Sentences with phrase «directing more sunlight»

These included building a dam across the Bering Straits to prevent cold water outflow from the Arctic, and putting giant reflectors in space to direct more sunlight down, especially in to high latitude cities.

There were also proposals to build large reflectors in space to direct more sunlight to the surface.

Not exact matches

However, the stronger and more direct the sunlight, the better the results.

And because the sunlight is also transformed into heat, that energy can be stored more easily than the direct electricity that photovoltaic cells produce, Wang says.

Earth's seasons come from the planet's tilt: as we orbit the sun, one hemisphere leans towards it, receiving more direct sunlight, while the other leans away.

These designs can absorb about 80 to 90 percent of the concentrated sunlight directed at them when considering reflections and heat loss, but Ho said design improvements to make the receivers even more efficient are needed to help reduce the cost of concentrating solar power and improve scalability.

Grasses, for instance, develop thicker leaves, which are able to utilize the direct sunlight in the upper layer of a meadow while clover species sprout larger but thinner leaves to absorb the weaker light close to the ground more effectively.

Regardless of how hot the Sahara may feel when you stand in it, the difference in radiative effect between it and rainforest is in its higher albedo, reflecting more direct sunlight, the darker forests absorb more heat.

If crop leaves are exposed to direct sunlight, they will absorb more of it than they can use, which sometimes bleaches the leaves.

Wheatgrass tastes bitter and exposing wheatgrass under direct sunlight will make it more bitter.

You can still enjoy the benefits of this oil by 1) Diluting it sufficiently, e.g. — in a face blend, it should be no more than around 1.25 % (i.e. — 1 drop of lemon essential oil per teaspoon of carrier oil), and 2) waiting 30 min - 1 hour before entering direct exposure to sunlight.

For MM, he'll have more space for his equipment, and for me, I'll have more windows for direct sunlight.

One has the highlighter on my cheek in direct sunlight and you can see the purple color reflect off my cheekbone more in that photo and the other photo displays the highlighter in less direct sunlight.

The pale blue got washed out in direct sunlight, looking more like a cool white in some photos.

Joy is what you make of it, friend, and nowhere is there more joy than wringing that beautifully resonant engine nestled behind your shoulder blades, flicking the solid metal paddles for that perfect downshift, directing the Boxster along a winding New Hampshire road, the sunlight flickering off the lake and through the trees.

The display also suffers from glare in direct sunlight, giving the maps a washed - out appearance, and the square joystick used to set directions by a crosshair on the map feels a lot more primitive than other systems, such as the 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid's.

However, in terms of the user interface, the Hyundai's unit feels better as it doesn't glare under direct sunlight (because of the matte finish) while the Swift's unit is more intuitive.

The first thing that catches your eye, of course, is the white leather that covers the seats and parts of the dash; it's some pretty blinding stuff, and I'd probably avoid it because a) it looks way too pretty for my liking and more importantly, b) white leather scuffs, it absorbs dye from your wet jeans and it's blindingly reflective in direct sunlight.

Plus the battery lasts much longer, its screen is easily readable in direct sunlight, it's lighter and more comfortable to hold, and there are a number of other advantages as well.

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The black and white screen is noticeably crisper than previous iterations, with a more pronounced contrast, and there's no glare even under direct sunlight.

We had more trouble making out the dialpad in direct sunlight on this phone than on the Droid Bionic when we held them up together, and the Droid RAZR had more problems with glare.

The company has thrown in various enhancements that aim to make the touchscreen more visible under direct sunlight and have also incorporated Super Sensitive Touch which allows users to operate the device even with gloves on.

The width and the curved back fits the hand well... The form factor and the font size make it easy to browse directions with the thumb The Samsung Focus display provides more saturated colors than the iPhone 4 Display: I am going to praise the 4 - inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen (480 × 800) except for its lack of readability in direct sunlight.

The pseudo e-ink screen actually gets brighter the more direct sunlight falls upon it.

Viewing an LCD in direct sunlight requires a very powerful backlight, which draws even more power.

The Torch 9850 has a 3.7 - inch 800 x 480 - pixel resolution touchscreen display that was more than bright enough for viewing under direct sunlight.

E Ink has some distinct advantages, like readability in direct sunlight, super-long battery life (Kobo says a month, but even if they're wrong you still won't charge this thing very often), and in my experience a much more immersive experience than LCDs offer.

After using the Kobo Aura One direct sunlight or in well - lit rooms for two weeks, I can say it offers a more pleasing reading experience than any of Amazon's top three readers do.

We were even able to read articles in the Bing News app while standing in direct sunlight, though the fingerprints on the screen appeared more prominent than the text below.

First, it uses a white background, which makes it much more readable in direct sunlight.

But while the screen appeared more washed out in outdoor conditions, I was able to view images and read text with relative ease, even in direct sunlight.

Despite the proliferation of 7 - inch tablets that can double as e-readers, there are still many users out there who prefer e-ink devices for reading e-books because they've got much longer battery life, are a lot more readable in direct sunlight outdoors, and feel easier on the eyes for reading for extended periods of time as opposed to reading on LCD screens.

The «rainbow» part of their name refers to the sheen they display when in direct sunlight (and this is an excellent selling tool), but their basic colors are black with a rich mahogany and more orange as they grow.

On hot and humid days, the temperature in a car parked in direct sunlight can rise more than 30 degrees per minute, and quickly become lethal.

(Orbital forcing doesn't have much of a global annual average forcing, and it's even concievable that the sensitivity to orbital forcing as measured in terms of global averages and the long - term response (temporal scale of ice sheet response) might be approaching infinity or even be negative (if more sunlight is directed onto an ice sheet, the global average albedo might increase, but the ice sheet would be more likely to decay, with a global average albedo feedback that causes warming).

Regardless of how hot the Sahara may feel when you stand in it, the difference in radiative effect between it and rainforest is in its higher albedo, reflecting more direct sunlight, the darker forests absorb more heat.

Also during 1992 and 1993, ash and other particles from the volcano created a haze around the planet and slightly reduced the sunlight reaching Earth's surface and made the sun's radiation less direct and more diffuse.

It is much more to be intercepted from direct sunlight, than from secondary reflection.

Ouch, I almost forgot those 0.004 % of CO2, but compared with hundreds times more water vapor, clouds and ice reflecting 30 % of direct sunlight, it keeps me rather indifferent.

During the day, direct sunlight does the surface warming job more than enough, as we can see in deserts with low humidity.

This is accomplished by having lots of surface area of masonry thermal mass directly exposed to sunlight, which is much more effective for storing heat than mass not in direct sun.

People who consider human activity to have a direct impact on climate generally take the stance that increased urbanization leads to more sunlight being absorbed by the planet (making it warmer).

Later, when the ground is receiving direct sunlight, it will warm more than the upper sensor.

21 In summer, N. hemisphere is tilted towards the sun = more direct sunlight, warmer temps.

«In the daytime, the humid tropics have more clouds than the dry desert, and they tend to block and reflect back to Space some of the shortwave radiation in direct sunlight, which would limit the increase in daytime temperatures.»

This self - tracking design allows Solyndra's PV systems to capture more sunlight than traditional flat - surfaced solar panels, which require costly tilted mounting devices to improve the capture of direct light, offer poor collection of diffuse light and fail to collect reflected light from rooftops or other installation surfaces.

You'll want to choose a location with at least 6 hours or more of direct sunlight every day, so if you don't have a spot that gets that much sun, you may have to move the pots once or twice throughout the day to keep them in the light.

E.g. buildings in cities, stone etc surely stores more heat when exposed to direct sunlight.

Overall, the evidence suggests that the aerosol buildup is causing a net cooling both because aerosols reflect incoming sunlight back to space (a direct effect) and because they «seed» cloud droplets, causing clouds to become brighter and more reflective (an indirect effect).