Sentences with phrase «much land area»

Find out more about how much land area it takes to support your personal lifestyle with the GFN Footprint Calculator, and read about the causes and conditions that are behind our current ecological deficit at Earth Overshoot Day, as well as learn what you can do to make a difference, both locally and globally.

It provides all of the basic information, such as how many wind turbines and solar panels would be needed to power each state, how much land area would be required, what would be the cost and cost savings, how many jobs would be created, how much pollution - related mortality and global - warming emissions would be avoided.»

Amd calculate how much land area would be required for Joule to provide the world'd projected transport fuels in 2100.

Btw, we won't need as much land area as those disks, because that assumed 8 % efficiency.

There is twice as much land area in the 60N - 65N latitude band than ocean.

How much land area is actually required (actual not theoretical) to produce that volume of fuel per year?

210 Mr. Know It All, well coal seam gas wells don't take up much land area.

It enables us to estimate the impact on regional air pollution emissions, as well as how much land area and water consumption would be needed for each scenario.

Not exact matches

The total volume of rain is easier to calculate when a storm remains over a fixed area, but it much harder to suss out when hurricanes remain mobile and dump water over a wide swath of land and ocean.

A full 97 % of U.S. land mass is eligible for USDA financing, much of which is just outside major metro areas.

However, JD Power's latest survey of customer satisfaction with 27 major mortgage servicers showed that Capital One received a much better rating than any of the big three banks, landing it in the top four mortgage companies in this area.

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

This indicates that depending on how much of the farm is covered by coffee, the requirement may actually be less than 20 % of the total land area.

This area is one of the main agricultural areas of Costa Rica, and much of the land is used for growing fruits and vegetables (including some mammoth banana plantations) and for raising cattle.

Just imagine this, Y bid # 40m + for Reus now (In an area which is not much a priority) when # 30m + Campbell weeks ago would have land us J.Martinez?

Boxing under international rules is very much like fencing; each properly delivered blow that lands in a prescribed area is of equal value no matter what its force.

Representatives from the northern villages of the Barrington area will work with the Barrington Park District in the coming weeks to determine how much land will be needed to create a regional park.

The DEC's recently released unit management plan for much of the state land around the Tri-Lakes calls for sweeping changes to some popular camping areas, and for opening new campsites to offset the closure of others.

For one thing, notes the American Petroleum Institute, the proposed ban on drilling on state - owned land and within the watershed areas serving New York City and Syracuse would leave «much of the Marcellus Shale region off - limits to responsible development.»

Much of the new construction throughout areas like Harlem, the South Bronx or East Brooklyn, is derived from land acquired through tax foreclosure during that time.

«Maybe locally you could have much higher rates of land - use conversion and spread in some areas» than climate velocity, Williams said.

For instance, whether UK towns flood more in future depends not just on how high the seas get and how much it rains — which are difficult enough to model — but also on how rivers are managed, whether people build on floodplains and the area of land coated in concrete.

Sorghum can potentially yield more energy per area of land than other crops while requiring much less input in terms of fertilizer or chemicals.

«This is going to be a constrained area of land and amount of biomass, so how much transportation and greenhouse gas offsets can we milk out of this constrained land?

But biogeochemist Kenneth Coale, director of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, estimates that the silicon - rich southern part of the Southern Ocean would deliver up to twice as much potential carbon sequestration as the northern area Smetacek fertilized, in large part because of the diatoms and associated ecosystem dynamics.

They assessed the potential environmental impacts of 33 planned or existing corridors — spanning 53,000 kilometers — that would crisscross much of the African continent, opening up vast areas of sparsely populated land.

«It's a guess how much of the planet's surface was land, but it could be as high as two - thirds of the area of today's continents,» says Johnson, who leads the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

In summer, storm activity calmed down over as much as 80 percent of the land area in the mid-latitudes.

In a study in Nature Ecology & Evolution, scientists used satellites to evaluate how much habitable land area remained for the animals as well as how fragmented the territory was.

Hiking through the wilderness areas of the Dixie National Forest and Bureau of Land Management land, Hacker identified features showing that the Markagunt landslide was much bigger than previously knLand Management land, Hacker identified features showing that the Markagunt landslide was much bigger than previously knland, Hacker identified features showing that the Markagunt landslide was much bigger than previously known.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

The perimeters ofthe dark areas are irregular, as would be expected if fluid had flowedinto a natural basin, and the transition from the dark flat areas tothe much brighter surrounding regions is abrupt, as though a smoothliquid were lapping up against rough, dry land.

Semi-arid land is estimated to take up 12 — 18 % of the world's land area and while some of this is already used for farming, much of it is relatively unproductive grazing land.

Curiosity had been shooting for a 12 - by -15-mile (20 - by -25-kilometer) ellipse - shaped landing zone — already much smaller than the target area for any previous Mars mission.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

However, the PDSI suggests there has likely been a large drying trend since the mid-1950s over many land areas, with widespread drying over much of Africa, southern Eurasia, Canada and Alaska.

Using current conservation program and environmental market value, these beneficial environmental outcomes in the study area are valued at a mere $ 3 million, which is much lower than the $ 30 million opportunity cost to farmers for switching their land to perennial production.

An increase of intense precipitation events has been found on much of the world's land area [127]--[129].

A poison ivy rash may also show up on different parts of your body at different times depending on how much urushiol oil landed on certain areas.

Spirulina is a microalgae that thrives in hot, sunny climates and in alkaline waters around the world, and produces twenty times as much protein as soybeans growing on an equal - sized area of land.

Cloud Land, much like Sky Land, is an area situated atop numerous clouds above Pasta Land.

They took a piece of land, put down roads where it looked good, left the elevation changes and didn't touch much of the surrounding area.

However, JD Power's latest survey of customer satisfaction with 27 major mortgage servicers showed that Capital One received a much better rating than any of the big three banks, landing it in the top four mortgage companies in this area.

Because I live in a high cost of living area, much of the assessment is the land value.

A full 97 % of U.S. land mass is eligible for USDA financing, much of which is just outside major metro areas.

His family moved here in 1980 when the area was not much more farm land.

Housing and land prices here in Hervey Bay also tend to be cheaper than those in other areas and that means that people coming to Hervey Bay who have sold their houses Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne can afford a much better house here.

The flights, operated on brand new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, will serve three destinations on the US east coast, with a focus on smaller US airports chosen because they have good access into the New York, Boston and New England areas but carry significantly lower landing charges, allowing Norwegian to offer much lower.

When he returned to the City in 1879 as a wealthy man, he used much of that wealth to enrich the lives of San Francisco's working class by developing the Lands End area.

Much of the country's land and marine environments have been designated as protected areas, and most are managed for tourism and recreational use.