Sentences with phrase «heat than lighter»

Streets and roofs are clad in dark materials like asphalt and bitumen, which retain more heat than lighter materials and natural surfaces like soil.

Because darker surfaces absorb more heat than lighter, more reflective ones, if enough soot is deposited on snow and ice it can accelerate melting.

Keep in mind that darker coats absorb more heat than lighter coats.

Cameron's personal involvement in the story has ensured that the debate over the use of tax havens has generated more heat than light, with little distinction being made between the mere use of tax - neutral jurisdictions to manage international investment, which in itself is legitimate, and criminal tax evasion.

Why is it that whenever politics or religion are discussed the move from issues to personal insults, which generates more heat than light, is almost inevitable?

Two years ago I wrote an article for The Christian Century on the language of hymns and the new biblical translations which I freely confess was more heat than light («Lord, Bless This Burning Pit Stop,» January 15, 1975, p. 36).

Otherwise you end up repeating yourself, generating more heat than light.

Such obsessions invite far more heat than light, and focus our already sexually excited adolescents on discerning extraneous dimensions of their own sexual makeup.

The rhetoric can generate a lot more heat than light.»

Such obsessions generate far more heat than light, and focus already sexually excited adolescents on discerning extraneous dimensions of their own sexual makeup.

Often the arguments will shed a lot more heat than light on the issues we were arguing about.

Debates about this will easily generate much more heat than light unless the energy of both sides is focused on the right question, which is: «Given that 200,000 abortions a year is far too many, how can a deliverable change in the law most effectively reduce that number?»

True, the weekly bearpit of Prime Minister's Questions often generates far more heat than light, simultaneously showing Parliament at its most boorish and its most popular, if the demand for tickets for Commons» public gallery is anything to go by.

But the bigger problem, he said, is that such a search would in all likelihood generate more heat than light for the harried physician, who typically has «15 minutes to manage six problems.»

Dark colours absorb more heat than light colours do.

But despite using most of her Oscar - winning team from The Hurt Locker, this time she provides more heat than light.

If I can make one final, general point: Education debates are often intense, and unfortunately sometimes involve more heat than light.

«The debate, however, is more heat than light, in part because...

These hot - button topics grab headlines, inspire polarizing discussions, and often get picked apart in ways that lead to more heat than light.

Although it may seem simpler in the short run to make teacher decisions based largely on a single set of student scores, this approach has thus far produced more heat than light in analyses of teaching, often creating greater confusion where more clarity is needed.

This exhibition is a newly adapted iteration of Lewitt's More Heat than Light project, initiated by the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and Kunsthalle Basel, where heating circuits were installed in a similar manner.

The exhibition marks the third and final iteration of Lewitt's ongoing More Heat Than Light series, which saw previous installments at Kunstahalle Basel and The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Lewitt's exhibition More Heat Than Light opened in September 2015 at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco, before then traveling in 2016 to the Kunsthalle Basel, and finally, under the title Less Light Warm Words, to the Swiss Institute in New York.

Fluid Employment, a monograph dedicated to Lewitt's eponymous work, was published in 2013, while his catalogue for More Heat Than Light was published in 2016.

In More Heat than Light and Less Light Warm Words (2015 - 16), installed in solo exhibitions at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, and the Swiss Institute, New York, respectively, Lewitt engineered specially manufactured heating circuits used for the regulation of internal temperatures in environmentally sensitive media systems and redirected all available energy that flowed through the institutional lighting grids in the exhibition spaces.

Sam Lewitt, installation view, More Heat Than Light, view on A Weak Local (Vacuum Trace Revision 1E), 2016, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016.

Sam Lewitt, installation view, More Heat Than Light, view on Weak Local Lineament (MHTL), 2016, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016.

Sam Lewitt, More Heat Than Light, view on A Weak Local Lexicon (MHTL), 2016, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016.

Sam Lewitt, More Heat Than Light, Blick auf A Weak Local Lexicon (MHTL), 2016, Kunsthalle Basel, 2016.

CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE: September 10 — November 21, 2015 More Heat Than Light Sam Lewitt Location: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 360 Kansas Street (between 16th and 17th Streets), San Francisco Opening reception: Thursday, September 10, 2015, 7 — 9 p.m. Gallery hours: Tues. — Fri., noon — 7 p.m.; Sat., noon — 5 p.m.; closed Sun.

In that sense, More Heat Than Light is neither «site - specific» nor autonomous from its context, but it is a parasite that circulates through different housings.

More Heat Than Light inserts a range of sculptures, texts, and images within the gallery space.

I have to say that I am distressed by the «apparent» state of the science, in that, it feels like more heat than light is being produced.

It is designed to generate more heat than light.

Far more heat than light and too many people on both sides thinking they know more than they do.

Unfortunately, neither of those threads was directed at the Velasco et al. and Roman et al. papers in which this theory was advanced, so, in my view, more heat than light resulted.

The recent articles in the Daily Mail and the Guardian are generating heated reactions — more heat than light.

We see that debating any period less than 32 years is statistically likely to be more productive of heat than light... such that 16 years is the * worst * choice of time interval for debate!

The manufactured controversy over emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has generated a lot more heat than light over the past two weeks.

All the rest has been noise, or as Judith referred to, more heat than light.

The manufactured controversy over emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has generated a lot more heat than light.

Models, whether of climate predictions or whatever seem to generate far more heat than light.

Building a narrative around one or 2 components of a large and complex system is likely to result in more heat than light.

It's unfortunate, but understandable that emotions on both sides run high, which tends to generate more heat than light.

the use of unvalidated models explains a lot imo about the debate about divergences and why there is often more heat than light?

So the result is more heat than light, and more unproductive action than can justify the heat.

But the reality is that such apps stir up a lot more heat than light.

Not exact matches

Light - based or photonic computers have the potential to run at least 20 times faster than your laptop, not to mention the fact that they won't produce heat or suck up energy like existing devices.

Legere's comments come as speculation heats up that the wireless industry may see a flurry of mergers and acquisitions under a Trump administration expected to demonstrate a much lighter regulatory touch than the previous one.

Seems there's no end to the trillions of Dollars, Euros and Yen they're finding these days and, with so much above - ground paper in circulation, it boggles the mind that it's still worth more than lighting on fire to heat your home with.