Sentences with phrase «heat sink for»

All of the components responsible for the heavy lifting in the Mac Pro are arranged around a unique thermal core, a single piece of extruded aluminum serving as a heat sink for the entire machine.

With its high electrical and thermal conductivity, copper is an ideal material for heat exchanger applications, like this copper heat sink for an LED light bulb.

JCH As a former sub sailor, sea water temperature was very important for a number of reasons, it being the ultimate heat sink for all electronics, cooling and propulsion equipment, as well as determining operational depth at times.

The oceans are by far the largest heat sink for the Earth, absorbing the vast majority of extra heat trapped in the system by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases.

The oceans are acting as a heat sink for rising temperatures and have absorbed about one - third of the carbon dioxide produced by human activities.

If you assume an infinite heat sink for the ocean instead of determining they are a thermal reservoir for the heat engine, you get incorrect results.

Containment vessel submerged in an ultimate heat sink for core cooling in a below grade reactor pool structure housed in a Seismic Category 1 reactor building.

Ultimately, the model could be applied to semiconductors used as high - efficiency thermoelectrics, and to graphene nanoribbons used as heat sinks for so - called ultra large scale integration devices, such as computer microprocessors.

Like one of the other commenters, I've designed heat sinks for commercial production.

Heat Transfer, 2002 Member of a team assembled to redesign heat sinks for power supplies / converters used in recreational vehicles.

Not exact matches

Phononic is a semiconductor manufacturer that has developed new solid - state cooling and refrigeration technology that displaces compressors, heat sinks and fans — ancient, energy - inefficient technology that's been around for decades.

In the last couple of weeks when you are «due», adjust the clock timer on your hot water tank to heat the water (even on «sink») regularly every 2 - 3 hours so it already ready to start the filling process in early labour, and once you suspect labour has begun you can switch it to «on» and «bath» for the next and ongoing fills.

Indeed, a number of Scandinavian cities, including Stockholm, use bodies of water as heat sinks and have been doing so for more than a decade.

It has been in a cool, La Niña - like phase for 10 years, causing heat to sink deep into the Pacific.

The norm for cooling an LED (which is actually a semiconductor that converts electricity into light) has been to place a copper or aluminum tube near the light to act as a heat sink and draw away excess heat.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

It's uncomfortable for people in those urban heat sinks.

One of the most plausible reasons for the recent slowdown in warming is that the deep ocean has been acting as a heat sink, taking up more warming than the land has in recent years.

Your body heat will warm the product and help it sink right into the skin for a super natural, lit from within glow.

Heavy cast - iron is a great heat sink, keeping bath water warm for long periods.

At the end of what we might call the film's first act, Vera pays a visit to a nervous young woman, and although she hums a tune while putting the kettle on, we have a sinking feeling that the water she's heating is not for tea.

They have all the basics necessary for daily life like a bathtub, a sink, kitchen, heating.

The Chevy Cruze 2012 Edition with luxury trim makes you feel like you own a much more expensive car than what you bought it for when you sink in to the heated leather seats in the winter time.

For added luxury, test drive a Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Premiere and sink into heated leather seats.

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For example, we will open and close windows and doors, flush toilets, run showers, and fill sinks and tubs to confirm they are operating properly; we will visually inspect the roof and roofing materials; and we will test the heating and cooling systems to verify proper operation.

As the sun sinks toward the ocean, heat up the barbecue for dinner at the al - fresco table, gather around the firepit or soak in the hot tub.

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Retire to your bedroom with its antique furniture, underfloor heating, en suite bathroom and sink into your king size bed for a sleep that is truly nature's balm.

As the sun sinks toward the neighboring island of Molokai, heat up the barbecue, sample local seafood at the al - fresco dining area and try to stay awake for some stargazing — Hawaii is, after all, the world's most remote island chain.

Credo 3 features: 2 Queen and 1 King Bedroom (accommodates 6 persons), outdoor spa pool for 7 and an indoor luxury 2 person spa bath, a lovely sunken living room with open fire, ducted heating and fully equipped kitchen.

The living room includes a dining table (seating for 6), lounge suite, plasma television and sliding doors to the large balcony Gourmet mini bar / gourmet pantry, satellite TV, individually controlled heating / air conditioning, Separate area with laundry sink, washer / dryer and iron / ironing board.

You don't need any tools to remove the heat sink shrouds for the GPU or CPU, just squeeze the bright blue tabs in the direction of the arrows and off they come.

My second vote is for reducing the urban / peri-urban heat sink by putting reflective rather than absorptive roofing on buildings and houses.

Given that the cryosphere and oceans are far better long - term indicators of changes in Earth's energy balance than the much more «noisy» troposphere, for anyone to suggest that the warming of the Earth system has slowed or stopped over the past 10 years, means they are purposely ignoring the far bigger heat sinks of the cryrosphere and oceans, or they simply want to spout nonsense.

If not, might not we want to assume, for the sake of risk assessment, that this will drive faster break down in the system and faster heating of the planet as the ability of the ocean to support life is diminished, and likely it's ability to continue to act as a carbon sink?

Once you get past a wet - bulb temperature of human - body temperature, we would go like a bathroom mirror and become a heat - sink for the surroundings and so quickly hyperthermic.

Well, that seems to have worked for a while, but as temperatures rise due to higher CO2 concentrations plants become subject to both heat and drought stress, and so we have that sink working less well than it has in the past — which is a feedback.

Theory and modelling suggest that if the sinking of the salty surface waters in the North Atlantic slowed down or stopped, there would be a reduction in the heat transport by the ocean, which would have implications for the climate of northern Europe.

For example: 1) plants giving off net CO2 in hot conditions (r / t aborbing)-- see: http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=46488 2) plants dying out due to heat & drought & wild fires enhanced by GW (reducing or cutting short their uptake of CO2 & releasing CO2 in the process) 3) ocean methane clathrates melting, giving off methane 4) permafrost melting & giving off methane & CO2 5) ice & snow melting, uncovering dark surfaces that absorb more heat 6) the warming slowing the thermohaline ocean conveyor & its up - churning of nutrients — reducing marine plant life & that carbon sink.

The newest paper, in the current issue of Science, «Varying planetary heat sink led to global - warming slowdown and acceleration,» argues that the Atlantic not only has shaped the current plateau, but also was responsible for half of the sharp global warming at the end of the 20th century.

For example, conditions at the poles affect how much heat is retained by the earth because of the reflective properties of ice and snow, the world's ocean circulation depends on sinking in polar regions, and melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets could have drastic effects on sea level.

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Climate Alchemy and probably most scientists not taught chemical thermodynamics don't realise that the main heat transfer term in the oceans is the partial molar enthalpy transferred when the fresh, cold water sinking from melting ice in the Antarctic and Arctic summers is made more saline when it mixes with the warmer, more saline surface water for which solar energy has partially unmixed the ions.

The oceans may not be passive heat sinks put there for our benefit, but actively using ice to protects its life.

The reduction of heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions is stimulated by lowering existing subsidies that have the effect of raising emissions (such as subsidies to fossil fuel use) or by providing subsidies for practices that reduce emissions or enhance sinks (e.g. for insulation of buildings or for planting trees).

It is impossible for heat (not energy, heat) to pass from the sink to the source.

For the United States, observations clearly show a declining frequency of extreme weather events, that sea level changes are indistinguishable from geological uplift or sinking processes, and decreased risk of regional water scarcity (due to more frequent winter polar vortices replenishing the water table), heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems.

His reference to the oceans» role as a sink for CO2 and heat is significant in the present debate about the apparent slight slow - down in the pace of atmospheric warming and the likelihood that the heat is going into the oceans instead.

This is a fortuitous thing, for if there was not this alteration of the energy flow, with the oceans absorbing more heat being the excellent heat sink they are, we'd have a much faster warming troposphere as greenhouse gases increase.