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political technology for managing entirepopulations as a group, essential to moderncapitalism etc., contrasting withtraditional modes of power based on the threat of death from asovereign .
Etymologies
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This makes it uniquely positioned as an adaptable, viable biomass source for both traditional and advanced liquid biofuels technologies as well as emerging markets such as biopower production.
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In direct contradiction to what have been typified as Modernist perspectives on epistemology, Foucault asserted that rational judgment, social practice and what he called 'biopower' are not only inseparable but co-determinant.
CHE > Latest news 2010
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The creation of a joint venture with AREVA to build power plants fueled by wood waste - the first "biopower" (biomass to electricity) partnership in the U.S. between two major energy companies.
unknown title 2009
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It can be used "directly" in "traditional" applications, as in household fires or wood burning cookers, or "indirectly" after conversion into a secondary form of energy, such as biopower and cogeneration, biodiesel or biogas.
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The creation of a joint venture with AREVA to build power plants fueled by wood waste - the first "biopower" (biomass to electricity) partnership in the U.S. between two major energy companies.
unknown title 2009
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Galvani believed that this phenomenon occurs since a body of a animal a arrange of inner era of electricity, that he called biopower.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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Galvani believed that this phenomenon occurs since a body of a animal a arrange of inner era of electricity, that he called biopower.
A brief 200 years history of the battery at Digital battery admin 2009
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Originally Israel emphasized disciplinary power and biopower, controls on the individual and on the population as a whole, while also using sovereign power.
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For biopower energy derived from biomass or plants, the government would set the price based on the provincial or local on-grid price of desulfurized coal plus a government subsidy of 0.25 yuan (3 cents U.S.) per kilowatt hour.
China's Renewable Energy Law and the Challenge of New Green Technology 2009
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This is merely standard procedure under the strategy of biopower, and so-called "full-spectrum dominance" wielded by transnational and military elites.
Balkinization 2007
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