Sentences with phrase «warm water discharge»

Warm water discharge from a factory into a cold stream is pollution.

The proposed site of the first new nuclear station was on the coast of Port Elizabeth, where warm water discharged by the nuclear station's cooling system would have raised the temperature of the ocean, harming marine life and jeopardizing the livelihoods of small - scale fishermen in the area.

Not exact matches

Clean the discharge with warm tap water, starting from the inner corner of the eye going outward.

Indian Point needs state permits to use water from the Hudson River to cool its reactors and then discharge the warm water back into the river.

After it heats up, about 90 percent of that water is discharged back into the Sound at about 20 degrees warmer than when it was taken in, said Ken Holt, a spokesman for Millstone.

During the 2003 heat wave in Europe, reactors at inland sites in France were shut down or had their power output reduced because the water receiving the discharge was already warmer than environmental regulations allowed.

And two, once the cooling water has passed through the system it is often discharged back where it came from in a much warmer state.

The increased area of warm water on the surface allows the tropical Pacific Ocean to discharge more heat than normal into the atmosphere through evaporation.

New research shows how easterly winds in the summer of 2014 caused the anomalously warm subsurface water of the tropical Pacific — which presages an El Niño event and formed following the early 2014 westerly wind burst — to never discharge poleward, thereby remaining in the tropical Pacific and giving a head start to the developing 2015 - 16 El Niño.

This could lead to agricultural drought and suppressed crop yields.15 This would also increase thermoelectric power plant cooling water temperatures and decrease cooling efficiency and plant capacity because of the need to avoid discharging excessively warm water (see also Ch.

Fracking has been blamed for contamination of drinking water, air pollution, earthquakes, water shortages, global warming, radiation discharge, and even cancer.

When there is a relaxation of trade winds, the warm water in the West Pacific Warm Pool sloshes to the east and speads across the surface and there's an El Nino event, which is the discharge mwarm water in the West Pacific Warm Pool sloshes to the east and speads across the surface and there's an El Nino event, which is the discharge mWarm Pool sloshes to the east and speads across the surface and there's an El Nino event, which is the discharge mode.

The 1995/96 La Nina provided the build - up of warm waters that was then discharged by the 1997/98 El Nino and redistributed by the 1998/99/00 / 01 La Nina.

During the El Nino, the discharge phase, warm water that had been stored in the Pacific Warm Pool sloshes to the east where it spreads across the surface, raising sea surface temperatures in the tropical Paciwarm water that had been stored in the Pacific Warm Pool sloshes to the east where it spreads across the surface, raising sea surface temperatures in the tropical PaciWarm Pool sloshes to the east where it spreads across the surface, raising sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific.

The ENSO discharge - recharge cycle has been discussed in papers as long as the Warm Water Volume data has been available from the TAO Project, possibly longer.

It appears so because of the focus on the El Nino as the discharge phase, but in reality the warm water released by the El Nino remains on the surface during the La Nina phase.

Sunlight provides the energy for the recharge during La Nina, and the El Nino discharges (releases and distributes) it as warm water.

This EPA ruling that demands conversion of cooling systems from once - through to cooling towers is meant to mitigate impacts upon marine life from sucking in marine animals into the water intake, impinging larger animals onto filter screens, and discharging warm water that disrupts the ecosystem's normal temperature balance.

And two, once the cooling water has passed through the system it is often discharged back where it came from in a much warmer state.

This is borne out by the Eco-Label criteria which found that the four environmental problems to which paints contribute the most are: • petroleum consumption for the production of titanium dioxide, resins and solvents • global warming through emissions of CO2 and VOCs resulting respectively from titanium dioxide production and from solvent paint application • atmospheric acidification due to CO2 and sulphur from titanium dioxide processing • discharges of waste into water due to titanium dioxide processing.

«The 14.7 ka b2k event followed Heinrich event H1 at a time when the ice sheets in the North were still extensive whereas the North was more deglaciated at 11.7 ka b2k (34), reducing the amount of ice discharge available to change the density of North Atlantic ocean waters and thereby the THC before the warming onset.»

Their findings provide evidence that policies around wastewater discharge and water pollution can help corals survive in warming waters.