Word: plant
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...cold months of last winter, both Germany and Britain relied heavily on coal to meet power requirements. And coal remains a key power source in many other countries, including Poland, Israel and Spain. But coal use is on the rise, thanks largely to a building spree of coal-fired plants in China and India. World consumption jumped from 3.5 billion tons to 4.6 billion tons between 1994 and 2004. Part of coal's appeal is relative security of supply. Most natural gas reserves are in the Middle East and Russia; the former is a volatile region, and the latter...
...their own, however, these technologies aren't enough to decrease overall emissions because the world's coal-burn rate is rising so quickly. For overall emissions to fall, plants also need carbon capture and storage ( ccs) technologies that shunt the compressed CO2 deep into the ground, perhaps into depleted oil and gas reserves, or into saline aquifers beneath the ocean floor. Sequestration technology works - oil companies have been using it for years - but so far it hasn't been used in conjunction with a power plant. The promise of ccs coal plants has won the approval of some environmental groups...
...Moreover, Israel's response must be crafted while the Gaza campaign continues - its goals as yet unmet, its efficacy thus far unproven and its tactics drawing harsh criticism from some quarters of the international community. The bombing of the territory's only power plant, the source for more than 40% of electricity in Gaza, has been especially condemned...
...ultimate Coca-Cola secret: Does its recipe really contain cocaine? That burning question can't be answered definitively, and the recipe for Classic Coke wasn't stolen. Coke officials deny the drug was ever an ingredient. But experts, including a former U.S. drug czar, have long said the coca plant--cocaine's source--once flavored Coke, which might explain why it was sold early on as a "brain tonic." Maybe the thieves should have had a drink...
...complaint says that Plotkin and Pajcin paid forklift operator Nickolaus Shuster a flat fee for him to relay the contents of BusinessWeek’s “Inside Wall Street” column. Shuster had access to advance copies of BusinessWeek because he worked at a Wisconsin plant where the weekly magazine is printed. The analysts helped Shuster get that job, acting as professional references in his application to the printing plant, according to the complaint. Shuster read the column to the analysts over the phone every Thursday morning, a full day before the magazine was distributed. BusinessWeek?...