Sentences with phrase «harnessing human energy»

Mortars and pestels are microgrids harnessing human energy, not much different from slave labor or waterfall - driven gristmills — microgrids (balancing captive supply and demand resources to maintain stable service within a defined boundary).

From capturing wind and wave energy off our shores to harnessing human energy from the floors of Grand Central Terminal or tapping heat under the earth's crust, there are exciting developments on the outer reaches of our imagination.

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Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.

Because near - UV light is invisible to the human eye, the researchers set out to harness it for the electrical energy needed to activate the tinting technology.

Harnessing this primordial energy source as early as a million years ago was a major milestone in human evolution.

The sun provides far more energy to Earth than does any other power source, but little of that energy is directly harnessed for human use.

A true nailbiter, The China Syndrome is a potent harbinger of the potential devastation that can be wrought when humans attempt to harness an energy source they don't fully understand, an energy that can leave no leeway for such human foibles as avarice and sloth.

Kevin Bacon's Sebastian Shaw, a mutant who possesses the remarkable ability to harness kinetic energy and transform that power into brute strength, intends to use this impending American / Russian conflict to create a nuclear holocaust; an environment which he believes would favour mutant domination over the powerless humans.

This growth has led scholars from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to argue that harnessing these students» «energy, optimism, and faith in the future is in everyone's interest» and «one of the most important challenges to our country's democratic promise.»

WoofTrax is a new, free app that helps «to provide an incentive for dogs and their humans to bond through exercise while simultaneously harnessing that energy for a social good.»

«The idea was to provide an incentive for dogs and their humans to bond through exercise while simultaneously harnessing that energy for a social good,» Hexter said.

He works intuitively, attempting to harness the energy of the human - nature interaction and preferring not to overthink the psychological meaning of his paintings.

We've covered plenty of so - called human - powered devices on TreeHugger and they've all fallen into two categories: friction - powered (triboelectric) devices that harness the energy created from two materials rubbing together and piezoelectric devices that feature crystals that generate energy from being compressed or bent.

Is it possible that some part of this energy could be harnessed for human activity?

They only exist because of those people, and will only grow as long as they harness the energy of those humans in the right way.

She is driven by her passion for developing human potential and promoting human flourishing particularly in harnessing individual character strengths, personality and energy for organizational robustness and success.