Sentences with phrase «several tonnes»

These are the same fools who convinced an aboriginal band in British Columbia, Canada (Pacific coastline) to spend half a million dollars to dump several tonnes of iron filings into the deep ocean because it would correct «ocean acidification».

As the UN's top climate science panel, the IPCC, prepares to criticise the idea of geo - engineering, one maverick geo - engineering company, Planktos Inc, has announced it is about to dump several tonnes of tiny particles into the waters around the Galapagos Islands, covering an area larger than Puerto Rico.

Dwarf minkes whales grow up to eight metres in length, weigh several tonnes and are very inquisitive.

As far as «Premium» electric cars go, we have Tesla to thank for bolting several tonnes of laptop batteries in the floorpan of the Model S to demonstrate that you can go very fast in a straight line with enough batteries and an electric motor (or preferably three).

Not exact matches

According to the Ivanplats prospectus, released back in September, most of the funds raised will be put toward several projects throughout the continent, including its US$ 2 - billion Kamoa copper project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has 9.2 million tonnes of measured and indicated resources and 12.5 million tonnes inferred.

Experts now believe that China acquired those 454 new tonnes over at least several years, largely by purchasing the production of China's own fast - growing gold mining industry.

Mr Nalder said the harbour had proven its value as a safe haven, with several rescues recorded including one incident involving a 25 tonne ship en route to New South Wales that was towed to the harbour for repairs.

• First half iron ore shipments of 110 million tonnes (100 per cent basis) from the Australian and Canadian operations were six million tonnes lower than 2010 first half following several cyclones, widespread flooding and a subsequent train derailment in the first quarter of 2011 in Western Australia.

Clow and others say several thousand tonnes were imported from Russia this way last year.

Weighing in at just 300 kilograms, compared with around 1.5 tonnes for its rivals, Greensat could be launched for less than $ 12 million, compared with the several hundred million dollars that it costs to launch larger satellites.

As I played Sea of Thieves with Bradford for his review, I found it to be a game full of nothing but repetitive fetch quests, no meaningful progression system, and several metric tonnes of catastrophically missed potential.

Estimates of the incremental economic impact of emitting carbon dioxide lie between a few dollars and several hundreds of dollars per tonne of carbon (robust evidence, medium agreement).

Several hundreds of companies have already taken action and made public announcements; 159 companies have signed the Trillion Tonne Communiqué calling for global policies and actions to tackle climate change.

Billions of tonnes of carbon are held in coal seams, sequestered from the atmosphere over millions of years in a process that started in the carboniferous period several hundred million years ago.

But marine pollution analysts in Germany and Brussels said that such a large ship would probably burn at least 150 tonnes of fuel a day, and emit more sulphur than several million cars, more NO2 gas than all the traffic passing through a medium - sized town and more particulate emissions than thousands of London buses.

Myles Allen, University of Oxford, UK, promoter of «Keep it in the Ground», paper Towards the Trillionth Tonne, Myles Allen et al Peter H Gleick The Pacific Institute, Oakland, USA (Nuff said) Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam University, Germany, (actually Potsdam Climate Institute, Schellnhuber's outfit and also RealClimate) Advisory Board: Scott Goetz, Deputy Director, Woods Hole Research Center Woods Hole was where John Holdren was Director for several years.

This despite the report providing clear and entirely contradictory evidence — as of October 2014, just one individual has been convicted since 2009 out of 13 cases involving 26.5 tonnes of ivory and implicating several individuals and companies.

Several scenarios indicate that by 2020 China will be contributing around 2 billion tonnes of carbon per year to earth's atmosphere.

Figures show that the actual emissions of installations covered by the ETS in 2005 were several million tonnes below the granted permits.

The huge advantage of joining the Browns is that several years from now you won't have to remove any of those 1000 tonne cement slabs, with wiring and metal reinforcing, which are used as bases for wind turbines.

We saved 13 tonnes in total and have reused it in several of our design projects, including our own bathroom.