Sentences with phrase «use brackish»

Cyanobacteria are found in nearly every habitat and can flourish in a wide variety of conditions, a trait that has been harnessed by Joule and enables them to use brackish or salt water as a growth medium.

Hawaiians are the only Polynesians known to harness the ocean's bounty using brackish - water ponds near the ocean for stocking and harvesting fish.

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The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water.

Using more pure water from offshore aquifers rather than ocean water has the potential to reduce desalination costs, the authors argue — with reverse osmosis, desalination costs for ocean water run between 53 cents and $ 1.50 per cubic meter, while the cost to process brackish water from offshore aquifers runs between 10 cents and $ 1.

Most fish in a freshwater habitat seem to prefer a dark or natural gravel, while marine, brackish - water and Rift Lake species are used to white sand or gravel.

Rift Lake cichlids, brackish - water environments, and of course, marine fish and reef tanks must use gravel made from aragonite or similar organic - based materials such as coral rock or tufa.

The new techniques impact far less land surface, use and recycle brackish water, and emit fewer air pollutants and (plant - fertilizing) carbon dioxide every year.

[3] Helioculture allows for brackish water or graywater, nonindustrial waste water from sources such as baths and washing machines, [4] to be used, while traditional biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol require fresh water.

«We were able to uniformly populate our nanowire array with S. ovata using buffered brackish water with trace vitamins as the only organic component.»