Sentences with phrase «freshwater from seawater»

The researchers believe these same structural elements make wood a superior material for generating clean freshwater from seawater.

Callahan, a naval architect and experienced sailor, survived by catching fish with a makeshift spear and drinking from his raft's solar stills — inflatable plastic tents that captured one pint of evaporated freshwater from seawater each day.

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Apart from relying upon imported freshwater and local yield as well as seawater (for flushing) to meet its demand needs, Hong Kong has been exploiting reclaimed water, recycled grey water (including rainwater) and desalinated water in order to enhance the sources of its water supply infrastructure.

When temperatures began warming up, freshwater from melting ice that flowed into the Nordic Seas would have diluted salty seawater near the surface.

In fact, certain of TEPCO's actions in the aftermath of the explosions have been confused and, some might opine, lacking discipline of purpose to the extent that expedient decisions have been made without proper forethought and judiciousness to avoid knock - on consequences: for example, the injection of seawater may have resulted in salt deposits sufficient to foul cooling flows in the lower regions of the RPV [reactor pressure vessel]; the liberation of hydrogen from seawater is more rampant than from freshwater and radiolysis of oxygen from the cooling water could provide stoichiometric conditions and ignition with hydrogen in the absence of air in the containments; and the latest and most recent announcement to deploy a nitrogen purge to the Unit 1 reactor seems yet another ill - explained and unjustified desperate measure».