Sentences with phrase «china by meters»

Water tables around the world are dropping dramatically — in China by meters a year — as diesel pumps relentlessly draw water to the surface to irrigate grain.

Not exact matches

TRACK & FIELD — In Sydney, KERRY SAXBY of Australia finished the 5,000 - meter walk in 21:16 to lower by 10.5 seconds the women's world record set in 1986 by Guan Ping of China.

Top was a desire to boost China's participation in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), which is being developed by an international consortium.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural florBy studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural florby Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study shows that in the most polluted areas of northern and eastern China, aerosol pollution is reducing the potential for solar electricity generation by as much as one and a half kilowatt - hour per square meter per day, or up to 35 percent.

Winston's postdoc Lun Jiang notes that in the 1990s, evacuated tubes used for solar water heating cost more than US$ 100 per meter, but they now cost just $ 2 — 3 because of mass production driven by widespread use of the systems in China.

Slightly longer than four meters (at 4,295 mm), the vehicle, built by the GAC - Mitsubishi joint venture, is positioned as a lifestyle compact SUV in China.

Set on a ten hectares exotic landscaped garden, fringed by 800 meters of a white sand beach, fronting the China sea, the Belhamy resort has been designed as a authentic ancient town, to reflect the different cultural influences of Hoi An.

The exhibition will open at Qatar Museums» 3,500 - square - meter Gallery Al Riwaq on March 14, 2016 featuring works by 15 living artists and artist collectives born in Mainland China: Jenova CHEN, HU Xiangqian, HU Zhijun, HUANG Yong Ping, LI Liao, LIANG Shaoji, LIU Wei, LIU Xiaodong, Jennifer Wen MA, SUN Yuan & PENG Yu, WANG Jianwei, XU Bing, XU Zhen, YANG Fudong, and ZHOU Chunya.

Many rivers no longer flow all the way to the sea; 50 % of the world's wetlands have disappeared and major groundwater aquifers are being mined unsustainably, with water tables in parts of Mexico, India, China, and North Africa declining by as much as one meter per year (Somerville and Briscoe 2001).

By some accounts, China is adding some 2 billion square meters of construction area per year, accounting for nearly half the world's total.

China is already building a 60 - billion cubic meter per year natural gas hub in Guangdong Province to import natural gas by land by pipeline from as far away as Turkmenistan, as well as provide domestic distribution for Liquid Natural Gas delivered by sea from Australia, Indonesia and the Middle East.

If China, the United States, Japan, and the European Union achieve their goals, they will have a combined total of 1,080 million square meters of water and space heating capacity by 2020.

If the developing world's 5 billion people in 2020 have 0.1 square meter of rooftop water heating capacity per person by 2020, roughly the same as in China or Turkey today, this would add 500 million square meters to the world total, pushing it over 1.5 billion square meters.

China's goal by 2020 is to octuple domestic natural gas consumption from 39 billion cubic meters in 2004 to 200 billion cubic meters in 2020, raising the percentage of its energy use satisfied by clean - burning gas from three to nine percent.

Over the next few decades, China will build 1.5 - 2.5 billion square meters of new buildings annually as China's urban population grows by about 350 million people.

A new study by the Wind Energy and Solar Energy Resources Evaluation Centre, run by China's Meteorological Administration, put the near - shore wind resource at 200 GW, at depths of 2 — 25 meters, which are ideal for in - shore and inter-tidal wind farms, the latter being in coastal areas that are submerged during flood tides but exposed during ebb tides.

The challenge to improve heating infrastructure and improve efficiency for millions of square feet within existing buildings is made even more formidable by the fact that China is currently adding some 22 billion new square feet (2 billion square meters) of construction per year.

Chandler took a slightly different view, going as far as saying that the MRV issue in China was in his opinion «a little overrated» because there are many things that can in fact be measures - investments into the energy sector is tracked, there are meters on wind turbines to measure electricity generation, and the amount of coal consumed is reported, he cited just by way of examples.

¹ Kirin 970 chipset was created by HUAWEI and was the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) chip to be introduced in a smartphone, first released in the HUAWEI Mate 10 Series in 2017 ² PORSCHE DESIGN HUAWEI Mate RS is available globally in Black, and as a limited edition in China the device will also be available in Red ³ 10Watt wireless quick charge ⁴ Water proof in one meter of water for 30 minutes

Created by artist Barnaby Barford, the six - meter high Tower of Babel comprising of 3,000 bone - china facades, depicting different London shops, may prove the piece de resistance.