) in circumference and an average of 110 meters (360 ft.) underground. The machine contains 330,000 cubic meters (431,640 cu. yds.) of concrete and holds some 60,000 tons of hardware, including nearly 5,000 electromagnets, four particle detectors weighing more than 3,000 tons each, 160 computers and 6,600 km (4,000 miles) of electrical cables. Tangles of brightly colored wires sprout everywhere, linking equipment...
Logging is only one cause of deforestation, but in Southeast Asia it is an important one. And Japan is the world's largest consumer of tropical timber: in 1986 it imported 15.7 million cubic meters, approximately equal to the imports of the entire European Community. Tokyo has begun to finance programs aimed at replanting trees in Southeast Asia but has not yet tried to limit wood imports...
...recent court order, some of the creek's water pours over a narrow spillway and meanders seven miles down its ancient route to Mono Lake. "There's probably 5 c.f.s. flowing in there," a water activist remarks in the technical shorthand (c.f.s. meaning cubic feet per second) that characterizes California water talk...