Sentences with phrase «energy per pound»

(A human walking spends about three times as much energy per pound; even a salmon swimming spends about twice as much.)»

The typical outside only cat ought to have 35 energy per pound to maintain weight.

A dog food that is complete and balanced and includes at least 26 percent protein and 1650 kilocalories of metabolizable energy per pound is ideal.

Zinc can be found in most car parts, from tires to door handles, and because it can store six times more energy per pound than more conventional battery systems, the metal is also used in electric vehicles.

Not exact matches

In the less developed countries, approximately 400 pounds of grain per year is available to the average person, nearly all of which must be consumed directly merely to meet minimal food energy needs... Contrast this example to the average North American who uses nearly a ton of grain per year.

We've improved our service to customers, and our energy costs per pound of food produced is definitely down, she says.

Barnett Vicious Crossbow Want 340 feet per second with 97.6 ft pounds of kinetic energy?

The super light, 7 - pound crossbow shoots at 315 feet per second with over 90 pounds of kinetic energy.

«The fuels we're testing now have equal or better energy content than the Jet A requirements,» of at least 48 megajoules per kilogram (20,700 British thermal units per pound).

Rock to Liquid Jet aircraft today typically burn kerosene, an energy - dense hydrocarbon fuel that delivers as much as 48 megajoules per kilogram (20,700 British thermal units per pound), allowing for long - distance travel.

Conventional approaches to compact hydrogen storage — compressing the gas to up to 10,000 pounds per square inch (psi) or cooling it down to cryogenic temperatures so that it liquefies (around 252 degrees Celsius)-- can attain only about half the energy density needed to fit enough fuel inside something the size of a gas tank.

Beyond reducing greenhouse gases, recycling saves about 1,000 pounds of solid waste, some 10,000 gallons of water, and 17 million Btu of energy per ton of paper.

Compressed Air The Alabama Energy Cooperative opened a compressed - air energy storage plant in 1991, using coal plants that ordinarily would be idle at night, to pump air into a hollowed - out salt dome at a pressure of more than 1,000 pounds per squareEnergy Cooperative opened a compressed - air energy storage plant in 1991, using coal plants that ordinarily would be idle at night, to pump air into a hollowed - out salt dome at a pressure of more than 1,000 pounds per squareenergy storage plant in 1991, using coal plants that ordinarily would be idle at night, to pump air into a hollowed - out salt dome at a pressure of more than 1,000 pounds per square inch.

It takes 243 gallons (920 liters) of diesel fuel to trawl about 1.1 tons (one metric ton) of the shellfish, according to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, making shrimp one of the most energy - intensive wild seafood harvests, with a footprint of 5,395 pounds (2,447 kilograms) of carbon dioxide per metric ton even before processing and transportation are taken into account.

The experimental SUV has hydraulic brakes that pump nitrogen gas to pressures of up to 500 pounds per square inch when the driver decelerates, essentially bottling up the vehicle's lost kinetic energy.

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.

While the number of electricity - hungry transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip has doubled about every two years over the past few decades, it took more than 20 years (from 1970 to 1990) to double the amount of energy that rechargeable batteries can store per pound.

Parrots can outlive elephants; hummingbirds have been known to survive to 14 — the equivalent, in terms of energy consumption per pound, of a human living to 500.

Monounsaturated fats which are found in olive oil, nuts, and avocado, increase the energy expenditure while resting, which is the burning of calories per pound when you don't do any physical activity.

If you did this for seven days straight, in theory, you could realistically expect to lose one pound of fat per week, however there would be no way to find out if you can really expect such results without precisely calculating your Total Daily Energy expenditure (TDEE) and your Basal Metabolic Rate (MBR).

You'll know you've found it when you feel good, have energy, can tackle your workout, and you start to move toward your weight loss goals at the healthy rate of 1 - 2 pounds per week on average.

If you're NOT shedding pounds, you possibly can be consuming an excessive amount of — monitor your energy for per week, after which goal a 10 % discount in energy and proceed.

«Consuming an additional 400 calories of sugar per day over your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) will result in gaining 41.5 pounds of fat per year.»

The formula for gaining lean body weight is: 1) Determine your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) 2) Add a minimum of two calories per pound of body weight so you are in a positive calorie balance.

So if a day of total fasting causes the loss of 1/2 to 1 pound of lean body mass per day (depending upon one's level of keto - adaptation), then it takes at least 2 - 4 days of full feeding with protein and energy to recover that one day's lean tissue loss.

Basal energy expenditure (BEE) is estimated to be roughly 12 - 15 calories per pound.

I envy his encyclopedic grasp of «cost per pound» and gift for mental addition, and am in awe of his boundless energy and creativity.

Past thinking was to eat.7 to 1.0 grams of protein per pound of body weight, load up on the carbs for energy, and minimize the fat.

It is possible to lose fat faster than this, but for the majority of people, 1 - 2 pounds per week is a safe range that will allow you to drop fat at a reasonable rate while keeping your appetite, energy levels, mood and training performance in check.

You need to create an energy deficit of between 500 and 1,000 calories each day to lose 1 to 2 pounds per week, either by eating less or exercising more.

With a sweat - inducing 1,341 hp and 1,011 lb - ft of torque, the 2,998 - pound road - going land speed record car sports an absurd one megawatt of energy per kilogram.

Towing 8000 pounds, the diesel gets substantially better mileage than the gas counterpart, but lightly loaded, the big diesel gets little, if any better mpg than a gas version, but on fuel that has 13 % more energy per gallon.

Puppies require more food per pound of body weight, since they are growing and constantly expending energy.

The smaller the dog, the more energy and nutrients are required per pound of body weight to keep the dog healthy.

Dogs of this size usually need more calories because their daily energy burn is higher — probably something a little closer to 35 or 40 calories per pound of bodyweight.

«By reducing the fat content of large - breed puppy formulas to about 14 %, the metabolizable energy (ME) of the diets can be kept to a low level of about 1,800 kilocalories per pound.»

It may still sound like a lot for a toy breed, given that 18 % protein is the minimum for any adult dog, but since Chihuahuas need a lot of calories per pound, protein is an important calorie - rich nutrient and will provide them with the energy they require.

Small breeds of dogs often require more food per pound than large breeds because of the higher energy output.

«Puppies need more energy per [pound] of body weight with plenty of minerals,» explained Dr. Lindsey Bullen of the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of the Carolinas.

And since water's specific heat is 0.998 Btu per pound degree Fahrenheit then, it would take 143 times the heat energy to melt water at its freezing point than to raise the same quantity of water 1 degree Fahrenheit once it became a liquid.

The most energy - intensive type of PV cell to make — the monocrystalline silicate cells — only emits 1.8 ounces of global warming pollution per kilowatt hour, compared to 2.2 pounds by a coal - fired power plant.

Coal is usually a very cheap source of energy as demonstrated by the chart found at (29) with a high average cost of $ 50.92 per short ton (2000 pounds) for a brief period in 1975 (remember the Arab oil embargo of 1973 - 74) to a cost of $ 18.34 per short ton as of 2004.

Our basic activities (cooking our food, heating our homes) lead to tens of thousands of pounds of carbon - dioxide emissions per household every year, but many of us can not currently opt to buy renewable energy from our utility, because such energy sources are limited.

Enhanced geothermal systems, which require energy to drill and pump water into hot rock reservoirs, have life - cycle global warming emission of approximately 0.2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [11].

Even sticking with gas - only scooters, the survey findings, when compared to Department of Energy national averages on fuel consumption, found that more extensive scooter use could save up to 14 million gallons of gas per day and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 324 million pounds per day.

By contrast, in India, where people consume just under 200 kilograms of grain per year, or roughly a pound per day, nearly all grain is eaten directly to satisfy basic food energy needs.

The carbon dioxide emission factors in this article are expressed in terms of the energy content of coal as pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu.

Gases with a higher GWP absorb more energy, per pound, than gases with a lower GWP, and thus contribute more to warming Earth.

2Examples of previously published emission factors include, in pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu, single emission factors of 205.7 in «United States Emissions of Carbon Dioxide to the Earth's Atmosphere,» Energy Systems Policy, Vol.

Based on GRE's projected energy mix, that drops to 1,428 pounds per MWh by 2032, a figure still far above even the least efficient propane and gas - fired water heaters.