Sentences with phrase «heat as an energy source»

There is good reason to focus on waste heat as an energy source — there is a lot of it.

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It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

Look for safe and affordable alternative energy sources for lighting and other needs (such as heat in cold weather)

Our stores include a range of features such as treated roofs to deflect heat and keep stores cooler, insulated precast concrete exterior walls which require much less energy to make compared to bricks, and cladding made from 70 per cent softwood content sourced from renewable forests.

However, during this process parts of the conversion reactor need to heat as high as 1000 degrees Celsius, which can be difficult to sustain, especially when the only energy source is the sun.

The main energy source in these adolescent stars, known as T Tauri stars, is the heat generated by their gravitational contraction.

The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating syEnergy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating syenergy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating systems.

Renewable energy (sources) or RES capture their energy from existing flows of energy, from on - going natural processes, such as sunshine, wind, flowing water, biological processes, and geothermal heat flows.

If it is implemented in major set ups such as nuclear plants, the system is capable of transferring a tremendous amount of heat which can be rechanneled as an additional source of energy.

Using Jarzynski and Crooks» formulation, he derived a generalization of the second law of thermodynamics that holds for systems of particles with certain characteristics: The systems are strongly driven by an external energy source such as an electromagnetic wave, and they can dump heat into a surrounding bath.

«Poultry waste hydrochar generates heat at high temperatures and combusts in a similar manner to coal, an important factor in replacing it as renewable energy source.»

Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.

The moss observations are thus helping to locate the as yet elusive energy source that is responsible for heating the Sun's outer atmosphere.

It can be tapped as an energy source to heat buildings at the surface.

They are the five vital elements — air (the vital force behind all functions), fire (source of energy and heat and responsible for transformation, such as metabolism, hormones, saliva), earth (the element of strength and anabolism, such as collagen, and ligaments, and muscles), water (that which binds structures together such as urine, sweat, and gastric enzymes), and space (where all factors exist, such as oral cavity, respiratory system and reproductive system).

This not only helped protect from body fat but it also seemed to lower inflammation and it reprogrammed the animal's fat tissue to burn off as a source of energy for heat.

So in other words, you have less inflammation which means lower levels of free radicals... but you also have fat burning off as heat which is essentially lowering body fat levels (which I would think means over time you are switching your energy source from the depleted fat, but to what?)

It is only after hacker cult figure Morpheus agrees to show Tom «how deep the rabbit hole goes» that Tom, and we, learn The Ugly Truth: the surface of the earth has been uninhabitable for centuries, and all humans are spending their lives in a virtual reality construct, while a complex network of machines uses the electrical energy and body heat from their real bodies, which are stored in individual pods, as a fuel source.

As an example of the worth of heat pumps, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, ground source heat pump systems in schools in the USA reduce energy use by 25 per cent to 50 per cent compared to traditional systems and although no such similar study is available for the UK, the expectation is theEnergy, ground source heat pump systems in schools in the USA reduce energy use by 25 per cent to 50 per cent compared to traditional systems and although no such similar study is available for the UK, the expectation is theenergy use by 25 per cent to 50 per cent compared to traditional systems and although no such similar study is available for the UK, the expectation is the same.

If budgets allows, then moving towards larger investments such as the installation of photo - voltaic panels for solar energy or biomass boilers is a sensible investment, especially given the benefits of the Feed In Tariff and Renewable Heat Incentive potentially providing a source of income for the school.

Two Washington schools will use wood pellets as a primary heat source to test energy efficient boiler systems.

[1] EO 13693 defines «clean energy» as heat and electricity produced from the following sources: 1) Renewable electric (e.g., electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, incremental hydropower);

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Some of those elements include: - Light - colored roofing that reflects heat and saves energy; - 70 percent ENERGY STAR ® certified appliances including refrigerators, TVs, computers and kitchen equipment; - Water - efficient toilets and aerated bathroom faucets; - 10 percent of the building materials used contain recycled content; - «On Demand» ventilation that provides fresh air for occupied spaces without wasting energy on unoccupied areas of the property; - LED lighting - controls that turn off the lights; - Incorporates high - tech daylight sensors to reduce electrical lighting with natural sunlight and - Uses renewable energy sources such as solar orenergy; - 70 percent ENERGY STAR ® certified appliances including refrigerators, TVs, computers and kitchen equipment; - Water - efficient toilets and aerated bathroom faucets; - 10 percent of the building materials used contain recycled content; - «On Demand» ventilation that provides fresh air for occupied spaces without wasting energy on unoccupied areas of the property; - LED lighting - controls that turn off the lights; - Incorporates high - tech daylight sensors to reduce electrical lighting with natural sunlight and - Uses renewable energy sources such as solar orENERGY STAR ® certified appliances including refrigerators, TVs, computers and kitchen equipment; - Water - efficient toilets and aerated bathroom faucets; - 10 percent of the building materials used contain recycled content; - «On Demand» ventilation that provides fresh air for occupied spaces without wasting energy on unoccupied areas of the property; - LED lighting - controls that turn off the lights; - Incorporates high - tech daylight sensors to reduce electrical lighting with natural sunlight and - Uses renewable energy sources such as solar orenergy on unoccupied areas of the property; - LED lighting - controls that turn off the lights; - Incorporates high - tech daylight sensors to reduce electrical lighting with natural sunlight and - Uses renewable energy sources such as solar orenergy sources such as solar or wind.

Furthermore certain sources of energy that are considered «clean» such as nuclear power and the potential, in the future, to transmit energy from satellites to the Earth will continue to generate waste heat (thermal pollution) that will continue to warm the Earth.

That is the main source of more water vapor and energy (as latent heat) in the air, and consequently weather trouble.

We have solar energy stored in the surface of the tropical ocean to act as a source for a heat engine.

Re 392 Chris Dudley — I don't understand what you mean by R ^ 2T ^ 4 — and there should be something about how optical depth is proportional to R, and also, if you're going a significant distance toward the center of such an object, there is the issue of spherical geometry; if the optical thickness is large enough across small changes in radius, then you don't need to account for the spherical geometry in the calculation of the flux per unit area as a function of the temperature profile and optical thickness; however, the flux per unit area outward will drop as an inverse square, except of course within the layers that are being heated through a different process (SW heating for a planet, radioactivity, latent and sensible heat loss associated with a cooling interior, gravitational potential energy conversion to enthalpy via compression (adiabatic warming) and settling of denser material under gravity (the later both leads to compression via increased pressure via increased gravity within the interior, and also is a source of kinetic energy which can be converted to heat)...

Whilst these assumptions ensured hot water and lighting energy use weren't underestimated, they were then fed into the thermal model as heat sources, and, with a good wodge of insulation, the model showed that a wellinsulated house might not need any heating at all.

Switching to electricity as an energy source for heating, industry, transport and increasing energy efficiency can significantly reduce carbon emissions.

It said alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar, could provide nearly 70 % of the world's electricity and 65 % of global heat demand.

With temperatures set to drop outside, American consumers will continue to rely on natural gas as the most prominent energy source to heat their homes.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the first - ever limits on heat - trapping pollution from new power plants in March, ignoring protests from the energy industry and Republicans who fear regulation will raise electricity prices and kill off coal as an energy source.

The American Lung Association particularly supports the promotion of technologies that provide energy from non-combustion sources located onsite, such as rooftop solar and ground source heat pumps.

Active solar: As an energy source, energy from the sun collected and stored using mechanical pumps or fans to circulate heat - laden fluids or air between solar collectors and a building.

The findings come at a time when coal is on track to surpass oil as the world's top energy source and 2.8 billion people rely on wood, crop waste, dung, and other biomass to cook and heat their homes.

[16] While the meridional overturning circulation (also referred to as the thermohaline circulation) redistributes about 2 PW of heat from the tropics to polar regions, the energy source for this flow is the interior mixing which is comparatively much smaller - about 2 TW.

Geothermal heating and cooling represents one of New York's best and most cost - effective strategies to achieving our net zero energy goals and deserves the same financial encouragement as other desirable energy sources like wind and solar.»

A2) The Sun is the source of all this energy as it is the hottest thing around, and by the greenhouse explanation above the GHGs redistribute insolation into the ocean until their heating from above and the tendency for warm water to rise once again cancel each other out and the new stable (w.r.t. averaging over 24h) vertical gradient is attained.

All of our homes have been designed with an envelope that exceeds your local energy code requirments and add a high - efficient heating and cooling system, including an air source heat pump for heating / cooling and an ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) for fresh air as a staenergy code requirments and add a high - efficient heating and cooling system, including an air source heat pump for heating / cooling and an ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) for fresh air as a staEnergy Recovery Ventilator) for fresh air as a standard.

The World Health Organization estimates that millions die each year just from air pollution caused by the use of pre-modern energy sources in people's homes, such as open fires for cooking or heating.

In climates with significant outdoor heat and humidity, an Energy Recovery Ventilator (ERV) would be preferred to pre-cool and pre-dry incoming air using the cool and dry exhaust air.4 Of course point sources of pollutants, such as the kitchen stove and bathroom would have dedicated exhaust fans to remove these pollutants.

Data from the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) show that the majority of American households use one of three types of equipment as their main source of heat during the winter: natural gas furnaces, electric furnaces, or electric heat pumps.

The petroleum oil monopoly does NOT want you to know that there are also many feasible clean energy sources, in addition to the vastly unfeasible technologies advertised to the public such as solar heating - which only produces a bunch of hot water - NOT electricity like photovoltaics.

19 I. 3 Sources of Energy Solar energy (99.985 %)-- comes from sun (nuclear reactions in sun) Drives wind, ocean currents, and waves Geothermal energy -LRB-.013 %)-- originates as heat from within Earth from decaying radioactive matEnergy Solar energy (99.985 %)-- comes from sun (nuclear reactions in sun) Drives wind, ocean currents, and waves Geothermal energy -LRB-.013 %)-- originates as heat from within Earth from decaying radioactive matenergy (99.985 %)-- comes from sun (nuclear reactions in sun) Drives wind, ocean currents, and waves Geothermal energy -LRB-.013 %)-- originates as heat from within Earth from decaying radioactive matenergy -LRB-.013 %)-- originates as heat from within Earth from decaying radioactive material.

Please see the article I wrote on this topic a while back: Does a Geothermal Heat Pump Count as a Renewable Energy Source?

Extra heat from all sources — including the interior of the planet, fossil fuel burning, nuclear fission, solar radiance, north - south asymetry and — the big one — cloud radiative forcing — is retained in planetary systems as longwave emissions and shortwave reflectance adjusts to balance the global energy budget.

Landfill methane can be tapped, captured, and used as a fairly clean energy source for generating electricity or heat, rather than leaking into the air or being dispersed as waste.

Outdoor units serve as the collector for air source heat pumps, including clockwise from above left, units from Mitsubishi and Panasonic (installed as part of Tipperary Energy Agency's SuperHomes retrofit scheme), CTC (an illustration showing the inner workings), and a Thermia unit outside Ireland's first certified passive house retrofit, in Salthill, Co..

In the backstop house, we modelled all the minimum backstop values for insulation, windows, airtightness and renewable energy and used a gas boiler as the heating source.