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The importance of trade in services and environmental amenities to the location of producer service activities in the western United States

Allison, T. - 2008

The use of business services has had an increasingly important effect on economic performance in many industries, with the ability of firms in a given location to respond to changes in external markets, production techniques and material supplies often determined by the local provision of...

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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change

Yohe, G.W. - 2008

It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...

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United States -- Mexican joint ventures: A case history approach

Moore, N.L.; Chidester, R.J.; Hughes, K.R.; Fowler, R.A. - 2008

Because the Mexican government has encouraged investment in Mexico by increasing the percentage of ownership of a Mexican business that a US company can hold, joint ventures are more attractive now than they had been in the past. This study provides preliminary information for US renewable...

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Expanding the role of the cost engineer

Stutz, R.A.; Shaw, R.F. - 2009

doing routine occupation health physicals for the Laboratory. Generally, these questions are concerned about why the costs … levels; based on age, sex, type of work, and years since last physical. The LANL Health Services are housed in a 12 …,600 square foot building close to the population center of the Laboratory Health Services, produced by a staff of seven …

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Operations research and systems analysis of geopressured/geothermal resources in Texas. Final report

Lesso, W.G.; Zinn, C.D.; Cornwell, J. - 2007

A preliminary resource assessment, based on the best available parameters, was made to identify potentially suitable fairways. Of those examined only the Brazoria Fairway in the Frio Formation was able to produce sufficient fluid to meet the minimum requirements. These requirements are based...

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Mixed waste paper to ethanol fuel

2008

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the use of mixed waste paper for the production of ethanol fuels and to review the available conversion technologies, and assess developmental status, current and future cost of production and economics, and the market potential. This report is based...

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ELSA: an electric power supply analysis model for the Pacific Northwest. [Effects of developments]

Harrington, T.P.; Jacobsen, J.J. - 2008

Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) is conducting a program to help assess impacts of energy-related developments through the year 2025 in six northwestern states--Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. ELSA (Electric Power Supply Analysis Model), one component of this...

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Economic Impacts of Geothermal Development in Deschutes County, Oregon.

Sifford, Alex; Beale, Kasi - 2009

This study provides local economic impact estimates for a 100 megawatt (MW) geothermal power project in Oregon. The hypothetical project would be Deschutes County. Bonneville Power Administration commissioned this study to quantify such impacts as part of regional confirmation work recommended...

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Savings from new oil furnaces: A study conducted as part of Washington State's Oil Help Program

Davis, R. - 2008

The Washington State Energy Office (WSEO) has been running the Oil Help program for three years. Originally operated as a loan program, Oil Help switched to rebates during the 1987 and 1988. Rebates for oil furnace replacements made up over 70 percent of rebate funds, which totaled about $1.3...

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Distributional effects of the fiscal impact of power plant siting. [Nuclear power plants]

Vogt, D.P.; Bjornstad, D.J. - 2009

Classical economic base analysis is grounded in the concept that export activity drives the local economy and that economic impacts due to development can be traced to changes in the export base. Local government activities are frequently treated as a consequence of economic change, but no...

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