Sentences with phrase «oil fire burns»

Your renters insurance will not cover you if a hash oil fire burns down your apartment, for instance.

After I saw the oil fires burning in Kuwait in 1991, an Irish artist painted Fisk's Fires — a title I could have done without — in which she very accurately portrayed the bleached desert with the rich, thick, chocolate - tasting oil we tasted in the aftermath of the war.

Not exact matches

Aerial video of a fire burning at an oil refinery in Wisconsin after an explosion this morning.

«Newly discovered «blue whirl» fire tornado burns cleaner for reduced emissions: Findings could lead to better oil spill cleanup.»

But a perusal of this magazine for stories about blazing oil wells, burning microchips and fires in tyre dumps suggests another possibility: smoke.

We saw hotter fires increase the amount of oil that was consumed, what appears to be cleaner emissions, and a significant reduction in burn residue after the burn.

Developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the device designed to burn off oil spills more completely.

The technology was developed at WPI by a team led by Ali Rangwala, professor of fire protection engineering, as an outgrowth of research funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior aimed at assessing the feasibility of using in - situ burns to clean up oil spills in remote locations in the Arctic, where harsh weather can make it difficult to quickly mobilize clean - up equipment and crews.

The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired plant.

Called the Flame Refluxer, the technology, developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with funding from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), could make it possible to burn off spilled oil quickly while producing relatively low levels of air pollutants.

Most of the fires are the result of slash - and - burn practices — a cheap way to clear land and destroy native forests for palm oil and timber plantations.

At its peak this month, there were almost 1200 fires burning across Indonesia — most of them lit illegally to clear land for palm oil and timber.

The planners thought that setting fire to the ship would burn off the oil pouring into the sea.

The entire cast is quite good, but the film is clearly Candy's as he barges through his short stay with his young relatives, chomping on a cigar (the first step in his 5 - month program to quit smoking) and driving an oil - burning, back - firing, floating sofa of a car.

Burning Skull Bull Skull + Motor Oil Putting a bull skull on your head and charging around is ok, but it's nothing compared to setting that same skull on fire.

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Truck runs and drives great, always fires right up and doesn't burn any oil.

Think of light linked only to fire — oil lamps, candles — and then see it burning in a light bulb.

While sailing on the Morrigan, players will encounter enemy ships which can be attacked with cannon fire and other upgradable weapons such as burning oil and the Puckle gun.

Likewise, setting fire to an oil slick will cause it to burn anyone standing within it.

That process takes 124 days for a crude oil - fired power plant and 161 days for a power plant burning natural gas.

Traditional gas - fired forced air and oil - burning heating systems operate through an antiquated combustion process that emit harmful pollutants and exhaust into the environment.

Last year, devastating fires swept across Indonesia and neighboring countries, thanks to decades of slash - and - burn clearing of forests and peatlands, mostly by palm oil and timber companies.

The criteria include: using natural pests and composting in place of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers whenever possible; implementing no - burn policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the risk of fires spreading into forest areas; sparing forests with high conservation value from development; taking measures to reduce air pollution; and creating catchment ponds to prevent palm oil mill effluent — a byproduct — from entering waterways where it would damage aquatic habitats.

Mikel, Carl Sagan, in the aftermath of the first Gulf War but while the Kuwaiti oil fields were still burning, famously predicted significant cooling effects from the aerosols of the fires.

There are many underlying causes for these fires, including the draining of swampy peat soils to make way for palm oil and pulpwood plantations and the use of illegal slash - and - burn practices by farmers

The need to keep the lights on during the winter clashes with the ISO's desire to retire the region's old and inefficient oil - fired steam plants, which burn heavy residual fuel oil.

«The fires are burning in plantation forests where they may have been set purposely in rotation as a method of boosting crop production on oil palm plantations and timber plantations — a practice known as swidden — or slash - and - burn agriculture,» writes CIFOR's Julie Mollins in a blog post.

If there is such thing as a silver lining to the horrific fires burning in Indonesia right now, let's hope it takes the form of global scrutiny at the environmental cost of our hunger for palm oil.

Pablo looks at why the oil wasn't set on fire (this was mentioned last week by the Coast Guard): «Burning such large quantities of oil would be a dirty proposition, blackening skies and severely impacting air quality in the Southern US, but wouldn't it be better than letting it coat hundreds of miles of beaches, endangered seabirds, oyster beds, and protective barrier wetlands?»

However, with instances of extreme weather, sea level rise, impacts to crops, rising heat waves, and worsening fires due to global warming also on the rise, burning oil is now producing a growing tally of external disasters that surpass the scope of most toxins.