In those prefectures, power, water, gas and telephones are all out of service.
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For example, they may have a technology for cleaning water from gas fracking.
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While locals advertise rooms for rent by nailing hand written boards to random trees and lampposts, residential properties can suffer occasional water and gas shortages.
Scale is not a huge advantage on the manufacturing side of its business, which involves blending water, gas and a special syrup.
Online, America's aching Achilles' heel is the wide-open automated control systems that run the nation's networks for electricity, water, gas, oil and more.
For example, some 1, 000 barrels of crude oil, water and gas mixture poured onto the tundra after a 2-foot gash formed in a pipeline in November 2009.
Sadly, the parliament is likely to insist on far-reaching amendments to the law that may mean it excludes areas such as health, the media, postal services, electricity, water and gas.
Even though they have this right, some of them are sitting in an apartment building or a house without lights, water, gas, or garbage pickup, and no landlord can be found anymore.
Obvius has pioneered a portfolio of plug-and-play data-collection and communications applications based on an open architecture, which allow users to monitor electric, water, gas, environmental and renewable energy information through a single, web-accessible platform.
Oil sands require monstrous amounts of water and natural gas to recover and process.
As temperatures rise or pressure rates fall, the hydrate disintegrates and the water releases the gas.
The process involves drilling a bore hole and using explosives or water to force gas to the surface.
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We can boil water with natural gas just fine, and without all the destructive effects that using coal causes.
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Yorkshire Water, Northumbrian Water, Northern Gas, and Northern Powergrid said the plans aimed to tackle future changes in population and climate.
For example, M2M-enabled smart utility meters are currently collecting information on electric, water, or gas consumption and sending it to utility companies.
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It's true that mining oil sands is terribly inefficient and wasteful of water and natural gas when compared with pumping crude from conventional reservoirs.
Relief agencies have reported dire humanitarian conditions in Mingora: hospitals without electricity that are inundated with patients, an erratic supply of water and natural gas.
And, he added, a well that has bad water one month may be clear the next, and a few homeowners even say that their well water improved after gas drilling began.
The group says forcing water and chemicals deep into shale deposits to extract gas threatens drinking water and the environment.
The natural gas industry has argued that flawed casing practices used while drilling shale-gas wells were responsible for methane contamination in drinking water supplies surrounding shale-gas wells.
Utility networks, such as for electricity, gas, water, and sewage, work the same way.
The three groups are Power and Water, Oil and Gas, and Energy Management.
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By nightfall, police were battling some 20, 000 protesters with tear gas and water cannons.
Encouraging drillers to use this water to frack natural gas wells brings obvious environmental benefit.
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The hydrogen home refuelling station works via an electrolyser which produces the gas from water and electricity.
This has enabled several thousands to gain access to phone lines, mobile and landline, electricity, gas and water.
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Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse about 100 protesters who built barricades and lit fires.
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Turkish police routinely use tear gas and water cannons to break up demonstrations.
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