Sentences with phrase «absence of a heat source»

These repairs may include major issues such as lack of running water, leaking roof, absence of a heating source, inadequate electrical systems and inoperable doors or windows.

MF says «It seems that the gravito thermal effect cools the air, but warms the surface, except where it does neither in the absence of a heat source.»

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What we have just proven is that for any isolated gas, in the absence of a source of external work — note that I do not care in this proof how or why the initial state of the gas with some sort of thermal lapse came about, whether or not there is gravity present or absent, whether or not the gas is a mixture or pure — if we move a dollop of heat from where it is warmer (cooling it) to where it is cooler (warming it) we increase the entropy of the Universe and such a fluctuation in the state of the gas is irreversible.

I believe that many AGW proponents (a) use the term «heat - trapping gas» to connote the IR absorption / IR emission properties of some gases, and (b) then argue that everything else being equal the heat - trapping nature of a gas is by itself sufficient to conclude that material possessing an internal source of thermal energy will when surrounded by a heat - trapping gas be warmer that it would be in the absence of the heat - trapping gas.