Sentences with phrase «more about the meter»

All said, there is still a puzzling question that may be answered by learning more about the meter reader's exact version, and not the workers» compensation insurer's version, especially as it pertains to information about whether he provoked Sandy.

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Someone with a power meter that requires a serial port will care a lot more about the peripheral features than the average user will, while the hard - core gamer will probably focus on the GPU, CPU, and chip set while ignoring peripherals and form - factor issues.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

After announcing he was hungover, he offered some pointers about «la curva» in the early stages of the 875 - meter course, and the most dangerous area, the narrowed entrance of the ring, where pile - ups of collapsed people, a «montón,» were even more lethal.

An area with more than 20 meters of horizontal displacement, that is, four times larger than those detected on land, stretches several tens of kilometers long along the trench; the largest amount reaches about 24 meters toward east - southeast just above the hypocenter.

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When the volume of a landslide exceeds about 1 million cubic meters, particles bouncing against each other create variations in pressure within the flow, with bits in some zones experiencing higher pressure than normal and others feeling below average pressure and thus sliding more readily.

That wind - driven circulation change leads to cooler ocean temperatures on the surface of the eastern Pacific, and more heat being mixed in and stored in the western Pacific down to about 300 meters (984 feet) deep, said England.

It couldn't be too large, no more than about 10 meters across.

Perhaps smart - meter pedlars will have to sharpen up their powers of persuasion for now, hoping that people will eventually get more excited about making small savings on power.

As useful as Webb might be for studying Proxima b, most astronomers are far more optimistic about using a coming generation of ground - based Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), behemoths with mirrors up to 40 meters wide, scheduled to debut in the mid-2020s.

As the researchers move deeper into the harder granites of the peak ring, they will core more slowly, obtaining a 3 - meter core about every 2 hours.

For example, there are expected to be about 15,000 NEOs that are about one - and - half football fields in size (460 feet, or 140 meters), and more than a million that are about one - third a football field in size (100 feet, or 30 meters).

Sea level was down by probably about 120 meters [400 feet]-- there was a lot more land in that area.

The tsunami reached the coastline quickly; in some places the water had surged by more than three meters within about half an hour of the earthquake, according to data from the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Each robot probe, a tube a little more than meter long, dives to about 1,000 meters, then drifts locally for nine days.

The 3,000 meter (9,800 ft) Agung — a so - called strato - volcano capable of very violent eruptions — has recorded a sharp rise in activity that has raised worries about a repeat of a 1963 eruption that killed more than 1,000 people.

ANCIENT DRUGSTORE In just a square meter — about the size of a dining table — the team unearthed more than 400 small ceramic or glass bottles alongside mortar and pestles, and another 300 nearby.

A nanomachine is a tiny device of less than a micron (one millionth of a meter, or about four one - hundred - thousandths of an inch) in size that scientists hope will soon be able to carry out a variety of medical and research functions, such as the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs, more efficiently and quickly than is possible today.

Although astronomer David Jewitt of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii thinks Rabinowitz has done a good job counting the big asteroids, he is more worried about the hundreds of thousands of rocks smaller than 1 kilometer but larger than 100 meters.

During 48 dives in August 2011, each lasting an average of 6 minutes and reaching more than 300 meters deep, the sea lion's lungs collapsed at about 225 meters down — and then re-expanded at the same depth during the mammal's ascent.

For example, Boston could see more than 1.5 meters [about 5 feet] of sea - level rise in the next 100 years.

The cave runs more than 100 meters deep and is about 3 meters high.

A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.

Over an area of about a quarter acre, we needed to remove not only the 19th - century backfill but also the rubble from cave collapses that had filled several deep natural cavities to a depth of more than four meters.

If that is successful — and everything thus far has been a big «if» — BP wants to create a more durable LMRP containment cap system by directing the oil and gas to a new free - floating riser ending about 90 meters below sea level (a flexible hose will be used to connect it to vessels on the surface).

Their analysis concluded that whale body length had varied randomly for about 30 million years before making a leap to more than 10 meters between 4.5 million and hundreds of thousands of years ago — a stretch of time that straddles the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, commonly referred to as the Plio - Pleistocene — which was more recent than previous research suggested.

Again, the effects are minuscule: It would take the elevated clock hundreds of millions of years to log one more second than its counterpart, and a clock moving a few meters per second would need to run about as long to lag one second behind its stationary counterpart.

The sand patches, each about 300 meters wide, used to occur in many more areas of Brazil's mountain savannah, says plant ecologist Rafael Oliveira of the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil.

The deepest dives were about 500 meters and lasted no more than three hours at a time.

The annual precipitation in Chingaza, which provides about 80 percent of Bogotá's water, approaches four meters, or more than 13 feet, in some areas.

The ancient structures — more than 330 meters inside the current entrance to the cave — include a scattering of small, deliberately arranged heaps of stone along with two large rings, one about 2.2 meters across and the other nearly three times that size.

But, says Jacques Beckers, director of the U.S. National Solar Observatories (NSO) at Kitt Peak, Arizona, the window covering the opening of a vacuum scope can't be more than about 1 meter across, the size of the largest available optical - quality windows.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

However, finding Chandrayaan - 1 «required a bit more detective work, because the last contact with the spacecraft was in August of 2009» and the probe itself was rather small — «cube about five feet (1.5 meters) on each side» or «about half the size of a smart car,» according to NASA.

Equipped with a 12 - meter mirror, it would also be about 100 times more powerful, giving it the capability to observe the atmospheres of planets orbiting around distant suns.

If we add ten more meters to sea level by melting ice in the coming centuries, that would reduce mean ocean salinity by about 0.1 psu.

It will collect data at pixels measuring a little more than 200 feet (70 meters) on a side, about the size of a large backyard, small farm or part of a big farm.

Curiosity is now about 20 feet (6 meters) from its landing site, called Bradbury Landing, and more than 16 feet (5 meters) from the scour mark called Goulburn, which scientists are currently investigating.

This complex system (about nine meters long from entry to exit) has 500 million neurons — more than the spinal cord.

The researchers made lenses about a few millimeters thick with a magnification power of 160 times and a resolution of about 4 microns (millionths of a meter)-- two times lower in optical resolution than many commercial microscopes, but more than three orders of magnitude lower in cost.

The mod changes the damage values of the game's weapons to be more «accurate», makes the defense values of in - game armor more realistic, adds slower character progression in term's of the stats system, makes your hunger & thirst meters go down more rapidly and makes the shopkeepers in the game more shrewd about the prices they give for items that are bought or sold.

On the safari, I was about two meters (6.5 feet) away from a lion eating a wildebeest, which I thought was incredible, and afterward I researched animal behaviors in their natural habitats and included these in the books, so that kids could learn more about them.»

The battery - life meter dipped more quickly than we expected, predicting a total range of only about 100 kilometers (60 - ish miles) by the end, versus the promised 150 kilometers, but that reflects several short and aggressive journalist - helmed test drives in cold weather, the last factor being particularly important, since this car lacks the sort of liquid heating elements found in the Volt.

The 2nd and 3rd row seats can also be folded down to create more cargo space of about 15 cubic meters.

The + R Driving mode adjusts the throttle, suspension, and steering for a more thrilling driving experience, and the digital meter display on the dashboard gives you information about boost pressure, g - forces, and track times.

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After each patient is tested we do diabetes education about nutrition and exercise and teach them how to use the meters and strips so that they can have more control over their blood sugars and health.

We are just a short walk from the sea front and the city centre... Read more (about 200 meters.).