Sentences with phrase «of vast amounts of water»

The process, and the impediments to its wider adoption, are described in detail in «Cutting waste in gas drilling — Pioneering propane technology used to free natural gas from rocks, avoiding the pollution of vast amounts of water.»

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It is now well known that vast amounts of water and over 120 molecules, including complex organic molecules, are found in interstellar space, having been created by stars and nebulae (the Orion Nebula alone churns out huge amounts of water).

Inspired by this natural phenomenon, scientists report in a study appearing ACS Macro Letters that they have developed a material that mimics cactus roots» ability to rapidly absorb and retain vast amounts of water with a minimal amount of evaporation.

Each spring in the Arctic, the freshet — flooding triggered by melting snow — washes vast amounts of carbon - rich soil from the land into the water — both fresh water and the ocean.

But acoustic techniques can survey vast sections of water in the same amount of time.

There is theoretically a limitless supply, due to the vast amount of water on Earth and opportunities for reuse.

He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered vehicles.

Nevertheless, the demand side grows fastly with booming population growth and urbanization, while the supply side is more endangered with increasing water scarcity due to global change, limited phosphorus reserves and vast amounts of energy required for nitrogen production.

Research begun at Princeton University found that the numerous small sea animals that migrate from the surface to deeper water every day consume vast amounts of what little oxygen is available in the ocean's aptly named «oxygen minimum zone» daily.

Cities consume vast amounts of food, energy, water, and materials.

«The vast amount of water locked inside rocks of this deep region of the mantle will certainly force us to think harder about how it ever got there, or perhaps how it could have always been there since the solidification of the mantle,» says Steven Jacobsen of Northwestern University in Illinois.

Adding vast amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere could heat a planet to the point where it leaks so much water that its oceans eventually disappear

According to the accepted view, the formation of the Earth released vast amounts of water vapour and carbon dioxide, which formed a thick atmosphere and caused strong greenhouse warming at a time when the Sun was 15 to 20 per cent fainter than today.

The oceans can store vast amounts of heat because it takes a large amount of heat to raise water temperature one degree.

Research shows that humpback diets reflect their surroundings, with the truck - sized whales filter - feeding on vast amounts of krill when cold upwelling waters prevail, but switching to schooling fish such as anchovies when warmer waters take over and the fish grow abundant.

It seems we have either misunderstood what its early years were like — or vast amounts of water are hiding beneath its surface.

This «biotic pump» model contends that a vast forest such as the Amazon draws in large amounts of water vapor.

«I think we are finally seeing evidence for a whole - Earth water cycle, which may help explain the vast amount of liquid water on the surface of our habitable planet.

As there is a vast amount of fresh water in the glacial period, in the new ice sheets, the ocean becomes Salter (3 %).

Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.

When an icy impact occurred, the impactor's kinetic energy became heat energy, instantly melted some ice, gouged out a crater, and kicked up into Mars» thin atmosphere large amounts of debris mixed with water (liquid, ice crystals, and vapor)-- and complex organic molecules that obviously came recently from life.127 Then, the dirt and salt - water mixture settled back to the surface in vast layers of thin sheets — strata — especially around the crater.

Vast amounts of frozen water were detected at both Martian poles by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in May 2002.

One can have the leanest and healthiest body, but are purchasing large quantities of pre-packaged meals, drinking out of water bottles daily, wasting food, not recycling, and wasting vast amounts of electrical energy.

However, once diluted in water or oil, topical applications and ingesting it can provide vast amounts of vitamins and minerals to the body, as well as ridding the body of parasites.

Calling the shots is Immortal Joe (Hugh Keays - Byrne), who controls the population's water supply and produces vast amounts of mother's milk from his own battery farm of imprisoned pregnant women.

Participants master the art of working in teams, learn to think on their feet, stay cool under pressure, build water - tight arguments, and accumulate vast amounts of historical, constitutional, and political knowledge.

Trees absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide and water, and as part of the process, make oxygen and sugar.

Yet this hasn't deterred a growing number of automakers from pouring vast amounts of money into the development of hydrogen fuel - cell technology, which can provide a car with range commensurate with conventional gasoline - engine models while emitting nothing but water in the form of steam.

Accessories / Décor: Maglife USA — NitraStrate Nitrastrate substrate is made up of polymer beads designed to eliminate dead spots and bring a constant supply of oxygenated water into the substrate, allowing vast amounts of aerobic bacteria to grow.

He loves the water and has a vast amount of experience surfing, paddle boarding, fishing, diving, and running boats.

One of the reasons such disparate environments exist so close to one another is the vast amount of fresh water hidden beneath the sands.

So there's a vast amount of water that passes around Nusa Penida.

Alastair notes that increased water vapour will carry more energy to the surface of the glaciers, likewise these increased water flows over, through and under the glaciers is also transferring vast amounts of energy into the ice.

My 2004 article and online package on the possible contribution of Greenland's ice to such a slowdown (through the release of vast amounts of fresh water) explores the complexities and hints that the picture was not simple.

To the west of the oil slicks and fleets of vessels working to seal the BP well, another less invisible stain, mainly the result of vast amounts of nitrogen and other nutrients washing down the Mississippi River from agricultural lands upstream, has spread beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

As there is a vast amount of fresh water in the glacial period, in the new ice sheets, the ocean becomes Salter (3 %).

Producing energy requires vast amounts of water: power plants, biofuels, and hydro - power all rely on water to run.

Environmentalists have long been concerned about the risks fracking poses to drinking water via the vast amount of waste that it produces, and the potential for methane and other chemical migration into aquifers.

It impacts millions of acres of scenic, wildlife and agricultural land — and uses vast amounts of raw materials, whose extraction and processing further impairs global land, air and water quality.

Vast amounts of water and energy are needed to strip - mine and drill Canada's tar sands deposits — a heavy black substance mixed with sand and clay — and turn the extracted bitumen into usable crude oil.

«Right now, the biggest climate change uncertainty is West Antarctica,» where a vast amount of fresh water is locked up, Taylor says.

AGW climate scientists seem to ignore that while the earth's surface may be warming, our atmosphere above 10,000 ft. above MSL is a refrigerator that can take water vapor scavenged from the vast oceans on earth (which are also a formidable heat sink), lift it to cold zones in the atmosphere by convective physical processes, chill it (removing vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) or freeze it, (removing even more vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) drop it on land and oceans as rain, sleet or snow, moisturizing and cooling the soil, cooling the oceans and building polar ice caps and even more importantly, increasing the albedo of the earth, with a critical negative feedback determining how much of the sun's energy is reflected back into space, changing the moment of inertia of the earth by removing water mass from equatorial latitudes and transporting this water vapor mass to the poles, reducing the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and speeding up its spin rate, etc..

When the convective processes of the atmosphere remove enough water vapor from the oceans to drop sea levels and build polar ice caps, as has happened many times before, the top 35 meters of the oceans where climate models assume the only thermal mixing occurs, must heat up cold ocean water that comes from depths below the original 35 meter depth, removing vast more amounts of heat from the earth's surface and atmosphere.

A brief and simple explanation: Looking only at the tropical Pacific, a significant El Niño releases a vast amount of warm water from below the surface of the Western Pacific Warm Pool and it sloshes east.

Pumping of vast amounts of heat - absorbing water onto crops is lowering temperatures in some regions as well, say the authors.

I've used JPL sea level animations to demonstrate equatorial Pacific Kelvin waves during El Niño events and the much overlooked Rossby waves that return vast amounts of warm water to the western Pacific during La Niña events.

Visible light can not be heating all the vast amount of water in our great ocean which is the major part of our Earth because Water does not absorb visible light, it transmits it through without absorbinwater in our great ocean which is the major part of our Earth because Water does not absorb visible light, it transmits it through without absorbinWater does not absorb visible light, it transmits it through without absorbing it.

The vast areas of open water in 2007 and 2008 increased the amount of summer ocean heat storage.

Price of Oil: When oil prices were low, the vast amount of additional water and energy (and greenhouse gas pollution) needed to scrub and process these sorts of hydrocarbons into something suitable for market was simply uneconomical compared to conventional sources of crude.

When water vapor (97 % of Earth's Greenhouse gas) condenses into clouds, vast amounts of heat are released and radiated into Space.