Sentences with phrase «several square miles»

The deserts of the U.S. Southwest will feature clusters of solar thermal power plants, with vast arrays of mirrors, covering several square miles each.

However, each undoubtedly will require several square miles of land to accommodate, respectively, 242 and 160 very large windmills.

If you want to understand climate, go out and map several square miles of the crust, log ten miles of core, then figure out a hundred million years of earth history 10Ka at a time.

Milstein's bird's - eye view flattens three dimensions to two and his shutter shrinks several square miles down to the size of a tapestry.

Justin Sonnekalb, a technical designer at Irrational Games who is working on this project, says the game play experience will allow users to walk or drive the Mars Rover prototype across several square miles of actual Martian terrain while pursuing research - oriented mission goals.

Not exact matches

Roughly 4 million acres of land and several million square miles of ocean.

The Portuguese had trading posts in several places on the west and east coasts of Africa, but they were predominantly a source of slaves and did not embrace many square miles.

The boundaries spread over 720 square miles and include the mega-city of Los Angeles as well as all or parts of 31 smaller municipalities plus several unincorporated sections of Southern California.

Mr. Prendergast also irked several Democrats seated near Mr. de Blasio outside the 1.5 - mile, $ 2.4 billion city - funded extension from the 7 train's old terminus at Times Square.

The flooded area totaled three square miles in 12 different segments of the park, and salt water had poured into four freshwater ponds, or «tanks» (man - made water reservoirs up to several miles wide that were created by Sri Lankan kings in the 12th century).

Several ethnic minority groups maintain hundreds of sacred forests, which range from a few acres to thousands of square miles, as part of their religion.

The hundreds of dead zones throughout the world cover nearly 100,000 square miles, with one in the Baltic Sea spanning more than 23,000 square miles several years ago.

You will find several LaCURE Mayan Riviera villas in the Reserve, a gorgeous area that boasts 2,500 square miles of pristine natural scenery.

Schleede points out several potential adverse effects that should be mitigated as a condition to awarding any permits, including impacts that would not be limited to the 57 square miles of ocean.

If you have one station «within a few kilometers» of several other stations, and being generous and defining «a few» as four, then you have three or more stations within a 16 square mile area.

Most of the Nation Less Than Three Feet Above Sea Level To put all of this in perspective, Tuvalu has a population of about 12,000 people (only Vatican City and Nauru have fewer people) and has a total land mass of just 10 square miles in size, spread out over several islands.

He says the district needs the guardian program to keep students safe because Cooke County is so large (it's almost 900 square miles and runs from just north of Dallas to the Oklahoma state line) it could take sheriff's deputies several minutes to respond to something like a shooting at the school.