Sentences with phrase «better measure of energy»

«Dave Springer says: December 23, 2010 at 6:32 am I think a better measure of energy content is global average sea level.»

Not exact matches

At some point in the not - distant future, Griffith will have the most accurate tool around for measuring an individual's (or collective's) energy use as well as a gigantic pile of data, both of which will be commercially quite valuable as we are pushed toward a greener lifestyle.

Still, the number of face - to - face exchanges alone provides a good rough measure of energy.)

A good idea, but please build one and carefully measure the power output, the reliability, the cost, the safety and the effects on the environment and when you have the numbers compare them with similar numbers obtained for other sources of energy.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

Companies across sectors have a difficult time measuring exactly how much of their waste stream is organic material and further understanding of how much of it is good, nutritious food that could go to those in need or be turned into energy or composted, as opposed to being sent to landfill.

To achieve this design - stage accreditation, the project is assessed using a system of environmental measures grouped by management, health and well - being, energy, transport, water, materials, waste, land use and ecology, pollution, and innovation.

Australian Government intervention to directly affect retail price outcomes is largely confined to the impact of the carbon price as well as other renewable energy and energy efficiency measures.

It really is a measure of how well an athlete is able to meet the energy demands of their sport, and is much more than just cardio.

Another reason I believe Arsenal could have an advantage is because we have had to face Klopp's Dortmund a few times in the Champions League recently and while they gave us a really hard time at first, we did manage to beat them in Dortmund and the last time we met Arsenal won well, so Wenger seems to have got the measure of how to face a Klopp team full of energy nad with a heavy pressing style.

Measures of important energy conservation (oxygen consumption) in these infants are excellent as well.

The measures involve working towards making the market work better to reduce price volatility, ensuring the best use of existing oil resources, accelerating a switch to alternative energy sources and further investment in alternative energy supplies.

Small donations might be a good measure of grassroots energy, one of many factors that go into winning a campaign, but big donations indicate which candidate the people who spend the most time gaming out the state's political climate think is likely to win.

After a group of 60 volunteers tested the fitness bands, researchers realized that while most of the devices measured heart rate well, they all failed to accurately gauge energy expenditure.

Instead, he said, «there will be indications of what Brazil intends» as well as a raft of cooperative measures between the two countries on clean energy development.

A new report explores the feasibility of using ground monitoring stations, aircraft and satellites to measure CO2, as well as methods to estimate emissions by monitoring a country's energy infrastructure

Gavin Rowell of the University of Adelaide in Australia says DAMPE should be able to shed some light on this because it is better at measuring the precise energy of those gamma rays, which could help test different explanations.

«This is similar to x-ray diffraction, but by using electrons we get a much larger signal, and the high energy of the probe electrons gives us better access to measuring the precise motion of atoms,» Zhu said.

If the quality factor of the resonator is high, the mechanical energy will dissipate at a very low rate, and therefore the resonator will be extremely accurate at measuring or sensing objects thus enabling these systems to become very sensitive mass and force sensors, as well as exciting quantum systems.

Relative to other rechargeable battery technologies, they offer a good combination of cost and energy density, a measure of how much electricity can be stored in the battery per pound.

In their work, the team of researchers used a graphene based nano - mechanical resonator, well suited for observing nonlinear effects in energy decay processes, and measured it with a superconducting microwave cavity.

«If we continue to have to trade key readiness measures like spare parts and maintenance and training hours away because the cost of energy has increased, that ultimately erodes our readiness as well as our combat capability, making us less ready to deploy and do our nation's bidding.»

This correlates well with the cycles of El Niño Southern Oscillation pattern and measured changes in the amount of the energy from the sun.

To reduce this staggering amount and improve sustainability, manufacturers need to accurately measure and evaluate consumption of energy and materials, as well as environmental impacts, at each step in the life cycles of their products.

Researchers from Binghamton University, Cornell University, the International City / County Management Association (ICMA), and two divisions of the American Planning Association measured local government action on energy, water, waste, land use and transportation, as well as social equity and economic development across 1,900 local governments.

The strategy identified five rare earth metals (dysprosium, neodymium, terbium, europium, and yttrium) as well as indium as «most critical in the short term,» as measured by their importance to clean - energy technologies and the risk of supply disruption.

These nanoparticles, which measure billionths of a meter in size, can revolutionize fields from electronics to energy supply, but scientists must first determine how best to produce them.

TMT would be able to measure the propagation direction, propagation speed, as well as the energy containing wave number of the atmospheric waves.

As oceans contain around 80 % of the climate's total energy, ocean heat is a good measure of what's happening with our climate.

These include technologies for passively cooling buildings and urban areas, such as cool roofs and pavements, as well as the broader set of energy efficiency measures to reduce the need for active cooling.

The collaboration measured the energy of the reactor antineutrinos to an unprecedented precision, better than 1 percent, over a broad energy range.

Similarly, many studies that attempt to examine the co-variability between Earth's energy budget and temperature (such as in many of the pieces here at RC concerning the Spencer and Lindzen literature) are only as good as the assumptions made about base state of the atmosphere relative to which changes are measured, the «forcing» that is supposedly driving the changes (which are often just things like ENSO, and are irrelevant to radiative - induced changes that will be important for the future), and are limited by short and discontinuous data records.

As well, it doesn't quite measure up to the massive energy boosting effects of BSN Endorush, nor does it offer the caloric input of Endurox or Accelerade for your workouts.

It's very hard to put a number of calories, since the body can do lots of different things to increase or decrease its energy output: if you eat less, you may be able to maintain the same workout and even the same number of steps, but your spontaneous movements (fidgeting, getting up for a folder, etc.) may drop dramatically, reducing your caloric output despite your best attempts to measure it.

A study of weight maintenance (or loss) that measures energy flows comprehensively and monitors all relevant metabolic variables would be good.

Cardiorespiratory fitness is a measure of how well your body is able to transport oxygen to your muscles during prolonged exercise, and also of how well your muscles are able to absorb and use the oxygen, once it has been delivered, to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) energy via cellular respiration (cellular respiration is a chemical process in your body's cells that converts the energy stored in the food you eat into the ATP form of energy that is recruited for use by your muscles).

As well as encouraging students and staff to follow good housekeeping measures - such as turning off lights in rooms that aren't in use, making use of natural sunlight, and clearly labeling light switches - converting lighting to LED is a great way for schools to cut down their energy consumption, as LED bulbs use up to 90 % less energy than incandescent lighting (including halogen), and 60 % less than fluorescent lighting.

All four have succeeded in reducing their energy consumption as well as inspiring their pupils and students to do their bit to help save the planet through a series of easy to implement measures.

The energy efficiency measures put in place — such as improved insulation, better boilers, and the introduction of LED lighting and sensor controls — are resulting in major savings to both the college budget and the environment.

Last year's event was the company's first, with many schools attending local solar farms, seeing the dual usage of agricultural farming as well as generating electricity, discovering the biodiversity measures that many farms use to attract insects and birds through use of wildflower meadows as well as learning how solar is a home - grown solution to the UK's energy crisis.

Created to celebrate exemplars of building performance by measuring rigorously collected data, the Awards show how good engineering can directly affect the amount of energy used in a building and reduction of emissions while taking into account the occupants» experiences at the same time.

Dejan Mumovic, the editor of the forthcoming CIBSE Technical Memorandum on Integrated School Design and Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London highlights post-occupancy evaluations as a key factor when measuring energy of schools: «Design and operational issues are not unique to schools and are well known to engineers.»

The techniques for achieving energy efficiency are many: daylighting strategies that determine the orientation of a building, and the size and placement of windows; automated controls that measure daylight levels and regulate the amount of artificial light needed; and alternative energy sources such as solar panels, wind turbines and geothermal wells.

The problem is, since we don't know what Amazon rankings measure, exactly, it doesn't seem to be a good investment of one's energy to focus them.

Smart, savvy, and experienced investors know that the best way to measure returns is to consider all of the money, energy, time, and risks that are necessary to pursue them.

This beast fires off not only projectiles but also spews an energy barrier at you and for good measure unleashes a slew of Foot Clan Robots at the hapless player.

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

Moreover, he claims that as renewable energy use increases, this measure of efficiency will decrease as the best land for wind, biomass, and solar power gets used up.»

Similarly, Chevron ran a huge «Power of Human Energy» campaign, as well as a «Will You Join Us» campaign that won a PR award for number of positive press mentions — that's how success is measured in the PR world.

I've been using hurricanes as a good measure of the maximum energy available in the atmosphere (ie if more energy is present then you get more & bigger hurricanes).