Sentences with phrase «energy than a lighter one»

Christmas lights in the United States tend to use more energy than lights in other counties, a study finds.

In the winter the darker roof is a much more efficient radiator of solar energy than a lighter one.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

These bulbs use at least two - thirds less energy than regular lighting, and when coupled with timers or motion sensors that automatically shut off lights when they aren't needed, will significantly reduce your office's carbon footprint.

Ford Motor Co. built more than three million Pintos in the 1970s, a smaller, lighter car meant to be economical in the face of soaring energy prices (and Japanese competitors).

Leaving a light on will always consume more energy than turning it on and off, as needed.

Light - based or photonic computers have the potential to run at least 20 times faster than your laptop, not to mention the fact that they won't produce heat or suck up energy like existing devices.

They use less energy, produce more light, and last longer than ordinary incandescent bulbs.

Aren't we all just points of light and energy that are cosmically interconnected to each other through the miracle of space and time, with LinkedIn nothing more than a vehicle for enabling those connections?

But because lithium is the lightest metal, lithium - based batteries can store more energy at a given weight than any other variety.

Its wavelengths are shorter than any other color in the visible light spectrum, emitting higher energy levels than any other color your eyes can perceive.

Cenovus Energy Inc. closed down 5.56 per cent after it said its oilsands operations have been operating at reduced rates due to wider - than - normal light - heavy oil price differentials and pipeline capacity constraints.

God is the web, the energy, the space, the light — not captured in them, as if any of those concepts were more real than what unites them, but revealed in that singular, vast net of relationship that animates everything that is.

Debates about this will easily generate much more heat than light unless the energy of both sides is focused on the right question, which is: «Given that 200,000 abortions a year is far too many, how can a deliverable change in the law most effectively reduce that number?»

Note: If using a dark colored pan, reduce the oven temperature, stated in the recipe, by 25 degrees F. (This is because dark colored pans absorb more of the energy coming from the oven walls so they become hotter and transmit heat faster than light colored pans.)

More than 600,000 energy - efficient LED lights illuminate the paths of Woodland Park Zoo through the displays of wild animals and exotic destinations, including «African Water Hole,» «Jungle Lights» and «Northern Lights.&lights illuminate the paths of Woodland Park Zoo through the displays of wild animals and exotic destinations, including «African Water Hole,» «Jungle Lights» and «Northern Lights.&Lights» and «Northern Lights.&Lights.»

Bag - in - box is also up to 80 % lighter than alternative pack formats, which can equate to a saving of 20 % of energy costs during transport.

Heavier weight oven belts require more energy to heat and re-heat than lighter oven belts.

GE LED light bulbs use 80 % less energy than incandescent bulbs which saves you a lot of cash.

The history, light, air, music, food, and people all creates a very particular kind of energy that can makes me feel more connected to the earth than any other place I've been.

Night lights use far less electricity than your standard ceiling light, which is evident in your energy bills.

It's adorable and very energy efficient (it costs less to run than a standard light - bulb).

Crane's Smartdrop Cool Mist Humidifier is whisper quiet and operates on a low power consumption, more energy efficient than a household light bulb (up to 45W).

To be more green, I recycle as much as I can, compost, reduce / reuse / recycle, fix things rather than buy new, use cloth bags for shopping and have switched to energy efficient lighting.

Rather than just having one strong overhead light, try using smaller and softer lights such as fairy lights, low energy - saving bulbs, and candles.

The Ajemian statement is virtually identical to the one the governor's office issued in July 2017, after POLITICO reported that the state was poised to spend more than $ 200 million on the project to decorate the MTA's bridges, which already have regular energy - efficient LED lights.

Critics say the state should be steering that money — whatever the final cost — to the city's beleaguered transit system, rather than to bridges that already have un-colorful, energy efficient, LED lights.

MoveOn also responded to electrical blackouts and skyrocketing energy costs in California by calling for cost controls on electricity utility companies, organizing a nationwide «roll your own energy blackout» - a voluntary, three - hour electricity - free evening on June 21, in which more than 10,000 participants turned out lights and unplugged TVs and other appliances to protest Bush's energy plan.

Cuomo argues that in the long run, the new lights will save the state money because they are more energy - efficient than traditional lights.

A new report finds that replacing old lightbulbs with light - emitting diodes offers more energy savings than installing photovoltaics

Full Spectrum LED: LEDs are more energy - efficient than CFL and HPS lighting while lasting longer and running cooler.

While some green efforts in schools set out to change students» behaviors, students conserving electricity by turning off unused lights, for instance, is a positive consequence rather than the driving force of the Green Schools Energy Curriculum.

The X radiation from both galaxies appears to be from 10 to 100 times stronger than the energy they emit in the form of light and radio waves.

«At the highest temperatures, the electron temperature is much higher than that of acoustic vibrational modes of the graphene lattice, so that less energy is needed to attain temperatures needed for visible light emission,» Myung - Ho Bae, a senior researcher at KRISS and co-lead author, observes.

After running a number of computationally intensive simulations of supernova light at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab, Goldstein and Nugent suspect that they'll be able to find about 1,000 of these strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in data collected by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)-- about 20 times more than previous expectations.

In many ways, motorcycles are a lot more practical for electric propulsion than cars: They are small and light and lack energy - hogging features like air - conditioning and entertainment systems.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

Using a simple alternator, six hours of pedaling can create and store enough electrical energy in batteries to light about six homes for 30 days (in areas where people use less electricity than in the U.S.).

With light, wavelength equates to energy and color; less energetic light trends toward the redder part of the spectrum than shorter - wavelength, bluer light.

Chloroplasts alone absorb light only from the visible portion of the solar spectrum, allowing access to only about 50 % of the incident solar energy radiation, and less than 10 % of full sunlight saturates the capacity of the photosynthetic apparatus.

The fusion of two nuclei lighter than iron or nickel generally releases energy while the fusion of nuclei heavier than iron or nickel absorbs energy; vice-versa for the reverse process, nuclear fission.

Blue marks the highest energy rays, which are more than a thousand times as powerful as visible light.

Its more than 300 water tanks can detect cascades of particles initiated by high - energy packets of light called gamma rays.

The telescopes, with more sensitive detectors than previous x-ray telescopes, recorded high - energy light indicative of temperatures exceeding 10 million °C from one region of the sun.

More than 300 massive water tanks sit waiting at the site for cascades of particles initiated by high - energy packets of light called gamma rays — many of which have more than a million times the energy of a dental X-ray.

However, getting strong pulses of x-rays is much harder than for low energy light, and required using the most modern sources, x-ray free electron lasers.

By covering these roofs with large, flat arrays of cylindrical thin - film solar cells (think massive installations of fluorescent tubes, only absorbing light rather than emitting it), Fremont, Calif. — based Solyndra, Inc., hopes to harness that energy.

In fact, temperature control and lighting account for more than 80 percent of a mall's energy consumption.

Experiments revealed that the isolated Yb «energy clusters» inside this pill - shaped nanocrystal (see image) enabled substantially higher dopant concentrations than usual — Yb accounted for up to 98 per cent of the crystal's mass — and helped initiate multiphoton upconversion that yielded violet light with an intensity eight times higher than previously seen.

In fact it's positively chilly, with more than half the energy emitted by normal matter coming from clouds of gas and dust too cold to radiate visible light — and which therefore can not be seen with traditional telescopes.