Sentences with phrase «by orders of magnitude more»

And we must have a focus on systemic risks, implementing solutions that reduce the risk by orders of magnitude more than they cost.

They are used by orders of magnitude more people that Twitter — billions for each, as opposed to Twitter's 328 million users worldwide.

Not exact matches

Looks to me like Republican administrations over the last 55 years have been more fiscally irresponsible by an order of magnitude of almost 3!

Emphasis: accredited investors will be significantly more expensive to acquire than accredited users — by a meaningful order of magnitude, I suspect.

After all, Democratic tech, online and grassroots staff must outnumber their Republican equivalents by close to an order of magnitude — the Obama campaign alone probably had more tech - and analytics - focused staff than Romney had staff... period.

The engine recently produced an output of more than 200 kilowatts, an order of magnitude above previous technology, making it «by far the world's most powerful plasma rocket,» Chang Díaz says.

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.

«Since 2009 rates in some areas, such as Oklahoma, have increased by more than an order of magnitude,» the USGS said in September, referring to the rates of induced, or human - caused, earthquakes.

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 computational problems involved in interpreting genomic tests are several orders of magnitude more challenging that those posed by scanning a database of 4.4 million traditional records, says John Lutz, IBM's vice president of on - demand business.

According to the first theory, the seeds which gave rise to the present day structure in the Universe are quantum fluctuations, minute variations on a subatomic scale that were expanded by more than 60 orders of magnitude as the Universe went through an «inflationary phase» — a period of extremely rapid expansion — first proposed by Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This cloud, named the «Bullet,» has a speed of more than 100 km / s, which exceeds the speed of sound in interstellar space by more than two orders of magnitude.

«They do a really nice job of showing that you get a lot more information by studying an order of magnitude more people,» says Joshua Akey, a population geneticist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

It is a whopper of a catch, in more ways than one: China is under - reporting its overseas fishing catch by more than an order of magnitude, according to a study published on 23 March.

«We have a path toward making a compact, robust clock that's better than CSACs by a couple of orders of magnitude, and more stable over longer periods of time.»

The accuracy and the stability of optical clocks are mainly based on the fact that the frequency of the optical radiation used is higher (by several orders of magnitude) than that of the microwave radiation which is used in cesium atomic clocks, which makes optical clocks much more precise than cesium clocks.

The mercury levels they've measured are in parts per trillion, orders of magnitude less than the more worrisome parts per million levels tracked by the EPA and FDA.

This record has now been broken by more than one order of magnitude, with the demonstration of micrometer length - scale chains.

It is one thing to raise sea levels by several metres, ravage climates, devastate human civilisation and wipe out half of global biodiversity, but a hydrogen sulphide world is an order of magnitude more horrific.

Between 2008 and 2010 the mid-IR luminosity of this system dropped dramatically by at least a factor of 30 suggesting a loss of dust mass of an order of magnitude or more.

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

We use this sample to limit any azimuthal variations in the median metallicity within the ~ 45 degree - wide azimuthal region covered by the current sample to be < = 0.02 dex, which is more than an order of magnitude smaller than the radial metallicity gradient.

Since 2009 rates in some areas, such as Oklahoma, have increased by more than 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.

These values are in agreement with those found in other galaxy clusters and suggest that dust is deficient near the cluster center by more than 3 orders of magnitude compared to the interstellar medium.

Such an extremely warm winter in Earth's northern extremity is still a rare event but climate change has «made the event more likely by orders of magnitude», the authors tell Carbon Brief.

Stellar flares can be four orders of magnitude more powerful, which is thought be due to bigger starspot regions generated by a more efficient dynamo process, because many of the flaring stars rotate faster than the Sun.

It also is more substantial, by an order of magnitude, than his earlier work.

I have friends going the self - pub route, but the semi-successful ones (NOT in the Hocking league, by orders of magnitude) are spending much more time at it than I want to (or have available).

So, with print sales at independent ABA bookstores up a tiny bit, but book sales at all major US bookstore chains and mass merchandisers down by almost an order of magnitude more, then why does Nielsen Bookscan's «Retail & Club» sector still report that US print book sales are up 5 % overall?

That being said, the discussion here is about the interesting problem, which is what should someone do if they have a kickstarter and blow past their expectations by an order of magnitude or more?

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

But the differences are not by orders of magnitude, more like a few 10's of percent at max.]

Since then Earths» population has grown to seven billion people, each consuming an order of magnitude more energy than back then, almost entirely by burning carbon - based fuels and releasing the resulting CO2 into the atmosphere as by far the most convenient place to put it.

The second problem is clearly much more difficult by orders of magnitude.

Total Anthropogenic waste heat is an order of magnitude or more less than the energy imbalance caused by increasing GH gases.

If I look at the consensus more than the sceptical fringe it is because the consensus is larger by orders of magnitude (at least in Europe)

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.

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.

In other words, the climate sensitivity values published in the refereed literature differ by more than an order of magnitude.

''... current indirect CO2 benefits clearly outweigh any hypothesized cost by literally orders of magnitude; the benefit - cost ratios range up to more than 200 - to - 1.»

If it is uncertain by an order of magnitude or more, why not 100 - 1000?

«By the Keystone XL measure,» the Globe and Mail wrote, «the proposed Enbridge conditions are nearly an order of magnitude more numerous, and far more stringent.»

This compounds to an order of magnitude growth in population since 1700, which further compounds to more than two orders of magnitude of atmospheric loading from byproducts of energy consumption when taking into account that per capita energy consumption increased by more than an order of magnitude over those three centuries.

A few years ago, Pierce and Adams modeled the potential cloud forming effect of cosmic rays and found it wanting by more than an order of magnitude, even when the most favourable assumptions possible were made.

Compared to using the value in point one of 0.08 W / m2K, the amount of additional investment to compensate for this simply in order to demonstrate compliance with Part L in a Deap calculation has increased by an order of magnitude — more unnecessary waste which is completely out of tune with the fabric - first sustainable building approach as well as cost - optimal considerations.

A study sponsored by the US Department of Energy, and overseen by a board of outside advisers from the wind power industry, projects that it is possible to expand the average national output of wind generated electricity from the present 1.0 + % - to the 20 % - level over the next 22 years: an order of magnitude more wind power in the USA, in two decades.

I showed in detail that these two proxy plans posted by SA, the Spross - quoted plan [1] and the Ceres Clean Trillion plan [2], offered about a 1 % reduction in emissions annually for decades, more than an order of magnitude less than that required to avoid the climate Apocalypse!

As two of many examples, I showed in detail that the two proxy plans posted by SA, the Spross - quoted plan [1] and the Ceres Clean Trillion plan [2], offered about a 1 % reduction in emissions annually for decades, more than an order of magnitude less than that required to avoid the climate Apocalypse!