Sentences with phrase «in quadrillion»

On the left we see the larger exports and imports measured in quadrillion British thermal units (Btu).

This chart from EIA data shows the change in annual U.S. energy consumption by fuel source over the past decade, as measured in quadrillion Btu:

«The speed of light in any two directions is the same to about one part in a quadrillion,» says Holger Müller, a former member of the Berlin team who now works at Stanford.

The breakdown of energy sources in the United States (measured in quadrillion Btu), according to the Energy Information Administration.

The change in distance between Earth and one of these pulsars is staggeringly small: about one part in a quadrillion.

But for those preferring an even broader interpretation, including bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.21 %, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies, plus above - ground gold supply, and funds invested in various financial products like derivatives, the amount is in the quadrillions.

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What's making this revolution possible, as Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee report in «Big Data Meets Biology,» are the extraordinary new technologies that can now begin to make sense of the estimated 750 quadrillion bytes of health - related data we produce every day.

In Zimbabwe, a country where hyperinflation led to $ 1 being worth 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars, the relative security of cryptocurrency already came at a premium.

From its high in 2007 of 34.7 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu), the difference between exports and imports has fallen steadily to 7.32 Btu, slightly above the 7.25 Btu in 1982.

It is supposedly running at 6 PH (quadrillion hashes) per second, according to a Chinese Bitcoin company CEO posting in a Bitcoin forum, with the aim to scale up to 12 PH per second.

Derivatives, such as futures contracts, forward contracts, options, warrants, ETFs, and swaps are estimated by Jeff Desjardins of The Money Project to range in size from $ 630 trillion to $ 1.2 quadrillion.

Not burn it for quadrillions of years in torture.

Overall, Americans used 0.8 quadrillion BTU, or quads, less in 2015 than in 2014.

The country wasted 1 percent less energy in 2015 going from 59.4 quadrillion BTU in 2014 down to 59.1 quads in 2015.

That may sound like a lot, but in fact it's a tiny amount — an ounce of lead contains about 82 million quadrillion atoms.

Wood has calculated that 1.6 quadrillion tons of gold must lie in Earth's core.

Since then, they've been in tentacles, roots, feet, wings, blood, and trillions, quadrillions of bacteria in between.

But now we're in the era of big data, which harnesses the computing power of massive databases with bytes measured in teras (trillions) and petas (quadrillions), combined with sophisticated algorithms that can grapple with problems on a once - unimaginable scale.

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In comparison, IBM's Blue Gene / P supercomputer, introduced a year ago, can be configured to process up to 3 quadrillion operations per second.

Simulations can range in the trillion - particle realm and produce several petabytes — quadrillions of bytes — of data in a single run.

These gamma - ray bursts, astrophysicists recently learned, originate in distant galaxies and are unfathomably powerful — as much as 10 quadrillion (a one followed by 16 zeros) times as energetic as the sun.

It sees coal as remaining dominant in the electricity generation sector: global consumption will rise by 1.3 percent a year — from 147 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in 2010 to 180 quadrillion Btu in 2020 to 220 quadrillion Btu in 2040.

There is as yet no definition of the minimum size an object has to attain to be classified as a moon, so if you are happy to give the label «moon» to any piece of solid matter orbiting a planet — including every ice crystal in the rings of Saturn — then the number could run into quadrillions.

In the following decades, astronomers have found hints that gamma rays — the universe's highest - energy photons — could be coming from Cygnus X-3 with energies as high as trillions or even quadrillions of electronvolts (eV).

Lenski's experiment began in 1988 and has, to date, involved nearly 70,000 generations and quadrillions of cells.

The annual consumption of gasoline in the United States, about 131 billion gallons of gas, is equivalent to 25 quadrillion pounds of prehistoric biomass and releases some 2.6 trillion pounds of carbon dioxide.

With this technique, it is now possible to reliably determine a specific molecule in a mixture of one quadrillion (1015) molecules.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, manufacturing accounts for one - fifth of the annual energy consumption in the United States — approximately 21 quintillion joules (20 quadrillion BTU) or equivalent to 3.6 billion barrels of crude oil.

By constantly tuning the laser to drive that aluminum transition, an interaction that only occurs in a tiny window near 1.121 petahertz (1.121 quadrillion cycles per second), the laser's frequency can be stabilized to an exquisitely sensitive degree, allowing it to act as the clock's pendulum.

In the blink of an eye, a wave of visible light completes a quadrillion (1015) oscillations, or cycles.

The study, titled «Deployment of a sequential two - photon laser - induced fluorescence sensor for the detection of gaseous elemental mercury at ambient levels: fast, specific, ultrasensitive detection with parts - per - quadrillion sensitivity,» was published in the Dec. 8 issue of the journal Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

A study published in this month's issue of the journal Environmental Science and Technology found out: roughly 350 million barrels of oil, or more than 2 quadrillion British thermal units of energy.

We also find heat sloshing around the world's oceans, which absorb 93 quadrillion watts of the sun's energy — a hundred thousand times more power than could be produced by all the power plants in the United States put together.

To think, remember, imagine, and see — all these amazing capacities of the brain come from billions of neurons with quadrillions of precise connections interacting to form the most remarkable dynamical system in the universe.

«The protocluster will very likely grow into a massive cluster of galaxies like the Coma cluster, which weighs more than a quadrillion suns,» said Purdue University astrophysicist Dr. Kyoung - Soo Lee, who initially spotted the protocluster and is one of the authors in this study.

Today, 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water is contained in the five great lakes: 5,472 cubic miles (22,812 km ³), or six quadrillion U.S. gallons (22.81 quadrillion liters) in all.

252 million divided by 660 quadrillion is one gallon of oil for every 2.6 billion gallons of water in the Gulf of Mexico.

* Gets out soapbox * Okay Splash Damage, I know you felt that «if [you'd] added female models, [you'd] have had to cut in half the number of assets [you] planned to make as each would need a male and a female version,» but are you seriously telling me that 50 quadrillion choices wouldn't have been plenty?

iow — total world energy consumption rises from 575 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in 2015 to 736 quadrillion Btu in 2040, an increase of 28 %.

So multiply by the number of hours in a week to get 17 trillion watts X168 hours / week = 2856 trillion watt hours of energy storage = 2.86 x 10 exponent 15 = almost 3 quadrillion watt hours.

«Altogether, there are some 50 quadrillion tons (that is, 50 000 000 000 000 000 t) of minerals and metals dissolved in all the world's seas and oceans.»

18.35 Quadrillion Btus from projected 2030 levels (the equivalent of approximately two hundred and forty 1000 MW power plants), saving consumers an estimated $ 218 billion in annual energy bills (2007 dollars),

The $ 2 quadrillion, or whatever the true cost of sequestration turns out to be, does of course represent the true cost of burning fossil fuels in the first place.

Since the figures show that it would cost around $ 2 quadrillion to theoretically avert 0.5 degC of global warming by year 2100 (as compared to an absurd but less exorbitant $ 16 trillion for other specific schemes proposed to date), and in view of the other reservations stated by me and others here, I think we can lay this idea to rest.

At a cost of $ 2,000 per ton CO2 air captured and stored in Antarctica, this equals a cumulative cost of $ 2,040 trillion (or $ 2.04 quadrillion) to (maybe) reduce global warming by 0.5 °C by 2100.

In that case the cost to (maybe) reduce global warming by 2100 by 0.5 degC would «only» require $ 1 quadrillion.

Through wiser use of energy and application of energy - saving technologies, consumers around the world are expected to save 500 quadrillion BTUs of energy in 2040, significantly offsetting energy demand growth.

In 2005, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected that U.S. buildings would be consuming approximately 57 quadrillion Btu (Quads) of energy by the year 2030 — a 17 - Quad increase from 2005 consumption.

ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW Minister for the Environment & Heritage: David Kemp Minister for Forestry & Conservation: Ian McDonald Total Energy Consumption (2000E): 4.89 quadrillion Btu * (1.2 % of world total energy consumption) Energy - Related Carbon Emissions (2000E): 96.87 million metric tons of carbon (1.5 % of world carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 255 million Btu (vs U.S. value of 351 million Btu) Per Capita Carbon Emissions (2000E): 5.1 metric tons of carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of carbon) Energy Intensity (2000E): 10,804 Btu / U.S. $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) ** Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.21 metric tons of carbon / thousand U.S. $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.17 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1999E): Transportation (42 %) Industrial (37 %), Residential (13.5 %), Commercial (7.5 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (46.4 %), Transportation (26.5 %), Residential (15.2 %), Commercial (11.9 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Coal (44.2 %), Oil (34.8 %), Natural Gas (16.6 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (1999E): Coal (55.4 %), Oil (32.6 %), Natural Gas (12.0 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 396 trillion Btu * (0.9 % increase from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 1.7 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified December 30th, 1992).