Sentences with phrase «heat of the sun as»

To escape the scorching heat of the sun as well as the crowd, start your trek as early as possible when you can enjoy a cooler and more favorable temperature.

Use sunscreen or wear a cap / hat, as you wouldn't feel the heat of the sun as its cool on top of the mountain.

Exploring Europa, or the asteroid belt around Neptune and Pluto, being able to see Jupiter up in the distance or avoid the radiation and heat of the sun as you battle through a small mining compound on a runaway asteroid, it all felt very unique and much needed.

Unlike other CSP developers who leverage the heat of the sun as the «fuel» for a power block that then generates electricity to the grid; GlassPoint's enclosed troughs are simply employed in the direct production of steam, focusing on what the company sees as an ignored market for heat.

Not exact matches

In the case of a fire, the blaze replaces the sun as a heat source, and the fire in essence produces its own «upslope flow» that's proportional to the fire's strength.

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

To describe people as machines made of meat is as scientifically unsophisticated as to think of the sun as a heat - emitting machine made of swirling gas.

And since the «heat shield» was made up of what NASA called «special plastic» back in the day, and since NASA indeed stated that reentry from such a voyage generates temperatures «10 times hotter than the sun», then we can know that one would burn - up upon reentry as do meteors and true physics confirms.

The heat that day was absolutely blistering, as it often is in Waco in the summer, and the sun shone with the kind of intensity that will burn a fair - skinned person in less than ten minutes.

Reclining therein on raised thrones, they will see there neither the excessive heat of the sun, nor the excessive bitter cold, (as in Paradise there is no sun and no moon).

Riches are a perishing commodity, as evanescent as the flower doomed to wither in the heat of the sun (1:10, 11).

The seeds must be sown in a bed of hot horse dung, as musk melons are, and moved into a pot when [the plant] has gotten three or four leaves, that it may be carried from place to place more conveniently to receive the the heat of the sun; and in autumn carried into some house to avoid the injury of cold nights at that time of year when it is to bear fruit.

Remember that a cabinet near the oven is often too warm, as is a cabinet on an outside wall of your kitchen if it receives heat from a strong afternoon or summer sun.

Then, there's the fact that the Heat have recently shifted from their normally active ways in February after acquiring the superstar trio of James, Wade and Bosh, as Ira Winderman of the Palm Beach Sun - Sentinel writes.

The sunscreen will serve as a protection from the heat of the sun.

The sun will eventually fade the upholstery and woodwork of the boat, and, more importantly, the components of the boat will expand and contract as they heat up and cool down.

The summer sun is the most tolerable before noon, so if you have things to do that day, doing them as early as possible will let you avoid the peak heat hours of the day.

However, the Kabana Skin Care website addresses this issue by saying that contrary to titanium dioxide, zinc oxide absorbs the sun's intense UV rays and «turns it into comparably harmless infrared, which it disposes of as heat» rather than dumping the UV rays back into your body's cellular structures.

It can stay fresh at room temperature for up to six hours as long as it's kept away from the sun or other sources of heat.

Instead, electricity would heat a gas such as argon to temperatures close to that of the sun's surface until the gas turned into plasma.

Heat from Earth's inner core, which is as hot as the surface of the sun, churns an outer core of molten iron and nickel, generating a magnetic field that deflects lethal cosmic and solar radiation away from the planet.

Concentrated solar power may surpass photovoltaics as the solar technology of choice because the sun's heat is more easily stored

«These unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of temperature of the sun, and improve efficiency 1000 times, as compared to graphene on a solid substrate.»

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.

If Ceres is acting like a comet, it must have ice patches that can survive for a long time before being heated by the sun as it moves into a warmer part of its orbit.

It is hoped that Philae will also see jets of gas and dust emerging from nearby pits as the comet heats up as it travels towards the sun.

As efficient as solar - thermal power plants using parabolic troughs with molten salt storage systems like Andasol 1 or Solana are, they don't capture as much of the sun's heat as is possiblAs efficient as solar - thermal power plants using parabolic troughs with molten salt storage systems like Andasol 1 or Solana are, they don't capture as much of the sun's heat as is possiblas solar - thermal power plants using parabolic troughs with molten salt storage systems like Andasol 1 or Solana are, they don't capture as much of the sun's heat as is possiblas much of the sun's heat as is possiblas is possible.

Because most salts only melt at high temperatures (table salt, for example, melts at around 1472 degrees Fahrenheit, or 800 degrees Celsius) and do not turn to vapor until they get considerably hotter — they can be used to store a lot of the sun's energy as heat.

The long exposure means we can see details on the comet's surface, along with jets of gas emerging as it heats up on its journey towards the sun.

The new connections can allow these cells to operate at solar concentrations of 70,000 suns» worth of energy without losing much voltage as «wasted energy» or heat.

Scientists know that there are various forms of energy, including sensible heat (which we measure as temperature), radiant energy (like what we feel from the sun), and latent heat.

Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

As any given spot on Mercury rotates away from the sun, its temperature drops as low as 179 ° C. Measuring how quickly the planet loses heat can help researchers figure out what the subsurface material is made of and how densely it's packeAs any given spot on Mercury rotates away from the sun, its temperature drops as low as 179 ° C. Measuring how quickly the planet loses heat can help researchers figure out what the subsurface material is made of and how densely it's packeas low as 179 ° C. Measuring how quickly the planet loses heat can help researchers figure out what the subsurface material is made of and how densely it's packeas 179 ° C. Measuring how quickly the planet loses heat can help researchers figure out what the subsurface material is made of and how densely it's packed.

The engine behind a quasar's efficient brilliance is a monster black hole, as massive as a billion or more suns, which consumes gas so voraciously that the stuff heats to millions of degrees as it falls in.

«This strategy of deriving energy from the sun is described as ectothermy (outside heat) and gives reptiles the advantage of having a warm body without the high good costs associated with endothermy,» says McGowan.

This results from the solar wind interacting with the plasma generated in the coma — the envelope of gas flowing from a comet's nucleus as it is heated by the sun.

The most powerful jets, called quasars, arise when black holes weighing as much as billions of suns fling infalling matter and energy back out into the galaxy, heating up loads of dust and gas and creating blinding beams of energy.

Its central black hole is as massive as 16 million suns, and the region of space surrounding it shines with the strength of 1 trillion suns — energy derived, in part, from intense frictional heating within the disk of gas being sucked into the maw.

As well warming direct from the sun, recent evidence shows that increasing amounts of heat energy are being transported from the tropics to the Arctic (Nature DOI: 10.1038 / nature06502).

As the comet gets closer to the sun and is heated more and more, it will produce a complex and dynamic atmosphere of gas, dust, and plasma called a coma, full of outbursts and jets.

Known as Kepler 452b, the world is estimated to be a bit on the hefty side, at five times the mass of Earth, but it is receiving just 10 % more heat and light than we do from its G - type star, just like our sun but 1.5 billion years older.

In large parts of the developing world, people have abundant heat from the sun during the day, but most cooking takes place later in the evening when the sun is down, using fuel — such as wood, brush or dung — that is collected with significant time and effort.

As long as the Sun warms the surface of the earth non-uniformly, the atmospheric heat engine will continue to drive the general circulatioAs long as the Sun warms the surface of the earth non-uniformly, the atmospheric heat engine will continue to drive the general circulatioas the Sun warms the surface of the earth non-uniformly, the atmospheric heat engine will continue to drive the general circulation.

You can add «sun kinks,» or railways that buckle in extreme heat, causing derailments, to the list of things that are already taking a toll on U.S. transportation, a problem that figures to grow significantly as the U.S. warms.

As average U.S. temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F by the end of the century, depending on how greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not in the coming years, the waves of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»

Of course, the sun doesn't always shine and, at present, the eSolar design has limited capacity to store energy — either as heat or electricity — nor does it supplement production by burning natural gas as some other existing concentrating solar power plants do.

Harvesting the sun's energy as heat is hardly a new idea: During the energy crisis of the 1970s, designs for solar thermal power plants took off.

The space agency says the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is designing the craft, dubbed Solar Probe + (Solar Probe Plus), which will wield a carbon - composite heat shield to survive the intense 2,550 - degree Fahrenheit (1,400 - degree Celsius) temperatures and radiation that will blast it as it passes within 4.5 million miles (7.2 million kilometers) of the sun.

«People usually see space as a source of heat from the sun, but away from the sun outer space is really a cold, cold place,» explained Shanhui Fan, professor of electrical engineering and the paper's senior author.

«More nitrogen has to come from somewhere to resupply both the nitrogen ice that is moving around Pluto's surface in seasonal cycles, and the nitrogen that is escaping off the top of the atmosphere as the result of heating by ultraviolet light from the Sun,» said Singer.