State Re-Introduces Homebuilder Incentives ; Natural Gas Drilling Boom Sparks Demand for New HousesA state housing agency has brought back an incentive programdesigned to spur home construction...Eyre, Eric
In the event of an incident occurring, it is essential in the first instance to shut off the gas supply. This is recognized in the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations by the need for an ‘emergency control valve’ sited close to the entry to a building. In smaller premises, th...
(1) the availability of highly efficient cheap natural gas boilers and cheap gas supply for heating, (2) lack of experience of installation companies in installing HPs, and (3) earlier HP systems that were suitable of newly built houses but generally not for the replacement market of the ...
The gas company has acknowledged in notices sent to customers that natural gas can contain small amounts of benzene. Elliott H. Harris, an environmental engineer for the gas company, said benzene levels range from 0 to 50 parts per million in natural gas depending on the source of supply. T...
Earthquakes can also break up gas and oil pipes. This can cause fires to break out, which can do as much damages as the earthquake itself. Another effect of earthquakes is tsunamis(海啸). These are huge waves created by earthquakes beneath the sea. They can be many metres high and cause...
well, it can afford to supply surplus power enough to be marketed to the neighboring nation-states earning adequate foreign exchange beyond meeting the national energy demand (NMSA2001). Clean freshwater resources are needed for household utilities (drinking, cooking, bathing, etc.), irrigation agric...
Also, with the development of globalization, supply chains in businesses are spread over large areas in and out of the country. Today, a fire in a single factory can cause effects that propagate throughout the entire world. Devastating natural phenomena like earth- quakes catch our attention in...
Globally, attention has been drawn to the increasingly alarming rates of food loss and waste (FLW) along the food supply chain (FSC) and its contributions to the depletion of the natural resources and rise in greenhouse gas emi
For instance, in 1798, Thomas R. Malthus published a book—An Essay on the Principle of Population—in which he assumed that food supply grew arithmetically while population grew geometrically, and thus the world would be in misery because of the pressure of increasing population on the food ...
storage for supplies, as well as a power supply for sustained and independent operation. The device is preferably positioned within the basement of a home and tethered to a structural wall, or alternatively is affixed to the ground using structural footings when in use outside of a mobile or ...