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Asphalt in sentence

33 examples of Asphalt in a sentence

Now most environmentalists don't say growth is good, because, in our lexicon, asphalt is two words: assigning blame.
But if we look at asphalt as our growth, then we realize that all we're doing is destroying the planetary's fundamental underlying operating system.
And Andy and his team discovered that they were going to spend 200 million of those dollars on asphalt to surround the schools themselves.
And by presenting a really strong economic case, they convinced the L.A. government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery, that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they spend on horticultural infrastructure.
So ultimately, 20 million square feet of asphalt was replaced or avoided, and electrical consumption for air-conditioning went down, while employment for people to maintain those grounds went up, resulting in a net-savings to the system, but also healthier students and schools system employees as well.
I was struggling, tired and dehydrated, as I could feel the heat emanating from the asphalt, measuring almost 98 degrees.
It can be put up in any environment, from an asphalt parking lot to pastures or fields, because it doesn't require any special setup or specialty tools.
It's made of asphalt, and asphalt is a very nice material to drive on, but not always, especially not on these days as today, when it's raining a lot.
Then you can have a lot of splash water in the asphalt.
Also, asphalt can create a lot of noise.
The solution for that is to make roads out of porous asphalt.
Porous asphalt, a material that we use now in most of the highways in the Netherlands, it has pores and water can just rain through it, so all the rainwater will flow away to the sides, and you have a road that's easy to drive on, so no splash water anymore.
It's a porous asphalt, like I said, so you have only a small amount of binder between the stones.
So then you have asphalt with very small pieces of steel wool in it.
Just like consumer goods and chain stores, we mass-produce glass and steel and concrete and asphalt and drywall, and we deploy them in mind-numbingly similar ways across the planet.
Those have such a wide turning radius, that we have to deploy an enormous amount of pavement, of asphalt, to accommodate them.
What if we could replace them and all the asphalt that comes with them with drones and robots that could rescue people from burning buildings?
And that's because shipping has very tight margins, and they want cheap fuel, so they use something called bunker fuel, which was described to me by someone in the tanker industry as the dregs of the refinery, or just one step up from asphalt.
Like their predecessors, today's nomads travel the steel and asphalt arteries of the United States.
One of the great tragedies of urban development is that as our cities grew, we started covering all the surfaces with concrete and asphalt.
And then I would thank the people who made the asphalt for the pavement.
So these guys were in a worker's gang mixing up asphalt one morning on the side of the highway.
The other big dynamic of change is the sheer performance of underperforming asphalt.
Those are called the asphaltenes; they're an ingredient in asphalt.
What we do is we take a fire hydrant, a "no parking" space associated with a fire hydrant, and we prescribe the removal of the asphalt to create an engineered micro landscape, to create an infiltration opportunity.
The film is also quite interesting from an anthropological angle in terms of how the documented phenomenon quickly takes root, consumes these good peoples' identities 24-7, organically grows, divides, mutates, rapidly spans generations and groups, sweeps up even infants who intuitively jack right in to the main line, and seems to strongly channel ancient ancestral rites straight into South Central, where it weaves a crazy web of hope and ecstatic optimism through the beleaguered community like beautiful wildflowers in a cracked asphalt lot.
'Laughed 2 times: when Stifler's buddy got caught on video talking about Sarandon's boobs, and then when that piece of crap Woodcock ate the asphalt.
On a hot day in New York, locals sprawl out on the grass fields of Central Park, not on asphalt parking lots or concrete sidewalks.
Bricks, concrete, and asphalt – the building blocks from which cities are made – absorb much more heat from the sun than vegetation does in the countryside.
Cities have a lot of black asphalt and dark, heat-absorbing structures.