California production statistics

Table 15.1 Production statistics for white and red wine grape cultivars bred in California... 

The natural sodium sulfate industry in the United States in 2003 involved two producers, one in California and the other in Texas. On the byproduct manufacturing side, sodium sulfate was recovered in 17 plants across the United States these included ascorbic acid manufacture, battery reclamation, cellulose, rayon, and silica pigments. Approximate consumption of sodium sulfate by end use was soap and detergents, 46 percent pulp and paper, 13 percent textiles, 12 percent glass, 11 percent and others, 23 percent. See Table 26.6 for statistics on sodium sulfate production and consumption. 

A comprehensive quantum mechanical model for the effect has been developed by Marcus and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology. The Gao and Marcus (2001, 2002) model accounts for many of the experimental observations and utilizes classical quantum mechanical RRKM theory in its development. Statistical RRKM theory quantitatively describes the energetics of gas phase atom-molecule encounters and the relevant parameters which lead to either stabilization and product formation or re-dissociation to atomic and molecular species. This is a well-developed theory and will not be described in detail here. An important application of this theory is that it determines... 

Selected from U.N. Statistical Yearbooks [8] and from the Wine Institute (California) [24]. To convert liters to Imperial gallons, divide by 4.55 to U.S. gallons divide by 3.79. A common international unit for wine production volume is the hectoliter, which is 100 L. 

Data on lumber are available from two associations. The California Redwood Association, of San Francisco, assembles monthly statistics on redwood lumber production, stocks, and shipments. The Western Pine Association of Portland, Ore., issues weekly, monthly, and annual data on production, consumption, and sales of Western pine lumber. Statistics on prices, new products, equipment, facilities, and processes are assembled, but are usually available to members only. 

In evaluating fire statistics, it is important to recognize that these numbers are extrapolated from only a few recorded actual cases. For instance, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) report on upholstered furniture flammability shows a total of only three fatalities recorded for upholstered furniture fires initiated from open-flame sources for the states of California and Ohio in 1977 A single multi-fatality fire could dramatically change those numbers as happened in 1976. That year only one fire was coded as originating from a match or lighter. 

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in pharmaceutical and medical product manufacturing is expected to be one of the festest growing manufacturing areas, with a growth rate of about 6 percent expected through 2018. The majority of these jobs within the United States are projected to be found in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, California, North Carolina, and Illinois. 

Fleischmann and Pons were actually the first to observe the production of helium-4 in the Pd/D system [4]. However, due to the extensive criticism of their 1989 announcement, they did not want ... to open another front for attacks on their work, and so their measurements of helium-4 were never officially reported. The first reported experiments correlating the calorimetric excess enthalpy and helium-4 production were conducted by Miles in 1990 at the Naval Weapons Center (now NAWCWD) in China Lake, California, and the helium measurements were performed under the supervision of Bush at the University of Texas [6-8]. The presence of helium-4 was observed in eight out of nine effluent gas samples collected during the presence of excess heat [7,8]. No helium-4 was observed for six out of the six samples of effluent gas for a Pd/H20 control study. Measurements were also conducted for heUum-3 in these studies, but none was detected [6]. In summary, for all experiments conducted by Miles at NAWCWD, 12 out of 12 produced no excess helium-4 when no excess heat was measured, and 18 out of 21 experiments gave a correlation between the measurements of excess heat and helium-4 [8, 18]. Three of the experiments that produced hehum-4 were conducted under double-blind rules [8, 18]. An exact statistical treatment for all experiments shows that the probability is only one in 750 000 that the China Lake set of heat and helium-4 measurements could be this well correlated due to random experimental errors [18]. Furthermore, the rate of helium-4 production was always in the appropriate range of 10 to 10 atoms per second per watt of excess power for D -I- D or other likely nuclear reactions [8,18]. 

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