Sentences with phrase «vast amounts of water»

Ironic twist alert: most electricity production requires vast amounts of water.

That is also producing an increase in warming in Western Antarctica, which contains vast amounts of water locked in its thick ice - caps.

Inspired by this natural phenomenon, scientists report in a study appearing ACS Macro Letters that they have developed a material that mimics cactus roots» ability to rapidly absorb and retain vast amounts of water with a minimal amount of evaporation.

According to the accepted view, the formation of the Earth released vast amounts of water vapour and carbon dioxide, which formed a thick atmosphere and caused strong greenhouse warming at a time when the Sun was 15 to 20 per cent fainter than today.

The process, and the impediments to its wider adoption, are described in detail in «Cutting waste in gas drilling — Pioneering propane technology used to free natural gas from rocks, avoiding the pollution of vast amounts of water.»

Contrast that to conventional wool production methods in Australia and China, where ranchers use vast amounts of water to irrigate a hot, dry climate.

Producing energy requires vast amounts of water: power plants, biofuels, and hydro - power all rely on water to run.

A vast amount of water is used to produce the food and products that nations consume.

There is theoretically a limitless supply, due to the vast amount of water on Earth and opportunities for reuse.

«The vast amount of water locked inside rocks of this deep region of the mantle will certainly force us to think harder about how it ever got there, or perhaps how it could have always been there since the solidification of the mantle,» says Steven Jacobsen of Northwestern University in Illinois.

It seems we have either misunderstood what its early years were like — or vast amounts of water are hiding beneath its surface.

So there's a vast amount of water that passes around Nusa Penida.

The establishment of a system that will by definition require vast amounts of water to be pumped long distances raises deep concerns about the energy needed and the consequences of increasing California's energy consumption.

Vast amounts of water and energy are needed to strip - mine and drill Canada's tar sands deposits — a heavy black substance mixed with sand and clay — and turn the extracted bitumen into usable crude oil.

The presentation focused on the report, Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants, a product of the Energy and Water in a Warming World (EW3) Initiative, which details the vast amounts of water required for thermo - electric power -LSB-...]

Of course it is very reasonable to expect that the vast amounts of water locked up as ice in the LIA is now melting.

Yang co-authored a recent paper on the topic in Nature Climate Change, noting that SNG produces greenhouse gas emissions seven times that of conventional natural gas while requiring vast amounts of water.

Vast amounts of water are used to cool the power plants that generate electricity.

Vast amounts of water and high speeds can make for dangerous play, and can result in injury or death if the operator is inexperienced or reckless.