Sentences with phrase «cubic tonnes»

They take 200 billion cubic tonnes of water out of the earth each year for irrigation.

In one of the Gulf's most successful projects to date, eight million cubic tonnes of household and commercial waste were removed during construction.

There's a cubic tonne of stuff vying for your cash this week, especially for fans of all things Nintendo.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

It makes up about 75 per cent of the known Universe, and here on Earth there are more than 100 million tonnes of it in every cubic kilometre of seawater.

A cubic kilometre of ice is difficult to imagine, but think of a cube that is 1 km long on each side: It will contain 1,000,000,000 tonnes of water.

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.

1 tonne (a million grams) of it will take 1,000,000 / 1.9 = 526,315 lt of volume, which is 526.315 cubic metres.

Every year the architects use 30,000 cubic metres of snice (snow and ice), plus 1000 tonnes of ice, made into gigantic ice blocks to create the iconic structure.

That oil in - place is heavy oil, with a density close to a metric tonne per cubic meter, so the associated carbon adds up to about 230 gigatonnes — essentially enough to close the «game over» gap.

To be specific, that's 1200 billion barrels times.16 cubic meters per barrel times.85 metric tonnes per cubic meter crude times.85 tonnes carbon per tonne crude.

No one yet knows the number of dead fish, but they have stockpiled five cubic metres (177 cubic feet) so far, so it's possible there is over a tonne of dead fish in the lake.

Their findings showed a startling 218 - 990 million hectares of land would have to be converted to switchgrass (which is 14 - 65 times as much land as the US uses to grow corn for ethanol); also 17 - 79 million tonnes of fertiliser a year — which would be 75 % of all global nitrogen fertiliser used at present; and 1.6 - 7.4 trillion cubic metres of water a year.

MacDougall et al vary the carbon concentration of the permafrost from 15.8 to 26.3 kg / cubic metre, which leads to a range of 837-1206 PgC (billion tonnes of carbon) for the upper 3.5 metres of permafrost.

Btw, since talking about scale, 100 cubic km rock is about 200 billion tonnes - so SO2 is about 1 / 1000th of the total, which is the typical abundance of sulfur in the earth's crust.

A cubic kilometre of ice is difficult to imagine, but think of a cube that is 1 km long on each side: It will contain 1 000 000 000 tonnes of water.

In fact, if each footing is 400 cubic metres, it will contain about 1000 tonnes of concrete, 110 tonnes of cement, and this would involve the release of about 100 tonnes of CO2 — not Sexton's 2000 tonnes!

On his page eight Dr Sexton seems to be confusing tonnes with cubic metres and cement with concrete.

So 2000 cubic metres of concrete weighs about 5000 tonnes and would contain about 550 tonnes of cement (and this would release about 500 tonnes of CO2 during manufacture).

000 tonnes of steel, enough to build 63 Eiffel Towers, and moved about 102,600,000 cubic metres of earth.

A liter of water weighs 1 kilo; a cubic meter of water weighs 1 tonne.

The units of measurement used for each fossil fuel will be the most commonly used units internationally: metric tons (tonnes) for coal, cubic metres for natural gas and barrels for oil.

At the system's heart is the biodigester — a tank of nearly 30 cubic meters that converts poo produced by 800 or so people into about six tonnes of liquid fertilizer a month, sold to farmers.

Construction took place over four years (2010 - 2014) and involved 2000 tonnes of steel and 10000 cubic metres of concrete.