Sentences with phrase «seawater for»

Van der Meer wants to incorporate the biosensor bacteria into buoy - based devices, which would continuously monitor seawater for hints of an oil spill and relay pertinent information back to a laboratory.

Greenpeace brought its ship the Beluga II on an expedition of scientific research around Scotland, sampling seawater for microplastics and documenting the impact of ocean plastic on some of the UK's most precious marine life.

The Surfrider Foundation filed appeal today of Superior Court Judge Judith F. Hayes» ruling siding with the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board's determination to allow «open ocean» intake to withdraw seawater for an ocean desalination facility on the Carlsbad coast, the largest ever planned in the United States, and the first to be scrutinized by the California courts.

By comparing the ratio of protactinium - 231 to thorium - 230, two daughter isotopes of uranium decay that remain in seawater for relatively short but consistently different periods of time before drifting into the seafloor, they could determine when circulation was strongest.

The increased levels of carbonic acid in the water means there are less carbonate ions available in seawater for making shells, meaning that thousands of species that build shells or skeletons from calcium carbonate are in danger of extinction.

For the effects of warming on the expansion of seawater for 0 - 700 & 0 - 2000 metre depth ranges, see the image below from the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).

BTW water is sometimes cited as a constraint, but that depends on the type of plant: I was recently at Sizewell A & B in England, which like other UK nuclear plants use seawater for cooling; the water is returned to the sea, which remained too cold for swimming even after the July heatwave.

How dare you hunt such creatures to near extinction when no one needs to eat this meet that tastes like old steak soaked in seawater for a hundred years anyway?»

The bathing pool fills up during every high tide, leaving a large area of seawater for swimmers to enjoy at low tide.

From the lobby to the guest rooms, each element of Plantation Bay's interiors have been carefully planned, and the pools are designed to mimic seawater for a one - of - a-kind experience.

That's because their kidneys are efficient enough to filter out the salt and use the desalinated seawater for hydration.

In fact, we can thank seawater for the discovery of iodine.

To test our hypothesis that it would, we soaked krill (tiny shrimp - like crustaceans that anchovies eat) or plastic debris and clean plastic in seawater for several hours, allowing the water to take on the smell of the material steeping in it.

Authorities could then arrange a «paper trade» that would exchange desalinated seawater for an additional share of Lake Mead's water.

Now, scientists have finally caught the biggest of these soft and fragile houses in action, filtering particles out of seawater for the animal to eat.

Current RO facilities desalinize seawater for 68 to 90 cents per cubic meter.

Steel panels with cerium oxide coatings can be exposed to seawater for weeks on end without becoming covered by bacteria, algae, mollusks, or barnacles.

Another method for substituting for the use of high - quality fresh water, they say, occurs in Hong Kong, which for the past 50 years has operated a dual water system that delivers seawater for toilet flushing to 80 percent of its 7 million residents.

And once the hull was finished, the ship sat in seawater for a year while the inside was furnished.

The saturation state of seawater for a mineral such as aragonite is a measure of the potential for the mineral to form or to dissolve.

The plant owner planned for a contractor to provide seawater for emergency cooling, but had no backup plan if an earthquake and tsunami blocked highways to the plant, the NRC said.

• PG&E planned for a contractor to provide seawater for emergency cooling, but had no backup plan if an earthquake and tsunami blocked highways to the plant.

The researchers exposed baby corals from the Great Barrier Reef to acidified seawater for varying lengths of time and investigated how they responded at a molecular level.

The process would be most applicable at seaside gas - fired power plants that already use a large amount of seawater for cooling.

This makes desalinating seawater for agricultural use too costly to attract private investment.

Not exact matches

Water technology companies, which are the fastest - growing businesses, are finding ways to make the 99 % of the earth's water that we can't drink (seawater, waste water, polluted water) safe for use.

By: David Oliveira 9th December 2016 To ensure sustainable operations in drought sticken Richards Bay, KwaZulu - Natal, diversified miner South32 has invested R74 - million in a seawater desalination plant that uses membrane technology to produce cooling process water for its Hillside aluminium smelter.

This makes me happy: By creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater, chemists have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater that consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques.

Continuing this theme of expansion into new categories, the Australian Certified Organic Standard 2013 (the rule book for anyone certified with Australian Certified Organic) contains a new section on aquaculture (fish farming, in freshwater or in cages in seawater).

Sundrop Farms is pioneering sustainable greenhouse technologies using seawater and sunlight for commercial horticulture crops.

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 you walk into a place, trust your senses: The shop should look clean and smell like, well, nothing except for the bright, briny scent of seawater.

For instance, he says a transformer exploded Monday night when the seawater hit Con Edison electrical equipment.

Concentrations of selenium, a vital element for many organisms at the base of today's ocean food chain, dropped substantially in seawater in advance of three of Earth's largest die - offs, a new study suggests.

Water: Some lights are optimized for seawater or freshwater systems, while others work just as well for either.

Teams of marine scientists are towing nets to scoop up plankton, tagging large predators to track their migrations, sequencing the DNA in seawater to hunt for microbes, and trawling the seafloor for bottom dwellers.

Professor Damon Teagle, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous scientific ocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper mantle.

For example, rangeomorphs could rapidly «shape - shift,» growing into a long, tapered shape if the seawater above them happened to have elevated levels of oxygen.

The research team — which utilized 34,000 data records from 2010 and 2011 — concluded that melting sea ice is diluting seawater and reducing the concentrations of the carbonate minerals critical as building blocks for the shells of marine life.

Today, depending on the area, typical surface ocean waters consist of between 5.4 and 8 milliliters of dissolved oxygen for every liter of seawater.

Sunke Schmidtko of the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, and his team combined a range of data sets on seawater properties at different locations and depths, going back to 1975.

The researchers believe these same structural elements make wood a superior material for generating clean freshwater from seawater.

It pumps 20 liters (about 5.3 gallons) of seawater and plankton per second through a «light tight» collection chamber large enough to capture even fast swimmers and keep them inside long enough for the device's fiber - optic instruments to record and measure, in photons per liter, the size, duration, and number of an organism's flashes.

For stings from a few species, Cyanea capillata and Chysaora quinquecirrha, a baking soda and seawater paste is even better.

Considering there are so few options for solving the world's growing energy needs in a sustainable way, fusion energy is incredibly exciting since it takes its fuel from ordinary seawater,» says Linnea Hesslow.

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

What he will share is part of his strategy for growing hefty hydrates: Increase the concentration of gas to saturate the seawater.

The membranes used for pretreating the seawater — larger, particulate matter must be removed before the seawater is flushed against the high - tech desalting membranes — are clogged with colonies of tiny Asian green mussels.

As if that wasn't bad enough, soaring levels of carbon dioxide are making seawater more acidic, which will make it harder and harder for coral polyps to build their rigid skeletons.

A new biofuels project at Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will search for a system to produce fuel from biomass and seawater