Sentences with phrase «from conserving energy»

The challenge is starting — shifting my mind from conserving energy to burning it.

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Class of 2014 Cadet Mackenzie Vaughn, a civil engineering major, runs solo while her teammates conserve their energy for their shifts in the 150 - mile journey from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., to Philadelphia.

Energy is a thermodynamic entity that is in a certain form and is quantifiable, hence physical and finite; it has the ability to change from one form to another while being conserved.

Our goal should be to establish a comfortable, stable economic system that conserves as much energy as possible and gets the rest from renewable energy sources such as the sun and wind.

Energy is a thermodynamic entity that is in a certain form that can be quantified, and it can change from one form to another while being conserved, hence, it is a physical entity, hence, it had a «beginning,» hence, it is finite.

KaTom offers hundreds of innovative restaurant supplies online and eco-friendly product lines that range from ENERGY STAR - rated commercial appliances to water - conserving faucets, and kitchen utensils made from food - safe recycled materials.

Recycling glass containers saves energy, conserves resources, and diverts this valuable resource from landfill.

The grant recognizes the uniquely cooperative approach California wineries and winegrape growers are taking to conserve vital air, water, soil and energy resources, and will allow the Alliance, with the assistance of the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) and Wine Institute, to help growers and vintners learn about, access and benefit from market - based conservation opportunities.

All other current top Gunners should start from the bend to rest and conserve energy to excorcise Jose Monrinho's Devil strangle hold on our beloved boss.

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The scientists suggest that flavivirus helicases could have evolved a conserved motor to convert chemical energy from nucleoside triphosphate to mechanical energy to unwind their genetic material, but the motors of the flaviviruses move in distinct ways to access their genomic RNA.

Like removing unnecessary lighting from a financially strapped household to save on electricity bills, the drug — called rapamycin — prolongs the survival of diseased neurons by forcing them to reduce protein production to conserve cellular energy.

He holds body and face still, as if conserving energy for the turning of mental wheels, and from that stillness emerges a steady stare, supercharged with intelligence, that is simultaneously wide - eyed and intensely focused — as if his lens were permanently set on both panorama and close - up.

«You have to learn to be very efficient to keep from duplicating tasks and to conserve energy.»

Buyers who purchase a house from Pardee today can choose from a checklist of energy - conserving options that include high - efficiency fluorescent lighting, photovoltaic cells, a tankless hot - water heater, and an insulated precast concrete foundation.

The review's sole author, Dr. Patricia Lopes from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that animals from a number of different species will eat and drink less, reduce their activity and sleep more when they are sick in order to conserve energy for their recovery.

So high social status in this group of snow monkeys has a trade - off between the costs of high rank position and the benefits from a hot spring, which is advantageous for conserving energy by reducing loss of body heat, and lowering stress levels.

Because total energy is conserved, the difference in photon energy is extracted from the atomic motion — the atoms slow down.

The earth receives more energy from one hour of sunlight than is consumed in one year by the entire planet, but there is currently no way to use this energy because there is no way to conserve all of it.

«Human bodies are very efficient at storing energy by repressing energy expenditure to conserve it for later when you need it,» explains Alan Saltiel, from the UCSD research team.

This means the body slows the metabolism down, so energy can be conserved,» says Lisa Renn, an accredited practising dietician from the Dieticians Association of Australia.

This area of the brain, called the hypothalamus, contains specialized cellular sensors that can detect the level of energy available from food and, depending on that level, initiate processes which either create or conserve energy in the body.

The transition from glucose to ketone bodies as an energy source is an ancestrally conserved adaptation to food deprivation that permits the survival of normal cells during extreme shifts in nutritional environment.

Why, when calories are restricted, does the body conserve energy rather than simply withdraw the deficit from fat stores?

Since the heat is coming from an external source and not from within, the body is able to conserve energy and use it for repair work instead.

From household appliances, home repairs and conserving energy, the gals show her how much shes wasting, and what she can do to stop it.

Many of the building's features also conserve energy, from a lighting system with sensors that allow for maximizing the use of natural light to waterless urinals and low - flow dual - flush toilets that conserve water.

Creating a building with such thought out heating processes from the outset means the school could be produced with a local authority budget but will continue to conserve energy and money because of its performance capabilities.

Rather than invest in a lost cause, female doges will often reject an abnormally small puppy from birth, to conserve energy for feeding and caring for her remaining puppies.

keep the hamster in warm areas and make sure it has sufficient food and water to prevent it from going into a deep sleep to conserve energy.

But Belizeans are proud of their natural heritage and have come up with a number of ways of conserving the environment, for instance, jungle lodges built from reclaimed hardwood and solar energy powered beach resorts.

Energy is conserved by not having air - conditioning or fans as all buildings use natural circulation, there are no TV's in guest rooms, no dishwasher, all cooking is done using gas and building use natural lighting during the day from windows and skylights.

From climatescam.com There are many good reasons to conserve energy.

Recycling, composting and conserving energy have been things I've always done but I have to admit, though I grew up re-using clothes from the salvation army, I'm not doing that with my children though we do donate.

And the American consumer, numbed and indifferent from the economic rhetoric, may not have the desire or the opportunity to think green, think local, conserve or practice energy efficiency with the latest technology.

The recent energy price shocks from Hurricane Katrina remind us of the need to conserve to help the victims, and reduce our dependency on oil,» explained Global Green President Matt Petersen.

From now until October 29th, individuals and teams will be conserving water, reducing trash, saving energy, eating more sustainable food, and choosing sustainable transportation.

The premise - at - a-glance makes perfect sense, considering not only will updating the grid produce jobs in many industries, from hardware to software to installation of grid tools, but also help consumers conserve energy and money, and boost alternative energy research, development, and installation that can finally be utilized in the grid.

Student group Conserving Our Ranger Environment from Northwestern Oklahoma State University - Enid will hold a community conversation about wind energy in the school later this month.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

Biological options - Biological options for mitigation of climate change involve one or more of the three strategies: conservation - conserving an existing carbon pool, thereby preventing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere; sequestration — increasing the size of existing carbon pools, thereby extracting CO2 from the atmosphere; substitution - substituting biomass for fossil fuels or energy - intensive products, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.

There are excellent and rather urgent reasons to find alternative sources of energy, and to conserve energy, since the supply of easy and high quality fossil fuels is far from infinite.

Though the Passive House energy certification doesn't award points for photovoltaic panels, Moskovitz cites a preference for a dual approach of conserving as much energy as possible by following the Passive House standard, and adding renewable energy sources to reduce energy use from the power grid yet further.

They further ignore the evidence we present (our Fig. 1 in Spencer & Braswell, 2014) that a 1D model might actually be preferable from the standpoint of energy conservation, since the 3D models do not appear to conserve energy — a basic requirement in virtually any physical modelling enterprise.

The solution is to conserve energy intelligently, to electrify that which can be intelligently electrified, and to get the electricity from non-carbon sources.

Paper made from recycled fibers instead of virgin fibers conserves loads of trees, energy and water, and it prevents air pollution because it requires less energy to produce.

But from several centuries of measurement, theory, modeling, and experimentation, we can be sure that energy must be conserved, and that the world operates according to the laws of physics.

The precipitation question is examined from either conserving energy in the troposphere (i.e. looking at the condensational heating term, with latent heating being balanced by radiative cooling) or at the surface (i.e. looking at the latent heating associated with evaporation).

(2) Just saying the words «lapse rate» and «ideal gas equation» doesn't get you around having to explain how one could conserve energy if one considers the current surface temperature of the earth and imagines that one had an atmosphere transparent to IR radiation from the earth's surface.