Sentences with phrase «by an order of magnitude for»

The epicycles and pseudocycles appear to be truly lower in scale by an order of magnitude for global effect, so the AMO and PDO and all the other regional currents and flows and exchanges and bends, being that they don't all or even mostly synchronize in any demonstrably regular way, are small compared to the whole globe and net out to nearly zero.

Not exact matches

Musk says that a giant balloon is «great for creating a giant object that retains its shape across all Mach regimes & drops ballistic coefficient by 2 orders of magnitude.»

The result: XRT has an order of magnitude greater small - and micro-cap exposure versus our retail benchmark, and by industry it loads up on apparel and accessory retailers to make up for its tiny 1 % position in Walmart.

«The demand for data is growing at an exponential rate, while the cost of access to space (and, by extension, data) is falling by orders of magnitude,» says Jonas.

The means for simple systems to become complex has increased by several orders of magnitude.

The number of people repressed for their religion under Communism is far smaller (at least an order of magnitude) than the excess deaths caused by these regimes.

It would, however, have increased the cost of manufacturing firearms for legal sale in New York by orders of magnitude.

Researchers at the Center for Bright Beams, an NSF Science and Technology Center led by Cornell University, are working to decrease the costs associated with accelerator technology while simultaneously increasing the intensity of charged particle beams by two orders of magnitude.

Once assembled, the twin Viking landers were each baked at 112 °C for more than a day in an effort to reduce populations of bacteria by four orders of magnitude.

The combination of being able to identify people online for a baseline survey, then reach them going door - to - door, and finally resurvey those same people online at a later point has dramatically reduced the canvassers» need to knock on doors by one or two orders of magnitude, and makes comparison groups much more feasible.

The HER activity for highly crystalline Pt3Ni - Pt - skin nanoframe surface was enhanced by almost one order of magnitude relative to Pt / C.

I did some work in 2011 and 2012 as part of the 100 Year Starship symposium and discovered ways to reduce the energy requirements by many orders of magnitude, so for a 10 - metre diameter spacecraft with a velocity of 10 times light speed, I can reduce the negative energy needed.

Others had performed similar tests for signs that the universe is spinning, but Saadeh, Pontzen, and colleagues improve the limit on such a signal by an order of magnitude.

The complexity goes up by orders of magnitude, and your bang for the buck goes straight down the toilet.

In quantum dots where tellurium is replaced by the lighter selenium, researchers observed that the duration for which information was remembered increased by an order of magnitude.

«A big challenge for the massive deployment of such systems is the powering: wire line supply is impossible, batteries often not practical or affordable,» Gielen said, adding: «CNTs are an emerging technology that offer the potential to cut down significantly, by orders of magnitude, on the power consumption of electronics compared to today's state - of - the - art technologies.

Calculations showed that the time scale required to wait for a group of 10 photons would then be shortened by a whopping ten orders of magnitude: from years down to microseconds!

Dividing the estimated number of stars by the relatively short time period available gives a ridiculously high rate of star formation, which is orders of magnitude greater than that estimate for our Milky Way Galaxy.

From what I have read, funding for climate research has increased by an order of magnitude since the hysteria over global warming began.

The situation further deteriorates for trapped metal nanoparticles when the incident light overlaps with a plasmonic resonance, whereby electrons move in response to light collectively, causing enhancements to local fields by several orders of magnitude.

«This tool gives us the capability to get better resolution by three orders of magnitude than some other techniques, which has opened a very wide field for catalysis and surface - chemistry studies.»

We present models for two objects, with mass accretion rates differing by almost two orders of magnitude, to illustrate the effects of accretion on the overall disk structure and emission.

The RV survey speed can be increased by more than 2 orders of magnitude over that for the echelles.

Sanes and Lichtman estimate that Brainbow's colorful labeling has decreased the mapping time for a given section of brain by at least an order of magnitude.

We show that the EUV luminosity reaching the disk is below the range of inferred stellar EUV luminosities, by more than an order of magnitude for the older sources in our sample.

For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have shown that carbon nanotubes as small as eight - tenths of a nanometer in diameter can transport protons faster than bulk water, by an order of magnitude.

Not by coincidence, the calls for volunteers have increased, the best index the whole foods, plant - based diet has gained an order - of - magnitude in traction in that same seven years.

If you mean that Amazon is only 30 % of the ebook market, I'd like to see your figures, because not only is that lowest figure I've ever seen floated in the past four years, this data is the first time self - published ebooks have been really accounted for and it suggests that any estimates we're getting to date could be off by an order of magnitude.

It's been a brilliant financial year for CD Projekt, crowned by the release of The Witcher 3, a critical and commercial success that has propelled the Polish company to sales and revenue an order of magnitude higher than anything it's enjoyed before.

In some cases the quest for realism was made difficult by the physical hardware, such as the brightness range of your monitor being many orders of magnitude outside how bright a star can appear.

At best, it's estimated that ANWR could provide us with 1.45 million barrels a day (for now, let's forget the Gulf of Mexico, since that would take until at least 2030 to kick in, and that time span surpasses our attention span by hundreds of orders of magnitude).

That increases the size of the temperature change per «small change» of doubling of CO2 by almost one order of magnitude, and many people would dispute that an approximately 10 % GHG - driven temperature increase for a «small change» in greenhouse forcing is a «small temperature change».

For conditions close to the Port of Los Angeles, the 0.25 m increase in the reasonable upper bound can result in a flooding - risk increase by roughly three orders of magnitude.

That is quite an understatement for an overestimation by more than an order of magnitude for something that is so easy to verify.

4) The process you describe works well for some things, but in many circumstances, not least our present global sustainability circumstance, is enormously, by orders of magnitude, too slow and is overtaken by processes leading to grossly suboptimal outcomes.

Not once does the article mention the fossil and renewable energy funding for the Sierra Club, NRDC and ELPC, which is three orders of magnitude larger than the paltry donations received by Generation Atomic.

EOR provides the best target customer: the approximately 100M tonnes of CO2 consumed in EOR globally is likely a full order of magnitude greater than all of the other CO2 consumed for other purposes worldwide (though it is difficult to get a precise estimate of total global CO2 consumption by end use...).

Renewables and alternatives will all play a role, but even if those forms of energy grow by orders of magnitude over say the next fifty years, traditional hydrocarbons — oil and gas — will still make up the majority of the energy mix for at least the next century.

But the question remains whether or not it will in practice be less costly than some of the other less exotic specific actionable proposals made to date (i.e. at a cost of less than around $ 16 trillion for 0.5 degC warming theoretically averted by year 2100) or more costly by at least one order of magnitude.

(The «I think» was because I was hoping to extricate myself from CE for a while to finish off a paper explaining why climate sensitivity as currently defined can neither be measured nor estimated with an error bar less than 1 C per doubling, and proposing a different definition that shrinks the error bar by an order of magnitude.

Every single country would have to radically increase its deployment of clean energy sources — things like solar or wind or nuclear or carbon capture for coal or electric cars or hydrogen cars — by an order of magnitude.

However the ARGO errors are much much smaller than the pre-ARGO measurements (maybe by two orders of magnitude, one for each temperature reading and one for the sparseness of sampling?).

Judy Curry deserves credit for (a) recognizing a bandwagon worth jumping on and (b) helping out by attracting funding and orders of magnitude more attention (via her sociopolitically stronger, longer reach).

Within economics modelling, attempts to model the feedback mechanisms that occur in the real economy are also really difficult — we know, for example, that investment in new technologies will act as an incentive for the existing technologies it hopes to substitute to become more efficient (the sailing ship effect — i.e. in the 50 years after the introduction of the steam ship, sailing ships made more efficiency improvements than they had in the previous 3 centuries) but how to quantify something even as simple as this is not easy BUT we have learnt a few ways to give sensible (order of magnitude) figures with time lags, the learning by doing effect and phased - in substitution effects based on massive amounts of data.

We can at best estimate that natural variability is an order of magnitude or two smaller than the GHE for climate timescales, which is good enough, since our precision on temperatures on climate timescales barely has enough significant digits to be affected by a two order of magnitude lower effect.

For this purpose, coarser model resolution is adequate since the advective transports of energy (latent and sensible heat, geopotential energy), which are an order of magnitude larger than the radiative terms, must by definition globally add to zero.

By superimposing the climacograms of the different series, we obtain an impressive overview of the variability for time scales spanning almost nine orders of magnitude — from 1 month to 50 million years.

The mean areal N2O emissions reported here are approximately an order of magnitude less than those estimated for US reservoirs (Baron et al. 2013) and are consistent with the areal fluxes reported by Yang and colleagues (2014).

Estimates for the internet's total electricity use vary by an order of magnitude.

The decelerations that we obtain are opposite in sign and one to two orders of magnitude less than the +0.07 to +0.28 mm / y2 accelerations that are required toreach sea levels predicted for 2100 by Vermeer and Rahmsdorf (2009), Jevrejeva, Moore, and Grinsted (2010), and Grinsted, Moore, and Jevrejeva (2010).»