Heat from the sun boils water to run a steam turbine generator, which delivers power to the grid.
And I used to like being out in the sun with the water hose and the sprinklers.
There were bees, and the angle of the sun made the water of the shallows look dark.
Every 20 to 30 years, the much colder water near the bottom of the oceans cycles up to the top, where it has a slight cooling effect on global temperatures until the sun warms that water.
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Thousands of tourists are drawn to Sharm for its sun, clear blue water, and coral reefs.
These are the colors of nature, he elaborates, symbolizing the sun, trees, water and earth.
Initially, it is a soft, foul-smelling matter that floats on the ocean but through exposure to the sun and the salt water over years it turns into a smooth lump of compact rock which feels waxy and has a sweet smell.
They need to guard against the wind, sun, and lack of water among other forces.
Before Max was even tired, the moon had fallen through the water and the sun had risen to replace it.
To use that excess electricity (obviously, only excess when the wind is blowing just right, or the Sun shining) to electrolyse water by passing it through a fuel cell and then store the resultant hydrogen.
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After a day of affluence on the water, take your sun-drenched skin to The Spa at Grove Isle.
BrightSource generates electricity using an approach called concentrated solar power, in which computer-controlled mirrors, known as heliostats, focus the sun's heat to boil water and turn a steam turbine.
Deep into the autumn, every package or can I open takes me back to conversations around the cookhouse's huge stone fireplace, to wind rustling through alders, and sun-spangled blue-green water, to the promise of adventure every morning.
Through the water he can see ripply sun-designs on the river bottom.
"If mail's on the truck, it's the highlight of the day, " one Marine said, as he tossed water bottles under the hot sun.
Last week also brought news from Mercury that even this scorched rock, orbiting closest to the Sun, has billions of tonnes of water frozen in the shadows.
What we do is we get every quilting circle and church group in America to start making Mylar screens and sewing them together like quilt, and then we put them into the ocean, where they reflect the sun's rays and keep the water underneath cooler.
The website explains how a rainbow is made from light and water - with help from the sun.
Water users, from residential to commercial, to even industrial sites could dramatically reduce their water-energy by using the sun.
The government is issuing warnings on radio and TV, reminding people to drink enough water and stay out of the sun, the BBC's Caroline Wyatt reports from Paris.
Sunengy has developed a liquid solar concentrated solar array that will float on the reservoir, tracking the sun to maximize energy input while using the water to keep its silicon cool.
Project manager Martin Quinger, from the German Federal Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources (BGR), told the Namibia Sun that it was a substantial body of water and could supply 40% of the nation's population for as long as 400 years.
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But watching and waiting in the sun is no easy task, and snacks and water breaks are hard to come by.
He and his team have been working to set up solar kitchens with special pressure cookers and reflective panels that allow cooks to boil water with nothing but a bit of sun.
The heliostats track the sun throughout the day, focusing its rays on a water-filled boiler that sits atop the tower.
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It is then spread out evenly on mesh screens, dunked in water and left to bake in the hot sun for four hours.
Due to the intense desert sun, it is advisable to start early, take plenty of water and wear a hat.
Tide: periodic rising and falling of large bodies of water resulting from the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun acting on the rotating earth.
While ice reflects around 80 percent of the sun's heat, having a cooling effect, blue sea water can absorb up to 95 percent of solar radiation, warming up the sea and accelerating the melting process further.
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