Sentences with phrase «absorb heat energy»

Richard # 111: My understanding on the difference between land and sea is that water (deep water in particular) has a massive capacity to absorb heat energy.

More likely the oceans on our 70 % water covered world, which absorb heat energy from the sun (for which we have some data), and geothermal energy (for which we have virtually no data), and release it over long periods of time by poorly understood mechanisms that are possibly the real driving force behind climate.

7 Wind As the Sun radiates heat to the Earth, different surfaces absorb the heat energy in different ways.

As the Sun radiates heat to the Earth, different surfaces absorb the heat energy in different ways.

The new GHGs will NOT absorb heat energy by molecular collisions, they will give it off.

Because the new GHGs are at an elevated temperature, they will NOT absorb heat energy from the air.

They absorb heat energy rising from the Earth's surface and re-emit some of that heat back down towards the ground.

When a molecule of carbon dioxide absorbs heat energy, it goes into an excited unstable state.

It may be pure coincidence that the two things are happening at the same time; but it is undisputed that CO2 absorbs the heat energy in infrared radiation and, as it warms up, becomes an emitter of infrared itself.

If CO2 acts like a blanket, absorbing heat energy, and prevents the heat from escaping, is this different than CO2 stores heat?

The molecules of oxygen and nitrogen and carbon dioxide are not being sent flying to knock other molecules — they are ABSORBING the heat energy.

Not to mention, why do skeptics continue to ignore, dismiss, or simply «argue with» by any means possible, the far more important fact that most of the increased absorbed heat energy is going into warming the oceans, not the atmosphere (thus keeping the ambient air temp rise from registering as high as it otherwise would, and impacting FUTURE climate far more).

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Each piece has a print on the inside of the apparel that absorbs the human body's natural heat and reflects it back in the form of far infrared energy.

Note: If using a dark colored pan, reduce the oven temperature, stated in the recipe, by 25 degrees F. (This is because dark colored pans absorb more of the energy coming from the oven walls so they become hotter and transmit heat faster than light colored pans.)

The complete sunshield consists of five thin reflective layers of plastic that bounce heat back into space — and any energy they do absorb radiates out between the layers.

Named P2, this iteration of the X-Prize concept rover has vertical solar panels to absorb energy even at sunrise and sunset and sports a white band around its shell that will act as a radiator during the intense heat of lunar midday.

The molecule gets rid of some of the absorbed energy by heating up the material around it, and this generates a pressure wave.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

By first converting the sunlight to heat and then back into light, the device fine - tunes the energy of photons absorbed by the photovoltaic cell, maximizing the electricity - generating potential.

That's where the thick concrete comes in: As the cylinders deflect the seismic waves, they would also absorb some of the waves» energy and convert it into heat and sound.

For example, photonic crystals could funnel excess heat from a power plant's generator and release it over a much smaller band of frequencies to drive engines — such as those in electric - powered cars that can absorb energy only within a small range — much more efficiently.

Some of the laser energy is absorbed by the tissues and converted into heat, leading to rapid thermal expansion inside the tissues that produces ultrasonic waves.

But to be effective, solar cell designers need to ensure the connecting junctions between these stacked cells do not absorb any of the solar energy and do not siphon off the voltage the cells produce — effectively wasting that energy as heat.

They can have both a cooling effect, by blocking out incoming sunlight, and a warming effect, by absorbing some of the heat energy that the earth sends out toward space.

«Absorbing electromagnetic energy while avoiding the heat: First demonstration of a metal - free metamaterial that can absorb electromagnetic energy.»

The device's ability to absorb electromagnetic energy without heating up has direct applications in imaging, sensing and lighting.

This material, called stripe - type - lambda - trititanium - pentoxide, is composed of only titanium atoms and oxygen atoms, and can absorb and release a large amount of heat energy (230 kJ L － 1).

In theory, 30 % energy - conversion efficiency is the upper limit for traditional single - junction solar cells, as most of the solar energy that strikes the cell passes through without being absorbed, or becomes heat energy instead.

This promises a huge improvement compared to current technology, in which the absorbed light energy is dissipated as heat to the crystal lattice, making the conventional excitation schemes extremely inefficient.

Once in the atmosphere, the dust can heat parts of the atmosphere by absorbing energy from sunlight.

Under full sunlight, the energy from excess absorbed photons is intentionally dissipated by the plant as heat.

Rhodium accelerates these reactions with an added boost of energy, which usually comes in the form of heat because it is easily produced and absorbed.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

Urban land use creates a heat - island effect because asphalt, brick, and concrete absorb and conduct solar energy, while the cooling effect of evaporation from soil and vegetation is reduced.

In modern solar - thermal systems, special collecting tubes or plates absorb energy from the Sun's rays and then transfer that heat to an absorption chiller.

What scientists discovered in 2014 is that since the turn of the century, oceans have been absorbing more of global warming's heat and energy than would normally be expected, helping to slow rates of warming on land.

The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet's atmosphere is attributed to «sunscreen» - like molecules, which absorb UV and visible radiation coming from the star and then release that energy as heat.

We also find heat sloshing around the world's oceans, which absorb 93 quadrillion watts of the sun's energy — a hundred thousand times more power than could be produced by all the power plants in the United States put together.

As the sun flushes heat into our atmosphere at a mind - boggling rate of 175 quadrillion watts, the air near the equator absorbs more energy than the air near the poles.

Peering through a viewport, I watch as a blob of atoms absorbs photons of laser light and re-emits them at slightly higher energies, losing a bit of heat each time.

The mist functions like sweat, absorbing and removing latent heat energy as it evaporates.

That water then absorbs solar energy and heats up, which leads to even more ice melt.

For as much as atmospheric temperatures are rising, the amount of energy being absorbed by the planet is even more striking when one looks into the deep oceans and the change in the global heat content (Figure 4).

When stimulated with visible light, spherical gold nanoparticles absorb and convert light energy into heat.

According to the theory developed by the researchers in this study, the laser beam creates a high - energy molecular excitation, yet in order to do so it must absorb heat from the low - energy metallic component, which thus cools.

The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet's atmosphere is attributed to «sunscreen» - like molecules, which absorb ultraviolet (UV) and visible radiation coming from the star and then release that energy as heat.

Although fusion of nuclei lighter than iron released large amounts of nuclear energy (heat), the fusion of nuclei heavier than iron absorbed most of that heat and the heat released by fission and decay.

Land absorbs energy and ice absorbs heat to melt.

Test Cell 2 is currently set up to test bench - scale solar receivers, which are devices that absorb the concentrated solar energy from the sun and transfer it to a heat engine.

Water is an excellent substance for absorbing the energy of fast neutrons and thereby producing heat, because water is cheap and contains so much hydrogen.