Onions make you cry, add flavor to food and win popularity for their medicinal benefits. Now the vegetable has another use—_____ green energy.
Anew system debuts(首次亮相)on Friday that _____ onion juice into electricity at Gills Onions, the largest fresh onion processor in the United States.
The Oxnard, California-based company _____ its new onion-fueled power to reduce its electric bill by $700,000 a year and _____ its annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30,000 tons.
The _____ ending to this green energy tale, however, started with another question: how to _____ onion waste.
“_____ we peel an onion, 35 to 40 percent of the onion comes off before we have a(n)_____ onion. That's the top, tail and skin around the onion, and _____ we can get to the meat,” said Steven Gill, co-owner of the 25-year-old company.
They used to pull the waste to the fields for compost(混合肥料), but that turned out to be a tough ______. Ten years ago, Gill started looking at technology for a(n) _____, including microturbines(微型燃气轮机).
“We ______ cutting the skins into pieces and extracting all the ______, which is very high in sugars, and bacteria love that stuff,” Gill said.
In the new system, bacteria ______ methane(甲烷)gas from the juice. The gas then goes to two 300 kilowatt fuel cells, creating ______ power for 460 homes. If everything goes smoothly, ______ are that the company will get 35 to 40 percent of its electricity from the on-site generator.
The company ______ $ 9. 5 million in the project and will receive $2. 7 million from Southern California Gas Co. _____ cutting its electric bill, the company will save $400,000 in costs and expects paybacks in the new future.
The onion grower now has a new ______: to be a zero-waste facility in the coming decade.
“We want to ______ it all the way through and make the full circle,” Gill said.
【小题1】 | A.storing | B.conveying | C.generating | D.pushing |
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【小题2】 | A.changes | B.transports | C.moves | D.throws |
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【小题3】 | A.urges | B.expects | C.assumes | D.promises |
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【小题4】 | A.control | B.remove | C.check | D.cut |
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【小题5】 | A.satisfying | B.disappointing | C.suitable | D.stable |
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【小题6】 | A.take care of | B.look out for | C.get rid of | D.give way to |
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【小题7】 | A.When | B.Unless | C.Once | D.Until |
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【小题8】 | A.delicious | B.practical | C.accessible | D.usable |
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【小题9】 | A.eventually | B.luckily | C.probably | D.suddenly |
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【小题10】 | A.problem | B.decision | C.situation | D.mistake |
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【小题11】 | A.excuse | B.agreement | C.solution | D.judgment |
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【小题12】 | A.end up | B.hold out | C.set out | D.take up |
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【小题13】 | A.tails | B.skins | C.gas | D.juice |
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【小题14】 | A.protect | B.produce | C.prevent | D.introduce |
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【小题15】 | A.much | B.more | C.enough | D.too |
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【小题16】 | A.challenges | B.chances | C.guesses | D.things |
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【小题17】 | A.applied | B.distributed | C.invested | D.attracted |
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【小题18】 | A.In terms of | B.In response to | C.In exchange for | D.In addition to |
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【小题19】 | A.worry | B.achievement | C.adventure | D.goal |
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【小题20】 | A.observe | B.follow | C.get | D.put |
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