Sentences with phrase «huge amounts of water into»

In northeastern Europe (1), the timing of flooding has shifted from late March to February over the past five decades as winter snow melts earlier in spring, sending huge amounts of water into rivers.

Not exact matches

Significant surge can be expected even if Irma weakens before reaching Georgia, as there will be huge amounts of momentum in the water already set into motion by that point.

Not only is Greenland's melting ice sheet adding huge amounts of water to the oceans, it could also be unleashing 400,000 metric tons of phosphorus every year — as much as the mighty Mississippi River releases into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study.

The Arbuckle is a tempting place to dump waste because it can easily absorb huge amounts of water without leaking into drinking water, said Skinner.

Most importantly, it's when the Mississippi River starts shipping into the Gulf huge amounts of nutrient - filled water from melting snow and ice throughout its basin.

The reason why it takes so much water for factory farmed beef is because these animals consume corn and alfalfa which require a huge amount of water and water must be shipped into these factory farms for the cows to drink.

For instance, a giant plant may spit out a huge snowball in winter but during spring it dispenses a large amount of water — the former allows you to reach higher ledges while the latter can make a seedling grow into a tree or break through a weakened log.

The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)

As your azollaculture technology matures and the price comes down, you might end up growing huge amounts of azolla for fodder, pumping part of it back into nighttime power, and using your CSP / bio-coal «waste» heat for distilling water.

This toxic technique blasts huge amounts of water mixed with hazardous chemicals into the earth to fracture underground rock and release oil and gas.

If the little bits eventually get into a waterway, a lake or the ocean it will add to the huge amount of plastic pollution that is playing havoc with water - life.

Everything we eat has a water footprint, and as a recent Smithsonian Magazine article illustrates, when we waste food, it's like we're dumping huge amounts of water right into the garbage.

Thermal equilibrium doesn't mean the same temperature, if for example, a gas in getting hotter expands and rises becoming less dense and under less pressure it can move faster, it's using thermal energy to move, there's no energy lost, it's just become something else, or, as temperature relates to kinetic energy not thermal energy then heat capacity comes into play, as water can absorb a huge amount of thermal energy before there's any rise in temperature, or whatever, but if you're equating all «energy» to «heat» as thermal energy then that's a different idea altogether, not all energy is heat.

I would suggest that the amount of water we put in the atmosphere from irrigation is huge, but the amount NOT put in the atmosphere due to human use and urban impermeable surfaces is also large, and I have not looked into the numbers.

It's estimated that getting one liter of bottled drinking water into our hands requires seven liters of water and a quarter liter of oil, so there are a huge amount of wasted resources tied up in our bottled water habit, as well as an enormous plastic trash problem from all of those bottles and packaging.

• Create an entire irrigation system for a huge piece of land, bringing watering costs down by 75 % • Singlehandedly carve a large hedge into the shape of Deadpool, just in time for the movie's release, resulting in a huge number of spectators • Operate power equipment such as mowers, tractors, snow blowers and electrical cutters to perform landscaping work • Edge lawns by using dedicated mowers and power edgers • Prune and trim trees and shrubs using a variety of shears and chainsaws • Mix fertilizers and insecticides in a safe manner and ensure that they are efficiently and evenly spread • Develop, implement and maintain irrigation systems to ensure that sufficient amount of water is being given to vegetation, while minimizing wastage