Bad timing, then, for Hi-Min Solar Power, a solar water-heater company that grew on the back of close political ties in its home province of Shandong.
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The barrage offers white water rafting, white water kayaking and power-boating and was originally opened in 1995.
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States with the strongest projection for water-cooled concentrated solar power plants and capacity (more than 15 sites each) are California, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
"Roads, metro-rail, increased water supply, availability of more power - these are the aspects in which the government is taking active steps, " he explains.
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His soldiers guard 150 facilities in the city -- including power stations, water treatment plants, schools and banks -- and have found more than 500 ammunition caches in schools and residential areas, he said.
The show was to have featured displays of boats across the city's docks and a programme of demonstrations including championship sailing, wake-boarding, power boat racing, and water-skiing.
The roof blew off one gym, and others have power or water-damage problems.
"There is almost no regulation concerning water or power use, no minimum standards for water-consuming appliances ... and very few energy requirements for buildings, " he laments.
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The job involves laying down the infrastructure for your city to flourish - power, water, roads and rail - and then watching as businesses and virtual people, called Sims, flock in.
The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.
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The device is a hinged flap connected to the sea-bed which uses wave power to deliver high-pressure water to an onshore turbine.
On at least two occasions last summer, the Bonneville Power Administration - the federal agency responsible for marketing power from dams in the Pacific Northwest - used water meant to aid migrating juvenile salmon to supply California with hydroelctricity.
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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Al-Qaeda lacks the technical expertise to sabotage Britain's national power and water systems, a cyber-security expert has told a committee of MPs.
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Mr Simplot himself, an avowed lover of skiing, duck shooting and the great outdoors, was attacked in the 1970s for his support for new coal-fired electricity plants along the Snake river and for a scheme to generate hydro-power by diverting water from another river into a vast underground tube.
We saw a number of Electric Imp demos and appliance ideas at the booth including a simple hand-held "detonator" toggle switch with LED, seven-segment counter, water level sensor, servo-controlled gauge, RGB light, power socket, Christmas light, power monitor, toy washing machine, 16x16 LED display and receipt printer (the latter two being combined to show the avatars and tweets of anyone mentioning the Electric Imp) -- all Internet aware.
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Four utility companies have revealed a multi-billion pound investment in water and power networks across Yorkshire and the North East.
Mr Khan, now Afghanistan's power-and-water minister, was deposed in 2004, partly due to an offensive by militants in Shindand district, around Azizabad.
Global revenues from clean tech businesses--including air and water purification, advanced materials, distributed power generation, renewable energy, and process controls, such as sensors to monitor air and water--now surpass 85 billion pounds, according to the Cleantech Venture Network, a for-profit membership group that connects venture and institutional investors with entrepreneurs.
In fact, the military is constantly testing green-power projects, such as a contraption that provides power and purifies water, or even a mobile nuclear reactor.
However, it is not just the U.S. that hungers for more or better roads, rail, ocean- and airports, power, water and telecom networks.
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But the iShack's developers say that slum dwellers usually have to wait for years for power and water grids or low-cost housing to arrive.
The Palestinian Authority has made it abundantly clear that it can never content itself with a ministate on the West Bank and Gaza, surrounded by hostile powers, limited in its control of water resources, airspace, and treaty-making power.
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According to Mr Filgate, the company has agreed to build a town hall in the village of Ugborodo - home to many of the protesters - and build schools and power and water systems.
While the nature of this threat landscape is uncertain, the potential damage a cyber-attack could pose to our internet-dependent telecommunications, power and even water infrastructure, has seen cyber security rise sharply up government agendas around the world in the last five years.
The rebuilding effort also represented a chance to create infrastructure improvements that would have helped the economy directly, such as investments in transportation, water and power systems, according to Arthur Levner-Lam, director of the hazard center at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
This month's update issued patches for 49 vulnerabilities, including one that plugs a hole exploited by Stuxnet, the first-known worm designed to target real-world infrastructure such as power stations, water plants and industrial units.
More reliability would have come from water-proof substations, building-centric Bloom fuel-cell power and local micro-grids.
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Subsidised power encourages relentless pumping of water, so water-intensive crops are grown in drought-prone areas, diminishing water tables.
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Earlier this month, researchers at a federal laboratory in Colorado announced they developed a one-step process that uses solar power to convert water into hydrogen.
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