Sentences with phrase «sun kink»

He has participated in Longhouse Media's «Superfly Workshop» and was awarded the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian and SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market Class X Youth Winner in 2013 for Sun Kink and in 2014 for Malady's Muddy Waters.

The administration's 2012 safety advisory has helped reduce the number of sun kink - related derailments in the U.S., and the USDOT is working with the University of California - San Diego to develop devices that enable railroads to monitor rail temperatures, said FRA spokesman Michael Cole.

Railroads could see more sun kinks if climate change - related heat waves become more severe and more frequent

The heat waves that scorched much of the U.S. in 2012 — the hottest year on record in the continental U.S. — and the sun kinks they created caused enough derailments that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued a special safety advisory that summer warning railroads that they should be sure to inspect buckling - prone sections of track.

No recent crude oil train derailments have been attributed to sun kinks.

You can add «sun kinks,» or railways that buckle in extreme heat, causing derailments, to the list of things that are already taking a toll on U.S. transportation, a problem that figures to grow significantly as the U.S. warms.

A University of Colorado study published in April assessing the impacts of climate change on the Navajo Reservation in the Southwest said climate change - related sun kinks are a major concern for the Navajo Nation because derailments could lead to the disruption of coal production there.

Sun kinks have already caused more than 2,100 train derailments in the U.S. over the past 40 years, or about 50 derailments a year, on average.

Blaming «the unusually high and prolonged record - breaking temperatures» that affected much of the U.S. that summer, the advisory detailed four major train derailments that resulted from sun kinks within the span of about two weeks.

Sun kinks and other track buckling incidents are among the costliest the rail industry deals with today, with damage running roughly $ 1 million per derailment, excluding injuries, fatalities and evacuations, Kish said.

As average U.S. temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F by the end of the century, depending on how greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not in the coming years, the waves of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»

Not exact matches

These kinks and twists in the magnetic field develop because the sun spins more rapidly at the equator than at the higher latitudes and because the inner parts of the sun rotate more quickly than the surface.

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