Sentences with phrase «much available energy»

When left with a choice our body will divert as much available energy to BMR (aka keeping us alive) as possible.

Not exact matches

And knowing the concentrations of radiogenic elements inside Mars will help scientists figure out how much energy was available to fuel all of this activity, Smrekar said.
There are much better sources of carbs available to provide energy, eg: wholegrains and starchy carbs such as sweet potato.
«The first thing I did was try to get a grip on the spending and what I found was that it took a while for the department to actually give me the numbers of how much has been spent within the Levy Control Framework, which is the subsidy that's available to renewable energy until 2020.
Instead, it appears to be related to a much more fundamental metabolic constraint: the length of time required for the animal to reach its theoretical maximum speed, based on the number of «fast twitch» muscle fiber cells in the creature's muscles, as compared to the length of time it takes for those cells to run out of readily available energy.
Not all positions are equally available: electrons can only reside at certain distances from the nucleus, with these distances related to how much energy the electron holds.
The battery initially showed an estimated cell - specific energy of more than 500 Wh / kg and it maintained it at > 300 Wh / kg after 1,000 cycles — much higher than that of currently available lithium - ion cells.
Insulin levels rise and fall depending on the body's energy needs and how much blood sugar is available for storage.
At the heart of those devices sits the most powerful magnet available today — a mix of neodymium, iron and boron, which can produce an energy product of as much as 60 megagauss — oersteds (a unit of magnetic strength).
That is in part because you waste less making the electricity and also because electric engines convert as much as 75 percent of available energy into forward motion, compared with the 20 percent energy conversion rate of gasoline engines.
The results, recently published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, show that the algorithm can plan vehicle paths that are more energy efficient than ones planned by existing methods, and that it's robust enough to deal with environments for which not much data is available.
Officials in Pennsylvania were not immediately available to say how much gas and oil energy companies produce from state forest and park land.
Luckily, you have three exercise energy systems that can be selectively recruited, depending on how much oxygen is available, as part of the cellular respiration process to generate the ATP energy for your muscles.
You'll also find that you have a vast amount of energy available to you as your body metabolizes much faster and converts it into energy better.
Again this is a great biochemical trick, and much larger storage capability for energy compared to carbohydrates, so that in hard times we can call upon this large energy store and survive for around 21 days until food is available again.
The sooner we end our unnecessary struggles around food body and weight, the sooner we can live the life we're meant to live, and the sooner we can have all our energies available to make this world a much better place.
This provides your muscle cells with much higher levels of readily available energy, which, unsurprisingly, improves anaerobic capacity, strength and power, and resistance to fatigue.
In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.
Clearly children's diets need attention, and there have been a number of initiatives to break the unhealthy eating habit, including: The National Healthy Schools Programme (1998 to 2009), which included healthy and nutritious foods being made available in school canteens and vending machines; The School Food Plan, (launched in 2015), which provided a new set of standards for all food served in schools, offering children more healthy, balanced diets, and withdrawing the provision of unhealthy snacks and drinks in school vending machines; and the much - publicised new sugar tax, which will be imposed on companies according to the sugar content of the energy and fizzy drinks they produce.
With all of that energy available for them to jump, you can clearly see how much exercise they need to burn it all up.
We can then do the simple math of subtracting the energy available from renewable sources (now and into the near future) and what we're left with is how much energy needs to come from fossil fuels.
With these thoughts in mind, the available source of energy, namely coal, very much will tie quality of life to CO2.
And so it's a very big deal that we not push energy prices up too much, so that things like fertilizer, lighting, refrigeration, air conditioning eventually — the kinds of things we take for granted — by 2100 should be available to everyone on the planet.
Because melting is so much more energetically efficient than sublimation, the main way that moderate changes in atmospheric conditions — including air temperature — affect ablation is through changing the number of hours during which melting occurs, and the amount of energy available for melting.
Germany has a transparency system where we can see how much renewable energy is currently available on the grid.
There's too much cheap coal available to dismiss it as a good energy source.
If only that much people (one out of ten) could manage to have a really decent life, yet, with (and historically only once was) «easy» fossil fuel energy source available, is it reasonable to expect that 10 times more people will manage to do so in future without that exceptional source of energy and much less «easy» renewable energy sources?
So, if we want a sustainable future we had better get a handle on how much energy there actually is that is available to do useful work, and how much is humankind's fair share.
«Both the eddy kinetic energy and the dry mean available potential energy have a maximum for a climate close to that of present day Earth and are smaller in much warmer and much colder climates»
If low energy density of solar is a problem in my home state of California, where we have large deserts available for solar farms, imagine how much more of a problem it is in South Korea, which has far more people per square kilometer.
Find out how much natural sunlight is available in your area local area and how to take advantage of this natural energy
How about focus on increase economic growth [or screw the planet for as much energy as is available].
Given that offshore energy development is a young industry, there isn't much information available for determining ideal sites for wind farms, he added.
[DB] Actually, when the heat energy is considered, during the Arctic melt season more energy is delivered to the Arctic than the tropics (due to the much longer periods of daylight available):
To know how much energy from a particular source can actually be deployed by society, we must factor in both the production costs and the system costs — that is, the energy required to make energy available to the end user.
There is indeed «a great deal of controversy about how much uranium will be available for future use» as pointed out here before going on to cite the conclusions of this well - documented 48 - page 2006 report from the Energy Watch Group based in Europe.
How much energy is available after subtracting the energy costs to extract, process, and deliver the resource?
are sooooo much easier to adapt to, when energy is readily available and easily affordable.
As such, the Department of Energy and Climate Change has decided to act on the recommendations laid out in the June report from the Climate Change Committee, with as much as # 9.5 billion to be made available through three separate CCS competition projects over the next 15 years, on top of the # 1 billion already pledged for the first commercial stage demonstration project.
sonnen is providing its virtual battery pool that can deliver exact forecasts how much energy will be available in a certain region and within a certain time.
Energy should be cheap, decentralized, and readily available to all — pretty much the same way that nature brings it.
But data — where available — on how much energy a given home has been using should be a central concern, O'Shaughnessy suggested.
Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.
With inexpensive and much cleaner alternatives now available, and with these alternatives proving increasingly competitive with the rickety and harmful old energy sources that the world's tax payers unjustly prop up, there's really no excuse in creating further delays for the far less dangerous and harmful clean energy systems we all deserve.
A worldwide survey of wind energy by the Stanford team of Cristina Archer and Mark Jacobson concluded that harnessing one fifth of the earth's available wind energy would provide seven times as much electricity as the world currently uses.
«This order is an important step forward that will result in new projects in the ground, but much work remains to ensure that community solar can achieve its full potential to make affordable local clean energy available to customers all over the state, to help realize Governor Cuomo's clean energy goals, and to help replace power from the Indian Point nuclear plant.
Transportation fuels are a much smaller part of the total energy pie, but it is likely that new technologies will also become available, which are fully competitive with fossil fuels for this sector.
Gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, etc. pack a lot of energy per unit, can be burned pretty clean, do not destroy engines, are readily available, cost much less energy to produce than what they provide, and do not distort things like food supplies or national budgets to use.
Seems the data that I found available on under sea volcanos indicated insufficient energy output for making much difference in ocean temperature.
(As I understand it, energy is either consumed or released in these reactions depending on how much oxygen is available in the local environment.)
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