Sentences with phrase «underground rock»

Today there is so much of the planet's carbon stored in underground rocks that can not be released and react with oxygen.

And reactions between underground rocks and water might provide the food needed to sustain them.

And even though fracking — high - pressure hydraulic fracturing of underground rock formations for natural gas and oil — might grab headlines, IEA sees its future impact as relatively small.

Until now opposition has been based on vague correlations, anecdotal evidence and hunches on the part of people opposed to the pressurized cracking of underground rock formations.

The Cuomo administration is expected to decide shortly on whether drillers can begin using the controversial technique, which uses high volumes of water mixed with a small amount of chemicals to free natural gas from underground rock formations.

Following a 2012 earthquake that rattled Costa Rica, researchers noticed that the quake fractured underground rock tens of kilometers from its epicenter.

These technologies capture carbon dioxide from the exhausts of power stations and industrial plants and then permanently store it, usually by injecting it into underground rock layers.

A celebration of the»70s underground rock scene that showcases the early stages of new wave and, of course, punk rock, this film has a soundtrack whose standards aren't as high as other music - driven»70s homages» soundtracks, but is still a dynamic showcase of entertaining underground classics.

The blasts (listen in video above) are necessary to remove underground rock for construction of the three new stations that will serve the route, at 96th, 86th and 72nd streets.

That year, there were six peer - reviewed studies on how fracking, which uses a high - pressure mix of water, chemicals and sand to break up gas - bearing underground rock formations, could affect air and water quality.

The team also collected data on nearby saltwater - disposal wells and built a 3 - D model to simulate pressure from injection wells and estimate how it would move through underground rock.

Part of this greenhouse gas is pumped into porous, water - bearing underground rock layers.

The team wanted to determine how fast supercritical carbon dioxide that contains dissolved water reacts with underground rocks to form carbon - containing minerals.

The performance was staged on a barge off Athens, and featured Sevigny, gospel singers, strippers and musicians, Los Angeles underground rock duo No Age and Greek percussionists.

A live musical score accompanies the piece, performed by percussionists and Los Angeles underground rock duo No Age.

Cameron has vowed to go «all out» to enjoy the same success in shale energy as the United States, which has produce great amounts of oil and gas from underground rock over the past several years.

In a nutshell, a mixture of water, sand and a small amount of chemicals under pressure are used to dissolve underground rocks to extract the shale gas.

When the North American and African continental plates collided more than 300 million years ago, the North American plate began folding and thrusting upwards as it was pushed westward into the dense underground rock structure — in what is now the northeastern United States.

A deposit of high - density underground rock, or an undersea mountain, is utterly invisible — yet they, too, skew the geoid away from perfect flatness.

Geologists also say that fracking - a controversial technique for extracting natural gas and oil from underground rock deposits - could be one of the causes.

Worldwide, there are ample underground rock formations in which carbon dioxide emissions could be stored, Juanes said.

Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, is a method of extracting oil and gas by cracking open underground rock.

As drilling and especially fracking increases, those who study the effects of displacing underground rock formations are sounding warnings that these activities may be associated with an increase in earthquakes.

Engineers are having no trouble capturing the carbon dioxide, but efforts to store it in underground rock formations in eastern Germany have run into local opposition.

Or efforts to offset warming by injecting carbon dioxide into underground rocks could make aquifers more acidic, increasing their ability to leach dangerous metals out of rocks, and leading to higher concentrations of these metals in springs and rivers.

Some parts of Texas are naturally prone to sinkholes because of underground rock formations.

Erie County Legislature Chair woman Betty Jean Grant held a public forum Thursday night in the Merriweather Library in Buffalo on the controversial method of fracturing underground rock to produce gas.

Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to release natural gas and oil from underground rock.

Both the U.S. and Canada would be competing to export shale gas, a type of natural gas trapped in underground rock formations that can be recovered through horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Britain is estimated to have substantial amounts of shale gas trapped in underground rocks and the national government has supported developing these reserves to counter declining North Sea oil and gas output.

Fracking, as the technique is known, is the use of chemical - laced water injected deep underground to create fissures in underground rock formations and release natural gas and oil.

After 22 years of digging, work had to stop when the crust turned gooey under the drill bit; at 356 degrees Fahrenheit, the underground rock was much hotter than expected at that depth.

He learned to monitor the water levels in wells for the differences in hydraulic potential («head») that drive water through porous rock or sediments, analyze well - drilling cores to get a picture of underground rock and sediment layers, perform pump tests to determine how readily the water can flow through the strata, and probe water samples for their geochemistry and contamination.

When the law extends to clouds, to water in underground rocks and to airspace, our attempts to free ourselves from natural constraints become the means by which we are enslaved to each other.

Eventually, her team wants to modify hard - to - grow extremophiles — bacteria that grow in very hot, high - pressure environments — that are more like the microorganisms that colonize the underground rock formations where CO2 would be sequestered.

The risk of human - made earthquakes due to fracking is greatly reduced if high - pressure fluid injection used to crack underground rocks is 895m away from faults in the Earth's crust, according to new research.

When exposed to heat brought to the surface from water circulating in moderately hot, underground rock, the thermal - cycling of the biphasic fluid will power a turbine to generate electricity.

One element of the site investigations conducted at Olkiluoto is the excavation of the underground rock characterisation facility (ONKALO) that extends approximately to the depth of 450 meters.

Overall, conventional, overstylized and unevenly paced storytelling, backed by some atmospheric coldness, render the final product undercooked, unfocused and all around decidedly underwhelming, but lively style, a strong soundtrack, a clever script and plenty of colorful performances drive enough intrigue and entertainment value to make «CBGB» a messy, yet ultimately decent dramatization of the rise of the underground rock era of the mid-1970s.

CBGB follows the story of Hilly Kristal's New York club from its conceit as a venue for Country, Bluegrass and Blues (CBGB) to what it ultimately became: the birthplace of underground rock»n roll and punk.

This is a traditional tale that goes interpreted unevenly and formulaically, but it remains an interesting story about the humble beginnings of the underground rock movement through the guidance of bum - turned - visionary Hilly Krystal, with a certain color that the script emulates more sharply than the often cold direction by Miller.

Set in Toronto, Michael Cera (Year One, Juno) plays the Scott Pilgrim of the title, a 22 - year - old slacker by description who spends a good deal of his free time as a guitarist for his underground rock band, Sex Bob - omb, while also bragging to his band mates about the obsessive Chinese high school teenage girl he's been dating, rather chastely, named Knives Chau (Wong).

In ’12 Miller & Savin made CBGB, the team's third collaboration with Alan Rickman, the story of birth of underground rock and the legendary New York club CBGB.

Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is considered today a controversial drilling process used to extract shale gas and oil located deep in the underground rock.

Besides making multimillion - dollar sales, he has become known for organizing shows of street and performance art, and for making Deitch Projects a nexus where the visual arts intersect with the underground rock scene.

This process, called EOR, traps much of the CO2 used for oil extraction in the underground rock.

A minority of the public (39 %) supports the increased use of fracking to extract oil and natural gas from underground rock formations, while about half (51 %) are opposed.