Sentences with phrase «light than heat»

Sorry, Judith, I wasn't clear — my point is that I don't think you will be able to allow all threads to run indefinitely with equal prominence — I think you will have to «demote» the less promising ones, allowing those which have substantial and (in your judgement) meritorious support from both sides, and appear to be generating more light than heat, to occupy the limelight, without killing off the less promising threads entirely.

The letter, suggested Meffe, was «to be substantive and shed more light than heat.

In this political moment when the topic of immigration has been front and center of the national debate, I am thankful to have the opportunity to shed more light than heat to the conversation.

And some charter leaders hope the dispute could begin to generate more light than heat.

Read previous Green machine columns: Cementing greener construction, Generating more light than heat, Cheaper home power from sunlight, Power from the people, Rethinking internal combustion engines.

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Hopefully, upcoming presidential debates will produce more light than heat.

Holmes's book is a model of accessible scholarship, and though it addresses a controversial topic, it actually generates more light than heat.

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.

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.

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.

Ironically, JT is probably facing more heat for this now, in light of his return to the Halftime Show, than he did as Scandalous JT 14 years ago.

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.»

They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable planets.

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?»

Note: If using a dark colored pan, reduce the oven temperature, stated in the recipe, by 25 degrees F. (This is because dark colored pans absorb more of the energy coming from the oven walls so they become hotter and transmit heat faster than light colored pans.)

The flavor is so light that it works perfectly for a stir fry and it holds up to higher heat than olive oil.

Heavier weight oven belts require more energy to heat and re-heat than lighter oven belts.

If your pan was lighter than mine, that may explain the longer cooking time... dark pans do generate more heat so they cook stuff faster!

When most people start betting on games I've found there are usually two different outcomes that happen, you either: A. Get lucky and start off winning way more than you should, wonder why you didn't start sooner and think you can finally buy that Winnebago you've always had you're eye on or B. Get unlucky, lose every game and wonder why you didn't just light your money on fire so you could at least heat your home.

The aim is to share light (perspective and compassion) rather than heat (arguments).

They bring lighting, heating, props, outfits (but if you have your own, you are more than welcome to use it!)

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.

A white flood tray can be a good option for outdoor use since they reflect more light and heat than black trays, so they don't get quite as hot in the sun.

The only downside is that incandescent lights are more prone to heat issues than LEDs.

Rechargeable: Rechargeable batteries are convenient and often lighter than disposables, so they're perfect for heated gloves!

Despite their blazing appearance, they don't emit much heat and they're usually less bright than a 100 - watt light bulb.

Carbon steel excels at conducting heat while being thinner and lighter than cast iron cookware (although it is heavier than stainless steel and other cookware types).

Letian Dou, a chemical engineer at Purdue University, and colleagues were only able to form these light - harvesting crystals in their solar cells by cranking the heat to 105 ° Celsius, much hotter than your average sun - blasted window.

The old, incandescent lightbulb turns 90 percent of the electricity it uses into heat rather than light.

But as Einstein proved, nothing — including heat — can travel faster than the speed of light.

A Jupiter adds about a billionth to the visible light of a sunlike star, and about a ten - thousandth to the star's infrared glow (planets give off more heat than they do reflected starlight).

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.»

Flash Tech hopes to adopt the technology, he explains, because it is much gentler than the company's existing light pulse system, which strips paint but generates heat and leaves a sticky black residue.

OLED lights are likely to become available as soon as 2011, according to a report from display consultants at the firm DisplaySearch in Austin, Tex. «It's likely to last longer [than LED fixtures] because it doesn't have anything to fail and it also doesn't have a lot of heat,» Young says.

OLEDs convert far more electricity into light than incandescent light bulbs, which turn most incoming electricity into heat.

The alloys are 45 percent lighter than steel but just as strong, and they are resistant to heat and corrosion.

Fox aims to turn these diamond films into a new kind of solar cell, one that generates electricity by absorbing heat rather than visible - light wavelengths.

This is important as it is a more efficient way of producing light than conventional light bulbs, whose glow relies on heating tungsten filaments to at least 3,100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Before such batteries can become a reality, Strano needs to find a safe, reliable way to ignite the reaction and figure out how to reduce the amount of energy that comes out as heat or light rather than electricity.

Known as Kepler 452b, the world is estimated to be a bit on the hefty side, at five times the mass of Earth, but it is receiving just 10 % more heat and light than we do from its G - type star, just like our sun but 1.5 billion years older.

They produce 75 % less heat (i.e. energy) than regular light bulbs and can last up to 10 times longer.

One way to extend human vision is to look for heat rather than light.