Sentences with phrase «fueled by our reactions»

Because emotions are fueled by our reactions to them, the greater our reaction, the more energy our emotions build.

Not exact matches

The reaction requires one part hydrogen and eight parts oxygen (by mass), so the total fuel cost is $ 0.245 / kg.

It must be recognized for what it is:»... the women's movement represents, not merely an oppositional force fuelled by anger, a rather negative reaction to oppression, but the development of a distinctive female culture, a positive creative force inspiring men and women alike,» write Johanna Liddle and Rama Joshi.1

We are as consumed by human approval as we have ever been, and this addiction is fuelled by a world of instant reaction.

The government's policy is also, in part, a reaction to a growing awareness of the environmental damage done by fossil fuels, especially global warming.

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

The water - gas shift reaction, in which carbon monoxide is removed from the fuel gas stream by reacting with water to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen, is a key step in the process.

Some countries have been able to reduce their emissions steadily over a 10 - year period, often by a combination of government policies and market reaction to the availability of fossil fuels and other natural resources.

A paper by Yan's research group, published in the Jan. 8 issue of the multidisciplinary journal Nature Communications, helps pin down the basic mechanisms of the fuel - cell reaction on platinum, which will help researchers create alternative electrocatalysts.

In the EU project PhotoBioCat international doctoral students under expert guidance use light as a «fuel» to accelerate enzymatic reactions by means of cyanobacteria.

Chemists have long sought an efficient, light - driven catalyst to power this reaction, which could help reduce the growing levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere by converting it into methane, a key building block for many types of fuels.

The electrochemical reactions inside the porous electrodes of batteries and fuel cells have been described by theorists, but never measured directly.

Meyer, a chemist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Energy Frontier Research Center in Solar Fuels, noticed that two separate groups of researchers working on two separate parts of the photosynthetic reaction happened to be using the same class of catalyst — ones with an atom of the metal ruthenium surrounded by organic molecules.

The muscles are powered thermally by temperature changes, which can be produced electrically, by the absorption of light or by the chemical reaction of fuels.

Some scientists propose creating power sources and electricity by igniting fusion reactions with lasers that trigger nuclear fission that can consume spent nuclear fuel.

Having explored extreme ecosystems on our own ocean floor — places like Lost City, where life is fuelled by nothing more than the reaction between rock and water — we know what to look for.

However, its future potential uses are significantly limited by scarcity and cost, as well as the fact that platinum readily binds with carbon monoxide, which «poisons» the desired reactions, for example in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which are the leading contenders for small - scale and mobile power generation not based on batteries or combustion engines.

The reaction combines the hydroxyl molecule (OH, produced by reaction of oxygen and water) and carbon monoxide (CO, a byproduct of incomplete fossil fuel combustion) to form hydrogen (H) and carbon dioxide (CO2, a «greenhouse gas» contributing to global warming), as well as heat.

When a protostar becomes a self - radiating object, fueled by its own thermonuclear reactions, it becomes a true star.

The glowing gaseous shrouds in the nebula were shed by the central star after it ran out of fuel to sustain the nuclear reactions in its core.

Led by Yuehe Lin, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the researchers used inexpensive metal to make a super low density material, called an aerogel, to reduce the amount of precious metals required for fuel cell reactions.

The results, demonstrated by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators on China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) found that lithium powder can eliminate instabilities known as edge - localized modes (ELMs) when used to coat a tungsten plasma - facing component called the «divertor» — the unit that exhausts waste heat and particles from plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

By combining two simple, inexpensive, metal - free catalysts, they sped the cell's slower reaction, taking protons and electrons derived from the hydrogen fuel and combining them with oxygen to pump out water, a reaction known as the oxygen reduction reaction.

In inertial confinement fusion (ICF) reactions, the mixing induced by the RM instability (created by a converging shock wave on the fuel - shell interface) can contaminate fuel and impair fusion yield.

The cause, according to a theory advanced by PPPL physicist David Gates and colleagues at the Laboratory, lies in the tendency of bubble - like islands that form in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to shed heat and grow exponentially — a runaway growth that disrupts the crucial current that completes the magnetic field that holds the plasma together.

By the time Yucca would be filled to capacity in 2036, there will still be at least the same amount of spent fuel still stored at the reaction sites, even if no new plants are built.

The benefits of a ketogenic, low carb diet have been known for decades, and it has been proven time and again that cutting carbs to minimal levels in your diet can transform your body, by making it burn its own fat for fuel in a natural reaction called ketosis.

When he» magically» emerges from a mishap on the field, his ebullient reaction — fueled by the knowledge that now, at last, he'll be» shown» the money — calls up all the soulful real - world triumph the movie has been reaching for.

While the malleable allegory of the film's events — a woman and her writer husband live in an Edenic country house that spirals into infernal chaos — has fueled both love - or - hate reactions and directorial marketing, I was riveted by the heedless spectacle and totally enveloping film technique, all anchored in Jennifer Lawrence's sometimes baffling commitment to a character driven to distraction by her husband (Javier Bardem), his mystery guests (deliciously entitled Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris), and much, much more.

The movie wasn't even on my radar until about a week ago, and though it sounds like a cheesy direct - to - video movie in just about every way, early reaction has been extremely positive, pegging «John Wick» as an entertaining B - movie fueled by some killer action sequences and a great performance by Keanu Reeves.

A fuel - cell car uses a chemical reaction powered by hydrogen to create electricity for its motor.

The Mirai is powered by a fuel cell which generates electricity from a chemical reaction between atmospheric Hydrogen and Oxygen.

Since the 1960s — fuelled by the civil rights movement, reactions to the Vietnam war and second - wave feminism — contemporary art has become an intrinsically politicised, critical medium through which everything, from culture to capitalism and the medium itself could be questioned and deconstructed.

Allowing for that falling on the oceans, and further decline due to angle of incidence as distance from equator increases, less the amount required by vegetation for photosynthesis, we are left with how much energy for conversion of solar radiation to heat / electricity / catalytic reaction to other fuels?

What we are talking about is more like, How much fuel will be burned by how many airplanes reaching their airstrips over the next half - century, given various projections for population growth and economic development, imponderables about changing patterns of mobility and technological breakthroughs, and market reactions to unpredictable events like terrorist hijackings?

These reactions may be short - lived or, in some cases, long - lasting.117, 118,119 For example, research demonstrated high levels of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder among people affected by Hurricane Katrina, 120,121 and similar observations have followed floods122, 123 and heat waves.124 Some evidence suggests wildfires have similar effects.125 All of these events are increasingly fueled by climate change (see Ch.

Supply of fuel, however, is not a problem: it seems that water by weight contains roughly 100 to 300 times as much energy as gasoline, for the various fusion reactions that may be feasible «early in the third millenium», as the authors phrase it.

Second, much of the CO2 produced by these facilities is not from burning fuel, but from the chemical reaction of creating the material.

Combustion is the exothermic reaction of most interest by far for climate — especially where it is combustion of fuels harvested from deep time.

LFTR reactors are not economically viable at this time due to requirement to have a chemical processing plant on site to remove reaction byproducts from the fuel which would otherwise quickly render the fuel non-fissionable and by lack of materials able to handle the fuel for the long term.

Instead of burning a fossil fuel for the heat needed to drive the thermal chemistry process, for chemical reactions like splitting H2 (hydrogen) from H2O, scientists have been testing various kinds of reactors heated by the thermal form of solar, using mirrors to concentrate the solar flux.

Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the air but is created by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the burning of fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.

Not essentially different from the burning of fossil fuels, just more controlled as it is mediated by a series of biochemical reactions.

It makes more sense to pay for expensive fuel to bus kids to school then to shut down busses and force people to pay more money for a less efficient way (for conditions where walking / bicycling is impractical)-- People might tend to assume something is fair and feel they are being ripped off by «someone» when made to pay more when it is simply the facts of reality that are «ripping them off» (and the consumer reaction might be different because of the distinction?)

But in most cases, it is produced by a reaction involving a carbon - based fuel and atmospheric oxygen.

Could it be that some negative reactions to technology are fueled by a feeling that the high status of lawyering is somehow being diminished by the fact that «non-lawyers» or even software programs are able to replicate something that previously took an advanced degree to do?

These law firms were a reaction to the rise in Plaintiff's law firms retooled to gather the technical information and expertise (often gathered by government agencies and burgeoning universities fueled by GI Bill enrollment) that was needed to prosecute product liability cases and mass torts and to manage massive amounts of discovery and class action lawsuit in this complex litigation.

Females in response may feel they need to up their game by becoming more loud or expressive in attempt to get a reaction, adding fuel to the fire.

The perspective that it's the other person's fault is simply poor problem definition in most situations, fueled by a defensive reaction to internal feelings such as anger and hurt.

Most reactions to adult events are fueled by subconscious reminders of childhood wounds.