Sentences with phrase «as much sunlight»

Then I added a white desk and sheer Belgian linen white drapes on the windows to let in as much sunlight as possible.

We didn't have as much sunlight streaming in our old house, but the shades helped with privacy as needed and just made the rooms feel more cozy and finished.

Natural light works wonders to maximize space, especially for small floor plans, so it's important to let in as much sunlight as possible when staging your home.

However, you can combat SAD by helping your employees get as much sunlight as possible when it is available.

Dark open water does not reflect nearly as much sunlight as ice does, so sometimes people wonder if icebreakers speed up or exacerbate sea ice decline.

Each facade orientation will have particular adjustments to protect the apartments from the different intensities of the Argentine sun: the north will deal with vertical midday sun, the east against mild morning sun, the west with strong afternoon sun (which can melt you in the summer), while the south facade will have to invite as much sunlight as possible.

If the large buildup seen in 1971 were repeated for only another seven years, the snow and ice would reflect as much sunlight as during a glacial period.

To even everything up Venus would have to absorb seven times as much sunlight, and that would make that altitude of Venus a lot hotter than Earth.

In a country that on average receives about as much sunlight as cloudy Seattle, this premium payment for solar electricity has not only spurred Germany to preeminence in installed PV capacity, it has also helped grow a domestic solar industry with more than 10 billion euros ($ 13 billion) in annual sales.

For example, Africa and the Middle East and much of Southeast Asia and India are ideally suited for solar power, receiving ~ 3 times as much sunlight as Iceland — but Iceland gets all their energy from geothermal.

Using everyday objects, like disposable bags from fast food restaurants or the cardboard inside toilet paper rolls, Yuken Teruya consciously cuts paper, which branch out and form a chain like a tree reaching for the sun and scattering its leaves in space to capture as much sunlight as possible.

Inside, floor - to - ceiling windows dramatically grace the front of the store, allowing in as much sunlight as possible from the cavernous - like side - streets of the Flatiron district.

We all know that black occurs in the absence of light and black is actually the absorption of all color which is why we wear black on cold days to absorb as much sunlight and heat as possible and white (which reflects light and heat) on hot days.

The days are short, we don't get as much sunlight / vitamin D to stimulate energy and mood, and those things can leave us feeling kinda crappy.

First, older skin does not convert as much sunlight into vitamin D. Second, older individuals have a harder time converting vitamin D into usable vitamin D. Lastly, older adults typically spend more time indoors than younger people (although not always).

Evan Brand: Here's another — you — you brought up vitamin D. Here's a good — a good hack and obviously it may take money if you're somewhere closer to the polls and it's wintertime, you're not gonna have as much sunlight but there's definitely some research that shows that if you exposed your skin to sunlight, that it's gonna increase the level of nitric oxide which is isn't gonna naturally help you to dilate your blood vessels and then, therefore, reduce your blood pressure.

The Moon's other side gets as much sunlight as the Earth - facing side.

The plant immediately struck Muir (a distant relative of famed naturalist John Muir) as odd because plants need to maximize surface area to absorb as much sunlight as possible.

Because Venus is roughly 41 million kilometers closer, it receives twice as much sunlight as Earth.

The spacecraft was oriented so that its solar wings faced the Sun to receive as much sunlight as possible, and it was placed into a slow spin to maintain stability.

In previous winters, Spirit rested on slopes that angled its solar arrays in a way that captured as much sunlight as possible.

Note how dark the Moon is compared to Venus: On average Venus reflects five times as much sunlight as the Moon.

«We think a similar phenomenon is happening with the volatiles on the moon — PFS don't get as much sunlight as EFS, so this easily vaporized material stays longer and possibly accumulates to a greater extent on PFS.»

What you can do is to draw the blinds and let as much sunlight into your room.

It's resting as directed in bright sunlight (well, as much sunlight as one gets in during a west coast winter) on the desk in my studio.

These include skylights that track the position of the sun to catch and reflect as much sunlight as possible into the facility.

Not exact matches

Using its automation technology, Netatmo tracks how much sunlight you are exposed to, as well as recommendations for protecting yourself.

If one sets out well before dawn, and arrives at the top in time to see the sunrise, one will find oneself walking as much in the clouds as through the trees, and there is a brief period (twenty minutes or so) when the sunlight first reaches the ridge, at a sharply lateral angle, and one is all at once passing through shifting veils of translucent gold.

Hardening them off is as much for acclimating the plants to sunlight as to low temps and wind, so if you kept them in total shade while hardening them off, they could be getting too intense sun.

My tip would be definately use as much natural light, I prefer to go outside but take photos in the shade, bright sunlight is too harsh.

Getting lots of fresh air will also be of huge benefit to you and your baby as your pregnancy progresses — our bodies can only produce vitamin D when exposed to sunlight, so try and get out and about in the sun as much as possible.

And this time of year, the long days may be a factor as well — if you've noticed that your child is waking progressively earlier, make sure there isn't too much morning sunlight streaming into her room.

The week following the time change try to expose yourself and your child to sunlight as much as possible.

Both kids will be protected during harsh weather conditions such as too much sunlight and the wind among others.

If you live in northern climates or other places where there is not much sunlight, or if you tend to spend most of your day indoors, you and your baby may not be getting enough Vitamin D. Babies with darker skin are also at risk as they need more time in the sun to get the same benefits.

The ethics bill trumpeted by Gov. Cuomo as a historic step toward reforming New York government highlights nothing so much as how allergic the Legislature is to sunlight.

But daily life takes its toll: Too much exposure to sunlight and products such as bleaches, straighteners, and dyes breaks the disulfide bridges, making hair brittle.

«These biomarkers are not as resilient as once thought and they may provide a future window into determining how much, and how quickly, these oil components may linger in the environment when exposed to air, sunlight, and the elements.»

They tested different degrees of axis tilt, which influences how much sunlight the planet's upper and lower latitudes receive, as well as different degrees of eccentricity — the extent to which the planet's orbit around the sun deviates from a circle, which can amplify seasonal temperature changes.

The nanowires collect sunlight, much like the light - absorbing layer on a solar panel, and the bacteria use the energy from that sunlight to carry out chemical reactions that turn carbon dioxide into a liquid fuel such as isopropanol.

In the lab, such combinations turned as much as 20 percent of sunlight into electricity, although panels produced in a factory under less than ideal lab conditions only managed 13 percent at best — and Solyndra's averaged around 10 percent.

Another source of uncertainty comes from the direct effect of aerosols from human origins: How much do they reflect and absorb sunlight directly as particles?

But nearly twice as much of the sunlight energy captured by phytoplankton in the ocean is released as heat than is used to make food, researchers report January 7 in Science.

Holzschuh says a big challenge is in finding appropriate unclimbed cliff faces to compare to those that rock climbers frequent — ones that share traits such as slope and how much sunlight the face gets.

As Thiyagarajan Gnanasekaran points out, the microalgae use much of the harnessed sunlight to keep their own metabolic processes running:

Finally, they monitored weather conditions at the site, including the intensity of sunlight, the humidity and temperature of the air in the gap behind the slab (a space as much as 12 centimeters wide), and the humidity and air temperature 2 centimeters from the outer surface of the slab.

According to the report, sulfate and other aerosols reflect sunlight and reduce the amount of solar energy hitting Earth's surface by as much as 15 %.

This inherent barrier is known as the Shockley - Queisser limit, and for silicon tops out at 33.7 percent efficiency in converting sunlight to electricity in theory, though the limit is much lower in an actual device.

«I would only suggest calcium and vitamin D for fracture prophylaxis in very high risk populations, such as much older people in institutions such as nursing homes, who get no sunlight exposure at all.

Würth Solar in Germany has mass - produced such cells that can convert as much as 13 percent of sunlight, according to Lawrence Kazmerski, director of the DoE's National Center for Photovoltaics in Golden, Colo..