Sentences with phrase «back of the envelope calculations on»

I think Paul Beckwith's back of the envelope calculation on sea level rise is what makes the most sense; models keep trying to catch up with reality, even Eric Rignot says it but in different words.

Forget climate change, has anyone even consider a back of the envelope calculation on how much longer the planetary auto - catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons can occur?

Check out the rest of Robert Rapier's post for a back of the envelope calculation on land use with cellulosic ethanol production:

One of my post included some back of the envelope calculations on the effect of adding trees has on system yields.

Not exact matches

Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in a back - of - the - envelope calculation, speculate that, if it can make $ 1 a barrel on that flow, Glencore will earn $ 400 million over the five years --» a very compelling return on $ 323 million in equity.»

Based on back of the envelope calculations and estimates from Fundstrat, Bitcoin valuation could shed another $ 37 billion in the near future, falling to about $ 99 billion in market capitalization.

Based on Schissel's conservative, back - of - the - envelope calculations, a team of four rotating security agents would cost about $ 18,000 per week.

To make the calculation back - of - the - envelope friendly, we'll assume the Fed will raise rates by 25 basis points at a time and only on the day of a scheduled FOMC meeting.

with the pieces currently in place («Back on the envelope» calculation — this takes the average proportion of the salary cap devoted to corners and multiplies it by the projected 2018 cap number with no assumption for a rainy day fund).

On the other hand, my back of the envelope calculation produces a similar to most current forecasts (e.g. here, here and here) and to the average of some earlier academic forecasts, summarised here.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

He said he used official figures and plausible assumptions to reach the estimate, but a government source dismissed that figure as based on «back - of - an - envelope calculations».

Griffin won't put a price tag on going to Mars, but NASA has released enough information over the years to permit some back - of - the - envelope calculations.

Ridgwell told New Scientist he had done «back - of - the - envelope» calculations that show that given the current price of carbon on the European carbon market, these credits could be worth $ 50 billion a year over 100 years.

«He did this back - of - the - envelope calculation to make this wild prediction — and it's dead - on, as far as we can tell,» Gladstone says.

«It's still a rough, back - of - the - envelope calculation at the moment,» admits Wells, who has started working on simulations to better test the idea.

In an idle moment David Korasick, a graduate fellow in the Strader and Jez labs and first author on the PNAS article, did a back - of - the - envelope calculation to put a number on the complexity of the system they were trying to understand.

Would any of your findings put these made on the back of an envelope calculations for Antarctica's contribution to SLR in doubt?

My back - of - the - envelope calculations based on the amount of target space (6.3 Mbp), the de novo mutation rate (1e - 08), and the number of trios sequenced here (1,409) suggest that we'd expect ~ 89 de novo mutations.

Based on a back - of - the - envelope calculation of the relationship between enrollment and criminal activity in my sample, I estimate that the effects of winning a school lottery on enrollment could potentially explain about 45 percent of the impact on criminal activity in the high school sample, but only about 10 percent in the middle school sample.

My back - of - the - envelope calculations indicate that the expected wage benefits of higher curriculum standards due to their positive effect on employment exceed the expected wage costs due to their adverse effect on graduation rates by a factor of six.

Districts wouldn't even have to foot the bill; I did some back - of - the - envelope calculations based on the 2011 Annual Report and found that with the savings picked up by the decreased recruitment pool and corps size (going with Wendy Kopp's «applicant pool fell in half» and your 3000 number, respectively), TFA could afford to pay each first - year CM a ~ $ 23,000 stipend (modulo one - time costs related to changing the structure of the organization so dramatically).

Estimating total membership of Kindle Unlimited is very much a back - of - the envelope calculation depending on how many books are borrowed per member on average.

The back - of - the - envelope calculation is how much (or whether) the return on the outside investment, less the capital gains tax you owe on it, exceeds the interest rate on the mortgage, after accounting for the mortgage interest deduction.

Now just sort of doing some of back of the envelope calculations based on the midpoint of your net bookings guidance you're looking about $ 136 million of revenue.

Here is a back - of - envelope calculation of the effect of this on world temp analysis.

A simple calculation for the 19th and 18th centuries is quickly and easily done using results from their table 1 and figures 1 - 2: A back - of - the envelope calculation based on the 19th and 18th centuries suggests that the transfer functions now would yield an increase of almost 1K for the period 1900 - 2000, most of which should have been realized by 1980!

The back - of - the - envelope calculation is completely other from what I am interested to explain, and is not necessary to take the model discussed so far to a conclusion on the numbers (expected to be 3.7 W / m ^ 2 for a 2X in C - O2), and the sensitivity (omitting all feedbacks).

For instance, the section on micro-hydropower projects led to a couple of very pleasant hours devoted to «back of the envelope» calculations of the hydro potential of a certain spot I know in rural South Carolina.

I finally got around to doing a back - of - envelope calculation on the direct UHI impact — what we know «for sure» about the impact of urbanization — for the 6000 - acre suburban - U.S. community into which I and 75000 other people have moved during the past 45 years.

Please no comments on «back of the envelope» after all that's all the above calculations are too.

On an earlier thread I made a back - of - envelope calculation that, for the deep ocean to «suck» all the heat down from the surface, so that the sea surface layer and troposphere were nowhere more than 3C, the mean temperature of the deep ocean would need to increase only 0.4 C. Maybe someone could check this.

Willis, your back of the envelope calculation using the standard e = mc (deltaT) calculation rearranged to indicate a 38K rise in GAT is based on old physics.

The Antarctic sea ice melts from below — I will need to think on it and not make insulting comment and idiotic back of the envelope calculations..

Several months ago, I did a quick and dirty, back of the envelope type calculation of globally averaged specific humidity trends using the NCEP / NCAR reanalysis data available on the web for the period 1964 to 2007.

During my long career as a nuclear engineer, I got into the habit of doing a «back of the envelope» calculation of my own as a «sanity check» on other's results.

Not to mention that CO2 and N2O also covary with methane, so even if the entire temperature change was based on GHG changes and not orbital changes, CH4 would contribute less than half... My back of the envelope calculations suggests a forcing change of less than 0.2 W / m2 from a drop of 245 ppb — even at the upper end of the CS range this would contribute only about half a degree C to cooling...

Here are a few back - of - the - envelope calculations to try to convey just how unrealistic it is for lawyers to focus only on legal aid / public funding and pro bono as a solution to the access to justice crisis.

I'm a fan of back - of - the - envelope calculations to get a grip on the dimensions of a problem.

Yates is having a researcher study the proposal's impact on the real estate community, but in the meantime she's done her own back - of - the - envelope calculation and the results are significant.

Looking at its real estate portfolio — in a back of the envelope calculation, the average lease rate for the 38.4 million square feet leased by SuperValu is somewhere around $ 7.50 per square foot — based on capital structure and the most recent cash flow from financing activities.