Sentences with phrase «only seawater»

Australia - based Sundrop Farms became the first company to grow crops in the desert using only seawater and sunlight with the official launch of its Port Augusta farm, after a six - year pilot.

At the southern end, the coastal walk winds around to McIvers Baths, Australia's last remaining women - only seawater pool, dating back to 1886.

If we try to drink only seawater, we'd die from dehydration.

Not exact matches

A boost in production can not happen without a substantial increase in water supply, and since Iraq has scarce freshwater resources, processed seawater is the only option.

Any good Italian will tell you the only way to season pasta is to add plenty of salt (to taste like seawater) to your water and I keep a bowl of it on my stovetop for just such an occasion.

When the fish grew up in fresh water and seawater with high concentrations of CO2, they lost weight at double the rate of fish that were only exposed to salt water with higher CO2 levels.

For comparison, uncontaminated seawater contains only a few Becquerels per cubic meter of cesium.

Ours is the only group making hydrates from seawater....

Oxygen from seawater permeated only the upper millimeter or so of sediment, but the researchers noticed something happening much deeper in the mud, more than a centimeter below, as if oxygen were available down there, as well.

Max's invention also avoids a brine - disposal issue by removing only a small amount of freshwater at a time, about 5 percent per volume of seawater in the reactor.

Only a few major seawater desalination plants exist in the U.S.; the largest operates in Tampa, Fla., and a project twice the size is being developed in Carlsbad, Calif..

Interestingly, though, Piantadosi explains, drinking a little seawater (a cupful only) can be a onetime aid to survival.

That would expose a lot of seawater to heat, but only once.

As reported in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, Yang and his research team have developed a new catalyst that's able to not only harvest a much broader spectrum of light than other materials, but also stand up to the harsh conditions found in seawater.

A pilot plant in Qatar produced a harvest comparable to commercial farms in Europe, while consuming only sunlight and seawater.

But monitoring mercury levels in the oceans has proven a challenge for researchers because the metal is present only in tiny concentrations in seawater, and gathering samples from different oceans requires time and resources.

We took seawater samples, analyzed them and had data for one point only,» explains Professor Bange.

The study has overturned the notion that seawater only makes it about 100 km into the mantle before it is returned to Earth's surface through volcanic arcs, such as those forming the Pacific Ring of Fire that runs through the western America's, Japan and Tonga.

Earlier models had assumed that only 1 to 2 per cent of the iron contained in aerosols, including shipping emissions, is soluble in seawater, so the remaining 98 to 99 percent would sink to the bottom without affecting ocean life.

The event also produced a dramatic increase in sulfate and nitrate — the only nutrients the microorganisms would have needed to survive in their seawater mud environment — which the scientists say enabled the bacteria to thrive and multiply.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn — The oceans hold more than four billion tons of uranium — enough to meet global energy needs for the next 10,000 years if only we could capture the element from seawater to fuel nuclear power plants.

The only thing that I need to be careful is to avoid the lens from getting any exposure to chemicals such as perfume and seawater as it can cause problem to the lens.

It's only once they have ingested enough microbes from seawater and food that they become poisonous.

Featuring only endemic fish and flora, and created using only natural formations and local seawater, the Atlanterhavsparken Aquarium is an exercise in sustainable ecotourism.

Unusually, a layer of seawater is capped by a layer of fresh water, allowing species that normally thrive only in deep water to live close to the surface.

Home to the only thalassotherapy spa in the Attica region, the Divani Apollon Palace & Thalasso centre harnesses the use of seawater, marine products and shore climates as a form of therapy.

Nusa Lembongan is a very tiny island (only 4 km by 1.5 km) surrounded by reefs and crystal clear seawater located to the east of mainland Bali and separated from the mainland by Badung Straight.

Gurney's Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa prides itself on being the only resort within the Hamptons that is open all year round, featuring gorgeous beach views.

My point is that seawater at -0.5 C has a very different effect on fresh water ice than seawater at +0.5 C, and yet that is only 1 degree of warming.

For this reason, the density of seawater depends not only on its temperature, but also its salinity.

temperature: 1,000 m depth temperature = 5C thermal conductivity of seawater 0.58 W / mK ocean - air interface = 17.000 C 1.441 mm depth temperature = 17.400 C (the warmest spot in the ocean depth though the «few metres» of depth below it is only a miniscule bit colder, all warmed by Sun SWR) this top 1.441 mm depth is the «skin» and «sub-skin» 100m depth temperature certain in range 16.090 C to 17.400 C but virtually certain > 17C because of mixing top ~ 90m temperature gradient of top 1.441 mm of ocean is 277.6 Celsius / metre By conductivity, temperature gradient pushes 161.00 w / m ** 2 up from 1.441 mm depth to ocean - air interface which precisely removes the Sun's 161 w / m ** 2 going into the top few metres depth and leads to no ocean warming.

The net result is that a 100 % increase of CO2 in the atmosphere only causes a 10 % increase of total carbon in seawater (actually 9:1), that is the Revelle factor.

SALINITY (in strict physical oceanography terms - in PSU), mediates the amount of δ18O of seawater and ONLY the δ18O of seawater parameter along with temperature can physically change the stable oxygen isotopes of foraminifera.

This shows the effect of historically invisible confounding influences on T: dO18 proxy reconstructions, and explicitly refutes your claim, Kau, that, «ONLY a change in temperature or a change in seawater δ18O can alter the δ18O ratio of foraminiferal calcite.

Meanwhile, fewer than a dozen small ice shelves floating on «warm» waters (seawater only a few degrees above the freezing point) produced half of the total melt water during the same period.

All other environmental variables tested, including the UI (from April to September only), the PDO, silicate, nitrate and the seawater temperature at Tatoosh, were not associated with shell δ13C (Table 2).

These reactions are fully reversible and the basic thermodynamics of these reactions in seawater are well known, such that at a pH of approximately 8.1 approximately 90 % the carbon is in the form of bicarbonate ion, 9 % in the form of carbonate ion, and only about 1 % of the carbon is in the form of dissolved CO2.

So far as I know seawater pumped hydro has only been done once with a high head, as would be used in Australia; a trial project at a Okinawa, Japan.

Previously, only the passive melting of Antarctic ice by warmer air and seawater was considered but the new work added active processes, such as the disintegration of huge ice cliffs.

Not only does this increasing acidity threaten the ocean food chain by hampering the formation of shells and corals, it could also affect the communication of marine mammals by changing the way sound travels through the seawater.

Although only a small fraction of this vast volcanic terrain has been visually surveyed or sampled, the available evidence suggests that explosive eruptions are rare on mid-ocean ridges, particularly at depths below the critical point for seawater (3,000 m) 1.

You have already said in earlier parts of this post that IR penetrates seawater to a depth of only a few microns.

But free CO2 is only 1 % of total carbon in seawater...

Coral reefs are threatened by rising water temperatures, ocean acidification, and sea - level rise.3, 5 Coral reefs typically live within a specific range of temperature, light, and concentration of carbonate in seawater.6 When increases in ocean temperature or ultraviolet light stress the corals, they lose their colorful algae, leaving only transparent coral tissue covering their white calcium - carbonate skeletons.6 This phenomenon is called coral bleaching.

We have ice melting to water with no CO2, absorbing 300 ppm by the time it is seawater, and you are saying that the release of CO2 is only a miserable 16 ppm per degree??

It turns out that the only thing stopping seawater getting in the troughs is a very small bit of ice, equivalent to only 8 centimetres of global sea level rise, which Mengel & Levermann nickname the «ice plug».

It takes less heat to melt them, and when you melt one litre of methane clathrate, you get only 0.8 litres of seawater — and 168 litres of methane.