While attacks on critical infrastructure are relatively rare, recent months have seen viruses and other malicious programs hit control systems at oil treatment plants and other facilities.
The conventional route to biodiesel consists of extracting oil from plants and converting it to the methyl esters of fatty acids that are present in the lipid-components, known as triglycerides.
Chemical plants, oil depots, and nuclear plants will be more tightly guarded.
Over the past week, computer experts in Italy, Russia and the US have posted details online on a clutch of vulnerabilities they have found in various SCADA packages used to automate installations as diverse as power stations, water purification plants, oil refineries, food factories, breweries and steel plants.
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Fifty years ago, Japanese electricity was generated by smaller, discrete coal- and oil-fired plants.
During his time at Unicom predecessor Commonwealth Edison, Rowe changed the course of the company's future to focus on nuclear power instead of dirtier coal and oil-fired plants. (See "Exelon's Carbon Advantage").
It designs and builds oil refineries, petrochemical plants, liquefied natural gas terminals and boilers for coal-fired power plants.
The company is also anticipating more demand for its nuclear plants as oil and natural gas prices skyrocket.
Existing coal- and oil-fired power plants must reduce average emission levels of the least 12% of current plants.
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Another is to convert the waste material from corn ethanol plants into oil that can be used to make biodiesel.
Stuxnet is tailored to target weaknesses in Siemens systems used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other utilities.
That change, called the Maximum Achievable Control Technology, or MACT, rule requires that coal- and oil-fired power plants reduce pollutant emission rates significantly.
According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants consume roughly twice the water than that of gas-fired facilities while nuclear generation needs three times that of natural gas.
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All you do is cluster the corn-oil units around biodiesel plants that use another money-saving GreenShift innovation: a "continuous base catalyst reaction" system that relies on a "proprietary process intensification and advanced separation technologies"--whatever those are.
Ideally, this new discovery would lead to a tiny, self-contained oil well: In comes plants, out comes fuels or chemicals.
Ideally, this would lead to a tiny, self-contained oil well: In comes plants, out comes fuels or chemicals.
That improved capability had helped it protect itself against subsequent attacks on oil terminals and other manufacturing plants.
Plenty of studies show we can run the economy on clean energy and shut down our coal, oil, nuclear and gas plants in the lifetime of the existing stock.
The primary alternatives such as coal, oil and natural gas power plants also pose dangers to nearby residents who breathe in fine pollutants released by the combustion of these fuels.
Yet most Democrats, notably senators Obama and Biden, refuse to support two initiatives that would create hundreds of thousands of highly skilled, well-paying U.S. manufacturing and construction jobs: a new push for nuclear power plants and more oil and gas exploration and production.
Having shut down almost all nuclear plants, Japan is importing more oil (up 26% YoY September) and LNG (up 11.4%) and converting plants to burn these fuels.
Less than 2o years ago, electric generation was primarily the domain of oil, coal, and nuclear plants.
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Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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The government is betting on a higher oil price and on new hydroelectric plants, which will cut spending on subsidies for imported energy.
From the Bush White House, they're talking about large-scale technology: oil and gas, nuclear power plants and clean coal research, which will cost billions of dollars and will take years.
Corn is indeed a renewable resource, but it has a far lower yield relative to the energy used to produce it than either biodiesel (such as soybean oil) or ethanol from other plants.
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Forty percent of that country's oil is burned in so-called stationary uses like electric plants, Littell says, which will be shifted to less expensive fuels if oil prices stay high.
The Swiss-based company supplies raw materials such as oil, copper and wheat and owns plants, warehouses and mines.
It invests with Stakhanovite zeal in impressive but uneconomical facilities, such as oil refineries, steel mills and fertiliser plants.
With that, Doosan plunged into full-scale production of power plants for turnkey transfer to oil-rich nations, two-thirds of its business today.
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