Sentences with phrase «energy sink»

And why not transform waste into fertility, energy sinks into energy cycles, and use appropriate technology?

Hint: He was talking about the fact that there are not enough, proper data collection mechanisms to account for all of the possible energy sinks on the planet.

Digital communication has become an incredibly significant time and energy sink in the last two decades.

Microelectrode measurements and pharmacological inhibitor studies carried out on larval stages demonstrated that maintenance of alkaline gastric pH represents a substantial energy sink under acidified conditions that may contribute up to 30 % to the total energy budget.

It also ignores the fact that cities, New York, for example are totally unsustainable and require the mass import of energy and food to survive; and yet, I see little in the New York Times editorial page about the need to break up such energy sinks.

The best translation I can get relates to insolative passive solar heating with radiant energy sinks.

Space has been correctly described at a potential energy sink at the top of the atmosphere with a temperature of only 3k above absolute zero.

The atmospheric circulation can be viewed as a heat engine driven by the Sun's energy, and whose energy sink, ultimately, is the blackness of space.

Solar power is a «non-sustainable energy sink» and «will not help in any way to replace the fossil fuel» even though «many people believe renewable energy sources to be capable of substituting fossil or nuclear energy.»

There, he had discovered that all those walls, doors, and windows made by Quiet Solution — and the operation of the buildings those products went into — were among the world's biggest energy sinks and carbon culprits.

The study revealed that some solar technologies, such as single - crystal silicon cells, are growing so fast that they are net energy sinks — that is, they consume more power than they give back to the electrical grid.

As that happens, the underlying global warming driver will be progressively loosing its energy sink, and not only will we see ocean rise, but a progressive escalation in the rate of atmospheric temperature rise as well.

Trouble with considering biomass as an energy sink, however, is that if biomass remains constant then it does not act as a sink at all — only if it is increasing.