Sentences with phrase «from back of the envelope calculations»

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Based on back of the envelope calculations and estimates from Fundstrat, Bitcoin valuation could shed another $ 37 billion in the near future, falling to about $ 99 billion in market capitalization.

Back of the envelope calculations using the advertised levy rates for commercial and private vehicles (from 20 for private cars all the way to 200 GHS for heavy duty trucks), show that RSML could make $ 50 million dollars a year (ignoring surcharges) should they succeed in ensuring a 75 % fee payment compliance rate among motorists.

«Back of the envelope [calculations] suggest that what we're going to lose from this spill is nowhere close to the background rates of wetland loss,» says Alex Kolker, a coastal geologist with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin.

«There's a real difference between a back - of - the - envelope calculation and actually plugging it into a more sophisticated model,» says Jason Barnes, an astronomer from the University of Idaho, who was not involved in the study.

I did a few back - of - the - envelope calculations a couple of years ago, and came up with the conclusion that the market for good books is so far from saturation that you could regard it as wide open and untapped — the competition is not from other writers, but from things like TV and video games.

In normal situations, you may not find the need to calculate total equity from debt to equity ratio, but this is good to know for back of the envelope calculations or accuracy checking your analysis.

Back - of - the - envelope calculations suggest that Berkshire could comfortably exceed the $ 2.5 bn net loss it picked up from Hurricane Katrina if a sufficiently devastating storm hit Australia and possibly even from another New Zealand earthquake.

But it's clear from our back - of - the - envelope calculation that one year's TFSA contribution ($ 5,500) is only about half what's needed to make a DRIP useful with either of these bond ETFs.

Indeed, her survey of Maine residents who feed outdoor cats leads her to conclude that this population may be no more than 10 — 15 percent of the pet cat population — which, if one does a back - of - the - envelope calculation using survey data from the American Pet Products Association and census data for the number of households in Maine, would mean something like 18,700 — 28,000 unowned cats.

A simple calculation for the 19th and 18th centuries is quickly and easily done using results from their table 1 and figures 1 - 2: A back - of - the envelope calculation based on the 19th and 18th centuries suggests that the transfer functions now would yield an increase of almost 1K for the period 1900 - 2000, most of which should have been realized by 1980!

Some back of the envelope calculations... the paper says that a small amount of diving discovered 72 «groups of chimneys», with each chimney venting from «one to several» litres per second.

According to my quick back of an envelope calculation, had they chosen their reference series to be the other land - only global series from Mann et al 2008 (CPS - CRU; yellow in the main figure of Mann 2008) your «seat» (and the whole reconstruction) would be lowered by 0.27 degrees.

The back - of - the - envelope calculation is completely other from what I am interested to explain, and is not necessary to take the model discussed so far to a conclusion on the numbers (expected to be 3.7 W / m ^ 2 for a 2X in C - O2), and the sensitivity (omitting all feedbacks).

«A quick «back of the envelope» calculation -LSB-... suggests] that annual carbon emissions associated with forest islands in Balbina could be in the region of 10,000 tons (equivalent to emissions from ~ 230,000 barrels of oil),» said the study's lead researcher Isabel Jones, of the University of Stirling, UK.

On an earlier thread I made a back - of - envelope calculation that, for the deep ocean to «suck» all the heat down from the surface, so that the sea surface layer and troposphere were nowhere more than 3C, the mean temperature of the deep ocean would need to increase only 0.4 C. Maybe someone could check this.

The same kind of back - of - the - envelope calculation works for the slow climatic warming, but now all of the heat has to be conducted downwards from the surface.

Quick back of envelope calculation at 50 % efficiency converting electricity to jet - a says you need the continuous output from a 500 megawatt reactor and it produces $ 300,000 per day worth of fuel or about $ 100 million per year.

The Antarctic sea ice melts from below — I will need to think on it and not make insulting comment and idiotic back of the envelope calculations..

Real science occasionally uses back - of - the - envelope calculations to identify interesting questions or to double check answers, but the real results come from much more complex calculations that take into account many more factors... but apparently you have trouble realizing that your Excel - based chicken - scratchings aren't the be-all and end - all of climate science.

Not to mention that CO2 and N2O also covary with methane, so even if the entire temperature change was based on GHG changes and not orbital changes, CH4 would contribute less than half... My back of the envelope calculations suggests a forcing change of less than 0.2 W / m2 from a drop of 245 ppb — even at the upper end of the CS range this would contribute only about half a degree C to cooling...

It seems to be derived from elementary radiative convective models and back of the envelope calculations.

Looking at its real estate portfolio — in a back of the envelope calculation, the average lease rate for the 38.4 million square feet leased by SuperValu is somewhere around $ 7.50 per square foot — based on capital structure and the most recent cash flow from financing activities.