Sentences with phrase «much less the capacity»

The Eindhoven system has so far used the light rays only to download; uploads are still done using radio signals since in most applications much less capacity is needed for uploading.

However, reducing the generation, much less the capacity, is not as simple as it appears on first glance because of the role these units cover.

Not exact matches

The program's current capacity doesn't meet existing demand from homeowners, much less demand from millions more who may be displaced.

With the expansion now in its fourteenth year, there is clearly much less spare capacity available than was the case in its early stages.

It is the central premise behind inflation targeting, and central bankers — essentially without exception — assert that they have the capacity to affect or even determine inflation in the long term, but that they do not have the capacity to affect the average level of output, much less its growth rate over time, even though they may have the capacity to affect the amplitude of cyclical fluctuations.

Its defect lies much less in what it tries to assert — careful training, attentiveness to the person, taking adequate time, and the like — than in what it denies — that people can also be helped in many less formal ways and that it is the inherent business of the minister to use the range of ways open to him in his representative capacity.

It's difficult for us to perceive, much less live from, our innate capacity for love, generosity and compassion.

Very few people in the West grasp the reality, much less the magnitude, of this threat to what might be called «cognitive security»: the capacity of Western populations to see things as they are, including things going on in our own societies.

The heterosexually oriented majority in the church has much to gain from a deeper grappling with this issue: an enriched capacity to love other human beings more fully and with less fear.

If, in consequence, many married couples do not understand or recognise the dangers of concupiscence, and so do not endeavour to contain or purify it, it can dominate their relationship, undermining mutual respect and their very capacity to see marriage essentially as giving and not just as possessing, much less as simply enjoying, appropriating and exploiting.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

«Do we have the capacity to conserve, much less utilize, all this diversity?»

The four interconnections are linked by short, high - voltage lines, but they do not provide nearly enough capacity to move sufficient power back and forth, much less to handle the additional burden of thousands of renewable sources with output that is intermittent and sometimes hard to predict.

The ocean has a much higher heat capacity than land and thus anomalies tend to vary less over monthly timescales.

She then moved into a slightly less demanding capacity playing a pseudo damsel - in - distress in Guy Ritchie's throwback action - comedy The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Admittedly this role hewed much too close to stereotype, though Vikander still made it work).

Teachers make less assumptions about student ability, and students feel they have a much greater capacity to learn.

While there is a reasonable amount of evidence to support the value of superintendents exercising the basic leadership capacities described above, we know much less about what else successful superintendents do.

It won't be as large or provide as much capacity as most of the other vehicles available in the segment, coming in at 13 cubic feet less than the Ford Transit Connect.

It will be considerably cheaper than the GLC, much less the GLE and GLS SUVs, but no less practical with a suggested luggage capacity of 500 litres.

This «realness» allows you to keep in mind that you are the actual owner of something that has the capacity to be a cash generator, and it should make you much less likely to panic sell your real estate holdings.

But yes, they do require more time since due to their small size, they have much less «storage capacity» and therefore do require very frequent trips outside, at least in the first 3 - 4 months.

If the Anthropocene is no less than the beginning of the end of the Earth's capacity to sustain human life, and neoliberal systems of (dis) order have done so much to accelerate our current state of emergency while disguising its real impact, how does one make art about a condition that is so structurally resistant to full - on exposure?

But the atmosphere's heat capacity (= thermal inertia) is much less than the oceans.

Though small by today's standards — the wind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter months.

California has so much surplus electricity that existing power plants run, on average, at slightly less than one - third of capacity.

But that belief in and of itself makes them vulnerable just as much as anyone of supposed lesser intellectual capacity.

Such events tend to be more regional and less likely to cover as large an area as those that occur in spring, in part because soil water storage capacity is typically much greater during the summer.

This much wind capacity will produce about as much electricity as 30 nuclear plants, and that will be a bit less than 5 % of the country's electricity.

If the capacity factor of solar is say 20 % (much less is more realistic without energy storage), the energy is hugely expensive.

If the capacity factor of solar is say 20 % (much less is more realistic without energy storage), the energy hugely expensive.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

This would suggest that the oceans» capacity to absorb CO2 is greater than the Revelle effect suggests and that, perhaps, the rate of ocean acidification is much less than that currently postulated, bearing in mind other factors are at play.

The ability of decentralized renewables to scale up past a low - energy baseline, much less anywhere near full industrial capacity, is largely speculative and aspirational.

SCE could not purchase a much less expensive small gas turbine unit to meet same system need, part of the plan to replace the lost San Onofre nuclear capacity.

If there's no radiation from the Sun, no heat capacity in the model planet, no mass big enough to effect pressure changes («real» ideal gases which don't have mass), nothing much is happening because there's no movement, (movement from the play of hot and cold volumes as hot gases rise and cold sink, becoming less dense and gaining density), but,

Non-hydro «renewable» electrical energy is also more expensive to produce from a system viewpoint than most fossil fuel energy; non-hydro «renewable» sources have a much shorter useful life and operate for much less of each year at much less of their rated capacity.

The generator could then go to the courts, and if it were successful in pulling demand response from capacity markets Dixon said the impacts are much less clear.

Due to the much higher heat capacity of soil relative to air and the thermal insulation provided by vegetation and surface soil layers, seasonal changes in soil temperature deep in the ground are much less than and lag significantly behind seasonal changes in overlying air temperature.

Thus, consultants Ernst and Young note that, in 2005/2006, the UK's ROC system cost consumers 3.2 pence / kilowatt hour, whereas in 2006 the German Feed - In Tariff only cost consumers 2.6 / p / kWh — despite having a much bigger wind capacity in areas with generally much less wind than in the UK.

However droughts and land use changes can raise temperatures by lowering heat capacity which can then raise maximum temperatures with much LESS heat.

But the heat capacity of the atmosphere is so much less than that of the earth, that any warming must be minimal before it all radiates out to space.

The system requires roughly 260 GW of reliable capacity in Central - Western Europe in 2013 and will not require much less in 2030.»

I'm glad that China is expanding nuclear capacity, because I see it as much less dangerous than coal.

So, on current form, the world's most ambitious nuclear program will account for less than 20 % of capacity — probably much less, but the mismatch in projection dates obscures the exact number.

@John Newlands 16April 7.49 am Dollar costing is a proxy for material inputs Not really, 3kW of wind capacity has a similar cost to 1kW of nuclear, but uses much more steel and concrete but a lot less highly skilled labor and capital intensive manufacturing.

Wind power's effective capacity is much less than 30 - 40 % claimed by the wind industry.

Walking, cycling and the use of high - capacity transit are easy and convenient, and can be supplemented by a variety of intermediary transit modes and rented vehicles that are much less space - intensive.

Over a period of time, usually a year, the actual production is averaged out to what is called the «capacity factor», which, is necessarily much less than the the nameplate capacity, since that is attained only in wind speeds from about 30 to 55 mph.

UK wind farms have a theoretical maximum capacity of more than 13,000 megawatts, but produced less than 400 megawatts of power for much of the peak demand period — meeting less than one per cent of the UK's electricity needs, published data suggests.

For example, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's publication, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada,» (Sept. 2012) recommends lowering legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro bono.