Sentences with phrase «mechanical energy from»

I believe what Jerry is refering to is the idea of using a column of spinning air to transfer the mechanical energy from CAPE (potential buoyant energy of hot and / or humid air near the surface) in an updraft to the surface.

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The motor may also provide insight into the workings of the biomolecular machines that harness energy from food to perform mechanical work such as cell division and muscle movement.

«This is the first study, to our knowledge, that demonstrates the mechanical continuity, strain transfer, and conformational changes that result from chemical energy release from the atomic scale up through the whole - cell level, as well as how tensegrity guides those changes to drive cellular movement,» says Ingber.

The scientists suggest that flavivirus helicases could have evolved a conserved motor to convert chemical energy from nucleoside triphosphate to mechanical energy to unwind their genetic material, but the motors of the flaviviruses move in distinct ways to access their genomic RNA.

the former calculated from the number and frequency of the ion's phonons (vibrational mechanical energy)

Wind power is one of the key sources of renewable energy expected to play an important role in helping to cut emissions and wean society from its dependence on fossil fuels, which means wind - power companies must be prepared to quickly fix mechanical problems that threaten to slow down renewable energy production.

But that has not stopped mechanical engineers at the University of Strathclyde's Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU) in Scotland from developing one that will ride the tide while latched to the seabed by a cable — like a kite flying on a windy day.

Published by the Condensed Matter research group at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the Organic Materials Database is intended as a data mining resource for research into the electric and magnetic properties of crystals, which are primarily defined by their electronic band structure — an energy spectrum of electrons motion which stem from their quantum - mechanical properties.

The researchers discovered the high - tech material can act as a microphone (by capturing the vibrations from sound, or mechanical energy, and converting it to electrical energy) as well as a loudspeaker (by operating the opposite way: converting electrical energy to mechanical energy).

(As a side remark, energy in this instance means only the energy that can be taken away from the particles and does not include the rest mass or quantum mechanical zero - point energies for confined particles.)

New research from Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in South Korea, published this week in APL Materials, from AIP Publishing, demonstrates the ability of mechanical energy produced by typical body motions to power a watch or smartphone.

In an effort to remove the robots from their battery - shackles, Baughman and colleagues have designed two types of artificial muscle that also act as fuel cells — converting chemical energy to mechanical movement.

Kinesins transform energy from the chemical ATP, or adenosine triphosphate, into mechanical action.

In the past few years, physicists have investigated ways to produce energy from qubits, or quantum - mechanical systems like subatomic particles.

Harnessing vibrations from the air using piezoelectric transducers, which would convert that mechanical energy into electricity, seemed like a better idea.

The team, which includes Associate Professor Vincent Tan from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor Anand Sarma from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

Big animals have longer legs or flippers to get from point A to point B. And bigger bodies have higher metabolic rates and more fast - twitch muscle cells, needed to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy and rapidly accelerate.

The research team, which consists of graduates and undergraduates in Vanderbilt's interdisciplinary materials science program and department of mechanical engineering, describe this achievement in a paper titled «From the Junkyard to the Power Grid: Ambient Processing of Scrap Metals into Nanostructured Electrodes for Ultrafast Rechargeable Batteries» published online this week in the journal ACS Energy Letters.

Muscle contraction is pretty inefficient from a metabolic perspective, with around 50 % of the energy produced lost in the form of heat, instead of being used for moving an object (mechanical energy).

It's great for not only cracking up to speed in a hurry, but also in driving from the corners — though much of that energy is wasted in spinning up the inside wheel, the Swift Sport without both electronic torque vectoring or a mechanical diff.

The MGU - K converts mechanical and heat energy into electrical energy that can be stored for later deployment and the MGU - H takes heat from the exhaust and uses it to create electrical energy.

The spray paint produces marks distanced from my body but still tied to it, they are mechanical and yet they are still my own movements — full of new energy and possibility.

Aside from their surreal melding of mechanical and organic subjects, DiBenedetto's paintings and drawings capture furtive, elastic energies; they seem to threaten to burst from their frames.

He served on the Energy Policy Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 2008 - 2011.

Increasing the concentration of radiative gases in the atmosphere increases the speed of circulation in the Hadley, Ferrel and Polar convective cells, thereby increasing the strength of mechanical energy transport away from the surface and lower atmosphere.

Active solar: As an energy source, energy from the sun collected and stored using mechanical pumps or fans to circulate heat - laden fluids or air between solar collectors and a building.

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(that is, unless at the same time mechanical work is done, or energy is supplied from the surroundings by some other means)

But going from heat to electrical or mechanical energy involves considerable losses; typical steam turbine generators run at about 33 % conversion efficiency — i.e. only 1/3 of the thermal energy gets converted to electricity.

ii) The real question is whether changes in radiative characteristics alone can result in energy being transferred from the radiative SDL to the mechanical AAL so as to add to the energy in that latterLoop and thereby significantly increase the temperature of atmosphere and surface by in turn increasing the time delay in the transmission of energy through the system.

& Dr Guillermo Rein, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, says: «Wind turbines are viable sources of renewable energy that can assist the world to reduce emissions and help wean us off fossil fuels.

Moreover, it is easy to make the frame for a mechanical pedal powered machine from scavenged materials, bringing the embodied energy down to almost zero, while this is an impossibility for the batteries.

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.

Mechanical energy derived from tidal movement, wave motion or ocean current and exploited for electricity generation.

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When energy is transformed from one form to another, it tends to flow from a higher grade or more ordered form - such as mechanical, electrical energy, chemical or high - temperature heat - to a lower - grade or more disordered form, ultimately low - temperature heat.

However, while equilibrium thermodynamics allow the estimation of the maximum possible mechanical work from heat it provides neither information about the actual efficiency of converting heat to work (kinetic energy) nor whether such conversion to motion actually occurs.

He is a licensed professional engineer and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a M.S. in Solar Energy Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.

A study looking into a process called Mechanical and thermal expression, that can reduce the water content of Loy Yang (Yallourn) coal from 60 % to 30 %, is discused in an Australian Institute of Energy document.

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Mechanical Energy Due to gravity Hydropower from dams Tides Due to Waves Surface Currents Underwater Currents Hydroelectric Power Unlike steam powerplants, work instead of heat is directly available.

Three other reference houses met code minimums for energy efficiency and did not have mechanical ventilation or dehumidification separate from cooling, and had conventional vented attics.

Three reference houses had the same energy efficiency measures and controlled mechanical ventilation, but no dehumidification separate from cooling.

If even a very small fraction of the total energy stored in the latent heat of water vapor or from the heat of tropical ocean waters could be captured and converted into mechanical energy, we would be able to meet a large portion of our present and future energy needs.

Let's take the process of a hurricane... Scientists believe it is the energy of the ocean that produces them... pure bull crap from a mechanical and practical point of view.

The Pedalite principle is to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy from the movement of the pedal spindle.

Two things that are becoming increasingly important parts of our clean technology future are improved batteries and mechanical energy harvesting devices, also known as piezoelectric devices, that can generate electricity from our everyday movements.

The creation directly of Thermal IR heating to land and sea in raising the temperature of the Earth which then radiates out x amount of Thermal IR, and, the creation of heat from Life itself as it uses these different energies, including the Solar of the cartoon, to convert to chemical and mechanical uses which enable Life to flourish and in turn radiate out Thermal IR.

OK, so again: ASIDE from all losses and mechanical frictions etc., etc., expended in displacing horizontally without gaining or losing potential gravitational energy, there is a NEW CONDITION with the moved mass.

Any other form of energy can be turned into heat, either partially, or completely; and what lay folks refer to as «heat» is simply the result of turning some other form of energy; which can include EM radiation; once again, all the way from down to but not including DC, up to the end of the gama ray spectrum (orbeyond), into the waste mechanical energy of some physical matter; and for most people that is a result of absorption of EM radiation by mostly water in the human body; that's what WE feel as «heat».