Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the French, and rendezvoused with the two kayakers at sea a few miles down the island's coast. Greenpeace bought the boat somewhat casually at dockside in Papeete and equipped it in four days, without sea testing and without including a long-range radio transmitter or receiver. (The diesel engine died four hours into the voyage, so the vessel also lacked electric power, except a little generated by solar panels, and thus had no functioning refrigerator or electric bilge pump.) A tiny shortwave radio occasionally brought in a scrap of intelligence. Somebody had reached the quarter-finals...
MATEP's cogeneration, principally its recaptureof hot exhaust form the diesel engines, allows itto produce 30 percent more energy perequivalentgallon of oil than normal electric power plants...
...environment was a principalconcern for MATEP's designers and its currentmanagement. In accordance with regulations, theplant maintains remote monitoring stations--one ison Route 9 in Brookline and another is at theDeaconess Hospital. If levels of nitrous oxide inthe air rise and the wind is blowing from theplant, the diesel generators are powered down...
Harvard appealed the 1978 decision, requestinga formal adjudicatory review of the diesel impact,which included 186 hours of oral testimony andhundreds of pages of written testimony from expertwitnesses to produce some 7,300 pages oftranscript and documents...
MATEP's decade-long hearings and petition toproduce diesel electric energy caused it to losemoney for a protracted period of time, but theplant may eventually pay for itself, given enoughtime...