Sentences with phrase «virtual water at»

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From a virtual standpoint, you're at an advantage when it comes to the water - cooler effect.

They must be aware though, with housing developments at a virtual standstill due to water license shortages and the town running out of options, Okotoks is «ground zero» for the coming water wars.

They then placed the models in virtual water, and looked at how easily they tipped over.

Last year, Paolo D'Odorico of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville showed that a rise in the virtual water trade makes societies less resilient to severe droughts (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010GL043167).

«At the global level, virtual water and the trading of it has geopolitical implications,» the WWC says in a report on the subject (pdf).

This was the sort of realization John Anthony Allan, a professor at King's College London, had when he coined the phrase «virtual water» in 1992.

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

For example, Fujitsu worked with students at UTC Reading to design a virtual reality solution for companies such as Thames Water; Cisco worked with teams to design solutions using Internet of Things to improve the cinema experience or improving the drive through experience.

Although I don't invest in these things at the moment I do still run some virtual portfolios so that I can watch them, «perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water» (spot the quote!).

Lifestyle Collection Hotel also offers guests myriad recreational opportunities at the on - site arcade with virtual bowling, billiards room, swimming pool, shopping boutique, and water sports center which offers paddle boats, fishing, and more.

Out of the three rooms their installations will occupy at the event at PACE in London, the largest will include six works and feature Universe of Water Particles, Transcending Boundaries, a virtual waterfall that extends beyond the gallery wall onto the floor, flowing through the space and around the feet of the viewer.

He's organized exhibitions just about everywhere under the moon, and now he's curating a tiny exhibition at the virtual gallery Water McBeer, a 300 square inch space run by artist Henry Gunderson that's accessible only through the gallery's website.

The oceans have warmed with «virtual certainty,» the report concludes, at a rate of about 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.11 Celsius) per decade since 1970 in the upper 246 feet (75 meters) of surface water.

We live on Skype at TreeHugger; it is our virtual water cooler, where I rant about distracted walkers and people crossing the street while wearing headphones.

These large quantities of wasted food translate into equally large amounts of wasted water (think «virtual water»); Charlotte de Fraiture, a researcher at IWMI, told ENS that almost half of the water consumed annually to grow food is lost or wasted.

It has the same virtual, pressure - sensitive home button at the bottom of the display, and it's also IP68 water resistant, so getting it wet isn't a worry, whether you're stuck in a rainstorm, washing dishes at home, or concerned about someone spilling a drink while out on the town.