Sentences with phrase «as a heat sink»

The oceans are acting as a heat sink for rising temperatures and have absorbed about one - third of the carbon dioxide produced by human activities.

It does have an on / off switch, which is hard to find among budget models, as well as heat sinks.

Presumably the oceans are being warmed by the atmosphere, or alternatively the atmosphere is being cooled by the ocean acting as a heat sink.

Regardless of this particular detail, the new Daydream View promises various improvements over the first - generation offering, including a better design for the opening flap which now accommodates a series of magnesium heat pipes acting as a heat sink for connected smartphones.

Ultimately, the model could be applied to semiconductors used as high - efficiency thermoelectrics, and to graphene nanoribbons used as heat sinks for so - called ultra large scale integration devices, such as computer microprocessors.

Artificial diamonds can be grown on various surfaces to increase the hardness and reduce the wear of tools, or to take advantage of diamond's high thermal conductivity as a heat sink for electronics.

Indeed, a number of Scandinavian cities, including Stockholm, use bodies of water as heat sinks and have been doing so for more than a decade.

Bond conceived the idea of using the ultracold liquid hydrogen fuel as a heat sink to take the excess heat out of the incoming air and use some of the hot air to support fuel combustion.

«How do you begin to think that you can dig into the ground and use the earth as a heat sink, have access to water, put a pavilion into it so that its comfortable through the year?

British designer Jake Dyson has built a heat pipe into the structure of the CSYS lamp to carry the heat away from the LEDs and then use the arm of the lamp as a heat sink to carry the heat away from the lamp.

Finally, while both bulbs are a little on the large side, as the heat sink at the base is a bit elongated, they should fit fine in most fixtures.

Without the ocean as a heat sink, our days would be unbearably hot, and our nights would be freezing cold.

And then I put a drip pan over the place setter to act as a heat sink as well as to keep the chamber moisturized:

All of the components responsible for the heavy lifting in the Mac Pro are arranged around a unique thermal core, a single piece of extruded aluminum serving as a heat sink for the entire machine.

In the summer, the process is reversed and the yard acts as a heat sink to cool the house.»

And the new front panel doubles as a heat sink, with a hollow design that's supposed to cool the phone more than just leaving it uncovered.

The norm for cooling an LED (which is actually a semiconductor that converts electricity into light) has been to place a copper or aluminum tube near the light to act as a heat sink and draw away excess heat.

One of the most plausible reasons for the recent slowdown in warming is that the deep ocean has been acting as a heat sink, taking up more warming than the land has in recent years.

Our aquaculture system grows fish, provides high - nitrogen fertilizer, grows food year round, acts as a heat sink to balance greenhouse temperatures, and is where most of our rooting propagation occurs.

Internal fins act as heat sinks, absorbing heat from engine coolant and radiating it through external fins to dissipate heat twice as fast.

The land and seas act as a heat sink.

By acting as a heat sink, the polar cell moves the abundant heat from the equator toward the polar regions.

What I find most intriguing is the South: North distribution, with broadly speaking, the Southern oceans appearing to act as a heat sink and North Atlantic / Pacific as dispersers of heat.

The floors acted as a heat sink, capturing the sunlight from the large, south - facing windows.