Sentences with phrase «seawater into»

New evidence is also suggesting that changes in ocean circulation patterns played a very important role in bringing warmer seawater into the North Atlantic.

Or we could try to increase the reflectivity of clouds by, say, spraying seawater into the atmosphere.

As well as allowing the boats to be positioned optimally, this force would propel them fast enough to drive a water turbine that powers the conversion of seawater into a very fine mist.

But one could envision someday a model, say, of a solar - powered facility in southern California or Singapore basically turning sunlight and desalinated seawater into growth medium and then tons of cruelty - free, sustainable nuggets of chicken essence.

Solar - powered desalination plants can also transform seawater into clean water for drinking and agricultural use.

Sponges, the most primitive reef animals, house tiny fish in their cavernous tubes and vases as they draw seawater into their pores.

Water desalination plants can effectively turn seawater into drinking water, but they're hardly portable.

Yoshida also disregarded orders from TEPCO officials not to pump seawater into the crippled reactors to halt ongoing core meltdowns.

Instead of wind, tidal flows turn the turbine, converting the kinetic energy of moving seawater into electrical energy.

A six - foot - wide suction mouth positioned directly behind the cutting head will pump a slurry of ore and seawater into the foot - wide riser and up to the ship.

The collapsing material would push seawater into towering tsunami waves that could threaten coastal cities along the entire Pacific Rim.

WHAT CAUSES THEM: Rivers swollen by heavy rains, rising sea levels or storm surges that push seawater into coastal areas.

«Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water.»

Ships would spray seawater into clouds to create extra water droplets, making the clouds whiter.

Scientists in Australia have found a way to turn seawater into fuel.

Or consider the improvements in desalination plants, where in the past four decades the energy required to turn seawater into clean drinking water has fallen an estimated 90 percent, due largely to improvements in the filters used to remove salts.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

San Diego County is building the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western hemisphere, while Orange County plans to turn more wastewater into drinking water.

The ratio of oxygen isotopes in seawater depends on the water temperature; the value of this ratio at any point in evolutionary time is «frozen» into the chemical composition of certain marine fossils.

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.

Much of the carbon dioxide given off from the burning of fossil fuels goes into the ocean, where it changes the acid balance of seawater.

Chemical clues in the mangroves and algae can also tell how salty the water was, which shows whether or not El Niño was raising the local sea level and causing more seawater to seep into the coastal wetlands.

In oceans CO2 from the atmosphere dissolves into seawater's surface, forming carbonic acid.

Hurricane - force winds whip the ocean so fiercely that the seawater belches dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere like a shaken bottle of soda, scientists have discovered.

Under some conditions — particularly when CO2 - rich deep water wells up to the surface in the tropics — seawater also releases CO2 back into the air.

Because volcanic rocks are porous, some oceanographers speculated that cold seawater percolates into seamounts, warms up in the crust, and emerges at other seamounts as mineral - rich fluids.

If the trend continues, the islands could experience increased flooding and erosion, and seawater could intrude into freshwater aquifers.

Results from Lake Ryuuoo, a small lake on an island in the Bungo Channel, show a surprising sand layer washed into Lake Ryuuoo by seawater rushing over a 13 - foot - high barrier beach.

New research shows that some plastics may be leaching toxic chemicals into seawater.

The water level in the borehole shot up six meters, indicating that pressurized seawater from beneath the ice had spurted into the bottom of the hole.

Every day, these gelatinous creatures (Bathochordaeus stygius) build giant disposable mucus mansions to round up zooplankton into their stomachs — sometimes sifting through around 80 liters of seawater per hour.

Instead of just bubbling the gas into the system, which would result in candy - shell crystals and a quick trip to Slurryville, Max plans to carefully dissolve the gas into the seawater.

Based on the speed of the silicates» reaction with seawater, Yardley believes that when CO2 is injected into high - silicate minerals like feldspar, it too will quickly react, making clays and carbonates that clog the pores of the rock and trap the gas.

Because they form by leakage of methane into seawater it implies that something at that time caused a large release of methane into the ocean.

They forms at sites were natural methane gas leaks into seawater.

TEPCO is currently injecting seawater and boric acid — boron absorbs the neutrons that radioactive materials give off to prevent any self - sustaining fission — into two of the three reactors, according to the company's statements.

Toward that goal, scientists have scooped samples of seawater from a variety of latitudes and studied the rich broth of microorganisms they contain in simulator tanks built into the decks of ships.

Instead of settling on the seafloor, that stray carbon may acidify seawater or escape into the atmosphere.

Violent explosions from the reaction of lava with cold seawater threw even greater quantities of ash into the atmosphere, and created vast fields of pumice stones along the shoreline.

In August 2011, scientists at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory walked into their labs to a strange, disturbing sight: Thousands of purple sea urchins and other marine invertebrates were dead in their tanks, which are fed directly by seawater.

As a result, seawater poured into the emptying pores and the salinity of the water increased until it was often undrinkable.

Gibraltar's rubbish, which used to be thrown into the sea, is now incinerated and the heat produced by the furnaces is used to evaporate seawater.

Now, warming seawater intruding underneath has loosened the glaciers» grip on bedrock, speeding their flow toward the sea and causing increasing amounts of ice to break off into the ocean.

Without the support of the surrounding seawater, their weight damages their muscles, releasing stores of damaging myoglobin into the bloodstream.

That makes it vulnerable to collapse, because seawater can flow in underneath it and transform its edge into a floating ice shelf like Larsen B, which might then break up, freeing the ice behind it.

The models reveal a «hydrothermal siphon» driven by heat loss from deep in the Earth and the flow of cold seawater down into the crust and of warmed water up out of the crust.

The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

The process results in seawater that is stripped of calcium and magnesium — ideal for desalinization technologies — but safe to be dumped back into the ocean.

So when more recent waves and tides brought in salty seawater from the ocean, the brackish water underneath the beaches became salty enough to release the cesium from the sand, and it was carried back into the ocean.