Sentences with phrase «measure of the energy released»

These supercavities are «the most direct possible» measure of the energy released by the black hole's ravenous appetite, says astronomer Brian McNamara of Ohio University in Athens, lead author of the study in the 6 January issue of Nature.

Is there a measure of energy released by year?

Not exact matches

Despite the dozens of optimistic press releases and announcements from Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), and House champion Fred Upton, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, the measure is stuck.

She noted that CSWA's program recently marked its first decade with publication of a 2012 Progress Report and the third edition of the California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook and release of a new Performance Metrics tool for measuring vineyard and winery use of water, energy and applied nitrogen, and greenhouse gas emissions.

The New York Independent System Operator released a report analyzing the retirement of the Indian Point nuclear plant, concluding that system reliability criteria can be met with one or more types of solutions including generation, transmission, energy efficiency, and demand response measures.

Full details of the measures that will give strengthen the rights of energy consumers are now on a news release on the Department for Energy and Climate Change's weenergy consumers are now on a news release on the Department for Energy and Climate Change's weEnergy and Climate Change's website.

By measuring the relative abundance of various elements in debris left over from nuclear explosions, researchers say they can accurately estimate the amount of energy released during the initial blast.

If it's positive, it means that CO2 is being released into the atmosphere, and the way we quantify that is with the eddy covariance technique that measures the exchange of mass and energy between the atmosphere and the land - surface.»

They measured the amount of stretch a kirigami film can undergo before peeling away from the polymer surface — a measurement they used to calculate the material's critical «energy - release rate,» a quantity to evaluate detaching.

Now Pekola and his group want to go to the quantum regime but they first need a detector capable of measuring the energy released by the quantum systems.

The work provides the first measurement of the energy spectrum of photons, or particles of light, that are released in the otherwise extensively measured process known as neutron beta decay.

When researchers measured the metabolic rates of this intricately patterned insect, they found that butterflies that expended the most energy during flight also lived the longest, whether they were lab - bound or released to island meadows in Finland.

The ascent speeds of those convective clouds are determined by a factor called CAPE — convective available potential energy — which is measured by balloon - borne instruments, called radiosondes, released around the U.S. twice a day.

The researchers observed the volunteers during standardized walking tests to measure the amount of energy the Achilles tendons stored and released while walking.

The Northwest Climate Toolbox currently has ten tools, or applications designed around a set of climate metrics such as temperature, precipitation, and more complex measures including the energy release component (we'll get to that last one in a bit).

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released Ames Laboratory's Performance Evaluation Report Card for FY 2017, and the results show the Laboratory improved on its FY 2016 performance and now exceeds expectations in a majority of the key performance areas measured.

The word «calorie» can evoke some strong emotional reactions, but when it comes down to it, a calorie is just a measure of the energy that's released when something is burned.

To determine the energy value of food, the food is burnt and the heat energy it releases is measured.

In a System where - in the Mass of the most involved materials contained is proportioned in kilogramsx10 ^ 24, then alterations to Turbulence within those materials WILL release (or uptake) vast amounts of Kinetic Energy, and that this will then be observed as a RISE (or DECLINE) in the measured «temperature» of the System with NO NEED for alteration of the RATE of overall «new» Kinetic Energy production.

Thus, in a system where in the Mass of the materials contained is proportioned in the atmosphere at ~ 0.0000051 x10 ^ 24 kilograms & oceans at ~ 0.0014 x10 ^ 24 kilograms (*), then it need to be realised that alterations to Turbulence WILL release vast amounts of Kinetic Energy that can then be observed as a RISE or DECLINE in the measured «temperature» of those (various) materials constituting the System.

Another way to look at the same phenomenon is to measure the «carbon - intensity» of the world's energy sector — that is, how many tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere for each unit of energy that's generated.

In another prong of that plan, the Energy Department today will announce measures to curb methane releases, a less ubiquitous yet more potent greenhouse gas, said Dan Utech, a White House energy adEnergy Department today will announce measures to curb methane releases, a less ubiquitous yet more potent greenhouse gas, said Dan Utech, a White House energy adenergy adviser.

As the EU Commission prepares to release a review of the EU Renewable Energy Directive and Market Design Initiative in late November 2016, this RE100 report, prepared by E3G, calls on policy makers to ensure that measures are put in place that would give companies easier access to renewable power in Europe - providing greater control over energy costs and long - term business stabEnergy Directive and Market Design Initiative in late November 2016, this RE100 report, prepared by E3G, calls on policy makers to ensure that measures are put in place that would give companies easier access to renewable power in Europe - providing greater control over energy costs and long - term business stabenergy costs and long - term business stability.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- A group of business leaders, energy experts and former government leaders believes that the Obama administration could tackle climate change by taking measures that do not require congressional approval, according to a report released on Tuesday.