Sentences with phrase «which reduces water use»

Green Building Environmental Leadership Award: Marc Nathanson, head of Mapleton Investments and founder of Falcon Waterfree Technologies which reduces water use and greenhouse gas emissions

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I make a 60 % hydration soaker by weight and reduce the final water amount by that which is used to soak the grains.

As an example of what we're doing, our ripening rooms now use a chilled water system which reduces environmental impact (and ripens the bananas beautifully!)

We've reduced Australian growers» reliance on insecticides and improved their water use efficiency, which benefits the growers» bottom line and is good news for the environment and for rural communities.

FrieslandCampina added that it is aware of how dairy production affects the environment and has a multidisciplinary sustainability strategy, route2020, which aims to achieve climate - neutral growth by reducing the use of scarce materials (e.g. water, raw materials, and fossil fuels).

The refined distillate is then carefully reduced by using a mix of deionized water and natural, mineral rich water, and blended with tailor made column spirits which are made from Swedish organic wheat.

The link actually explains several ways to make your toilet use less water, some of which cost money, but anything that displaces water in the tank will reduce the amount of water your toilet uses by the volume of the item.

It's the use of water to help you calm down and relax — which works towards reducing the discomfort and pressure when laboring.

Sionix, an Anaheim, Calif. — based corporation, which manufactures a treatment system that uses microscopic air bubbles to clean water, is testing whether its technology can also reduce levels of metal, namely iron and manganese (both toxic to the body in large amounts) in Santiago Creek near Villa Park Dam in Orange County, Calif..

In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they use by practicing precision farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water used and therefore nitrate runoff.

He added that using solar cells and abundantly available elements to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has enormous potential for reducing the cost of hydrogen production and that the approach could eventually replace the current method, which relies on fossil fuels.

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker - Tecnalia) has coordinated the European BATFARM project, which is seeking to evaluate the effectiveness of technologies and practices used on livestock farms in the European Atlantic region in order to reduce their environmental impact on the air, water and soil.

Some of that produced water has been recycled in recent years for use in hydraulic fracturing, which helps make that method of oil extraction more water efficient and reduces the competition for water between farms and oil fields.

According to a study led by Italian researchers, using lean and overweight mice which were given melatonin in their drinking water, melatonin reduces weight.

A lot depends on the quality of the food the animal ate, the amount of bones / meat / connective tissue used in the stock, the length of cooking time, and the degree to which the stock is reduced by water evaporating off the top.

One of the primary dangers of diuretic use for reducing water levels to show muscles better is thickening of the blood, which basically is reduced blood volume.

The one unfortunate side effect to using the stunning supplement is that you can gain a ton of water weight, so using an anti-estrogen substance alongside the steroid will help reduce that water weight, which in turn will give you a more ripped look.

There's also a checklist for use when leaving the house at the beginning of the day and the classroom at the end, so you don't end up losing your favourite hat / water bottle / etc... I have this laminated on the back of my DBS folder, and on the back of my phone, which you might want to consider too - you can always reduce the typeface?

A number of changes have been made to help reduce emissions, such as: use of a complex exhaust gas recirculation system (with high pressure EGR and a cooled low - pressure EGR); integration of the water - cooled intercooler and the EGR valve with the intake manifold, which also improves throttle response; and packaging the exhaust after - treatment components close to the engine by combining the DPF with the SCR Catalyst.

Reusing paper could reduce emissions by 50 to 80 percent over paper recycling, which, while far better from an emissions and resource - use perspective than new paper production, still uses a lot of energy, water and chemicals to get the job done.

C. However, most home owners are now considering going to the Point of Use water heating units which removes the waste of energy and reduces the cost of additional plumbing.

There was also a campaign against irradiated meat, and there is an ongoing campaign against Genetically Engineered foods, including ones which are proven to prevent juvenile blindness from vitamin A deficiencies and those that combat world hunger by increasing productivity while reducing water, fertilizer, and pesticide use.

The fact is that if we can't greatly reduce fossil fuel use by the 2030 - 2040 range, by 2075 be will see a global average temperature rise of 3.5 to 4.0 degrees Celsius, which is also just about the time frame for world phosphate supplies to enter critical shortages that will eventually cut crop yields in half and require twice as much land and water to grow the same yield as previously.

• I have reduced my appliances to a toaster oven, small burner unit, a tiny refrigerator, my 4 gallon water heater, my 12V pump and the occasional use of my VitaMix, which allows me to get by with a 2000W solar system.

Plants make more effective use of water when CO2 rises which reduces desertification.

So if on shined that laser on a square meter for say 10 mins then the 1 mm depth of square meter could warm by about 1 C. Rather than water one could also heat up anything with a thin surface [and assuming one reduces the heat loss] So thin sheet of paper which absorbs [has heat capacity of whatever wavelength one is using could heated within mins of exposure.

The WHO and other international organizations in Geneva are leading by example with the Geneva - Lake - Nations Project, which uses cold water from Lake Geneva to cool buildings, thereby reducing the need for chemical refrigerants.

In the past two years, I have had an eco-house built and have joined organisations here in Winchester which encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint, water use, etc..

The building is now eligible for LEED certification thanks to all of the upgrades, which include reducing water consumption by 30 %, using 15 % less electricity and using 20 % recycled content in building materials.

It seems GISS haven't heard about thin cloud, varying water vapour, dust and aerosols, which reduce the apparent brightness of urban sites, which GISS uses to estimate population density for the adjustments.

STINGplus is manufactured in a process which has been optimized to reduce water and energy use, a standard in Camira Fabric's «Second Nature» product line.

But one thing new for 2011, which may or may not actually reduce those plastic bottles being used in the first place, is that water fountains have been installed in some locations.

Cutting edge data centers of the future will require less of a physical human presence, and are likely to: â $ cents Rely on a VIL to optimize equipment management and provide for virtual remote control capable of instant changes, switches and adds â $ cents Achieve LEED certification for the physical building â $ cents Rely on more efficient water cooling that potentially takes advantage of an on - site tower to chill water for cooling the system (thus reducing energy consumption by using nature's natural cooling power to chill water) â $ cents Use fluid dynamics models to precisely design the interior of the building to maximize the efficiency of the HV / AC system for air - cooled computing systems â $ cents Tap into a mixed energy grid that relies on green energy sources such as solar, wind or hydroelectric (depending on geographic feasibility), along with a reliable city grid thus avoiding the need for the standard back - up Uninterruptible Power Supply (which will reduce equipment costs, minimize floor space used, and increase energy efficiency because systems that employ a UPS convert AC to DC and back, incurring substantial energy losses).

There's a great case to be made for adding a bidet attachment to toilets, which can radically reduce the amount of toilet paper used each day in the home, in turn reducing the amount of trees and water and potentially harmful chemicals used to manufacture that toilet paper.

The site will reduce stormwater run - off into the combined storm sewer by 67 percent through the use of bio-swales (also known as rain gardens) which allow storm water to infiltrate back into the ground where, through phytoremediation, the plants contribute to the filtration of the water.

For three decades the company has offered the water heater program, which allows members of its 28 client co-ops to reduce their utility bills by using electricity to heat water rather than natural gas or propane.

The use of dry - cooling to condense steam significantly reduces water consumption to one - hundred acre feet per year, - a 95 percent reduction from traditional wet cooling methods, which is approximately the amount of water used by three hundred homes annually.

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