Sentences with phrase «far less wind»

Rather than the smooth, rounded contours commonly associated with aerodynamic design, carefully angled body panels are designed to give the six - passenger Precept far less wind resistance than a Corvette sports car.

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That's an outsize amount for most entrepreneurs, considering that many company founders wind up owning far less when they go public.
Cambodia joins a lengthening list of nations around the world that are reassessing big hydropower dams in an era when wind and solar power are less expensive, much easier to build, less damaging, and far less vulnerable to droughts and floods.
Surrounding the somewhat recalcitrant materials of community and religious culture are the far less easily mastered elements of the natural world, which in «The Island» is represented by the light, the wind and the sea.
In football, wind direction matters far less than in baseball since the ball will be going towards each end zone.
Co-author Helen Russell (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK) expands: «The stars that form in the wind close to the galaxy centre might slow down and even start heading back inwards, but the stars that form further out in the flow experience less deceleration and can even fly off out of the galaxy altogether.»
And even the most optimistic projections have wind power accounting for less than 3 percent of total electricity production by 2020 — more than the current U.S. share of 0.4 percent but far less than world leader, Denmark, which gets roughly 20 percent of its power from the wind.
Wave farms don't interfere with aviation or radar, like wind towers, and they require far less space than wind farms.
If such winds didn't exist or were less powerful, we would see far more stars in big galaxies than we actually do.»
«The stars that form in the wind close to the galaxy centre might slow down and even start heading back inwards, but the stars that form further out in the flow experience less deceleration and can even fly off out of the galaxy altogether,» said co-author Helen Russell, from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.
So far then that's accelerated wound healing, and less oily skin, and the final major advantage is that vitamin C is vital for the proteins that construct your skin.
Common now trying to present and as far less dating nulled pro pg than six hours on a full wind.
Now, an entirely new and far less controversial layer has been added to the discussion with the arrival of My Life Directed by Nicholas Winding Refn.
In the interest of being a little less long winded, I'll mention a handful of others a little further down the line including the excellent hip - hop dramedy Patti Cake $, David Lowery's esoteric and meditative directorial masterstroke A Ghost Story, Alejandro Jodorowsky's endlessly surreal and poetically moving autobiography Endless Poetry, the quite devastating and utterly unique animated feature (easily the finest of the year) Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, Edgar Wright's explosively edited joy ride Baby Driver, Joe Swanberg's warm and personal gambler comedy Win It All, and Sean Bryne's totally metal and totally foreboding possession horror The Devil's Candy.
New In The UK / Ireland: ONLY GOD FORGIVES The second Nicolas Winding Refn / Ryan Gosling collaboration is far more esoteric, and far less accessible than was Drive, but boy oh boy does it have a host of memorable images.
It's quieter with far less road and wind noise entering the cabin.
While this would not be a covered loss if wind is excluded, $ 300 of food in your fridge spoiled because the hurricane took out the power grid is a far smaller risk than the flooding or destruction that can come from a hurricane in less well constructed dwellings.
Even if you only get sideswiped by several years of unusually low returns early in your retirement, you can wind up with far less than you had bargained on.
People renting their property stand to turn a tidy profit, while consumers taking advantage of their offers often wind up paying far less than they would through a more traditional arrangement.
Their wounds were far less than mine and all have recovered.
Unless however the hydrotherapy can be applied to the wound while the bird is perched on a shower perch, which is by far less invasive, provided once again that your bird is comfortable with showering.
As the road begins to wind further into the mountains, less of it becomes shareable between two lanes of traffic.
-- The adverse effect of moving against the wind is usually far less pronounced, in order to make navigation less of a chore.
Also exhibited is Wind House - La Casa de Los Vientos, designed by José Luis Muñoz Muñoz, a holiday home constructed with far less than the initial budget — without falling short on comfort and space.
When we do get northerly winds they are probably less cold than they were 15 years ago but that's far harder to notice than the fact that we now tend to get southerly or south - westerly winds nearly all of the time.
If the vertical wind shear over the Atlantic MDR is expected to increase, wouldn't we expect hurricanes to be steered farther to the east, climatologically, and therefore to pose less of a threat to most of the eastern seaboard?
«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,»
The cost is still far more than that of offshore wind in Europe but significantly less than the 24 to nearly 50 cents per kWh on Block Island.
The Way Forward As China seeks a cleaner, softer path of development, renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are attractive not only because of their lower carbon emissions profiles, but because they use far less water than their fossil fuel counterparts.
The graph for wind energy output, however, is far less predictable.
The wind - farm, even if it functions at its «maximum efficiency», would produce far less than 1 % of the electricity needed in Toronto.
«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,» PolitiFact found.
An analysis made public on Friday showed that new onshore wind plants due to come online in 2016 will cost... far less [per kWh] than coal, biomass and other forms of energy production.
South Australia has more wind power than any other Australian state, but consumes far less electricity than the more populous states.
Far less positive is a recent report that the European Commission's Director - General for Energy is planning to eliminate the feed - in priority for photovoltaics and wind power in the new renewable energy directive.
Far less positive is a recent report that the European Commission's Directorate General for Energy is planning to eliminate the feed - in priority for PV and wind power in the new renewable energy directive.
There is also a wide, shallow continental shelf that makes construction of wind farms far out to sea, beyond the sight of significant opposition, relatively less difficult and costly.
In a land — scarce world, energy crops can not compete with solar electricity, much less with the far more land - efficient wind power.
And because they are now 100 meters tall, instead of less than 40 meters, they harvest a far larger, stronger, and more reliable wind regime, generating 20 times as much electricity as the turbines installed in the early 1980s when modern wind power development began.
Excluding nuclear from the discussion, wind, solar and ocean current power production are nice ideas but far from capable of meeting today's demands; much less tomorrow's.
Climate models usually predict that this change will push the belt of westerly winds, which crosses North Atlantic and Europe, further north, potentially bringing more winter storms to Northern Europe and less rains to Mediterranean.
Nevertheless, as shown in the figure, these combined capacity factors for wind and solar are far less than those for the dispatchable technologies — natural gas, coal, and nuclear.
The John Locke Foundation released a «spotlight» report describing gas - fired power plants as «far more efficient and far less expensive than solar and wind plants.»
This response was specious, since it compared solar and wind farms that generated far less electricity than nuclear plants — a point that would be made one year later in a then - novel analysis by Geoff Russell, a mathematician in South Australia, for Breakthrough.
By contrast, a transition from fossil fuels to solar or wind power, biomass, or hydroelectricity would require rematerialization — the use of more natural resources — since sunlight, wind, organic matter, and water are all far less energy dense than oil and gas.
The by far largest wind power market China installed an additional capacity of 19 Gigawatt, slightly less than in 2016, and continues its undisputed position as the world's wind power leader, with a cumulated wind capacity of 188 Gigawatt.
Yes, in some cases, but they are always far less than what solar and wind receive.
As people have discovered, but can't admit publicly, wind and solar are a «thorn in the butt of progress» and will remain so until some relatively efficient method is devised to «low pass filter» their output to slightly less than their average output, so that they can supply power 24/7, albeit at levels far below their nominal peak capacity.
Based on wind - speed measurements, researchers at MIT, led by Stephen Connors, director of the Analysis Group for Regional Electricity Alternatives, calculated that large turbines located far offshore could ultimately cost less per power generated than either land - based turbines or near - offshore ones, even factoring in extra costs, such as much longer underground electricity transmission cables.
He explains in the video above why it is such a good technology; one interesting point was that because the roots are already grown into a tight mass, there is far less opportunity for wind and water to carry loose soil away and wash it into the drains.
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