Sentences with phrase «like water towers»

«The snow acts like a water tower, storing water in the winter and then delivering it in the summer,» says University of Washington hydrologist Alan Hamlet.

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And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said «All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them» But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said «All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them» But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

The IODP team wants to test a leading model for peak ring formation, in which granite from Earth's depths rebounds after a major impact, like water struck by stone, to form a central tower, taller than the crater rim.

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.

First noticed by amateur astronomers, the massive storm works like the much smaller convective events on Earth, where air and water vapor are pushed high into the atmosphere, resulting in the towering, billowing clouds of a thunderstorm.

Like many mountain ecosystems, Niwot Ridge serves as an important «water tower,» regulating downhill water flow as snowmelt replenishes lakes and streams at lower elevations.

The new elements include the wasteland, which looks like an alien planet (Think Mars, with its rust - colored terrain but also with the addition of strange spherical and conical ruins, puddles of blood - red water, and rain of the same hue that pours down from the sky), and the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, the organization that is overseeing the social experiment in a towering, futuristic spiral edifice established amidst the ruins of O'Hare Airport.

Actually, their idea of fun times involves laying around talking about how much they like spending time with each other, and going out to play teenage pranks, like graffiti the local water tower, jump on moving freight trains, or sneak into a movie theater.

In forerunners like Sanborn High, for example, 10th - grade math students are measured by how well they can design a community water tower and create a proposal that could be presented to the town.

Several different portals — large circles guests could walk through — were set up around the room, mimicking different parts of CocoCay, like Daredevil's Peak, a pair of water towers with 13 slides, and Oasis Lagoon, a freshwater pool area.

You pointed out a fallen water tower, shattered and exposed like the ribcage of a carcass left to rot.

Two 50 - foot black glass towers on either side of a reflecting pool project images from 1,000 Chicago citizens, giving the illusion of water pouring from their mouths — rather like the spouting gargoyles and other creatures of traditional fountains.

Surrounded by picturesque, almost fjord - like, scenery - where towering mountains fall steeply to the water's edge - Lake Como is a wonderful place for a scenic stroll.

It has both modern marvels and famous temples and gardens woven through the buzzing metropolis (the capital's modernization drive prior to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics led to the creation of iconic new buildings like the CCTV Tower, Bird's Nest, and Water Cube).

My compadres and I spent two to five hours on the water each day, paddling by cliffs where white trees (palos blancos) grew out of cracks in the volcanic rock, past valleys full of towering cordon cactus and sage - colored scrub, and around rocky headlands where birds perched on rocks and held out their wings, like a mother's welcoming arms, to let them dry in the sea breeze.

The first stage has both large bodies of water and ice (much like two of the levels lacking in the port), while the second takes place mainly in a large clock tower and is vaguely reminiscent of the castles in Super Mario World.

Already its route offers a choice between water towers and wealthy condos, like a parable of gentrification.

The artist has said he selected water towers for the installation because he likes ``... the idea of a reservoir of water.»

Inspired by the Neue Sachlichkeit photographers August Sander and Albert Renger - Patzsch, as well by as vernacular photography, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented vanishing American and European industrial architecture — blast furnaces, water towers, silos, and the like — cataloguing them by type.

Abstracted brick walkways are topped with sneakers in profile, water towers stand like mountains and stylized pigeons sit comfortably atop the Brooklyn Bridge.

The word sculpture is misleading because, like most of... career, following on from her transparent cast of a New York water tower in 1998.

Its true - to - life focus on modernist architectural subjects (like factories, water towers, silos - even skyscrapers), made Precisionism a species of Realism, and, in fact, it was sometimes referred to as Cubist - Realism.

I can't help but notice that the St. Vincents Gulf temperature now is 22 C, including something like a 3 C positive anomaly, whereas the normal winter air temperature in Adelaide may be something like 12 C. Using «cooling tower» calculations, I think it should be possible to heat up the air by contacting it with 22 C sea water raining through it to a temperature of at least 18 C.

The New York Times Magazine did a photo spread of some rather extreme conversions of churches, shipping containers and water towers and even caves, like the happy family shown above with an umbrella over the pool table to control the sand.

The light heats water in a boiler at the top of the tower, creating steam, which is used to run a conventional steam turbine like those in a typical fossil - fired power plant.

Groups like the Sierra Club have lambasted the agency's new rules on power - plant cooling towers — which kill billions of fish nationwide by sucking up water from rivers and lakes — calling them much too flimsy.

In most major cities there, one can find ritzy - glitzy shopping areas where one might feel like he might actually be in Chicago's Water Tower Place or even better.

As a result of the lack of storage, a direct water - to - steam tower CSP plant like Ivanpah must direct heliostat focus off the receiver quite often during the day.

During construction, water is required for making the concrete needed for the footings of the towers, and for things like damping - down while road - building, but these require small amounts of water relative to those used for mining coal or uranium or cooling coal - fired, or nuclear, power stations.

They integrate over 226,000 plants — some 200 species — with a host of other functions, like solar power and solar hot water generation, rainwater collection and acting as ventilation towers for the horticultural conservatories below.

It'll stay connected to LTE as long as you don't have any better options (existing Wi - Fi networks or your iPhone) available and your watch can properly «see» carrier towers (certain things, like water or faraday cage - like houses, may interfere).