Sentences with phrase «into useful heat»

The efficiency rating indicates the percentage of fuel used (wood) that transforms into useful heat to warm your home.

Solar thermal technology transforms direct and diffuse solar radiation into useful heat using a solar collector.

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Also, a useful trick is to point a hair dryer on low heat at your face after application, this will warm the foundation and press it into your face, preventing the soft peach fuzz on your face from clumping.

You will have converted the heat into useful work in the second scenario, even though the same amount of energy is available as in the first scenario.

He explained that the efficiency of a photovoltaic device is governed by a simple competition: light energy is either converted into waste heat or useful electronic power.

By the time the energy in gasoline has been converted into useful work, the average car has thrown away fully 85 percent of it in the form of heat.

Such a machine is called a nuclear reactor, and can convert the nuclear energy into electricity, shaft horsepower (for submarines, etc.), neighborhood heating, or lots of other things useful to civilization.

Methane also is a primary ingredient in natural gas used to heat homes, and it can be converted into many useful products including electricity.

The thermal electric generator then converts the wasted heat into useful electrical energy to help power auxiliary systems.

Nick Pine suggested that making the shade into some form of solar collector would keep the heat from building up, and provide some useful heat to the living space.

As long as he was on stage sweating away earnestly in an over heated Senate chamber or railing away at the wicked conspiracy to turn Earth into Venus, he was a useful prop.

To gain further insights into ocean heat sequestration, it is useful to look at the regional variations of OHC anomalies.