Sentences with phrase «from point sources»

CO2 is probably a fair proxy for particulates from point sources; take a look at which plumes go toward the equator:

With a proposed rule on light - duty vehicles waiting in the wings, the agency issued today — opening day for the climate talks in Copenhagen — its «endangerment finding» concluding that GHGs pose a threat to both public health and welfare, tests required under the Clean Air Act in order to regulate emissions from point sources, such as power plants, manufacturing plants, and vehicles.

After all, not all emissions come from point sources such as industrial plants; they also come from distributed sources such as agriculture and transportation.

The NPDES program regulates the discharge of pollutants from point sources to waters of the United States.

When experts tell me that benthic debris basically just falls to the bottom and sits there I love to tell them I have 50K objects that tell me that's not true and in fact many objects undoubtedly move «uphill» from their point sources miles offshore into my greedy little hands.

CDR techniques complement carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) methods that primarily focus on reducing CO2 emissions from point sources such as fossil fuel power plants.»

After all, not all emissions come from point sources such as industrial plants; they also come from distributed sources such as agriculture and transportation.

As pollution from point sources — single identifiable sources such as sewage — has been cleaned up over time, the emerging concern has become what are known as nonpoint sources, or diffuse sources, throughout the watershed, such as agricultural lands.

«Consider a bundle of light rays emanating from a point source,» a section on physics and metaphysics begins.

Graney suggested in 2008 that Galileo's observations of stars were actually diffraction patterns called Airy disks — patterns of concentric circles that arise when light from a point source, such as a star, passes through a hole.

In a commercial setting, CO2 could come from a point source like a power plant, Yu said.

«On such surfaces, called hyberbolic metasurfaces, the waves emitted from a point source propagate only in certain directions and with open (concave) wavefronts», explains Javier Alfaro, PhD student at nanoGUNE and co-author of the paper.

Abstract: Optical waves propagating away from a point source typically exhibit circular (convex) wavefronts.

«Inverse - square law The intensity (or illuminance or irradiance) of light or other linear waves radiating from a point source (energy per unit of area perpendicular to the source) is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source; so an object (of the same size) twice as far away, receives only one - quarter the energy (in the same time period).»

Also, the back - radiation that we receive is diffuse (coming from all different angles) and so it can not be focused in the same way that solar radiation (which is approximately from a point source) can.

The VOTO, from Point Source Power, is described as a «biomass - fueled» charger, and is designed to be placed under the charcoal in the bottom of a stove before cooking.

Under the CWA, businesses and other entities must obtain a permit through the EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program before releasing pollutants from a point source into navigable waters.

In this case, the Ninth Circuit held that every culvert and ditched that channeled rainwater runoff from forest roads was a discharge from a point source, requiring a Clean Water Act permit.

Not exact matches

TORONTO, May 2 - Canadian energy producer Crescent Point Energy Corp is poised to win support for its director nominees based on a preliminary counting of votes, shrugging off opposition from activist investor Cation Capital, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

He made a similar suggestion in 2003 during a speech at Georgetown University, pointing to a Bible scripture that spoke of a «day of great slaughter, when the towers fall,» adding «there are consequences when we turn away from our source of our strength.»

Because Homeland Security has forced the investor to provide detailed information concerning where his $ 10 million came from, even to the point of asking the next two sources beyond the investor where they got their money.

In fact, we prefer advice from a confident source, even to the point that we will forgive a poor track record.

Friesen is quick to point out the positive effects that switching from bottled to Source - produced water would have on the environment.

Adams also pointed Tech Insider to a blog post from the industry group Beef Checkoff, which confirms that the meat in one hamburger can come from many different sources.

The above - referenced editorial also points out that 48 % of state and local revenues collected in N.J. come from property taxes, which is off - the - charts high: «No other state derives more than 41 percent of its revenue from that source; the U.S. average is 33.1 percent.»

In his 2006 book, A Thousand Barrels a Second, Tertzakian predicted a new energy break point within 10 years, when major economies would switch from one «disadvantaged» source of energy to one, or several, other options.

The company is funnelling wearable - sourced data from more than one million customers (using Fitbit, iHealth and Jawbone trackers) in exchange for points that can be used like cash in its stores and on its website.

Lastly, the rankings factored health care costs based on three data points: (1) the average health insurance premium, sourced from KFF.org; (2) portion of health costs covered by Medicare, sourced from CMS.gov; and (3) state rankings on senior health outcomes from AmericasHealthRankings.org.

Since then, additional sources and reports continue to point to the same conclusion: that hundreds, not dozens, of people died from the storm, despite claims by President Trump and Puerto Rican officials that the count is 62 or fewer.

According to several information sources, Vinnik and his platform BTC - e were the key points through which ransomware authors cashed in their earnings and hackers laundered money stolen from other hacked Bitcoin trading platforms.

Now the astute observer might point out that the bulk of the decline in sales was seen in areas popular with buyers from mainland China — which also happens to be the main region that most believe is the source of the majority of the foreign capital flowing into our real estate market.

I recommend following all the sources and that we each read every article carefully from this point on, so that we can each form our own insights and questions.

When lead qualification is an entirely manual process, you're asking your sales reps to digest and analyze a jumble of various points of data, often from wildly diverse sources, and then make a judgement accordingly.

Our strategy is to deploy capital from any potential source, whether debt or internally generated cash, depending on the adequacy and availability of that source of capital and which source may be used most efficiently and at the lowest cost at that point in time.

This has led to progress in the area of track and trace, with blockchain companies like Skuchain and Everledger developing solutions that can track commodities such as avocados and diamonds from source to point of sale.

The data presented in this analysis comes from Hopper's combined feed of Global Distribution System (GDS) data sources which includes 1 trillion flight price points per month.

There follows from this concern the chief literary and scholarly characteristic of Pannenberg's writings - what makes them sometimes so complexly rewarding, and sometimes so utterly exasperating: his unwillingness to leave anything out, to make any point without seeking every possible source of its illumination, whether by exegeting great chunks of Scripture or by tracing a question through the whole history of philosophy or by suddenly sketching the present state of cosmological physics or by....

I may have missed some point of information, but, from all I can gather, it appears as if no one from a news source has contacted Julie McMahon directly, so that whole thing just hits me as odd.

pablo ya missed the point, he values his live and gives his life meaning, rather than attributing meaning from an outside source.

In the most recent Republican debate, several Republican candidates tried to distinguish themselves from the idealistic Rubio by pointing out that Syria was more peaceful (and less of a source of global terror) when the Assad regime ran the whole country, and that Bashar al - Assad might be the lesser evil compared to ISIS.

The fact that we have DNA in common with every single species of life on this planet is not a coincidence, it is because we came from a common source at some point or another.

Neural networks simulate brain activity by trying to make connections between different data points and using those connections to create original «ideas» (but think of those ideas as crowd - sourced from a bunch of external sources).

The source and layout of the points seem to come from man with a purpose to grow the social acceptability of the Church rather than grow the spirituality of the Church.

As «the Eternal Object incarnate,» Christ is the «source of all revelation,» the «goal towards which the universe as a developing system of events had previously moved,» and the «starting point from which all its subsequent history flows.»

In any event, we can see the source of Plato's suspicion concerning the point, and Whitehead's need to derive the point from the more general.

The Bible, as the framework from which this faith is derived, becomes a primary source of insight, and the structure of life to which it points has an orientation and a quality not to be derived from naturalistic or humanistic assumptions.

The Christian message must, from this point of view, be regarded as one important source of suggestion and of exemplification for such a religion.

The initial source of light in the Genesis account does not necessarily need to be our sun, as the light from our sun is brought up at a later point in the creation account.

From a Western point of view, the «Eastern» formulation is unsatisfactory because it appears to make the Father only a remote source of the Spirit and to instrumentalize the role of the Son in the origin of the Spirit.

From an Eastern point of view, the «Western» formulation seems to overlook the unique role of the Father as primordial source.