Sentences with phrase «from seawater with»

Dominic Michaelis the co-designer of the Energy Island OTEC platform concept, together with Jerome Tomasi have written a paper which compares the costs of using reverse osmosis to make fresh water from seawater with the cost of doing the same with an open cycle OTEC plant.

The team examined a range of fossils unearthed from limestone rocks in Siberia, which formed millions of years ago from seawater with high levels of calcium carbonate.

Not exact matches

The Golden State also has more than 800 miles of coastline with limitless supplies of seawater from the Pacific Ocean.

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.

There, in a small marine laboratory, stands a clear tube, 6 feet high and 8 inches in diameter, filled with ordinary seawater from the mouth of Tampa Bay.

Violent explosions from the reaction of lava with cold seawater threw even greater quantities of ash into the atmosphere, and created vast fields of pumice stones along the shoreline.

Biologist Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen and her team collected seawater containing skin cells — along with cells from urine and feces — naturally shed by the whale sharks and other animals.

A Cologne working group involving Prof. Carsten Münker and Dr. Elis Hoffmann and their student Sebastian Viehmann (working with Prof. Michael Bau from the Jacobs University Bremen) have managed for the first time to determine the isotope composition of the rare trace elements Hafnium and Neodymium in 2.7 - billion - year - old seawater by using high purity chemical sediments from Temagami Banded Iron Formation (Canada) as an archive.

Microorganisms living in basaltic sea floor buried beneath sediments derive energy from inorganic components from the host rocks that interact with infiltrating seawater, which brings dissolved oxygen and other trace nutrients with it.

O'Donnell and his colleagues took bay mussels from San Juan Island, in the Puget Sound, and put them in chambers with seawater at different pH levels.

An increasingly common feature of reefs worldwide, it is brought on by thermal stress resulting from seawater temperature anomalies associated with climate change.

In the 1920s the Nobel Prize — winning chemist Fritz Haber dreamed of paying Germany's World War I reparations with gold sifted from seawater.

Data from the study strongly suggest that LUCA lived in the area where ancient seawater, dense with positively charged particles called protons, mixed with warm alkaline vent fluid, which contained few protons.

Observations of reduced DMS concentration with decreasing seawater pH from different mesocosm experiments.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

But at some point during whale history, the ancestors of modern mysticetes replaced teeth with baleen, fibrous plates that filter out small bits of food from seawater like a giant sieve.

That fits in beautifully with the idea that the first life got its energy from the natural gradient between vent water and seawater, and so was bound to these vents.

In order to solve this question, the team took samples from the seabed, from the boundary layer between the seabed and seawater, as well as from different water layers in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 2013.

And it had a large set of teeth with no evidence of the comb - like fringes used by other baleen whales to filter their food from seawater.

[Philip Francis Thomsen et al., Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples Correlate with Trawl Catches of Subarctic, Deepwater Fishes]

It suggests making coastal development more burdensome through more stringent building codes, siting requirements, and forcing real estate title holders to fully disclose insurance risks associated with storm surges or damage from seawater intrusion.

When the team of geologists from Stanford University re-created these conditions in a lab to try to duplicate an ultralow - velocity zone, they found that iron — one of the more abundant minerals on Earth and a likely candidate material that might explain the zones — reacted with the seawater to create a form of iron peroxide that was saturated with hydrogen atoms, according to the new research.

By Year 1.1 billion, deep - sea hematite - bearing rock found in the Marble Bar chert formation of northwestern Australia indicates that iron - rich water gushed from volcanically heated seafloor vents were able to mix with cooler oxygen - rich seawater (Ohmoto et al, Nature Geoscience, March 15, 2009; PSU press release, and in EurkaAlert; and Sid Perkins, ScienceNews, April 11, 2009).

Billions of planktonic organisms, too tiny to be seen with the naked eye, make this valuable service possible: When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater, various species convert it to organic carbon and other organic components during photosynthesis.

«The other carbon dioxide problem», «the evil twin of global warming», or part of a «deadly trio», together with increasing temperatures and loss of oxygen: Many names have been coined to describe the problem of ocean acidification — a change in the ocean chemistry that occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater.

The mission to explore Europa, the moon of Jupiter with twice as much seawater as Earth, has entered «phase B,» meaning the project now has funding from Congress.

Sea level rise has two primary components: the expansion in volume of seawater with increased temperature and the addition of water in ocean basins from the melting of land - locked ice, including Antarctica and Greenland.

The Uranium from Seawater program continues to make significant advancements, producing adsorbents with even higher capacities for grabbing uranium.

Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples Correlate with Trawl Catches of Subarctic, Deepwater Fishes.

This mixing model is well suited to quantify fractional contributions (f) from various sources — in this case, meteoric fresh water and sea ice meltwater mixing with seawater.

Constraining coral reef metabolism and carbon chemistry dynamics are fundamental for understanding and predicting reef vulnerability to rising coastal CO2 concentrations and decreasing seawater pH. However, few studies exist along reefs occupying densely inhabited shorelines with known input from land - based sources of pollution.

Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) scientists, in collaboration with researchers at Northeastern University, have developed carbon nanotube pores that can exclude salt from seawater.

Chef April Bloomfield tags along with Jacobsen Salt founder Ben Jacobsen in Oregon to discover the process by which salt is extracted from actual seawater.

The mistake many of us make is that the sunscreen will wash off if we go swimming and take that cool shower on the beach, but in reality you are still left with a small film on your body from the sunscreen and you need a body wash to take it off, water and seawater won't just due.

They say the beach is pink in color because sand grains made from red coral, reflect sunlight when mixed with seawater.

The island boasts stereotypically beautiful shorelines, ranging from calm seawater pools suitable for children to secluded coves with rocks to dive from.

Tropical GREEN hide - away Island Paradise - the ultimate refuge and relaxation for Holiday seekers & Honeymooners, who are looking for something Special!Guests are picked up from the Airport by private limousine or Helicopter, and taken to Badian Island, located in picturesque Badian Bay, just off the Southwest Coast of Cebu.Close to the white sandy beach, 42 generously large Suites, elegantly furnished to meet luxurious modern comfort, are built in 8 ha of lush, landscaped gardens.All rooms have sea and mountain views, and private balcony.The resort's latest attraction are the Thalasso POOL VILLAS with its own, private, ionized seawater pool and a spectacular view a favorite among the guests!

For some real relaxation head to the seawater pool, complete with a Jacuzzi island from where you can enjoy incredible views of the Gomera Island.

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It's Gudi, Alex and Ash who, for every time I've found myself washed up on the beach, spluttering «I just can't do it» through a mouthful of seawater, have met me with loud, overly enthusiastic whistles and cheers from the beach whenever I manage to avoid nose - diving head - first into a wave.

It looks as though the onboard desalinization systems that take salt out of seawater to make it drinkable, were taking - in radioactive water from the ocean for the crew to drink, cook with and bath - in, before anyone realized there was a massive radiation spill into the ocean.»

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(A point made with a vivid irony by Arthur C. Clarke at the end of one of his «Tales From The White Hart» (paraphrased): «It's quite probable that even now, molecules of the late professor are passing through the very seawater filter that he devised...»)

just a small example: rain washes CO2 from the air into the sea - > water turns CO2 into carbonic acid - > coral absorbs that compound — > keeps the carbon for itself - > releases the oxygen from the CO2 molecule, to replenish the seawater with oxygen.

CO2 from the atmosphere reacts with seawater forming carbonic acid (H2CO3).

I did say CO2 from the atmosphere reacts with seawater to form carbonic acid.

The total energy required to melt the ice from winter to summer with either ice albedo or seawater albedo should be relatively independent of season.

Some of these shells are shielded from direct contact with seawater by a special coating that the animal makes (as is the case in mussels).

All other environmental variables tested, including the UI (from April to September only), the PDO, silicate, nitrate and the seawater temperature at Tatoosh, were not associated with shell δ13C (Table 2).

The paper mentions combining brines from ocean desalination plants with seawater.