Sentences with phrase «back of the envelope calculation of»

Pfeffer et al looked at the exit glaciers for Greenland and West Antarctica and made some back of the envelope calculations of how quickly the ice sheets could dynamically drain.

This back of envelope calculation of 239watts / sq m is quite close to the measured value of 232 watts / sq m verifying that the concept is more or less correct.

Back of the envelope calculation of the simplest sort.

Not exact matches

Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in a back - of - the - envelope calculation, speculate that, if it can make $ 1 a barrel on that flow, Glencore will earn $ 400 million over the five years --» a very compelling return on $ 323 million in equity.»

The bulk retailer enticed Chinese consumers to buy underwear, kitchen supplies, and a host of food items — including 245 tons of mixed nuts, about $ 4.1 million worth by Fortune's back - of - the - envelope calculations.

Based on back of the envelope calculations and estimates from Fundstrat, Bitcoin valuation could shed another $ 37 billion in the near future, falling to about $ 99 billion in market capitalization.

Based on Schissel's conservative, back - of - the - envelope calculations, a team of four rotating security agents would cost about $ 18,000 per week.

Without further details, it's difficult for experts and shareholders to surmise the exact nature of the deal beyond back - of - the - envelope calculations.

A back - of - the - envelope calculation showed that Mihalic would pay $ 42,000 in additional interest if the loans went to their natural 10 - and 15 - year terms.

A quick, back - of - the - envelope calculation means such a job amounts to 25,000 tacos.

A back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests that even if Sanders has been contributing just 3 % of his salary per year for his entire time in both the House and the Senate — and has earned a modest 5 % annualized rate of return — he'd have accumulated almost half a million dollars by the end of 2015, thanks in part to the government's matching contributions.

All in, a back of the envelope calculation suggests that Amazon contributed a little under 5 % of the Seattle region's economic output during this period.

Back - of - the - envelope calculations (described below) suggest that as little as a million dollars could be used to shore up futures positions and influence the auction market.

A back - of - the - envelope calculation by TechCircle indicated that the current valuation of Ola Fleet could be roughly between $ 45 million and $ 48 million.

My back - of - the - envelope calculation (that's the technical term for a fair guess) is that demand exceeds supply by as much as $ 1 trillion to $ 2 trillion a year.

In my recent National Post column, I make reference to some back - of - envelope calculations to the effect that replacing the fiscal anchor of balanced budgets to one of a fixed debt - GDP ratio allows the federal government to increase spending by 1.2 percentage points of GDP, or by about $ 25 billion.

To make the calculation back - of - the - envelope friendly, we'll assume the Fed will raise rates by 25 basis points at a time and only on the day of a scheduled FOMC meeting.

Looking at the total hashrate, which is the number of calculations the network can perform per second, and applying a generous miner efficiency of 0.6 watts per gigahash, we can estimate our own back - of - the - envelope Bitcoin network constant power draw at just under 215 MW, although this figure is always in flux (it's important to note that many of the variables in my calculation are constantly changing slightly).

My back of envelope calculation is approximately $ 10 Billion Aussie Dollars.

Musk acknowledged that these are back - of - the - envelope calculations, but he finished this with saying «I'm not saying they're true or that they will occur, but I bet that they do occur.»

I did some back - of - the - envelope calculation to figure out your yield.

If you are a speaker trying to bamboozle a lay audience, there is no better way than to drop in a back - of - the - envelope calculation.

with the pieces currently in place («Back on the envelope» calculation — this takes the average proportion of the salary cap devoted to corners and multiplies it by the projected 2018 cap number with no assumption for a rainy day fund).

We can understand why, in the absence of credible, unbiased, peer - reviewed data, some bloggers would like to make their own back - of - the - envelope calculations, just to give their readers a comparison.

Back of the envelope calculations using the advertised levy rates for commercial and private vehicles (from 20 for private cars all the way to 200 GHS for heavy duty trucks), show that RSML could make $ 50 million dollars a year (ignoring surcharges) should they succeed in ensuring a 75 % fee payment compliance rate among motorists.

On the other hand, my back of the envelope calculation produces a similar to most current forecasts (e.g. here, here and here) and to the average of some earlier academic forecasts, summarised here.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

Green Party U.S. co-founder Howie Hawkins has been doing back - of - the - envelope calculations that conclude if 1 of every 5 Sanders supporters votes Green in November, the party will get there.

The back of the envelope calculation below (click the graphic to enlarge it for easier reading) outlines how the kind of civil service recruitment freeze suggested by John Redwood could save about # 6bn a year by its third year of operation...

He said he used official figures and plausible assumptions to reach the estimate, but a government source dismissed that figure as based on «back - of - an - envelope calculations».

By his back - of - the - envelope calculation, the U.S. sees roughly 80,000 new cases of peanut allergy every year.

Griffin won't put a price tag on going to Mars, but NASA has released enough information over the years to permit some back - of - the - envelope calculations.

Scott Goetz, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center who has studied the Amazon, said that fleshing out what are «essentially back - of - the - envelope calculations» of the 2010 drought's impact will require additional field measurements and a closer examination of satellite observations of the Amazon's tree canopy.

«Back of the envelope [calculations] suggest that what we're going to lose from this spill is nowhere close to the background rates of wetland loss,» says Alex Kolker, a coastal geologist with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin.

«There's a real difference between a back - of - the - envelope calculation and actually plugging it into a more sophisticated model,» says Jason Barnes, an astronomer from the University of Idaho, who was not involved in the study.

Ridgwell told New Scientist he had done «back - of - the - envelope» calculations that show that given the current price of carbon on the European carbon market, these credits could be worth $ 50 billion a year over 100 years.

«With Microsoft, you write one page of text; there is no budget, just a back - of - the - envelope calculation.

Using back - of - the - envelope calculations of how air and heat flow through structures, he argues that fires with those proportions produce the hottest flames for their volume of fuel.

But the astronomers» initial back - of - the - envelope calculations were not encouraging.

Previous studies of how such a scheme would lower Earth's temperature used back - of - the - envelope calculations.

«He did this back - of - the - envelope calculation to make this wild prediction — and it's dead - on, as far as we can tell,» Gladstone says.

Scanlon's back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests the lakes could have persisted or hundreds or even a few thousand years.

«It's still a rough, back - of - the - envelope calculation at the moment,» admits Wells, who has started working on simulations to better test the idea.

In an idle moment David Korasick, a graduate fellow in the Strader and Jez labs and first author on the PNAS article, did a back - of - the - envelope calculation to put a number on the complexity of the system they were trying to understand.

Would any of your findings put these made on the back of an envelope calculations for Antarctica's contribution to SLR in doubt?

My back - of - the - envelope calculations based on the amount of target space (6.3 Mbp), the de novo mutation rate (1e - 08), and the number of trios sequenced here (1,409) suggest that we'd expect ~ 89 de novo mutations.

I think Paul Beckwith's back of the envelope calculation on sea level rise is what makes the most sense; models keep trying to catch up with reality, even Eric Rignot says it but in different words.

I think my back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests that those who center their diets around fruits and vegetables shouldn't need to worry about having an extra handful of nuts, if they feel like it.

So, my back of the envelope calculations definitely = boots!

Based on a back - of - the - envelope calculation of the relationship between enrollment and criminal activity in my sample, I estimate that the effects of winning a school lottery on enrollment could potentially explain about 45 percent of the impact on criminal activity in the high school sample, but only about 10 percent in the middle school sample.