Sentences with phrase «oil fires»

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

For example, open - water oil fires can be difficult to sustain, they produce smoke, and they leave behind a tar - like residue that can harm marine life.

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

A large oil fire so close to shore would have been «unpleasant, if not dangerous and harmful to health», says the report.

Dozens of oily lakes dot the landscape, and the fallout from oil fires smears much of the rest.

Tom Halla, Not only did the Kuwait oil fires not cause global cooling, but it is generally accepted now that the «Nuclear Winter» scenario is improbable.

Power generation survived but got squeezed by nat gas and nuclear (as did oil fired power generation and industrial use of oil on the back of the 1970s oil shocks).

Despite having been shut down for refueling, Unit 4 also suffered an explosion and what remains identified by Japanese authorities as a «lube oil fire.»

Islamic State has been using suicide bombers, human shields, road mines and oil fires as well as conventional artillery to defend Iraq's second city, which still has more than a million people trapped inside.

If we just build solar and wind capacity and then decommission coal and oil fired plants we will fall far short of the worlds» needs in 2040.

When laboratory tests identified the challenges of igniting and sustaining oil fires on ice and in cold water, Rangwala and his team began exploring methods for making the oil easier to burn by transmitting heat from the flames to the oil.

That title, by the way, refers partly to the concept of fate — the unknowable, magical element that no human being can control, and which inevitably gets us in the end — and partly to the name scrawled on the side of one of two trucks tasked with shipping a load of dynamite through the Amazon jungle to the site of a raging oil fire.

The quantitative analytical data show that the emissions from this in - situ oil fire were less than expected.

which, after the kuwait oil fires made that look like what it was, he kinda vanished from public view... it's macgregor's goat.

I do remember Sagan predicting the Kuwait oil fires at the end of the first Gulf War would cause global cooling (which did not happen).

HEATING SYSTEM Before: Oil fired central heating with standard efficiency boiler.

Secondary heaters would include an open fireplace, a gas fire (either in chimney, catalytic or balanced flue type), electric fuel effect fire (for instance set into mock fireplace or modern design set into the wall), a wood pellet, log, multifuel or oil fired stove, any other fixed appliance heating the living room, and electric heaters to be assumed where storage heaters are used.

I was tasked with removal of the old oil firing system and installation of Low Nox gas burners and supporting ductwork supplied by Mitsui / Babcock Corp on River Rouge unit 3.

They had multiple toxic exposures, including pesticides in their tents, smoke from oil fires, anti-nerve-gas pills and diesel fuel poured on the ground to keep the sand down.»

(NRC experts, though, disagreed, at least at the time: «We know it wasn't a lube oil fire,» argued Larry Camper, director of the NRC's Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, on March 20, 2011, according to the transcripts.)

Nevertheless, various explanations for the symptoms have been advanced, ranging from exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons and smoke from oil fires, to tropical diseases and reactions to inoculations.

It transmits heat from an oil fire into the oil to superheat it and make the fire hotter, more productive, and cleaner.

During test burns conducted with and without the Flame Refluxer, the researchers measured a number of parameters, including temperatures above the oil fire and the flow rate of oil delivered to the test apparatus, in order to determine how effectively the Flame Refluxer conveyed heat from the flames to the oil (a process known as heat flux) and how it changed the oil burning rate.

The copper blanket was weighed before and after each test to see how effectively it trapped residue from the oil fires.

Meanwhile, the ferocity of the oil fires has hampered the efforts of local fire crews to extinguish them amid fears that explosive devices may have been planted around the wells.

Other studies have found excess rates of brain structure alterations and brain cancer deaths among veterans who had the greatest exposure to nerve agents or oil fire smoke.

(Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness, a document of the oil fires post-Gulf I, says more about the absurdity of war in any five of its wordless, operatic minutes than Jarhead does in its voice - over'd, meticulously - bleached and postured still - life entirety.)

Starring as John R. Ingram, Robinson is the everyday family man who runs a business that specializes in putting out oil fires.

When his young son (Dillon Freasier) gets caught in an oil derrick explosion, Plainview leaves his side for several hours to deal with the oil fire.

At the New York Times Magazine, he was part of the team which produced award - winning visual coverage of world events including the Fall of the Eastern Bloc, the First Gulf War, Tiananmen Square and the oil fires in Kuwait.

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.

The scientists found that a marked decrease in hurricane activity in the western Caribbean coincided with the late - 19th - century industrial boom linked to growing emissions of carbon dioxide and sulphate aerosols: both exhausts from coal and oil fires.

In this capacity, he was accountable for the successful management of safety, environmental compliance, reliability, and financial performance of 5800 megawatts of coal fired, oil fired, and natural gas generation.

Oil fires are fairly short lived.

The Richmond Power Station was also converted to oil firing, and smaller «prefabricated» power stations were erected in Geelong and Ballarat.