Sentences with phrase «absorb sunlight hitting»

They could store a charge from wind energy at night and absorb sunlight hitting their rooftop solar cells if parked during the day.

Not exact matches

He tried to clarify that the panels only absorb the sun that hits them directly, they don't actually suck any extra sunlight.

The argument for geoengineering goes like this: the world is getting inexorably warmer; governments show no sign of drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, so why not control the planetary thermostat by finding a way to filter, block, absorb or reflect some of the sunlight hitting the Earth?

The heating is uneven, because of night and day, because different surfaces (such as rocks and trees) absorb and reflect sunlight in different amounts, and because sunlight hits the equator more directly than the poles.

But the Arctic sea ice has hit near - record minimums of sea ice since 2002, meaning the ocean is absorbing more sunlight, and heat, than it used to, leading to more ice melt.

The sunlight would hit the Earth, and the Earth would absorb that light and re-emit IR radiation.

more carbon dioxide in the lower atmosphere means more little «point sources» for more absorbed EM in the infrared part of the spectrum, (infrared that re-radiated from the earth's surface after sunlight hit it and got absorbed); and since point sources radiate in a spherical pattern, that means more «back radiation» to earth, on balance... and this changes the «standing pattern» of energy flow in and out of the earth system, creating a time differential, so it starts to re-adjust...