article created by the university MIT, desalinated water can cost anywhere “between $1,000 and $2,500 per acre-foot [about 325,000 gallons]” while developers of the solar powered system claim that solar desalination will “produce clean water at roughly one-fourth the cost of conventional desalination” (Talbot, Phillips). While $2,000 may not seem like much for 325,000 gallons, desalination plants…
Plus, a campsite without electricity is just twelve dollars a day (“Rock Creek Recreational Area”). According to U.S. Department of Transportation, the average miles per gallon of a light duty vehicle is twenty-one; according to GasBuddy the average cost of gas in the state of Tennessee is two dollars and nineteen cents per gallon. Therefore, a typical vehicle on an eighty mile round trip will cost only eight dollars and thirty-six cents in gas. Add in the two-dollar park use fee and the whole…
tires. International harvester marketing technique was that the tractor was large enough to do tillage but cheaper to buy and run than the next size up the 1206. The diesel was good on fuel with max pulling it would use 6.4 gallons and hour while the gas less efferent using 7.4 gallons per…
etting your drivers license, it’s as American as apple pie or baseball, the goal of every red blooded boy, and the ultimate right of passage from boyhood to young adult. That overwhelming sense of pride seemed to deflate a little when I filled the tank on my 1999 Nissan frontier for the first time. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw the total $40. This shocking experience not only scared me for life but also made me determined to find a cheaper way to fuel my truck. That is where I found…
As the NBA player, Paul George, once said, "Never Let Defeat Have The Last Word." You will not let "defeat" stop you from reading this essay about many other facts about interesting things. When reading, have defeat on your mind throughout these many different subjects. This essay will change your understandings of how many of these subjects are connected to each other. This paragraph is all about Paul George's career as an NBA player and his other hiccups that he has had in his life. Paul…
Plant, located in Columbus Ohio, along with the Southerly Plant are responsible for treating a combined average of 208 million gallons of water per day [1]. Founded in 1937, the Jackson Pike Plant first treated approximately 50 million gallons of water per day. To keep up with a growing Columbus population, the wastewater plant has been upgraded to treat 150 million gallons per day. On September 7th, 2017 Carnell Felton, the plant’s assistant plant manager took myself and the OSU CBE 5761 class…
Big Al's exclusive livestock showrooms, “ENTER THE DEEP”, provide the largest stock of fish and aquatic plants in several retail warehouse store environment (an inspiring 25,000 to 50,000 gallons of water displays). Big Al’s Shark Tank and SHARK FEEDING FRENZY is one of the most probable weekly attractions of these exhilarating fish-rooms. Big Al's sales and service staff is enthusiastic to expand their data and skill to the customers to assist make their shopping experience as enjoyable and…
raised on a ranch, where they will spend much of there lives before being sold either to another ranch or a feedlot operation. Habitat needs of Santa Gertrudis are pretty basic, revolving mainly around food and shelter. Cattle consume as much as 20 gallons of water a day, so either a natural or artificial means of…
Fracking is the process of extracting gas from below the earth’s surface using water, sand, and chemical additives. Fracking allows companies to extract thousands of gallons of oil per well from once deemed unusable shale. However, only recently have people been made more environmentally conscious and are beginning to question whether fracking can harm the environment. With little studies proving the safety or hazardness of fracking and its byproducts, regulations should be put in place that…
INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: 70% of an adult’s body is made up of water. In one year, the average American residence uses about 100.000 gallons of water. Per day, 400 billion gallons of water are being used in the United States. PURPOSE: To inform the audience how consuming enough water is important for the body. IMPORTANCE to AUDIENCE: Certain health diseases that we acquired are caused due to insufficient amount of water in the body. This speech will inform you how drinking the right amount…