Sentences with phrase «half gallon of»

Feedback is just as important as gallons of water, constant exercise and fresh fruit and vegetables.

Trucks ship a ton of freight an average of 120 miles on a gallon of diesel fuel; railroads can move the same cargo 600 miles on that gallon.

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has approved a request to pull millions of gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan to serve a new Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing plant, helping the Taiwanese electronics giant clear a major regulatory hurdle.

The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

The average American uses 176 gallons of water per day, and municipal water prices have increased 27 percent over the past five years.

The city of Racine filed a request with the DNR in January to withdraw 7 million gallons of water daily from the lake to serve the plant.

The difference — the real difference — isn't easy to spot, but here it is: all that activity, all those busy people, gallons of coffee, whiteboard hieroglyphics and lines of code were triggered when one person had an idea.

A recent Geophysical Research Letters study found that the Arctic permafrost contains 32 million gallons of mercury, which is projected to adversely affect our global air, food, water and soil supplies as the Earth warms and the permafrost unthaws, releasing the neurotoxin.

Using the authors» analogy — despite its condescending overtones — of kids and adolescents growing more quickly than adults, if we took away the extra gallons of milk and after - school snacks, if we stopped providing education, if we penalized a kid for an inadvertent mistake, if we took away all the extra tools and resources required to usher kids through childhood, what would that look like?

We should be furious that it can take thousands of gallons of water to manufacture just one of the chips that power the electronic devices we use.

At 1,800 calories, a large M&M Sonic Blast has almost as many calories as four gallons of Baskin Robbins» strawberry ice cream.

According to gasbuddy.com a gallon of gas in Washington, D.C. carries an average price of $ 2.53 per gallon.

It holds one gallon of water, making it just the right size for overnight use.

Feldstein went online and sourced a pump in Iowa used mainly on pig farms that could clear hundreds of gallons of water a minute, and paid to fly it in.

Canadian CEOs think both BP and the White House failed in their response to the devastating oil spill that continues to pour 800,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day.

Matt Mihaly, 44, CEO of an independent gaming company who runs the website Burn.Life, recommends people bring at least 1.5 gallons of water per day to be safe.

Americans are falling in love with the drink, and they consumed a record 913 million gallons of wine in 2015 according to The Wine Institute.

While the Nevada factory will only produce 10 million gallons per year, Fulcrum ambitiously talks about a deal with United to buy potentially 90 million gallons of fuel annually over many years.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

The deal discussed with Cathay Pacific is around selling the airline 375 million gallons of fuel over many years.

He also suggested homemade yogurt, which can be made with just a half gallon of milk and about a half cup of yogurt.

Now if somebody were to give me a choice between getting 10 gallons of gasoline and 10 gallons minus 3.8 gallons of gasoline, I'd take the 10 gallons.

The Denver suburb of Aurora made a $ 9.5 million, five - year deal last summer to provide the oil company Anadarko 2.4 billion gallons of excess treated sewer water.

SAN FRANCISCO — The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface.

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

A large - scale facility that sits on 360 acres, the Nevada Solar One plant uses 850 gallons of water per megawatt hour, the SEIA states.

Tesla has stated that the microgrid will offset the island's previous use of 109,500 gallons of diesel per year, along with the import shipping costs to get that fuel there in the first place.

A whopping 106 gallons of water go into making a single ounce of beef.

Nationwide, the average price for a gallon of gas is $ 2.24, down from $ 2.28 last week.

That's what makes the Rinsekit unique — it holds up to two gallons of water and has enough pressure to remind you of home.

She has at least one gallon of water each day and incorporates a lot of fresh, raw foods into her daily routine — 30 - 40 percent of her diet to be exact.

Scott urged gas stations in evacuation zones to stay open as long as possible, and said that millions of gallons of fuel have been delivered by tanker trucks to areas with shortages.

Among the items on display are a restored 115 - ton Corliss steam engine that was once used to pump 8 million gallons of water a day, a 13 - ton, 20 - foot - tall Nasmyth steam hammer, and the Scalamandre «White House» loom that made fabric for every White House presidency from Hoover to Clinton.

The national average cost of a gallon of gas stands at $ 2.76, marking the highest it's been in three years.

On Friday, the AAA national average price per gallon of regular unleaded was $ 2.53, but the association forecasts the national average price will increase to as much as $ 2.70 per gallon this spring.

Last Friday, a rupture in an ExxonMobil pipeline spilled thousands of gallons of dark goo through backyards and streets in the little town of Mayflower, Ark..

According to AAA, the average cost of a gallon of unleaded regular is about 25 cents more than this time last year.

Did you know the average American uses 17.2 gallons of water per shower?

In Bradford County, the pleasant pond at the vacation home of Truman and Bonnie Burnett is a murky swamp, ringed by dead trees, after tens of thousands of gallons of drilling fluid spilled in 2009 from the property of their neighbor, who had signed a gas lease.

When five gallons of Allagash costs $ 153, it might be more profitable to dole out 12 ounce glasses rather than 16.

American businesses flush more than a billion gallons of fresh water down the toilet every working day and throw out 15 million plastic toner cartridges every year.

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

Deciding someone's salary isn't like pricing a gallon of milk.

Almost anyone in manufacturing is a producer of hazardous waste and must account for it at each step by keeping careful records: for example, that a hauler picked up x gallons of waste from your factory and that a disposal company received it, and so on.

Codinha: You might have 5,000 gallons of hazardous waste with the containers facing in the wrong direction.

The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.

Here's the average cost of a single - family home, the best - selling cholesterol drug Lipitor, a movie theatre - ticket, a dozen eggs and a gallon of gasoline in the largest metropolitan areas of each of the ten states using data from the ACCRA Cost of Living Index.

For instance, the Brentwood, Maryland, company recycled only a fraction of the millions of gallons of water it uses.

The devices can separate 200 gallons of oil from water a minute, according to The New York Times.

The average cost of one item related to home price, a half - gallon of milk, doctor visit, even a pound of ground beef give an idea of prices in the most expensive areas in 10 states.