Sentences with phrase «cubic metre of»

That would have needed a factor of 80 for every cubic metre of perennial Arctic ice melted, along with the same factor for every cubic meter of ice calved and melted from the base of the Antarctic ice shelves.

[5] One litre of fully saturated methane clathrate solid would therefore contain about 120 grams of methane (or around 169 litres of methane gas at 0 °C and 1 atm), [nb 1] or one cubic metre of methane clathrate releases about 160 cubic metres of gas.

- this is because the heat content of a cubic metre of space is extremely low, and is dominated by the photons passing through it.

«Temperature» is not «Heat»: a cubic metre of space near Earth's orbit has a «temperature» (as defined by the particle speeds) of some millions of degrees, but an astronaut would freeze to death without a proper thermal stabilisation system (vide the Apollo 13 movie!)

The molar density of a gas tells you the average number of molecules per cubic metre of the gas.

One cubic metre of concrete weighs approx. 2,400 Kg so approx. 240 Kg of CO2 is emitted for every cubic metre.

Thorium is relatively abundant (a cubic metre of garden soil typically contains around 60g of Thorium), and it is much safer than Uranium or Plutonium (a Thorium reactor can not sustain itself, so if it starts overheating, you just turn off the power supply).

Certified Passive House ventilation units have exceptional ECM fan energy performance of no more than 0.45 Watt - hours per cubic metre of ventilation air, so the cost of running one is $ 50 — $ 70 per heating season, with much of this energy cost recovered in the form of heat.

The dust test for IP5X... is conducted in a dust chamber for 8 hours, with talcum powder (2 kg per cubic metre of the test chamber) circulating, so it continually falls down onto the equipment under test.

In the study, risks from pollution exposures were reported in units of 10 micrograms per cubic metre of air.

A survey of mines by the Devon and Cornwall Prospecting Society has found up to 2.8 million Becquerels of radioactivity per cubic metre of air.

When methane hydrates «melt,» they release the methane trapped inside the ice, but because the methane was first trapped under pressure when the hydrate was formed, one cubic metre of solid methane hydrate will release 160 cubic metres of methane gas.

Each cubic metre of extruded polystyrene contained up to one kilogram of HBCDs; considerable amounts are lurking in homes.

At present, the density of ordinary baryons and radiation in the universe is estimated to be equivalent to about one hydrogen atom per cubic metre of space.

While its plants purify 9.5 million cubic metres of waste water annually, they also generate a revenue stream for the company.

Workers extracted 170,000 cubic metres of dirt, and had to underpin two neighbouring buildings to prevent them from toppling into the giant crater.

Trump's central campaign promise, as you know, is to build a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» along the U.S. - Mexico border, which analysts at investment firm Bernstein estimate could cost anywhere between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion, requiring 7 million cubic metres of concrete and 2.4 million tonnes of cement, among other materials.

«Four years later, the tailings pond dam failed, and 25 million cubic metres of effluent spilled into the watershed.

In 2011, more than 5.5 million cubic metres of raw logs were exported from British Columbia, resulting in mill closures and thousands of lost job opportunities.

After 25 million cubic metres of tailings and debris spilled into the formerly pristine, wild salmon supporting waters of Quesnel Lake there has been little in the way of consequences or accountability.

It is making daily tanker collections of 150 cubic metres of waste water created during cider production at the Bevisol plant in Ledbury, Herefordshire.

Interest is swelling in the UK, and the British Geological Survey recently released a report estimating that the north of England has around 35 trillion cubic metres of shale gas buried underground — enough to supply the country for decades.

Now we know that the diverted river dumped about 30 per cent of the sediment it was carrying — 5 million cubic metres of sand — and it became new land, says Jeffrey Nittrouer at the University of Illinois in Urbana - Champaign (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1525).

According to his group's measurements, almost 5 million cubic metres of sand was deposited along the Bonnet Carré Spillway during the 46 days the levee was open.

Up to 640 million cubic metres of water could be drained daily, says Falconer.

A scientific report last year showed the aquifer could sustainably supply 20 million cubic metres of fresh water a year.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) recently estimated that the UK has 150 billion cubic metres of shale gas, about half of its more conventional reserves.

There are two well heads on the surface: one pumps air down to fan the flames while the other retrieves a million cubic metres of combustion gases a day.

The UK has accumulated around 4.5 million cubic metres of nuclear waste, enough to fill Wembley stadium four times.

A standard kiln holds about six cubic metres of stacked wood, and produces about half a tonne of charcoal in a 48 - hour burn cycle.

According to research by the Netherlands Committee of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the SFID alone exports more than 250 000 cubic metres of logs a year from Cameroon.

The plant, which will be able to handle 10 cubic metres of waste water an hour, will use a combination of chemical and physical processes to extract the organic dye component and concentrate it into a sludge suitable for disposal in a landfill.

Latvia, for example, has underground salt caverns capable of storing 14 billion cubic metres of gas, which is enough to supply all three republics for 18 months.

Calculations suggest that about 9 million cubic metres of magma — 3,600 Olympic swimming pools» worth — pushed into the crust each year during peak growth.

Ten billion cubic metres of rock crashed down the mountain and smothered 370 square kilometres of land, travelling 95 kilometres in total (Global and Planetary Change, DOI: 10.1016 / j.gloplacha.2010.08.003).

Over 100 million cubic metres of debris travelled 20 kilometres.

Just after midnight on 14 December 1991, 12 million cubic metres of rock and ice peeled away from the summit of New Zealand's highest mountain.

The landslide has been continually slipping for 700 years and contains over 20 million cubic metres of material.

The US Energy Information Administration estimates that more than 8 billion cubic metres of gas are lost each year somewhere between the point of production and reaching homes across the nation.

A new natural gas pipeline will bring more than half a million cubic metres of natural gas a day to the area.

Each of the nine KOSMOS units enclosed about 75 cubic metres of seawater in a 25 metres long plastic bag.

Some scientists predicted that the oil would degrade quickly, but 20 years later, 87 cubic metres of the stuff was found to be sequestered beneath stony beaches, where it continues to kill otters that dig up clams.

By JAMES PAPIKE and JOHN EICHELBERGEREighty years ago, 12 cubic metres of molten rock burst from the ground in the wilderness of southwest Alaska.

Each year a million cubic metres of sediment has been dragged by the currents southwards down the coast or out into the North Sea.

Today, some 1.75 million cubic metres of peat are scraped out every year for use as a growing medium in nurseries and gardens.

«Last year western Germany alone produced 6000 cubic metres of the type of waste which would be stored at Konrad,» says Viehl.

«And 50 000 cubic metres of waste is currently being stored at temporary sites.»

We pump out 30 billion tonnes each year, which amounts to 60 billion cubic metres of compressed CO2 under the typical conditions in Earth's crust, he says.

Millions of cubic metres of spoil must be dredged and dumped near the reef for the coal port to be constructed.

Eighty years ago, 12 cubic metres of molten rock burst from the ground in the wilderness of southwest Alaska.