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Consists of businesses that are not engaged in transportation or manufacturing or other types of industrial activities. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes for commercial establishments are 50 through 87, 89, and 91 through 97.
Industry:Energy
Conventional turbine generators are used with the dry steam resources. The steam is used directly, eliminating the need for boilers and boiler fuel that characterizes other steam-power-generating technologies. This technology is limited because dry-steam hydrothermal resources are extremely rare. The Geysers, in California, is the nation's only dry steam field.
Industry:Energy
Costs that are repetitive and occur when an organization produces similar goods or services on a continuing basis.
Industry:Energy
Crops grown specifically for their fuel value. These include food crops such as corn and sugarcane, and nonfood crops such as poplar trees and switchgrass. Currently, two energy crops are under development: short-rotation woody crops, which are fast-growing hardwood trees harvested in 5 to 8 years; and herbaceous energy crops, such as perennial grasses, which are harvested annually after taking 2 to 3 years to reach full productivity.
Industry:Energy
Defects, such as dangling bonds, induced in an amorphous silicon semiconductor upon initial exposure to light.
Industry:Energy
Describes the reliability of power plants. It refers to the number of hours that a power plant is available to produce power divided by the total hours in a set time period, usually a year.
Industry:Energy
Discharging a battery to 20 percent or less of its full charge capacity.
Industry:Energy
A law that requires electric utilities to purchase electricity produced from qualifying power producers that use renewable energy resources or are cogenerators. Power providers are required to purchase power at a rate equal to the avoided cost of generating the power themselves. (See Avoided Costs and Qualifying Facility)
Industry:Energy
Uso di una sonda di DNA o RNA per rilevare la presenza della sequenza di DNA complementare in clonato cellule eucariotiche batteriche o coltivate...
Industry:Biology
