Sentences with phrase «tons of water per»

Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce one ton of grain, the shortfall in the Hai basin of nearly 40 billion tons of water per year (1 ton equals 1 cubic meter) means that when the aquifer is depleted, the grain harvest will drop by 40 million tons — enough to feed 120 million Chinese.

Not exact matches

We do this with good grazing management as well as spreading 1 - 3 tons of compost per acre along with the needed amendments / nutrients to bring a balance of air, water and active microbiology.

Albany County's new Waste Heat / Co-generation facility in Menands will not only save money by creating renewable energy, it will also cut CO2 emissions by nearly 1,500 tons per year and will reuse 50,000 gallons of water per day to cool the high - efficiency system.

Beyond reducing greenhouse gases, recycling saves about 1,000 pounds of solid waste, some 10,000 gallons of water, and 17 million Btu of energy per ton of paper.

One camera spotted a cluster of 19 snailfish darting around bait like goldfish in a pond despite near - freezing cold, total darkness, and water pressure of five tons per square inch.

Our process uses significantly less water and energy than established processes, resulting in larger yields per ton of biomass.

The cellulosic ethanol process we developed was unique because it did not require multiple processing steps and the use of expensive laboratory - modified enzymes, the ethanol bioprocessing system uses significantly less water and energy in ethanol production resulting in larger yields per ton of biomass.

With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per year.

And such techniques might be capable, at best, of sequestering one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year (based on the extent of iron - deficient waters around the globe), compared with annual human emissions of more than eight billion metric tons and rising.

From 600 logs of sago palm per day, an estimated 15.6 tons of woody bark, 237.6 tons of waste water and 7.1 tons of starch fibrous sago pith residue are generated.

M.I.T. nuclear engineer Charles Forsberg, another co-chair of the report, noted that a typical light - water reactor in the U.S. needs 200 metric tons of mined uranium resulting in 20 metric tons of uranium fuel per year.

Two onboard desalination plants produce 200 tons of fresh water per day, more than is consumed even when the standard crew is joined by 100 or more paying passengers.

And the oceans absorb a third of that carbon dioxide, or approximately 22 million tons per day, in a process that Feely likens to adding carbon to water to make soda.

I drink a ton of water and eat a max of 60 carbs per day.

Which also means we need 40 million kgs of lunar water mined per year [the moon could have billions of tons of minable water, btw - not a shortage in this regard].

Through both carbon sequestration and avoided emissions (because water being retained by green infrastructure isn't needing energy intensive pumping and treatment), the plan is estimated to reduce CO2 by a total of 73,000 tons per year.

As acids go, H2CO3 is relatively innocuous — we drink it all the time in Coke and other carbonated beverages — but in sufficient quantities it can change the water's pH. Already, humans have pumped enough carbon into the oceans — some hundred and twenty billion tons — to produce a.1 decline in surface pH. Since pH, like the Richter scale, is a logarithmic measure, a.1 drop represents a rise in acidity of about thirty per cent.

On average, a 1000 - foot ship sinks into the water by one inch per 270 tons of cargo; 98 thus if a ship is currently limited by water depth, any lowering of lake levels will result in a proportional reduction in the amount of cargo that it can transport to Great Lakes ports.

I have a 6,000 sf home that has 9 tons of Ground Source Heat Pumps and it cost on the average of $ 80 per month for electricity... heating, cooling, and hot water... I know it works.

* Diamond Wedding Offset Package includes 1/2 metric ton of carbon offsets per person, 1,000 gallons of water restoration certificates per person, and 2 metric tons of carbon offsets for international vacation destination.

Thus in sandy soils for example (compare dry and saturated thermal conductivities of Figure 5 with tabulated values in Figure 6), the required length of the ground loop could be as low as 200 feet per system ton if the soil is saturated with water, or as high as 300 feet per ton if the soil is dry.

The scientists estimated that the swarm consumed up to 74 percent of microscopic carbon - containing plants from the surface water per day, and their sinking fecal pellets transported up to 4,000 tons of carbon a day to deep water.

In western Yemen's Sana'a Basin, the estimated annual water extraction of 224 million tons exceeds the annual recharge of 42 million tons by a factor of five, dropping the water table 6 meters per year.

By comparing changes in ice thickness taken in 1999 to measurements made earlier in the decade, they concluded that the continent is giving up nearly 50 gigatons — that s 50 billion tons — of water per year, with greatest losses coming from the eastern coast.