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Earlier this month, the international food conglomerate Cargill chose the city’s famous Strip to introduce what it hopes will be its next blockbuster product: EverSweet, a sweetener made of “the same sweet components in the stevia plant.”
And yet, despite Cargill’s heavy reliance on stevia in its promotional material, EverSweet does not contain a single leaf of the plant.
As major brands like Coke and Pepsi aggressively market stevia-sweetened cola drinks as natural and healthy, the agricultural acreage of the plant has exploded.
Moreover, financial capital is better situated in the global system than industrial capital; once a plant exists, moving it is difficult.
The CTBTO continued to help by monitoring the global dispersion of radioactivity from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.
In November, Dubai announced the construction of a solar energy park that will produce electricity for less than $0.06 per kilowatt-hour – undercutting the cost of the alternative investment option, a gas or coal-fired power plant.
The plant – which is expected to be operational in 2017 – is yet another harbinger of a future in which renewable energy crowds out conventional fossil fuels.
Indeed, hardly a week seems to pass without news of a major deal to construct a solar power plant.
One approach is to capture the CO2 at the power plant as the coal or gas is burned.
If EU environmental directives, for instance, call for the closure of a heavily polluting plant in Britain, the Constitution would give labor unions the right to judicial appeals against the resulting redundancies.
For example, Mendel could not say that there was a gene for tallness in a plant species until he discovered dwarf mutants of the same species.
And the world’s first renewable energy/hydrogen hybrid power plant, producing both electricity and hydrogen as car fuel, started production in the fall of 2011.
Rather than spurring investment in plant and equipment, low interest rates inflated a real-estate bubble.
Technocrats can of course reliably make an electricity plant work better.
It will become safer still in the coming years, provided that governments, plant operators, and regulators do not drop their guard.
For example, Japan’s nuclear regulatory authority was not sufficiently independent, and oversight of the plant operator, TEPCO, was weak.
Indeed, governments, regulators, and plant operators around the world have begun learning the right lessons.
But the plant was not designed to withstand the 14-meter-high tsunami waves that swept over its protective sea wall less than an hour later.
Plant operators and national regulators are being scrutinized more critically.
More recently, Canada beat the US in a bid for a new Toyota plant, in part because private health-insurance costs in the US add several thousand dollars to the cost of manufacturing a car there.
Or you can take a poppy field and dig a large pond, fill it with fish, plant trees around it, buy some ducks and have your children watch them.
Over the last few years Motorola has been laying off workers in the US and moving operations to Brazil, China, and its plant in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Fifty-foot waves breached the seawall of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, cutting off its emergency power supply and disabling its cooling systems.
The nuclear accident was the worst since the meltdown of the Chernobyl power plant in 1986.
If ISIS wants to plant seeds of division and chaos in the West – especially Europe, which ISIS considered to be the weak link – it has so far failed.
Consider a preventable disease that most people have never heard of: konzo, a permanent, irreversible, upper-motor neuron disorder, common in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa that rely on the bitter varieties of the cassava plant as a staple crop.
Even in auto manufacturing, where top global competitors are maximizing plant productivity, 80% of companies are small, traditional shops, with fewer than ten employees.
In any country, the current-account balance is the difference between national saving and national investment in plant and equipment, housing, and inventories.
Without the swamp’s purification services, a study showed, Kampala would need a sewage plant costing at least $2 million a year.
Thus, swayed both by the uncounted benefits from wastewater treatment – estimated at up to $1.75 million a year – and the potential outlay to build a sewage plant, Kampala decided to protect the area.
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