If future EPA regulations mandate conversion of existing once-through pond cooling systems to tower cooling systems, water consumption would increase by up to 50 100% if everything else (e.g., generator technology etc) remained the same.
Meanwhile, federally mandated ethanol conversion is withholding grain from food production and driving up corn prices.
No railroad officials were punished, but in the following year, 1903, the State Legislature mandated the conversion from steam to electric power.
"Our stations have invested, raised and spent more than a billion dollars for mandated digital conversion," Lawson noted.
The US Food and Drug Administration mandates that conversion to dementia be used as study endpoint in treatment trials and in studies to validate biomarkers.
Since digital TV signals are more efficient than analog signals, that buffer will no longer be necessary after February, 2009 (when the conversion to digital sets is mandated in the U.S.).
Pricing data were adjusted for each country to the wholesaler acquisition level, using conversion factors calculated either at a margin mandated by the government (such as in South Africa) or using a large pool of products (such as in China).
The conversions are based on the International Building Code mandated use of the engineering data contained in ASCE 7,, 'Snow Loads'.
Protection of natural forests does appear explicitly in the text for the first time, and a safeguard on conversion of natural forests to plantations has reappeared, but neither are mandated.
Perpetuating this paranoia, Alice Dreger, in wired.com, suggested that some people would be better served by conversion therapy, and that providers, parents, and others might instead be mandated by legislation to change the gender of these children.
