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The tactical alliance between the Kremlin and the populists pumps up the dream of an ideological union, stretching “from Lisbon to Vladivostok,” based not on Western but on “Eurasian” values.
Impoverished farmers should receive a free package of seeds, fertilizers, and low-cost equipment (such as pumps for irrigation).
In the first approach, fish farms would be moved from the ocean to recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), in which fish are housed in indoor tanks that are regulated by pumps, heaters, aerators, and filters.
As a result, they have no need for mechanical pumps or filters (although motorized pens may eventually take to the seas).
They must succeed in inducing the oil sheikhs and other producers of fossil fuels to throttle their pumps.
The renowned American economist Irving Fisher actually built an elaborate hydraulic machine with pumps and levers, allowing him to demonstrate visually how equilibrium prices in the market adjust in response to changes in supply or demand.
According to Bush’s press spokesman, the growth in world demand for oil – in Asia, for example – was one of the causes of the high price of filling the tanks of gas-guzzling Sports Utility Vehicles, as well as more modest family cars, at America’s pumps.
Water is heavier than oil, making it very expensive to ship or transport across long distances even by pipeline (which would require large, energy-intensive pumps).
India supplies Africa with computer-education courses, the most reliable water pumps, low-cost rice-milling equipment, and dozens of other technologies.
Think of her as George W. Bush II, but in designer pumps.
Without incoming energy, cooling pumps will cease functioning and the flow of water that carries heat away from the reactor core – required even when the reactor is in shutdown mode – will stop.
The additional revenue might initially come from selling small electricity surpluses to local farmers to recharge their mobile phones (thereby allowing them to work out the optimal prices for their crops), or to help them irrigate farmland using small electric pumps.
Such a system can supply low-voltage DC electric power at five volts for mobile phones, and 12V for LED lighting, pumps for outdoor use, and electrical appliances such as computers and televisions.
One prescription that is bandied about with increasing frequency certainly sounds sensible: the world should drastically cut the amount of greenhouse gases that it pumps into the atmosphere each day.
Pumps and wells to improve water coverage in rural areas17.
These include heat pumps, smart grids, LED lighting, and energy-efficient household equipment.
In many towns and villages, there was no electricity, so water pumps were not operable.
An SUV going ten miles in the city and burning a gallon of gasoline pumps about three kilograms of carbon into the atmosphere.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Arak plant still lacks several major reactor components, such as control-room equipment and cooling pumps.
The seventeenth-century scientific revolution was made possible partly by new, technologically advanced tools, such as telescopes, barometers, and vacuum pumps.
They also act as global “water pumps” that deliver rain to distant regions.
Similarly, electric heat pumps can deliver more than three kilowatt-hours of residential heating for only one kilowatt of energy input; no gas boiler could deliver more than 0.9 kWh for the same input.
Third, governments should adjust their regulatory frameworks to maximize investment in innovative technologies – such as heat pumps, renewable hydrogen, and biofuels – through increased public and private research, development, and deployment.
They are not like shoes: one’s personal preference for oversized purple pumps might offend others’ fashion sensibilities but otherwise produces no externalities, negative or positive.
As the Brazilian climate scientist Antonio Nobre has noted, if these aerial water pumps are permanently turned off, an area that accounts for 70% of South America’s gross national product would be turned into desert.
All the better if the pumps do stop!
"It was you in the forest who called for a strike of the engine-men, to stop the pumps, and now you want to play us a filthy trick!
Now pumps were set up and a furious struggle was going on; step by step the vanished soil was being violently reconquered.
They tried to interest the visitors, taking them round and explaining to them the working of the pumps and the manipulation of the stamper which drove in the piles.
They shuddered when they knew that the pumps would have to work for six or seven years before the shaft was reconstructed and all the water exhausted from the mine.
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