Sentences with phrase «created as a reservoir»

General Palmer was responsible for giving the land for the cemetery and Prospect Lake, solely created as a reservoir to water the grass and -LSB-...]

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Indeed, thanks to a snowy winter and cool spring, the snowpack covering the entire Pacific Northwest — the vast majority of which is over 1,000 metres elevation and still snowbound — is creating a glut of zero - emission energy as that huge annual reservoir melts and powers hydroelectric turbines.

As the book points out, for example, the «obviously inadequate instantiation» of caritas in medieval Christianity helped to precipitate the Reformation and its leaders» emphasis on doctrine; Reformation - era «authorities» breaches of caritas via confessional coercion created a reservoir of resentment sufficient to spring and sustain the secularizing, antireligious, liberationist ideology pervasive in the modern era down to the present»; and awareness of churches» collusion with European imperial colonial violence is linked to the steep decline in European churchgoing since World War II.

RoR dams can cause a spike in methylmercury in two ways — they can form small reservoirs, called headponds, which flood soil and create slow - flowing, low - oxygen environments; or they can create higher temperatures in the stream as a result of the reduced flow conditions when portions of the stream are diverted to the turbines.

The patch also comprises a reservoir system to act as channels for drugs to be encapsulated in backing layers, circumventing the premature closure of miniaturised pores created by the microneedles.

Water management techniques such as irrigation and damming rivers to create reservoirs, rather than climate conditions or geographic location, better explain the findings, they say.

For the first time, satellites and ground - based detectors have watched as a tendril of plasma unfurls from a reservoir around the planet and creates a protective buffer.

This explains the presence of reservoirs of high - energy particles under these areas in the magnetopause but for some time scientists remained puzzled as to why these reservoirs are also found in areas where the two magnetic fields at the magnetopause are aligned and should therefore create an impenetrable barrier.

From a reservoir of largely vintage ephemera, Letscher creates a dense pictorial space in which words, images, colors and shapes tell a story about the world we imagined for ourselves as children and the often - painful real world we experience as adults.

As artists continue to push further into uncharted visual and conceptual territory — and as the top of the market surges ever skyward, creating enormous new reservoirs of support for their work — the question is a compelling onAs artists continue to push further into uncharted visual and conceptual territory — and as the top of the market surges ever skyward, creating enormous new reservoirs of support for their work — the question is a compelling onas the top of the market surges ever skyward, creating enormous new reservoirs of support for their work — the question is a compelling one.

For Martínez Celaya, the capacity of painting to create meaning depends on the instability between the references in painting and its materiality, between what it brings forth as idea, dream, or invocation, and its factual condition as object and reservoir of work.

There's a back to the land movement of sorts around Las Vegas these days, driven by the desert city's growing realization that the only reason it can exist — the sapphire, but shrinking, expanse of Lake Mead 30 miles away — is not as durable as the Hoover Dam that created the reservoir 70 years ago.

As a consequence we fight the overwhelming elements in New Orleans, we build homes on flood plains, we build cities on earthquake faults, we expand into deep forests which natures regularly refreshes with fire, we put reservoirs in dangerous places, we create great open sores on our land and watch Nature fill them with poison (Berkeley Pit).

Hydroelectric power may imply extensive environmental impacts, as lands are flooded to create reservoirs, displacing indigenous peoples and animal species.

Drill one injector and up to three producers and create a stimulated reservoir for small scale power project as demonstration.

Tropical reservoirs flood huge amounts of organic matter, which creates methane as it decays.

Wind isn't actually as unreliable as people think and the energy can be buffered in large reservoirs if too much is created or to be used when there isn't enough wind.

to be used for drinking water Less evaporation from the storage reservoir Little loss of land No damage due to dam failure Pollutants such as mosquitoes and snails can not exist in the reservoirs Siltation does not create any problems Less vulnerable / below the ground surface in a shallow soil toward the impervious crystalline sub soil.

Had Australia any competent hydrologists giving counsel to policymakers, they may have created a far deeper and more robust infrastructure, one which could prevent drought at the same time as preventing flood, instead of a flimsy system of dams and reservoirs without redundancy.

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