Sentences with phrase «of wind and water»

To most of us, the word disaster conjures up visions of explosions or uncontrolled torrents of wind and water.

Although variable renewable energy sources were critical to European society for some 500 years before fossil fuels took over, there were no chemical batteries, no electric transmission lines, and no balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants to deal with the variable energy output of wind and water power.

Soil management to increase soil carbon sequestration may also reduce the amount of wind and water erosion due to an increase in surface cover.

And they're now leaving brush spread around to turbulate the sheet flow of wind and water across the slopes and catch the bits of leaf and twig and seed that otherwise get washed away with the dust.

The paintings were not literal renderings of the mountainous and rugged terrain, but instead captured the spartan forms and sculpted surfaces like those shaped by centuries of erosion and movement of wind and water as well as upheavals from tectonic shifts deep within the earth.

Classical, romantic, country and the music I can hear even when it's not playing: the music of the wind and water and the music of silence.

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The West Maui Mountains are actually a single extinct volcano, sculpted by more than a million years of wind and water.

A horse whinnied in response, then silence but for the faint wheesh of wind and water that, like feud and memory, pour forth unceasing in the Borderlands.

And still the sea called, Come out, come out, and in boats I went «in rowboats and dinghies and motorboats, and after I learned to sail, I flew over the water, with only the sounds of the wind and the water and the birds, all of them calling, Sail on, sail on.

When the earth shifted, exposing the sea floor until it eventually became cliffs, the weathering processes of wind and water cut into the relatively softer stone more easily, gouging out deep spaces and leaving ledges of the harder stone between.

A cacophony of wind and water rudely intrudes into the cabin.

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What began as a tropical depression over the Bahamas quickly spun up into an unstoppable beast of wind and water that laid waste to parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

The team's analysis, published last spring in the Journal of Anthropological Research [abstract], also evaluated the role of wind and water currents, concluding that the traders may have spent a few months in Mexico and returned when currents shifted.

The bubbles on the foam which coats a stormy sea are floating episodes, made and unmade by the forces of the wind and the water.

Although we must not ignore the imagery of the wind and the water in this text, nor must we think that the flood account is nothing more than a ancient myth designed to illustrate a spiritual truth.

Not exact matches

Flood waters might kill some animals and high winds might knock over huge swaths of trees.

The Water Corporation is set to purchase the entire renewable energy output from Verve Energy's Mumbida Wind Farm and Greenough River Solar Farm to offset the energy requirements of its Southern Seawater Desalination Plant.

Gina Hanrahan added that offshore wind costs were «blowing all expectations out of the water and halving in just over two years.»

Wind and choppy waters on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake caused anxious moments for rowers on the opening day of the Olympic rowing regatta on Saturday, with gold medal contender Kimberly Brennan just avoiding a major setback.

In comparison, the building blocks of Ontario's cleantech energy sector — wind, sunlight, flowing water, biological waste — are not subject to this same market volatility, making them a platform on which to build and grow a stable sector.

18 hours of wind and rain, Ashlee braved power lines — downed power lines and deep water to save 40 lives.

Up a winding mountain road in California gold country, hidden by groves of redwood and pine — along with pockets of humanity living off the grid — is a reservoir with the cheapest water in America.

With wind gales as strong as 160 mph, Hurricane Maria blasted through the country, damaging 90 % of all structures and knocking out all power, water and telecoms.

About 40 times a year, fishing and wind surfing at Cole Park is risky because of high levels of bacteria in the water.

Focused on clean energy infrastructure assets in North America, including solar, wind, energy efficiency, storage, and water, the Fund seeks to encompass a broad array of investment structures, such as senior debt, subordinated debt, and preferred equity.

In support of the Administration's priorities to advance domestic energy production, generate revenue, and increase job opportunities nationwide, BOEM is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and west).

Overview of Renewable Energy on the Outer Continental Shelf — BOEM is responsible for offshore renewable energy development in Federal waters and anticipates future development on the OCS from three general sources: offshore wind, ocean wave, and ocean current energy.

It's called Tracking the Energy Revolution, and its 18 pages of maps, charts, and graphics tell the story of how plunging equipment costs, strong investor interest, and government and business leadership are driving a global shift to renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, and water.

In support of the Administration's priorities to advance domestic energy production, generate revenue, and increase job opportunities nationwide, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and west).

In this day and age, energy comes from wind, water, sun and from geothermal forces below the surface of the -LSB-...]

Two major factors are creating hurricane - friendly conditions in the Atlantic region, which includes the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico: warm water and a lack of wind shear.

Goal: By 2050, Canada must be overwhelmingly powered by clean and renewable energy sources — wind, solar, water, biomass, and the heat of the Earth — instead of fossil fuels.

When he describes «I Am Your Mother,» for example, he points to St. Francis of Assisi's «All Creatures of Our God and King,» in which «we find the following: brother sun, sister moon, brother wind, sister water, brother fire, and mother earth.»

If it were, there would have probably been descriptions of the universe being composed of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water.

The scientists found that an east wind of 63 mph blowing for 12 hours would have driven the shallow waters back, both into the lake and the river channel.

As a result of the wind blowing over the water, the waters recede and are restrained (Genesis 8:2 - 3, 5)-- again, just as they were pushed back in creation.

Have the souls of Christianity and the tutelary spirits of wind, water and sacred grove once invoked by pagan Greece and Rome come back as software and information, which never diminish however often they are used?

He once again sent the wind to push back the waters into their designated places, to dry out the land so that humans and animals might once again have a way to fulfill their God - given task of filling and subduing the earth.

God is victorious over the wildness of water, storms and wind.

The flood almost drowned me, but now the winds of heaven are pushing back the waters, and I see light ahead!

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

At the very beginning of the Bible (Gen. 1:2), where the KJV has, «And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,» the RSV also reads «Spirit,» but with a footnote, «Or wind.»

It is just as rational to believe tiny invisible dragons fly out of my ass each night to blow the winds accross the waters and makes plants grow and flowers open also keeps the earth spinning, yup, all my dragons fault.

We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

The silence that wilderness entails — with its wind, water and wildlife — is not the absence of sound, hut the absence of distraction.

Verily, this soul is Brahma, made of knowledge, of mind, of breath, of seeing, of hearing, of earth, of water, of wind, of space, of energy and of non-energy, of desire and of non-desire, of anger and of non-anger, of virtuousness and of non-virtuousness.

When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure; when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of thunder; then he saw it and declared it; he established it and searched it out.

Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the alternation of night and day, and in the ships which sail in the sea with that which profits men, and in the water which Allah sends down from the sky and quickens therewith the earth after its death and scatters therein all kinds of beasts, and in the change of the winds, and the clouds pressed into service between the heaven and the earth — are indeed Signs for the people who understand.