Sentences with phrase «kind of energy source»

A major need is a kind of energy source that does not add to the earth's heat load

Not exact matches

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

Benefits associated with MCFA's include an increase in HDL cholesterol (that's the good kind, folks), providing an immediate source of energy, increasing satiety, and increasing metabolic rate.

The new method can be useful in analyzing any kind of time series, such as predicting a power outage by accounting for power plant production, the fluctuating input of renewable energy sources and the changing demands of consumers.

In «Electric eels provide a zap of inspiration for a new kind of power source» (SN: 1/20/18, p. 13), voltage was incorrectly described as a measure of energy.

Domestic industries can make it from a range of chemical feedstocks and energy sources (for instance, from renewable, nuclear and fossil - fuel sources), and the nontoxic gas could serve as a virtually pollution - free energy carrier for machines of many kinds.

«The innovation... represents a new kind of renewable energy source,» says Liming Dai, a nanomaterials engineer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who was not involved in the research.

People were preoccupied with where we could get more energy of any kind, from any sources, for any price — as if all our needs were the same.

«Because the contributions are in kind and members are not obliged to tell us what it cost them, we will never have a detailed cost of ITER,» Claessens said, adding that participants will likely have to wait until 2027 before they figure out for certain whether this is a game - changing energy source or just the most expensive way to boil water ever built.

Biologists soon realized that vent organisms relied on a special kind of bacteria, called chemoautotrophs (chemo = source of energy from chemicals; auto = synthesize their own food; trophs = type of feeding).

Soon she transformed her blog into a source of all kinds of healthy recipes and foods that will give you a lot of energy and will not harm your waistline.

Bananas are the kinds of food which is a high source of energy.

Do I need some kind of protein, or energy source before my workout?

Though there are numerous kinds of supercharger designs, their main job is essentially to convert engine power into even more engine power; on the other hand, by using exhaust gasses as their power source, turbochargers recycle what would otherwise be wasted energy.

Rather, it is a kind that obliges one to invest energy researching and assessing sources with the purpose to offer translations of the writings, and not oblivious spewing of those sources.

On one hand Jones looks to Buddhist practices and meditation as a source of energy in the creation of his work yet everywhere we look we see Wolverine masks and Black Flag logos (originally designed by Raymond Pettibon in the late 70's) which conjure a kind of brash male ego enterprise (the rocker, the comic book character) The use of these two archetypal symbols feel earnest.

But if we replace these sources of energy with others that allow us to continue modern industrial society's implicit program of turning everything on earth into toxic waste, success against GW will be a rather hollow victory (not that I think any kind of real total «success» on this front is really possible at this point in any human time scale).

Well, we've got to have that same kind of distribution network when it comes to our renewable energy sources so that when you are converting to a different kind of car that runs on a different kind of energy, you're going to be able to have that same convenience.

So it all comes back to the kind of work we choose to do, the choice of energy sources, and the number of people using the results of that work.

Demonstrating that the overall environmental damage is less than that from coal does not imply that gas production and use is cost - free, and the sooner we reduce our dependence on fossil fuel sources of energy of all kinds the better.

One challenge will be finding ways to spread this kind of efficiency ethic into other arenas, like energy, where ready sources — like coal and oil — remain abundant and cheap (in monetary terms) but pose long - term environmental risks.

No one can predict what new applications will be born of basic research: new treatments in our hospitals, or new sources of efficient energy; new building materials; new kinds of crops more resistant to heat and to drought.

We are a long way from where we will have maxed out our capability of accepting more energy from these kinds of sources.

and for more about my point of view on the best kind of source for energy see here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/30/global-warming-anthropogenic-or-not/#comment-1213999

Underlying a lot of the wind lobbyists» claims is a carefully crafted, implied message that there is some kind of wind energy «equivalency» to conventional sources.

In contrast to pre-industrial eras when forests were a primary source of energy, the density and efficiency of fossil fuels have been kind to trees - shrinking mankind's physical footprint on the surface of the earth.

Depending on what kind of technology you're using, solar could either be cheaper than coal, gas, and nuclear... or it could be one of the most expensive energy sources out there.

Since coal originally consisted of plant material from different kinds of plants that grew in different kinds of soil and consisted of different nutrients coal is not a uniform source of energy.

Scientists have to keep working hard on all kinds of alternative energy sources.

Democrats were were more likely to highlight green and alternative energy sources, and Republicans were more inclined towards smart traffic lights, but there was significant support across party lines for these kinds of improvements.

With that kind of versatility, it is a great energy source.

You'd have to find some seriously exotic source of heat to explain the kind of energy accumulation seen across the planet's oceans, another subject that is explored in SkS threads.

Of course, net zero energy homes need some kind of onsite power production, and photovoltaics (PV) are the source of choicOf course, net zero energy homes need some kind of onsite power production, and photovoltaics (PV) are the source of choicof onsite power production, and photovoltaics (PV) are the source of choicof choice.

As part of its media campaign to position itself, as what Brune describes as a «kinder, gentler» energy source,» the industry suggests it makes replacing gasoline with natural gas for vehicles is a winner.

Earthquakes also release stored elastic potential energy in rocks, a kind of mechanical potential energy which has been produced ultimately from the same radioactive heat sources.

Of course, this kind of technology could completely change the game when it comes to finding renewable energy sourceOf course, this kind of technology could completely change the game when it comes to finding renewable energy sourceof technology could completely change the game when it comes to finding renewable energy sources.

The goal would not be to subsidize clean energy in perpetuity but rather to make the kinds of investments that ultimately bring the real price of clean energy down to the price of dirty - energy sources like coal in places like China.

The large - scale nature of district cooling allows the use of otherwise unavailable energy sources and minimizes the need for chillers of any kind

Hmmm, you clearly don't seem to appreciate the second law of thermodynamics, David; — RRB - That's the one that prohibits perpetual motion machines of the second kind, and yes, you have to ask how likely it is (because the second law is all about probability) that a closed container, by means of any physical process you like and with any sort of machinery inside (but no sources of free energy) will end up in a final state with e.g. a battery completely charged with all of the free energy content of a gas, now liquid, now solid at 0K.

Just the act of mining it out of the ground causes a fair amount of destruction (and costs the lives of many miners, especially in poorer countries), and burning it produces more CO2 than any other source of energy, as well as mercury that makes its way up the food chain and smog - forming emissions of all kinds... But that's not all!

I received an MS in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz a few years ago (in the area of marine nitrogen fluxes); at the time I was a recipient of an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship in microbiology — and I transferred into the Biochemistry department hoping to go into renewable energy research, which seemed to be very interesting, important and useful work — I was particularly interested in algal biochemistry (a great oil source) or fungal enzymes (for cellulose digestion)-- but when I took these proposals to the Dean of Graduate Studies, he shook his head and said «You will never be able to find funding for this kind of work — can't you do something else?»

From an exergy efficiency perspective, building technologies which rely on solar, wind and biomass energy sources, coupled to thermally efficient envelopes, appropriate fenestration strategies [where we put what kind and size of windows] and natural ventilation / cooling are truly more elegant than «cutting butter with a chainsaw.»

I believe that if in the vacuum of space you place a blackbody object with (a) a constant (i.e., unchanging energy per unit time) internal thermal energy source, and (b) internal / surface thermal conduction properties such that independent of how energy enters the blackbody, the surface temperature of the blackbody is everywhere the same and you place that object in cold space (no background thermal radiation of any kind), eventually the object will come to a steady state condition — i.e., the object will eventually radiate energy to space at a rate equal to the rate of energy produced by the internal energy source.