Sentences with phrase «huge amounts of energy just»

Producing bitumen requires huge amounts of energy just to free it from the sandstone it is found in.

Not exact matches

And that's, kind of, the stuff that we've been working on, which is to find things with good properties that don't have a huge amount of embodied energy or depend on really rare materials, because we just can't — you see the volatility in the commodities.

Instead of describing our matchstick as just a piece of wood, we can at least say there's a region whose response we can't accurately quantify, but we do know that it's self - feeding and has a huge amount of stored energy.

Just as importantly, energy poverty is a huge contributor to climate change, as those stuck in energy poverty are forced to rely on fuels like kerosene and firewood which caused enormous amounts of pollution.

Thermal equilibrium doesn't mean the same temperature, if for example, a gas in getting hotter expands and rises becoming less dense and under less pressure it can move faster, it's using thermal energy to move, there's no energy lost, it's just become something else, or, as temperature relates to kinetic energy not thermal energy then heat capacity comes into play, as water can absorb a huge amount of thermal energy before there's any rise in temperature, or whatever, but if you're equating all «energy» to «heat» as thermal energy then that's a different idea altogether, not all energy is heat.

If it were true we could generate huge amounts of energy from a small input simply by placing an infra - red barrier around a radiator — just tap some of the heat off at regular intervals — free energy.