Sentences with phrase «by incandescent»

One imagines the artist looking over the New Mexico landscape, inspired by the incandescent and austere quietude of her surroundings.

Next month, astronomers will harness radio telescopes across the globe to create the equivalent of a single Earth - spanning dish — an instrument powerful enough, they hope, to image black holes backlit by the incandescent gas swirling around them.

But LEDs still have not made much headway in our homes and offices, where the general lighting provided by incandescents and fluorescents is still superior.

For example: burning the fossil fuels necessary to provide the additional energy used by incandescents releases more mercury into the atmosphere than is contained in even a low - quality, relatively high - mercury CFL, whereas the CFL's mercury is contained within the bulb.

Not exact matches

By and large, I've been fortunate to work with incandescent all - stars.

And the pace and breadth of his inventiveness is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that during those three critical years he was granted not only nearly 90 patents for incandescent filaments and lamps but also 60 patents for magneto or dynamo - electric machines and their regulation, 14 patents for the system of electric lighting, 12 patents for the distribution of electricity, and 10 patents for electric meters and motors.

And when he is revealed, the impact must necessarily be that of mystery - not something discovered by the light of reason, but a Reality that illuminates our minds with its own incandescent Light.

He said SUNY Poly may also have made a mistake constructing a factory for an LED light bulb maker, given the fact that LED light bulb production is increasingly dominated by low - cost Chinese manufacturers who have brought the price of LED bulbs almost down to that of incandescents.

They are incandescent at the political damage done by the phone - hacking scandal and angry that News Corp has not voluntarily suspended its attempted takeover of BSkyB in the wake of the allegations.

They are made by companies with a long history of manufacturing incandescent lights, such as General Electric Co. and Philips, which are now promoting the new technology.

Homeowners looking to save electricity costs should replace all their incandescent light bulbs with LED - based lights instead of installing a small solar photovoltaic system, a report by J.P. Morgan shows.

In incandescent light, the trigger to push electrons into a higher orbit is heat provided by electricity passing through a carbon filament in a vacuum; in bioluminescence, the electrons are pushed up by two chemicals working together.

For humans, the most worrisome insights revealed by the atlas are the effects of an ongoing shift to light - emitting diodes — LEDs — as sources of outdoor light over older incandescent illumination.

«Thus far, solutions based on incandescent lamps have been used in photometry, i.e. in measuring light detected by the human eye,» explains Tomi Pulli, a doctoral student at Aalto University.

10 Incandescent bulbs convert only 10 percent of the energy they draw into light, which is why Europe will outlaw them by 2012.

Incandescent bulbs, commercially developed by Thomas Edison (and still used by cartoonists as the symbol of inventive insight), work by heating a thin tungsten wire to temperatures of around 2,700 degrees Celsius.

A nanophotonic incandescent light bulb demonstrates the ability to tailor light radiated by a hot object.

A proof - of - concept device built by MIT researchers demonstrates the principle of a two - stage process to make incandescent bulbs more efficient.

Illumination of a GBN heterostructure even with just an incandescent lamp can modify electron - transport in the graphene layer by inducing a positive - charge distribution in the boron nitride layer that becomes fixed when the illumination is turned off.

The round started a smoldering fire punctuated by whizzing skyrockets, a rain of incandescent fragments, and massive explosions that bloomed into mushroom clouds.

Because LEDs do not emit heat as infrared radiation like incandescent or fluorescent bulbs do, it must be removed from the device by conduction or convection.

Ben Haller calculates that a 25 - square - centimetre solar panel in a room lit by a 100 - watt incandescent bulb will gather about...

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

This incandescent hourglass, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, is a compact star - forming region in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan).

Experts advise that by changing from a traditional incandescent light bulb to an efficient LED, CFL, or halogen incandescent, you'll use 25 to 80 percent less energy, and the bulb will last up to 25 times longer.

A whopping 90 percent of the energy used by traditional incandescent light bulbs is released through heat, and the higher the wattage, the more energy (and money) you'll save by switching off.

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Serve up an incandescent glow by applying pigment to the inner corner with a dampened detail brush.

The city, girded by gates where bored customs agents ensure that the spirits» relatives have put out their picture before giving them a day pass to the land of the living, is a magnificent sight, with brightly colored stacks of buildings spiraling into the sky, its streets filled with incandescent animal spirits called alebrijes.

A startlingly intelligent, incandescent thriller topped off by one of the great endings in recent cinema, Christian Petzold's Phoenix has been granted early canonization by the Criterion Collection, which releases the film in a deluxe Blu - ray edition featuring interviews with the director and his star Nina Hoss.

Suffering the most, the incandescent (literally, it so happens in this case) Cate Blanchett has her performance as the Elven queen, Galadriel, almost entirely obscured by sound effects, lighting, and visual pyrotechnics that seem only to underscore a point («the ring is evil») that has been made a dozen times previous.

White Nights / Le notti bianche Luchino Visconti, Italy / France, 1957, 35 mm, 101m Italian with English subtitles Visconti's adaptation of a Dostoevsky story (filmed many times over, including by Robert Bresson) is a ravishing romantic reverie composed in incandescent black and white.

On the contrary, Stardust is extremely well - made despite an opening half - hour that boasts of a few too many long establishing shots, directed with real snap by Guy Ritchie's former producer Matthew Vaughn (who did the same with Layer Cake) and executed by a stellar cast that includes a literally incandescent Claire Danes as a fallen star named Yvaine and Michelle Pfeiffer as a hideous bitch goddess, which, given that Stardust follows on the heels of Hairspray, appears to be the vehicle of her late - career comeback.

He is well supported by a number of actors, including James Franco as Harvey's love, Scott Smith, and an incandescent Emile Hirsch, a spitfire of energy as the young Cleve Jones.

On the other hand, in the company of incandescent actresses such as Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack in «Friends With Money,» Aniston — ostensibly the biggest name in the cast — faded out, becoming blurry and indistinct almost like that actor played by Robin Williams in Woody Allen's «Deconstructing Harry.»

Indeed, as evidenced by the numerous backstage moments throughout the film, the visuals are a further enhancement from the aforementioned film: soft makeup, rich colours, lens flares from incandescent bulbs, and softened stage spotlights given the same actor's perspective, along with waves of colorfully attired panicky dancers, ascending or descending staircases for the next act.

It's through Andra that we meet two more multifaceted women, Andra's adult granddaughters: the jaded and hard - shelled yet undeniably incandescent Mary (played in a wonderfully blase tone by Amanda Peet) and the self - sacrificing and pulled - in Rebecca (Rebecca Hall).

A Different Light: Sheila Ferguson (right) and students study the difference between fluorescent lightbulbs and incandescent ones (which waste energy by emitting large amounts of invisible infrared light).

That was driven by government mandates to keep headlights simple and interchangeable for cost - effective (and frequent) replacement since they were incandescent.

In 1928 Congress voted him a special Medal of Honor, and in 1929 the USA celebrated the incandescent light bulb's golden jubilee which culminated in a banquet honoring Edison given by Henry Ford.

Her solicitous question was drowned out by the thunder of applause that erupted when the incandescent Alma Hernandez - Luna, director of the flamenco program, bounded onstage.

«If I go into a building and see that it's stuffed full of old incandescent light bulbs, then I know right away that I can peel 10 % to 20 % a year off the bill just by changing the bulbs,» Southen says.

By the end of this year, 40 - and 60 - watt incandescents will become black market items in Canada, with 75 - and 100 - watt versions set to be phased out by the end of 201By the end of this year, 40 - and 60 - watt incandescents will become black market items in Canada, with 75 - and 100 - watt versions set to be phased out by the end of 201by the end of 2014.

To minimize energy use, the resort pioneered the use of low - voltage in the Pacific region by replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs and low voltage LED lighting throughout the main buildings including dining areas, bar, lounge and reception and all the accommodation.

The HGT starts off by calling EA's 2017 run a hat trick of shame, as they ended the year taking a practically guaranteed success and turned it into a «white - hot garbage fire of incandescent rage.»

No doubt the result of the artist's lengthy process of preparation and many hours spent in rapt concentration, de Kooning captured and distilled the many ephemeral qualities of his home on East Hampton in the sumptuous surface of Untitled XVIII, which is penetrated by an inner glow, softly imbued with the particularly incandescent quality of its North Atlantic light.

In this case, low - key violets and greens along the edges set up an expectation of deep space in the center, exactly where an incandescent swath of yellow — by far the warm ¬ est, most saturated area — thrusts to the surface, asserting color, light and flatness as dominant concerns.

Cosmic Latte, 2017 150 light fixtures and 417 incandescent bulbs, dimensions variable, one of 3 versions Photo by Douglas Mason

Where an inky, consuming black expanse is the bass note of Stacked Black, an incandescent white expanse is at the center of Light Stir, surrounded by a rhythmic frame of calligraphic red, blue and green strokes that pursue one another around the edge with quiet elegance.

The neon lamps and incandescent bulbs evoke works by Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzales - Torres, who both use these materials to suggest death and decay.