Sentences with phrase «enormous amount of heat»

Over the past century, the burning of fossil fuels and other human and natural activities has released enormous amounts of heat - trapping gases into the atmosphere.

More importantly for millions of years the oceans had been storing enormous amounts of heat.

On the blackboard, fusing hydrogen atoms produces enormous amounts of heat which can be captured and developed into an energy source, energy that is safe, cheap, does not burn fossil fuels or consume non-renewable resources.

Humidity has a significant effect because water on the body absorbs enormous amounts of heat and then dissipates it by evaporation.

This hot slush is created by tidal forces from the mammoth gravity of Jupiter, which slowly knead the moon as it moves in its orbit, generating enormous amounts of heat as rock crystals rub against each other.

Recorded internal vertical wind speeds reach 500 kph and carry enormous amount of heat and moisture to high altitudes.

On account of its ability to absorb and transport enormous amounts of heat, the ocean also plays an outsized role in climate change and is an important factor in the explaining the asymmetric response of the north and south poles to the changing climate.

An enormous amount of heat is produced by skeletal muscle during running, and the body works hard to get rid of it; muscle temperatures of around 100 degrees Fahrenheit mean that vasodilation and evaporative cooling are a must to keep core temps down.

These fusion reactions convert part of these atoms» mass (roughly 4 million tons) into energy, and release an enormous amount of this heat and light energy into the Solar System.

This process creates an enormous amount of heat and has the effect of making the engine rev at higher rpm's (not necessarily a bad thing).

At the moment the oceans are absorbing an enormous amount of heat.

The best evidence has always been by measuring the enormous amount of heat going into the oceans.

The point I was trying to make to OldLeatherneck, was that we need to realize that melting all this ice takes an enormous amount of heat.

So the ocean can soak up an enormous amount of heat, barely change temperature, and thus barely increase the rate of transferring heat to the atmosphere.

The natural consequence of this reduced ice coverage is that enormous amounts of heat have been escaping from the oceans during the Arctic winter, a phenomenon that is part of the Earth's thermostat.

CHP has been around as a clean energy option since at least the 19th century, when Edison first recognized that conventional power plants produce an enormous amount of heat in generating electricity, and typically waste that heat by venting it to the air.

The oceans have already sucked up an enormous amount of heat due to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, affecting marine species from microbes to whales, according to an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report involving the work of 80 scientists from a dozen countries.