Sentences with phrase «high water releases»
The International Joint Commission Board, which controls the water level on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, voted to continue record - high water releases at the Moses - Saunders dam in Massena until further notice.
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The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.
When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, deploys a mix of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure to release gas or oil trapped in rocks.
Boniface VIII, who in his bull Unam sanctam had registered the high - water mark of Papal claims to supremacy over civil rulers, was imprisoned by King Philip the Fair, who was augmenting the French royal authority, and, although soon released, died within a few weeks.
Directions: Put turkey leg or thigh in pressure cooker / Cover with broth and water / Add vegetables, thyme, bay leaf and peppercorns / Tighten down lid and cook on high heat until pressure gauge reaches the high mark / Turn down temperature but maintain the same amount of high pressure — this takes a little experimenting, on my stove it works on low - medium / Cook for 30 minutes from the time the cooker reaches high pressure / Remove from heat and let the pressure release naturally — this takes about 20 minutes / Open the lid / Strain off the vegetables and seasonings and remove turkey leg / Take meat off the bone and return it to the pot with the broth, discarding bones and skin.
Add the lentils, split, peas, ginger, carrot and water and cook on high pressure for 15 minutes with a natural release.
Beets — it probably doesn't save a lot of time overall, but I do them in an electric pressure cooker: 1 cup water, beets scrubbed on the steamer rack, 22 minutes high pressure / natural release.
To boost the nutritional value, use brown rice, adding an extra 1/4 cup water and cooking the rice for 22 minutes on high pressure with a 10 - minute natural release.
«Even when flows are restricted to in channel flows, landowners have grave concerns that due to the inability to accurately predict tributary inflows in the steep upper catchments, and overcome flow time lag, the proponents have been forced to propose releasing environmental water from Eildon Weir and piggyback it on high (Goulburn River) tributary flows.
If you're concerned, don't put plastic bottles of any type in boiling water, the dishwasher, microwave, or any other device that uses heat because high temperatures can release chemicals from the plastic.
The ban applied to high - volume hydraulic fracturing, which uses large volumes of water mixed with sand and chemicals to create fractures in rock that release gas.
You knew before the April rains that the lake was high... They blew it because they didn't release the amount of water when they could,» said Cuomo.
With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to release oil and gas.
The state's final ban is on high - volume hydraulic fracturing, which uses large volumes of water mixed with sand and chemicals to create fractures in rock that release gas.
A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer - causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
«These releases could lead to a higher short - term concentration of certain pollutants in the air, soil and surface water bodies where the meltwater runs to,» worries Nazarenko.
In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.
The eight - week - long pulse will release enough water into the dry riverbed to fill an area the size of a Manhattan city block with a column six kilometres high.
There is no technical issue with fracking, the controversial technique of fracturing shale rock with high - pressure, chemically treated water to release natural gas.
One such scenario would be a loss of water in the pool to a level that permitted fuel rods to ignite and release perilously high radiation levels.
A biochemistry major, Gazzaley had planned to put a chunk of sodium metal into a lake behind campus to make it fizz — a large - scale version of the classic junior high school lab experiment in which adding a pinch of potassium to water creates a spark as the chemical reaction releases energy.
Fracturing deep shale deposits by injecting them with water, sand and chemicals at high pressure — with the aim of releasing the gas they hold — is causing concern worldwide.
On Sept. 9, 2011, high temperatures tripped a transmission line near Yuma, Ariz., sparking a chain of events that shut down the San Onofre nuclear power plant, caused the release of untreated sewage and required San Diego residents to boil their drinking water.
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory has released its first map of the high - energy sky, catching pulsars, supernova remnants and blazars switching on andHigh Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory has released its first map of the high - energy sky, catching pulsars, supernova remnants and blazars switching on andhigh - energy sky, catching pulsars, supernova remnants and blazars switching on and off
Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, which involves pumping water and chemicals at high pressure thousands of meters below the ground to release gas from shale, has created an energy boom in the United States.
As the subducting plate sinks deeper into the earth, it encounters higher and higher temperatures and pressures, which release the significant amount of water trapped in waterrich minerals that exist within the slab.
That deep water is not only rich in nutrients, it also has relatively high concentrations of carbon dioxide, both because it is cold (cold water can absorb and hold more carbon dioxide than warm water) and because the decomposition of organic matter that sinks into the depths releases carbon dioxide.
Using high - speed videography and mathematical modeling of spore dispersal in commercially grown oyster and Shiitake mushrooms, Dressaire, Roper, and their students found that the fungi created their wind by releasing water vapor.
A collapse of Tehri Dam in the central Himalayas, which sits above a fault, would, for instance, release a wall of water about 200 meters high, slamming through two towns.
Some of it is returned to watersheds in altered forms - like water heated during coal - fired electrical production and stored in cooling towers or ponds before being released - at higher temperatures - back into rivers.
«Produced» water from coal - bed methane extraction releases underground water with high mineral content into watersheds.
InSAR uses a highly accurate radar to measure the change in distance between the satellite and ground surface, allowing the team to show that injecting water into the wells at high pressure caused ground uplift near the shallower wells, the release said.
When river or sea - water is used for power plant cooling, it gets released back into the environment at a higher temperature, a problem known as thermal pollution, which can affect aquatic organisms.
When this air rises to high altitudes, its water vapour condenses, releasing latent heat.
«The quantity of carbon expected to be released from thawing permafrost is high, with emissions from Arctic waters expected to be equal to those from land - use change in other regions of the world.
Hydrogen can also be split from water in high - temperature nuclear reactors or generated from fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas, with the resulting carbon dioxide captured and sequestered rather than released into the atmosphere.
A land slide or other processes producing large water movements could facilitate a sudden release of gas previously confined under high pressure.
The research, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change, outlines a counterintuitive side effect of climate change: As higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into the air.
The sediments in these slow - water areas were less than 10 years old in places, and they were releasing arsenic into groundwater at concentrations exceeding 1,000 micrograms per liter, 100 times higher than the World Health Organization considers safe.
They couldn't think of any other material that takes on water at a low humidity and spontaneously releases it at a high humidity.
High sodium diets are commonly used to study diet induced hypertension, since increasing levels of circulating sodium cause cells to release water (due to osmotic pressure) which elevates the pressure on blood vessel walls.
All this cold water being released into the ocean has a significant impact on the formation of sea ice, resulting in higher rates of sea ice concentration around Antarctica.
The water is injected under high pressure into a wellbore to fracture deep rock formations in order to release the flow of natural gas and petroleum in a process call hydraulic fracturing.
This mapping tool developed by GCMRC illustrates the predicted water levels for typical high flow releases and can be used to see the estimated shorelines at popular campsites.
Indeed, high sediment AVS contents (19 — 24 mmol kg − 1) were observed year - round at the River Confluence and Butano Creek regions, which implies a high potential for severe water acidification and metal release when the estuary transitions from closed to open state.
The heat of shower water can cause chemicals to vaporize and be released into the air at higher amounts than they are even present in the water itself.
Millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and up to 300 tons of chemicals are then pumped into the well at high pressure to create breaks in the rock and release the gas.
Especially if consuming a high protein meal, drink 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar or juice from half lemon in less than 1/4 cup water to stimulate the release of stomach acid.
Fast and furious, these comedies have become cultural high - water marks for cinema and, as is the case for this Criterion Collection release, selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.