Sentences with phrase «advantage over plant»

That gives whey an advantage over plant proteins such as rice, which needs to be combined with other types of protein powder or food to offer the full spectrum of aminos in amounts that the body can use to build muscle.

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Wolfgang Stuppy writes that this gives fruiting plants tremendous evolutionary advantages over «naked seed» plants, or gymnosperms, like conifers and Ginkgos.

Researchers expect that this likely has an impact for how plants reproduce, and they suggest that plants have evolved over time to take advantage of it.

Likewise, as the world headed into a cooler, drier climate around 250 million years ago, the early seed - bearing plants had a distinct advantage over their simpler, spore - releasing relatives that then flourished in moist, warm swamps.

But a new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology and led by University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate Bianca Charbonneau finds that the invasive plant does have one advantage over its native counterpart, Ammophila breviligulata, or American beach grass: the invasive is better at preventing erosion of dunes during big storms.

If they are proved safe, the older plants have a major economic advantage over new ones, he added.

The home team holds the advantage over visitors — at least in the plant world.

Methane lawsuit threat hangs over EPA's head Research by the Environmental Defense Fund has found that leakage rates must remain below 3.2 percent for natural gas power plants to carry a climate advantage over coal plants.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

«We suspect these multiple copies provide a reservoir to adapt to different environments and plant hosts, and constitute an evolutionary advantage over their sexual relatives (at least in the short term).

Under rapid climate change, weeds and invasive plants may have an advantage over desired and native plants because many have evolved to excel at dispersal, establishment, and adapting to new and changing environments (Corlett and Westcott 2013).

You should work to remove the anticompetitive advantages that poorly - controlled, inefficient, incumbent coal - fired power plants presently enjoy over newer, cleaner, and more efficient coal - fired plants.

Small modular reactors offer several advantages over traditional technologies, including the ability to purchase and construct them in a modular way, decreased up - front capital costs through simpler, less complex plants, and a reduced staff complement.

Where the whole food plant based diet (as opposed to a vegan diet which might be a WFPB diet but also might not be) has a huge advantage over every other eating pattern is that it actually makes people healthier and as a result they feel better.

A whole foods plant based diet should have an advantage over an animal based diet based on the insulinogenic effect of animal protein.

On the other hand, people who buy live plants will probably come back frequently to look for new varieties, so it will almost always be to your advantage to sell live over artificial plants.

It's a trend we're seeing more and more of now, in games that are driven to committing the player to their worlds over anything else — Half - Life 2 planted the seeds of player - reliant agency in the minds of consumers and developers alike, and now we're seeing game - makers really take advantage of how they can give the end - user a narrative experience that feels shaped by them, the whole way through — and not just in the setpieces, and not just with QTEs and button prompts, either.

One advantage that growing herbs has over growing vegetables is that because it's usually only the leaves of the herb plants that get harvested, there's no need to wait for the plants to flower and set fruit and for the veggies to mature before harvesting, which reduces both the time and the skills necessary to cultivate them.

With coal, the plants are cheap to build, the coal is cheap to mine, and a «natural monopoly» system of electricity generation and distribution helps lock out any renewable competition, leading to further economic advantages over renewables.

First, utilities used to build power plants right next to coal mines, so some of the oldest plants can have an advantage over newer models.

He contrasted the advantages of renewables over nuclear power plants as their ease of decommissioning: there is no long - lived radioactive waste to deal with, and upgrading, for example, offshore wind turbines, is cost - effective because the foundations and infrastructure are already built.

This quick - start capability confers wind farms a decided advantage over thermal coal and natural gas — fired power plants when it comes to balancing electricity supply and demand.

Fukushima presented an opportunity for AGL Energy because it meant that Tepco, the plant's operator, was no longer in a position to invest in Loy Yang A and was a distressed seller of its one third stake in Loy Yang A. AGL Energy, which already had a 32.5 per cent stake in the plant, says Loy Yang A will remain one of the lowest cost generators in the NEM because of cheap coal at the doorstep — it pays just $ 6 / t for brown coal, which would give it a massive advantage over black coal generators in NSW, which are facing costs of $ 45 / t and will go higher in future years.

Leaving them out leads to absurd results; owners of new plants would have a big advantage over those who own existing plants.

CHP captures that heat instead, and puts it to good use in buildings and manufacturing plants, providing energy, economic, and environmental advantages over conventional power plants, and doubling the efficiency of the plant.

This kind of crop production also has advantages over farming in open spaces, because it's not weather - dependant, and you can create artificial conditions which enhance the plant growth (conditions that can't be achieved in the natural environment).

Photo credit: Lynn L. Walters / The New York Times Proponents of biofuels, which are often made from plants such as corn or sugar cane, often point to their many advantages over fossil fuels like gasoline.

When scientists evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources over their full lifecycle and incorporate the methane emitted during production, the advantage of natural gas holds true only when it is burned in more modern and efficient plants.

We believe this approach has significant advantages over large - scale, centralized combustion - based biomass power plants in terms of higher efficiency, lower fuel risk and reduced emissions.»

The $ 1 billion line of credit, if exploited for power plants, could give SunPower a huge advantage over competitors like First Solar.

The company operates a power - to - gas plant at the site and it appears the advantages of lithium over gas will be evaluated through the ADS - TEC system's performance data.