Sentences with phrase «human powered generation»

Human powered generation devices have been used in communications equipment for over 100 years.

So total human power generation is on the order of 1 / 100th of the extra heat we retain due to the anthropogenic (increased) greenhouse effect, and on the order of 1 / 10000 of the Sun's power.

Not exact matches

Asked if that points toward hazard for humans, he said phone providers are «moving more and more toward lower power exposures to humans» as new generations of mobile service come become available.

There Statius explains to Dante the generation of the embryo, and how the embryo passes through various stages before it can be considered a rational human: «This active power,» reads Robert M. Durling's translation, «having become a soul like that of a plant, but different in so far as it is still under way, while the other is already in port,»

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims of generations and generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight of the ideal vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth of feeling in human satisfactions.

Human activities, such as industrial production, transport, power generation, and wood burning emit large amounts of tiny pollutant particles containing, for example, soot and sulfate, into the atmosphere.

The year's incredible heat serves as a stark reminder of how much the Earth's temperature has risen due to the steady buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities like power generation, transportation and forest clearing.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

It's difficult, in the static setting of an auto show, to fully appreciate how successfully we've executed on our mission to deliver a next - generation NSX, and how all of these elements, the Advanced Sports Package, the Sport Hybrid power unit, and the Human Support Cockpit, all work together to deliver a vehicle that, while supercar fast, provides the type of performance that is accessible to all of us.

His thirteenth work of fiction begins with the fateful liaison between the lovely jinn and the old philosopher, which, thanks to Dunia's supernatural fertility, produces the first generation of an undetected tribe of descendants who look and feel human but who lack earlobes and possess secret jinn powers.

Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.

Please consider helping us and joining our cause as we continue to build more humane communities in this country and around the world, unleash the healing power of the human - animal bond, and teach a new generation the importance of what it means to be humane.

Sometimes it looks to me as if some of my brothers and sisters in the current generation of elders are so singlemindedly focused on the accumulation of wealth and power, in feathering their own gigantic nests, exchanging secret handshakes in exclusive clubs, flying private jets, sailing yachts and visiting exotic hideaways, that they have forgotten how human life depends upon Earth's limited resources and frangible ecosystem services for its very existence.

Clearly, students at Ruthlawn Elementary School in South Charleston, W. Va., (near one of the first American experiments aimed at pumping carbon dioxide from a power plant into the ground) are part of Generation E, as I've taken to calling folks of all ages who are pursuing ways to smooth the path toward a stable prospering human population on a bountiful planet.

I don't agree either on your approach of leaving ethical considerations and sustainability aside as I admit to being «Malthusian» in the sense that I believe that humans have now the power of affecting the global environment (including the resource base) so much that we can affect significantly the conditions that future generations will meet

I don't agree either on your approach of leaving ethical considerations and sustainability aside as I admit to being «Malthusian» in the sense that I believe that humans have now the power of affecting the global environment (including the resource base) so much that we can affect significantly the conditions that future generations will meet — but then you did discuss these issues in point 6.

What it does show is a major role for atmospheric water vapor, to which there is a significant direct human contribution from both the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels and the cooling needed by steam generation of power, but one that is totally disregarded by Trenberth and the IPCC.

Researchers say levels of human - made aerosols are expected to decline during the 21st century as countries begin adopting cleaner methods of power generation.

This occurs because transportation in North America produces a substantial amount of black carbon (soot) and ozone (a main ingredient in smog), both of which warm climate, while power generation leads to a large amount of sulfate particles, which cool climate even as they also lead to acid rain and damage human health.

And, as a result of human ingenuity and the free market (which got us where we are today), new technologies will come along that will eventually replace fossil fuels for many of the lower added - value end uses, such as electrical power generation or transportation.

Major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities include power generation (about 25 per cent of all emissions), transport, industrial activities, deforestation and agriculture.

This guidance document examines the main commercially available renewable and non-renewable power generation technologies, analysing their GHG emissions, but also trade - offs in terms of: 1) environmental impacts (impacts on ecosystems, eutrophication and acidification, etc.), 2) impacts on human health (particulates, toxicity) and 3) resource use implications (concrete, metals, energy intensity, water use and land use).

That's when she realized the power of community, when people from all walks of life with varying skillsets and backgrounds come together with the common goal of protecting the Earth for future generations, and how it does so much more than protect the actual land — it makes us feel human again.

Which makes me a bit torn on this one: While biomass electric generation is certainly a good thing, and anything that gets us (the collective human we) away from burning coal is undeniably positive environmentally, it seems to me that there is a better solution than processing wood pellets in Florida and shipping them to the EU to generate power... Even if it appears from Green Circle's estimate of net energy gain comes out positive.

The return to human powered transportation is a marker of today's generation gap.

Today we need a new kind of poetry to celebrate the fact that human powered transportation and liveable streets are a common ground for the next generation of Portland's leaders.

On the contrary, the scientific evidence supports such ethical positions I may take, on questions of human equality, race, human sexuality, religious freedom, non-religious freedom, ideas on the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alone.

SHENZHEN, CHINA, 23 May 2017 — Goodix (Shanghai Stock Exchange: 603160), premier developer of human interface and biometric solutions for mobile devices, today announced that Huawei has adopted Goodix's innovative fingerprint sensor solution for its new generation MateBook computer, the MateBook X. Launched today in Berlin, Germany and aimed at extreme experience, the slim and stylish MateBook X is packed with powerful performance, including Goodix's world - leading fingerprint sensor, making it the first Windows Notebook equipped with the «One Step Power - On and Login» function.

Unlike older generations, which tended to value human - powered service, millennials would rather do things on their own using technology.