Sentences with phrase «higher than sand»

Mr Boateng stated that the plastic paving blocks have been proven to be above 700 percent stronger than the concrete ones, in that, the capacity of plastic is higher than sand.

Not exact matches

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.

Perth - based mining explorer MZI Resources says development and operational costs at its Keysbrook mineral sands project will be higher than initially expected.

«The cost of actually doing deep - sea drilling, the cost of doing fracking in North Dakota, the cost of tar sands, the cost of Arctic drilling is way, way, way higher than anyone admits,» Shah said.

Forget the fixed costs of development; just the operating costs of keeping a project online are significantly higher than the revenue that an oil sands producer would earn from selling their bitumen.

Overly optimistic projections of future oil supply, which are much higher than the latest NEB projections and don't consider the Alberta government's cap on oil sands emissions imposed by its Climate Leadership Plan.

STONER»S PRAYER Now I pass out into sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep Grant no other stoner take My weed and bong before I wake Keep me safely in thy sight And grant no crackhead's thrill tonight And in the morning let me awake Breathing scents of wake «n bake God protect me in my dreams and make this better than it seems Grant the time may siwftly fly When myself shall be so high In a green grass weed bed Where I long to rest my head Far away from all these scenes And the smell of bammer smoked by beans Take me back into the land Where the cops never take you out Where the weed won't burn my throat like sand; Where the scent of chronis blows Where the good Mary Jane grows; Take me back and I'll promise then Never to leave BC again... - Anonymous

particles (much more durable than silica sand) result in high slip resistance as well as excellent durability in our anti-slip tapes.

Crows completed 4 of 6 water displacement tasks, including preferentially dropping stones into a water - filled tube instead of a sand - filled tube, dropping sinking objects rather than floating objects, using solid objects rather than hollow objects, and dropping objects into a tube with a high water level rather than a low one.

«They tend to nest in sand with a slightly higher pH and a milder conductivity than sand taken at the same depth from the control sites.

In addition, the total amount of cesium retained more than 3 feet deep in the sands is higher than what is found in sediments on the seafloor offshore of the beaches.

The tar - sands oil — essentially diluted bitumen — is more acidic than regular oil and contains more sediment and moves at higher pressures.

Whether such a quantity can be produced from tar sands and oil shale at a price near (never mind below) $ 30 per barrel is highly uncertain, but more suggestive of Lomborgs confusion in any case is that the price he mentions is higher (according to his own Figure 65) than the price of oil has been for any prolonged period in the last 120 years except for 1979 - 86, in the aftermath of the second (1979) Arab - OPEC oil - price shock.3 This means resources of tar sands and oil shale that would be economically exploitable only at prices around $ 30 per barrel are in fact more expensive than oil has been for nearly all of the last century.

The team, which includes Associate Professor Vincent Tan from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor Anand Sarma from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

A study led by Assistant Professor Darren Chian Siau Chen from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

In a recent study, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering found that sand can absorb more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it, and its ability to resist the impact increases with the speed of the projectile, even at high velocities.

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

This is also an important step because this special soil has higher sand content than regular soil.

The study showed that teaching staff in publicly operated prekindergarten programs had higher educational qualification sand received higher pay and benefits than their colleagues in privately operated programs, and that there was greater teaching staff stability in publicly operated prekindergarten programs than in privately operated programs.

«What we managed to do is to get our microresonator and combine it with a semiconductor laser, which is the size of a grain of sand, essentially, and out of that get even higher - quality laser light than you can get with these much larger laser systems,» he says.

These encounters included demeaning phrases like, «Let's see if we can sharpen our pencil a little more on that price,» complete with slight - of - hand, shifting - sand financial figures, and high pressure sales tactics that made me feel like I was nothing more than the next potential sale instead of like I was a real customer who deserved respect.

The surface is a mix of sand and sealed gravel, more high - speed turf than rugged surf.

For the first time at Land Rover, the blocks are high pressure die - cast rather than sand - cast, providing a superior finish and dimensional greater accuracy.

On grass and sand, the high - performance SUV is 0.2 seconds slower than on gravel, with a time of 5.5 seconds.

Researchers discovered that because quicksand's density of 2 grams per milliliter is higher than humans» 1 gram per milliliter, the tricky sand can not draw the human body in the whole way.

Despite a lot of high - flying stunts and impressive feats, my favorite part of the show came midway through, when an artist working in silhouette with nothing more than sand and a backlit table created some beautiful artwork that helped to further the story of the show.

Catered Picnic: Whether on our beautiful white sand, or underneath a lush palm tree, high on top of a peak or nestled in a garden there is no more romantic or inviting than a picnic in Jamaica.

Description: The Carpe Diem has two high standard cabins, SEA and SAND, which are a little smaller than the deluxe cabin on the upper deck and located on the main deck with queen size double beds and TV plus DVD / MP3 players.

This makes for a series of relatively intimate places rather than one big unbroken stretch of sand lined with high rise hotels and packed with people.

On the southernmost edge of Bali «s Bukit Peninsula, high above the Indian Ocean and the white sands of Pandawa Beach, yet less than 30 minutes from the airport, lies the magnificent Pandawa Cliff Estate, designed by internationally acclaimed Bali architect, Popo Danes...

If the hot sun, sand and salt of tropical beaches aren't your thing, consider heading to a higher elevation rather than sea - level.

But the former has a cartoonish quality, an air of Pop Art, while the latter is photorealistic, like an old black and white snapshot — and is vaguely foreboding, the high - contrast tones suggesting an oncoming storm, the expression of the boy, buried in sand, more than a little uncomfortable.

«People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $ 4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher - than - usual tides over the weekend.

a. Available evidence suggests that oil sands have 10 - 30 % higher GHG emissions on a well - to - wheels basis than conventional oil.

Personally, I don't believe that the oil sands will ever be developed at a rate much higher than 5 million barrels per day, primarily because at such a rate it won't be possible to meet even current environmental standards, let alone the inevitable higher standards that will develop over the coming decades.

Critics of the TransCanada pipeline have warned of potential spills in America's heartland as well as the climate impacts of allowing more tar sands oil, which has a higher carbon footprint than conventional sources, into the US and other markets.

And then there is climate change: Canada's tar sands are significantly higher in greenhouse gas emissions and more energy - and water - intensive than more conventional sources of energy.

Tar sands dilbit pipelines typically operate at significantly higher temperatures than conventional crude pipelines, increasing their risk of rupture due to external corrosion and other factors.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

As tar sands oil has a much larger carbon footprint than conventional oil, climate change legislation targeted by Prop 23 would limit California's imports of high - carbon fuels — fuels that would likely include toxic tar sands oil from Alberta.

and b) the urban heat effect (see recent paper by McKitrick), the consensus on a warming trend would appear differently; add to that the fact that some analysis show that the 75 - 95 higher temperatures may be partly due to effectiveness of anti-pollution policies, and you may realise that a consensus on higher temperatures may be based on sand rather than anything else.

Environmentalists did compliment Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's team for acknowledging this time around that oil mined from tar sands has significantly higher heat - trapping gas emissions than conventional oil used in the United States.

Despite these improvements, they noted, the CI of oil sands production (on a pathway - average basis) ranges from 12 to 24 % higher than CI values from conventional oil production.

Canadian oil sands crudes are on average somewhat more GHG emission - intensive than the crudes they would displace in U.S. refineries, as Well - to - Wheel GHG emissions are, on average, 14 % -20 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

discounting the final consumption phase of the life - cycle assessment (which can contribute up to 70 % -80 % of Well - to - Wheel emissions), Well - to - Tank (i.e., «production») GHG emissions are, on average, 72 % -111 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

Adding a regressive charge the oil sands, one that bites harder at low prices than high prices, introduces additional cost and risk.

BC is only the «top supplier» in the trivial sense that the number of companies supplying the oil sands is slightly higher in BC than Ontario.

Communities downstream from the tar sands are experiencing cancer rates far higher than can be explained by change.

This pipeline transports bitumen - loaded tar sands oil, which is more corrosive than oil extracted through other methods — which means much higher risk of leaks.

Generally speaking, upstream emissions are small relative to consumption emissions, but, in the case of the oil sands, emissions associated with the production of the bitumen are much higher than for conventional oils.