production in the year 1946, at Sankargarh in Tamilnadu. Since then it has setup a total of 9 plants with a capacity to produce about 14 million tons of cement per annum. India cements is the market leader with a market share of 28% in the south and is likely to rise to 35%. The company has access to limestone resources to a large extent and plans to expand capacity by de-bottlenecking and optimization of existing plants and also by acquisitions. The company has a strong distribution network with over 6,000
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daily life. Could you imagine what will happen to us without energy? Without ‘it’ we could not power electricity to our homes, the vehicles we use to drive us to work could not function properly, and any type of industries you can think about, also would not run. These examples shows how vital the role of energy usage to mankind. In Malaysia, our main sources of energy is fossil fuel which includes coal, petroleum and natural gas. These elements are substantial in being the core features for powering
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then die, not only will the soil be affected, but the plants that are in that soil will be affected, also affecting the food web as a whole (Lenntech, 2011). Water can be contaminated with cadmium via runoff and the air is polluted via anthropogenic emissions. There are ways to reduce the effects of cadmium. They include not smoking, not burning municipal trash, reduction in the burning of fossil fuels, and higher safety standards at plants/factories where cadmium emissions
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WARMING NATURAL GAS WEAK WEAPONS AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Nathan Myhrvold found "some really counterintuitive results" when he and study coauthor Ken Caldeira set out to see what the climate effect would be if the world switched from coal power plants (like the one seen above in West Virginia) to natural gas and other sources. INDEX ------------------------------------------------- Natural gas a weak weapons against climate change pg 3 -------------------------------------------------
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A REPORT ON INDIA’S BIOMASS POWER SECTOR SUBMITTED BY RAVI JAIN 1226109240 TO Prof. V.L.RAO IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE COURSE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT POLICY 17th December, 2009 GIIB, Visakhapatnam EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The total installed capacity in India is 1,50,000MW but we are facing a power deficit of around 10%. The per capita power consumption is 665 kWh and this figure is steadily increasing. To meet this increasing demand and reduce the current peak shortage, the Government has planned
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Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mining and Engineering and Mine Surveying Western Australia School of Mines 12585 - Mine Planning 532 Research Paper 1 – Mine Planning Process and the Carbon Tax Due Date : Friday 19-8-2011 Word Count: 2470 Abstract On 15 December 2008, the Federal Government launched its 2020 target for greenhouse gas emissions and its White Paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) as the start of the policy and legislation process. The mining
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9-204-109 REV: OCTOBER 23, 2006 MIHIR DESAI Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES In June 2003, Rob Venerus, director of the newly created Corporate Analysis & Planning group at The AES Corporation, thumbed through the five-inch stack of financial results from subsidiaries and considered the breadth and scale of AES. In the 12 years since it had gone public, AES had become a leading independent supplier of electricity in the world with more than $33 billion in assets
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segment, continues with monthly additions exceeding 17.6 million connections. In the midst of the worstever slowdown in the history of world civil aviation, even the modest levels of growth in India are indicative of resilience. Core industries like power, coal and other infrastructure like ports and roads are also reviving. Available evidence points to a steady revival of flows of investible resources. However, the levels of broadband penetration, capacity creation in some crucial infrastructure sectors
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What do we mean when we talk about an energy crisis? Is that an appropriate term for framing this discussion? Shah: The word energy is very confusing. Energy includes both transportation fuel—which I think people are very concerned about—and coal, solar, wind, and other things that produce electricity. People confuse the two, and while we have fast-rising prices of electricity—5 percent rate increases per year since 2000—the fourfold increase in oil prices since 1999 is a much bigger problem
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1. Introduction 1.1 Background Japan has the third largest economy in the world. As it is surrounded by sea, the country’s port plays an important role in maritime transportation for both exports and imports. In March 2011, the world was affected when Japan was struck with natural disasters (Earthquake and Tsunami). This sudden disaster sent everyone around the world into frenzy. It affected Japan’s ports, shipping and logistics. As a result of the natural disasters, ports in the northern
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