Dr. Zhang said he undertook the research partly to find a way to produce alternative fuel but also because it provided a potential solution to the twin problems of pollution and odor at modern hog farms.
To be sure, there are other studies supporting the dangers of secondhand smoke, but almost all of them were underwritten by pharmaceutical companies that produce alternative nicotine delivery systems like nicotine patches, gums, inhalers and lozenges.
A.D.M.'s shares have fallen more than 40percentthis yearar on concerns that record corn prices would erode ethanol margins and that the federal government would reduce incentives to produce alternative fuels from crops, given rising food prices.
GreenMountain.com, which had been a unit of a Vermont utility, does not produce alternative energy but markets such power to mostly residential customers who are willing to pay a premium.
The Resolution Foundation is due to produce alternative proposals early in November at an event attended by Conservative writer Tim Montgomerie and Frank Field, the Labour chairman of the work and pensions selection committee.
But as those late-stage financing options have dried up, some clean technology companies have survived by giving up on the idea of building big, expensive factories to produce alternative energy and instead selling their technology to bigger companies.
Khosla Ventures is increasing its green-tech investment as most venture capitalists have been scaling back on such investments, particularly those that require building factories to produce alternative energy.
Mr Maliki has made compromises in the past, notably with the Kurds, and his leading critics among the Sunnis and Sadrists have themselves failed to produce alternative legislation that could help reconcile the country's competing groups.
Moreover, we can reliably produce alternative results only by acquiring a new habit.
Emerging data are beginning to produce alternative measures of daily population flows relevant to crime.
It should be noted that other methods of delineation are likely to produce alternative results.
