Sentences with phrase «little energy compared»

Reconditioning a wind turbine takes little energy compared to making it initially, but over time, that is the only important energy investment because it is the only one that scales with ongoing return.

Cleaning, sterilizing, and re-labeling a used bottle requires little energy compared with recycling cans made from aluminum, which has a melting point of 660 degrees Celsius (1,220 degrees Fahrenheit).

Building them takes advantage of in situ resources and the lack of gravity to be done with very little energy compared to building on earth.

Not exact matches

I sometimes compare customer service to a farm team in baseball — our new employees who start there have plenty of fresh talent and energy, but may need a little guidance to figure out how they can shine the brightest.

Compared to the egg, which travels little and stays protected close to home, the sperm must travel far in hostile territory, competing with many rivals: speed, energy, and tenacity will be rewarded and perpetuated by natural selection, and not only in the sperm.

Another DM would not hurt — I still don't trust Xhaka's energy levels, he seems to run out of steam and he is a little one dimensional (compare Y. Toure's and Fernandihno's midfield pairing to ours yesterday)

The boss doesn't believe his team were overconfident or complacent, just little bit lacking in energy compared to our opponents.

A baby uses very little energy to take milk from a bottle compared to breastfeeding.

They use up very little energy as compared with an oven, they don't heat up the house, and because they are slow cookers, they free you up to do other tasks while your meal is cooking.

When Claude Bouchard at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, compared people's stools, he found little difference in their energy content regardless of how predisposed they were to gain weight.

According to the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), based in Washington DC, the best sites can generate electricity for as little as 5.5 cents per kilowatt - hour, compared with 8 or 9 cents per kilowatt - hour for natural gas plants.

Unexpectedly, little extra metabolic energy (as compared to that expended carrying a rigid backpack) is required during electricity generation.

I never had this much energy in my life with so little food (compared to what and how frequently I was eating) and I have saved so much time.

The Avengers team up in little combos (I think I saw Star - Lord stepping on Strange's energy shields to get a better vantage point to shoot from), but nothing seems to compare to Thanos» power — he literally uses a planet as a projectile at one point, drawing it in from space and directing it squarely at the Avengers.

Compared to a frontal impact, there is very little space inside the vehicle interior in which to absorb energy and severe injuries to the head and the chest are common.

Xcel still seems a little pricey compared to many peers, but it is a high - quality operation with plans to invest billions of dollars in renewable energy.

Brown rice is a little higher in protein and a little lower in fat when compared to white rice, although white rice is an easily digestible carbohydrate which makes it a good source of energy when your dog has an upset tummy or if you are feeding an older dog.

Men seem almost immovable specks — the cranes move slowly, the river drifts around the cofferdam, a distant hum of motors blend with the splash of the water... Energy, calculation, size, skill, and knowledge they have and require but they are little more than magnified toys nevertheless, and pride in them certainly compared to a boys delight in the first machine he made.»

And you've seen the graphs of not just the U.S., but the O.E.C.D., when you compare different sectors, it's unbelievable how little goes into energy research if it's as important as world leaders say it is.

When you compare current electricity and natural gas prices, the same unit of energy will cost you about three times more for electricity so you can expect to pay a little bit more on your utility bill, even with a sizable energy efficiency improvement.

Over the past millennium this graph, most of which is obtained from Antarctic ice cores, shows CO2 holding steady at 280 ± 5 ppm up to 1800, when global population was about a billion people and sailing ships and the horse - and - buggy were the most advanced forms of transportation, consuming relatively little energy per capita compared with today.

The reason is easy to understand: renewable fuels are energy - diffuse, meaning that there is very little energy per unit of mass compared to both fossil fuels and uranium.

Because so little energy is required to cultivate crops such as switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol production, and because electricity can be co-produced using the residues of such cellulosic fuel production, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for celluslosic ethanol when compared to gasoline are greater than 100 per cent.

If contained as a gas then it must be kept under very high pressure and still little energy can be contained in a given volume compared to petrol.

For his summer project, Jemin has been comparing the mining, material use and waste impacts of different energy sources including renewables like solar and wind, which we tend to think of as having little to no environmental impact.

Several recent studies show little to no economic potential to increase biopower in the U.S. over the next two decades because of its relatively high costs compared with other renewable energy and low carbon technologies (EIA 2015, EPA 2015, NREL 2015, UCS 2014, UCS 2015).

Despite their high energies, flares are minuscule compared to the entire energy output of the Sun, and thus cause very little change in TSI.

Arguably, there may be little point in comparing predicted versus measured total energy use in an individual home in this kind of detail, because the two figures are unlikely to be making the same assumptions about usage.

The APS report shows that DAC systems can take up relatively little land compared to other renewable energy technologies such as solar or wind.

Energy hawks — hell, all of us, really — have no doubt gotten a little tired of hearing about how much investment China is dumping into clean energy compared to the United SEnergy hawks — hell, all of us, really — have no doubt gotten a little tired of hearing about how much investment China is dumping into clean energy compared to the United Senergy compared to the United States.

But One Block Off the Grid's little infographic went and made it pretty clear just how China's investment in renewable energy compares to the United States» — and it's not pretty.