Sentences with phrase «deep underground at»

Next, the CO2 has to be extracted from the sorbent and sequestered, presumably by pumping it deep underground at relatively high concentration or by binding it to minerals — a bit like how we handle nuclear waste.

Hydraulic fracturing sends «huge volumes of toxic fluids» deep underground at high pressure, to fracture shale rock and release natural gas, Food & Water Watch claims.

Not exact matches

A July 2012 study by researchers at Duke University and California State Polytechnic University at Pomona found that salty water from deep underground could make its way into drinking water near the surface.

The detector is located deep underground to reduce interference from cosmic rays, at the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy.

As the resource remains open at depth, further deeper drilling will be required from underground, assuming the final feasibility is positive,» said Empire's managing director David Sargeant.

Start with the Oaxacan Old Fashioned here, then hit the underground bar at nearby Quiote or Mezcaleria Las Flores to go deep into the smoky spirit of the moment.

Still Waters Run Deep is back and for the first time at one of the best underground venues in the city, Open Studios, and who to better to helm the decks than our good friend from Romania, Herodot.

As a leading integrated producer and marketer of commodities with a well - balanced portfolio of diverse industrial assets, Glencore Xstrata are strongly positioned to capture value at every stage of the supply chain, from sourcing materials deep underground to delivering products to an international customer base.

The state had a de facto ban in place as it studied the process, which involves extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep underground.

He leads a team at Monash University in Melbourne that is developing technologies to extract fossil fuels more cleanly, turn waste products into fertiliser and cement, and store carbon dioxide deep underground.

The site is located deep within an underground cave system and contains the skeletal remains of at least 28 individuals that date to around 430,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene time period.

Mine shafts at New Mexico's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant are carved into solid salt deep underground, blocking radiation from going in or out.

For years scientists have been trying to store carbon dioxide captured from exhaust flues at power plants and other emitters, mostly by injecting it deep underground.

Because different noble gases move at various speeds through rock and water, the proportions present revealed that although the gases had come from deep underground, they had arrived directly rather than percolating through layers of rock and water (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1322107111).

The problem is that at least 100 of the state's aquifers were presumed to be useless for drinking and farming because the water was either of poor quality, or too deep underground to easily access.

Many scientific instruments rely on the ability to detect photons one at a time, from the huge tanks of water built deep underground to detect neutrinos from the Sun to the fluorescence detectors used in biological research.

To obtain a clearer, quantifiable look at carbon trapping rates in basalt, Giammar collected samples of the rock from Washington state, where researchers previously injected a thousand tons of CO2 gas deep underground into a basalt flow.

To study these deep stresses, scientists installed the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth: a borehole drilled two miles deep into the fault, along with an underground seismic monitoring station.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

Borehole advocates say tubes of cesium and strontium waste stored in a pool at the Hanford site in Washington could go deep underground.

Mary Kang, then a doctoral candidate at Princeton, originally began looking into methane emissions from old wells after researching techniques to store carbon dioxide by injecting it deep underground.

By minimizing the noise, these stations can detect millimeter - scale changes in position at the surface, which can be used to infer movement deep underground.

In a Webcast talk from Stanford University, Jodi Cooley, a particle physicist at Southern Methodist University, presented the latest results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search 2 (CDMS - 2), a series of detectors buried deep underground in a former iron mine in northern Minnesota.

«By studying images of this plate deep underground,» Sigloch says, «we can learn about conditions at the surface tens of millions of years ago.»

Color - coded layers represent depth intervals of about 120 miles; at its deepest, the plate is 1,000 miles underground.

Scientists working at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant near Reykjavik, Iceland, were able to pump the plant's carbon dioxide - rich volcanic gases into deep underground basalt formations, mix them with water and chemically solidify the carbon dioxide.

By burying 60 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions deep underground, the 275 - megawatt FutureGen plant, to be built in Mattoon, Illinois, seeks to show that coal can be, if not exactly clean, then at least cleaner.

The experiment and control plots are quite close together and the website for the study does report the trees drew from quite deep underground, so again groundwater levels would not be at 100 percent drought condition.

The world's only deep underground nuclear waste dump is in New Mexico, and efforts of many New Mexicans to prevent high - level waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have had an effect on the state's decisions (page 5).

The technology brings together the power of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which yields a remarkable peek into molecular interactions, and the ability to re-create the extreme conditions found on the tundra, in the deep ocean, or underground — conditions relevant to some of the biggest questions that scientists at DOE laboratories such as PNNL ask.

The goblin Griphook leads them to the first one, hidden deep inside a bank vault, where the first effective use of 3 - D hits you right between the eyes on an underground railway that looks like a ride on the Cyclone at Coney Island.

The opening twenty minutes are something special indeed, devoid of dialogue, beginning with Plainview deep underground, hacking away at the earth.

Did You Know: The caverns at Ruby Falls are the deepest commercial caverns in the U.S., extending more than 1,000 feet underground.

At the Tabacon thermal hot springs, geothermal - warmed mineral waters flow from deep underground, forming natural pools and small waterfalls.

At Xplor you'll fly through the sky on zip - lines, drive amphibious vehicles in the Mayan jungle, paddle with your hands aboard rafts, walk in ancient caverns and caves deep inside the Earth, and swim in an underground river.

You could swim in underground cenotes and marvel at the beauty of the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve on the Mayan Riviera, zipline through Mexico's lush tropical rainforests, experience world class deep - sea fishing in Cabo, go on a desert safari through the wilds of the Baja Peninsula, dive with whale sharks off the Pacific coast, the list is endless... The good news is your dedicated Luxury Retreats Concierge will be happy to arrange any activity you wish!

Dig your way underground and explore vivid worlds riddled with treasure, secrets and traps Combat dangerous enemies at every turn of the underworld's twisted paths, including shadowy creatures and the haunted remains of an ancient electrical threat Upgrade your gear to forge deeper into the earth and take on bigger challenges Swing across large chasms with your Hookshot and fly through caves with the jet engine!

One of the first truly good two - player games, Tunneler is best described as the multiplayer version of Digger: two players (using the same keyboard, i.e. hotseat mode) each control a tank that starts out on his / her own base at a random location on the screen, deep underground.

Two thirds of the way through, Lara finds herself deep underground, staring from a rocky outcrop at an underground fog.

Quarry, 2015, projected at cinematic scale in the SLG's main gallery, traces the excavation of marble from the deepest underground quarry in the world to its almost inevitable use in the modern luxury apartments of Manhattan skyscrapers.

Projected at cinematic scale in the SLG's main gallery, Quarry traces the excavation of marble from the deepest underground quarry in the world to its almost inevitable use in the modern luxury apartments of Manhattan skyscrapers.

National Drawing Day at IMMA Saturday 16 May, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm Human beings have been drawing for tens of thousands of years, with the earliest examples still as fresh as the day they were drawn on the walls of caves deep underground.

However, if carbon emissions go on growing at 2 % a year (and during this century, they have grown faster), then those who are children now would have to commit to a costly technological answer based on the belief that carbon dioxide can be captured, compressed and stored deep underground.