Sentences with phrase «gallons of water»

«The amount of energy stored by splitting two gallons of water in our device is able to support a Pasadena household's entire power usage for a week,» Xiang said.

Stodolsky and Andrzej Drukier, both of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Germany, noted that a coherent detector would be relatively small and compact, unlike the more common neutrino detectors containing thousands of gallons of water or liquid scintillator.

Tropical trees act as enormous water pumps, drawing gallons and gallons of water up from deep in the soil.

According to a recent New York Times report, a pair of jeans uses 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, enough to fill 15 spa - size bathtubs.

For humans, that would amount to about 1.5 gallons of water, Oka points out.

Energy companies used nearly 250 billion gallons of water to extract unconventional shale gas and oil from hydraulically fractured wells in the United States between 2005 and 2014, a new Duke University study finds.

«Drilling a single well can require between 3 to 6 million gallons of water, and thousands of wells are fracked each year.

More than two million gallons of water and three million pounds of sand are used per well, according to North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources.

On Sunday, firefighters with the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center reported that the fire appeared to be out after they poured thousands of gallons of water and foam down the shaft, according to a release on the Fermilab Web site.

For example, Arkansas had more than 300 wells fracked shallower than 3,000 feet, using an average of 5 million gallons of water and chemicals.

Namibian desert - dwelling elephants have figured out how to prevent overheating in triple - digit temperatures by covering their bodies with sand wetted by their urine or regurgitated water from a specialized pouch beneath their tongue that holds many gallons of water.

Washington officials think the industrious critters could save more of 650 trillion gallons of water each year, blunting the effects of hot and dry summers.

But according to Ridoutt, just counting up the gallons of water isn't enough, because consumers should also know where that water came from.

Perhaps most surprisingly, the researchers discovered that at least 2,350 wells less than one mile deep had been fracked using more than 1 million gallons of water each.

Negri's trees each pump as much as 26 gallons of water per day at their summer peak.

Instead of pumping millions of gallons of water and fracturing fluid into the earth, the company GasFrac used a liquefied petroleum gas gel — propane gas compressed into a thick fluid — to break up the rock.

Industrial concentrated solar arrays can require 800 gallons of water to produce a single megawatt hour.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, electric power generation accounts for nearly half of the nation's water usage; it takes on average 21 gallons of water to produce one kilowatt hour of electricity.

Typically, each well requires 2 million to 10 million gallons of water to extract the gas.

A report by Western Resource Advocates notes that «thermoelectric power plants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah consumed an estimated 292 million gallons of water a day in 2005 - approximately equal to the water consumed by Denver, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, combined.»

The gas is extracted using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that involves pumping millions of gallons of water laced with chemicals deep underground to blast open the shale and release the gas trapped inside.

The oceans contain 252 billion billion gallons of water, and the energy imbalance caused by climate change is so huge that it affects this vast system.

At such concentrations, a cubic yard of soil would contain as much as five gallons of water.

«It is estimated that the average household in the North Dakota Bakken region uses about 80 to 160 gallons of water a day,» said Corrie Clark, an environmental systems engineer in Argonne's Environmental Science Division and co-author of a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

That region's rivers provide an average of 132,000 gallons of water per person per year — scarcely enough for household use, even if Bolivians are thriftier than US families, who can use up to 400 gallons a day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

South Bend, Ind., avoided $ 120 million in upgrades and conserved millions of gallons of water by becoming one of the first cities on the globe to use cloud computing to manage its water systems.

Furthermore, to provide each South Florida lawn with the necessary one - inch of water per week, it takes more than 62 gallons of water for every 10 - foot - by -10-foot area.

In November researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that producing corn ethanol consumes 28 gallons of water per mile traveled, whereas conventional petroleum uses 0.15 gallon.

Oil drilling produced more than 130 billion gallons of water last year.

But it's hard to imagine that, after being diluted in millions of gallons of water, enough of the pesticide could have drifted or flowed into the Sound to kill the lobsters.

In the 6 days after Harvey made landfall on 25 August, the storm dropped 25 trillion gallons of water on Texas and Louisiana, according to WeatherBell meteorologist Ryan Maue (in comparison, the Chesapeake Bay contains 18 trillion gallons).

«The volcano will create millions of gallons of water beneath the ice — many lakes full,» says Wiens.

Here's how it is figured: It takes about 155 gallons of water on average to grow a pound of wheat.

The xenon's job is to light up, with a jolt of electrical charge and a faint flash of light caught by surrounding sensors, when a dark - matter particle collides with one of its atoms — and the gallons of water and mile of rock's job is to stop anything else from getting in and disturbing it.

Oil well operators used more than 80 billion gallons of water in California last year in «enhanced» oil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surface.

For instance, the average guess was that a standard washing machine uses 14 gallons of water — it actually uses about 34.

The average vegetarian consumes 1,010 gallons of water a day, versus 1,414 for a meat - eater.

A seven - inch - wide pipe on display at the exhibit resembles modern - day conduits and probably carried about four gallons of water a minute.

He declines to reveal much, but when asked if his process could produce 1,000 gallons of water for 10 to 12 kilowatt - hours of energy — the rate to beat for any new technology — he nods and allows a rare silence to linger.

Beyond reducing greenhouse gases, recycling saves about 1,000 pounds of solid waste, some 10,000 gallons of water, and 17 million Btu of energy per ton of paper.

One pound of rice takes about 240 gallons of water; 1,680 gallons go into creating one pound of grain - fed beef.

Data centers employ some 80 billion gallons of water for cooling annually, according to Intel.

By the Water Authority's own demand projections, that growth will translate into taking at least 240 billion gallons of water each year, 74 percent more than Las Vegas demands today.

The reservoir — if constructed — would be built outside of the region, where the rock is not porous, and pipe some 60 million gallons of water a day into Broward County.

Officials, it turned out, had estimated the Colorado's average flow after a period of unusually wet conditions, calculating that 18 million acre - feet flowed through the river each year, and dividing up some 15 million acre - feet, or 4.8 trillion gallons of water, between the states.

Federal officials believe the subsidy program could successfully prod ranchers to put hundreds of billions of gallons of water back into the river and help relieve the shortages plaguing states downstream.

Denver and other eastern Colorado cities already take 154 billion gallons of water across the Continental Divide from western Colorado each year.

The website Economically Sound reports that a 150 - room hotel can conserve 72,000 gallons of water and 480 gallons of laundry soap every year by placing the cards in its guest rooms.

The southern pole of Saturn's 300 - mile - wide moon spits an average of 56 gallons of water a second into space via geysers in its icy surface.

It takes 869 gallons of water to produce a third of a pound of beef, about enough for a large hamburger.