Sentences with phrase «energy reaching the planet»

And powerful magnetic fluxes also could mean periodic drop - offs in the amount of energy reaching the planet, by as much as 40 percent.

The general consensus among scientists is that the young Earth's atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and / or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the lesser amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

Impatient with this kind of warning, some ultra-moderns are even now planning to impose their will on those forces by means of geoengineering schemes aimed at regulating the amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

The S - B Law applies to a planetary body in space without an atmosphere and relies on the planet reaching a thermal equilibrium whereby the amount of energy reaching the planet from the local star is matched by energy leaving that planet to space.

Not exact matches

Is it not conceivable that Mankind, at the end of its totalization, its folding - in upon itself, may reach a critical level of maturity where, leaving Earth and stars to lapse slowly back into the dwindling mass of primordial energy, it will detach itself from this planet and join the one true, irreversible essence of things, the Omega point?

On Earth, the plant pigment chlorophyll absorbs the most abundant and highest - energy colors that reach the planet's surface — red and blue, respectively — while reflecting green, giving vegetation its color.

The planet's climate ultimately becomes altered when these gases start to affect the amount of energy from the sun that is allowed to reach Earth's surface or is stored in the atmosphere.

With all matter and energy beyond the Milky Way fundamentally out of reach, we would no longer even be able to see stars and planets in other galaxies.

Atri argues GCRs could reach the Red Planet's surface with enough energy left to power a tiny organism.

The beam's energy, although strong enough to affect overflying airplanes, which have an operating ceiling of about 26 kilometers (in Earth's stratosphere), is too diffuse by the time it reaches the ionosphere, part of the planet's upper atmosphere.

If they can pull it off, such arrays could soon extend solar's reach to the outer planets, freeing up precious plutonium for more energy - intensive NASA missions.

This reduces the amount of solar energy that reaches the Earth's surface, resulting in a cooling effect on the planet.

As a comparison, a Type I civilization has evolved with the technological ability to harness all the energy that reached their planet from their star; a Type II civilization is much more advanced, with the ability of harnessing all of the energy from their star.

Renewable energy is one of the farthest reaching, most visible, and pressing issues facing the planet.

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

The environment design is faithful to the subject matter as it includes iconic environments from Star Wars films such as the remote desert planet of Jakku and the ice planet of Starkiller Base containing a deadly energy weapon within the core of the planet, while a new feature which generally sets environments apart from this game in comparison to other LEGO games is the introduction of multi-build paths that effectively allows players to build an object to complete a new objective or reach a new area, dismantle it, then re-build it as an alternative object in order to complete another new objective or reach another new area.

And, that we could use that pile of money to reach geothermal energy to replace fossil - fueled power plants all over the planet.

For example, rather than «bath [ing] the planet in 800 terawatts of energy continually», the energy from the sun that reaches Earth's surface amounts to a whopping 80,000 TW continuously, a factor of 100 larger.

Your suggestion that stratospheric cooling is due to, «The increased absorption of IR energy by CO2 (and the other GHGs) in the troposphere reduces the thermal energy that reaches the stratosphere from the planet and lower troposphere.»

In that time to reach a new equilibrium the amount of energy «stored» in the planet will increase, raising the temperature of the Earth.

The rest reaches the planet's surface and is reflected upward again as a type of slow - moving energy called infrared radiation.

If policy makers followed the carbon law, adoption of renewables would continue its current pace of doubling energy production every 5.5 years, and carbon dioxide sequestration technologies would need to ramp up in order for the the planet to reach net - zero emissions by the middle of the century, say the researchers.

Recognizing that at some point in the future, the planet's ancient energy trust fund will be pretty well tapped out or located in places that are impossibly costly — financially, environmentally, politicly — to reach, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has been coaxing his branch of the U.S. military into experimenting with biofuel alternatives to the free stuff Mother Nature took millions of years to blend at no cost to us.

At the end of a climatic shift, the temperature setup of the entire planet will have changed — so far until a new equilibrium energy budget is reached.

«The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the planet is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth's non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined.»

If the equilibrium temperature were set by the effect of the air alone the solar energy would not have been retained on the planet long enough to reach the current temperature.

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They didn't show some sort of moderate warming followed by huge pulses of energy emerging from the oceans in 50 or 100 or a 1000 years to rapidly warm the planet to reach their alleged warming figures.

We believe that a 100 percent renewable energy future is not only within reach, it's our best chance for to preserve the planet.

The Sun's radiation transports, or emits, short - wave electro - magnetic radiation away and thus avoids «a big bang» --(There may also be back radiation from planets etc. provided the radiative forces are strong enough to reach the Sun) On a smaller scale the same «Energy Transport System» or radiative principles work here on Earth too.

This diagram shows that, once the hot surface temperature was established who knows how long ago, it reached an thermal equilibrium state with a large amount of energy transfer between the surface and the lower levels of the atmosphere, and the planet as a whole reached an equilibrium state with the Sun.

How much the ozone hole may be warming the planet is unknown, but Grise and his colleagues estimate an increase of less than 0.09 watts per square foot (1 watt per square meter) of energy could be reaching the ground.

However, planets will eventually reach new equilibrium states where the heat - loss balances the energy input.

But in defiance of the naysayers who want to chalk the recent warming up to natural cycles, there is insufficient evidence that enough extra solar energy is reaching our planet to account for the observed rise in global temperatures.

How much solar energy reaches the surface of the planet?