Sentences with phrase «produce a water flow»

Several of our cats love to drink from the faucet when it is turned on to produce a water flow that is as thin as a knitting needle.

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But existing models of water flows don't provide the full range of possible outcomes: «A 50 - year rain can produce a 100 - year flood if it falls on a watershed that's already soaked or on snowpack or if it coincides with a storm surge.»

Like BMI, Roper Industries Inc. produces flow measurement and metering equipment as well as various water meter, valve and control systems.

BMI, as its name suggests, produces electronic water meters and other flow measurement devices to municipal water utilities.

Worse, there is evidence that the Alberta government has approved logging in the foothills not for the commercial value of the timber produced but for the express purpose of increasing water flow.

Moses once got so impatient and frustratedwith the people of Israel that when God commanded him to order a rock to produce water to drink, Moses struck it twice with a branch, and the water flowed out as God wished.

«Our spring water flows naturally and produces a crystal clear, non-carbonated and sodium - free water with the taste customers expect and want,» the company says.

With a focus on constant improvement of practices and adoption of the latest farming and winemaking technologies, McManis Family Vineyards» water use efficiency measures in the vineyard include the use of soil moisture sensors, flow meters and distribution uniformity tests; while their winery recycles water and averages one gallon of water to produce one gallon of wine.

(b) It is further in the national interest to ensure that the Nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.

The velocity at which a smoothly flowing stream produces eddies depends on the water's viscosity, the diameter of the channel, and other factors, but no one fully understands what triggers all the turbulence.

The water flow system on the launch pad that appears to have malfunctioned, causing the scrub, protects the launch mount from the high temperatures produced as the rocket fires, Dunn said.

They found that larger watersheds were more stable in terms of water temperature and flow, and produced salmon more consistently.

Harvey produced record rainfall over southeast Texas, and that water is now flowing through the Gulf.

People living at the end of the Stone Age were probably amazed to discover that certain rocks could be heated to produce a fiery liquid that flowed like water but which cooled to produce workable materials.

They describe technology that would react the CO2 with water or other liquids and, with further processing, produce a flow of electrons that make up electric current.

«The paper reports a fascinating result,» said Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, «that melting beneath deep ice produces water that flows beneath thinner ice and refreezes, and that this has been going on long enough to make a big refrozen layer.»

Power plants could, they argue, pump the carbon dioxide through water or other liquids and produce a flow of electrons — and therefore more electricity.

Goupitan, the largest hydroelectric generator in Guizhou province, reportedly produced only 10 percent of its normal output per day, due to shrinking water flows.

While the negative electrons flow out as usable current, the positive protons are drawn to the cathode, where they recombine with returning electrons and oxygen to produce water.

The band of cold water off Chile's coast is produced by the Humboldt Current, a slow northerly ocean flow that runs more than 3,000 miles along the Pacific coast of South America, from southern Chile all the way to the equator.

Additionally, said the scientists, water is unlikely to be produced only near the tops of slopes at these angles and if it were, it should be able to flow onto lower slopes.

The new study used the concept of «virtual water,» an economic concept used to track water flows through trade, to track how water is traded through agricultural products and other goods that require water to produce.

In a commentary published alongside the study, Tara Palmore, MD, notes the need for additional research on the topic: «Hospitals tend to have large, complex waterworks with low - flow areas that produce stagnation and biofilm formation; hot and cold water temperatures that are not well regulated may be ideal for bacterial growth... the work of Cristina et al. is valuable in quantifying the frequency, magnitude, and location of the potential hazard to patients from hospital water in their facilities.

It runs potential storm tracks through sophisticated computer models to determine the way water might flow over the landscape when a hurricane hits and produces maps that are color - coded for various danger levels.

They discovered potentially revelatory harmonic properties of ice quakes, which are minor rumbles produced when cracks in the ice are reshaped by water flowing through them.

Ancient organic matter trapped in rock might have been destroyed by water flowing through the rock, which would have split apart the organic molecules and produced carbon dioxide gas.

The worms» passageways introduce air into the soil by allowing oxygen and water to percolate down to growing plant roots and letting carbon dioxide produced from the plants flow back out into the atmosphere.

They started with the experimental set up traditionally used for second harmonic generation studies in Geiger's group, which included a femtosecond laser oscillator from Newport Spectra Physics, optical lenses and mirrors, and a flow cell produced in - house for housing the alpha - quartz / water interface.

As this water was released and flowed away, the overlying surface collapsed, producing the disruption and subsidence shown here.

Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a graphene - oxide membrane with a scalable, uniform pore size that can filter out even the smallest salts, giving it potential for producing drinking water from salt water without affecting the flow of the water too much.

But the IPCC specifically excluded the mechanism able to produce the biggest amounts of water quickly - acceleration in the flow of ice from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the world's two major ice masses that would between them raise sea levels by about 70m if they completely melted.

In experiments, the researchers pumped water through a graphene membrane treated with both defect - sealing and pore - producing processes, and found that water flowed through at rates comparable to current desalination membranes.

The slow up - flow of water in the reactor vessel insures that little radioactive crud produced from long term operation carries to the above - ground portion of the reactor coolant system.

The slow upward flow of water insures that the short lived radioactive gases produced by fission die off before the reactor coolant reaches the above - ground portion of the plant (another bonus of gravity driven flow!).

We have discovered a fascinating property with our Ink after reading a paper from China that showed that an electrical current is produced when sea water is made to flow over Graphene.

Victoria Falls has a unique structure that produces the largest single sheet of flowing water in the world.

Incoming tides can also produce a tidal bore along a river or narrow bay as the water flow against the current results in a wave on the surface.

A computer calculates the movement of the particles to produce a simulation of water that flows in accordance with the laws of physics.

As Egypt tries to fashion a functioning democracy after President Hosni Mubarak's departure, land grabs to the south are threatening its ability to put bread on the table because all of Egypt's grain is either imported or produced with water from the Nile River, which flows north through Ethiopia and Sudan before reaching Egypt.

Most often the wood waste is burned to heat water and create steam, which flows through a turbine to produce electricity.

13 Gyres Vertical columns or mounds of water at the surface and flow around them Produce enormous circular currents Five major locations: North Pacific - clockwise South Pacific - counterclockwise Indian Ocean - counterclockwise South Atlantic - counterclockwise North Atlantic - clockwise

Lake - effect snow is produced by the strong flow of cold air across large areas of relatively warmer ice - free water.

Incoming tides can also produce a tidal bore along a river or narrow bay as the water flow against the current results in a wave on the surface.

This is because you can actually produce more energy letting the previously pumped water flow than it took to do the pumping.

One source that has been mostly overlooked is how much N2O is produced by flowing waters: the world's rivers and streams»... «This is yet another example of the IPCC getting its greenhouse gas sums wrong.

Trenberth notes that global warming has already increased the average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere by about 4 %, «extra moisture flowing into the storms that produced the heavy rains and likely contributed to the strength of the storms through added energy.»

Unpredictable river - water levels and reduced river flow in Asia produce agricultural uncertainties amid heightened flood risks.

Extreme weather events that produce sudden increases in water flow, often carrying debris and pollutants, can decrease the natural capacity of ecosystems to cleanse contaminants.12

The rooftop solar thermal panels produce hot water that flows through radiant tubing in the floors to heat the house; the rooftop photovoltaic panels are net - metered so that during the week when we're in L.A. and the house is empty and the energy goes unused, it is pumped directly back into the grid and creates a credit at the local utility.

That water sinks in a slow more viscous flow exchanging very little heat producing a thermal boundary in the deep oceans.