Sentences with phrase «much smaller fraction»

If Toyota wanted to do something clever, it would take a page from the Tesla / Fisker strategy book and introduce series plug - in hybrids and electric cars as luxury vehicles since the extra costs for the battery and R&D; would be a much smaller fraction of the total price compared to, say, a $ 30k vehicle.

Trenberth's 40 W / m ^ 2 escape via the atmospheric window, also seems too low to me; implying almost complete absorption of the surface emission by the atmosphere whereas spectral plots would seem to allow capture of a much smaller fraction of the total energy.

Historically, about half of the crude oil that comes out of the Trans - Alaska Pipeline System has been shipped by tanker to refineries in California (the other half is sent to refineries in Washington state, with a much smaller fraction sent to foreign markets).

When particles are dispersed in water at ambient temperature, energy is directed primarily to vaporization of water into steam, with a much smaller fraction resulting in heating of the fluid.

(Part of an ordinary star or white dwarf also exists as this energy, but a much smaller fraction.)

Not exact matches

Thanks very much to our hosts Celestino and Dorian who represent just a small fraction of all the awesome people that we met in Galena.

This is a small fraction of the landscape — much less than 1 percent of the surface area of the northern hemisphere.

To give a sense of the scale, a conventional optical parametric amplifier costs several hundred thousand dollars, and occupies an entire optical table, while the newly developed amplifier is much smaller than a paper clip, and costs a fraction of the former.»

Rather, the work of folding is done by much smaller water molecules, which surround proteins and push and pull at them to make them fold a certain way in fractions of a second, like scores of tiny origami artists folding a giant sheet of paper at blazingly fast speeds.

Australia, which has a policy for representation, has a smaller fraction of its land conserved but a higher land protection equality of 0.51, a much more representative system.

And because the body doesn't need much of the enzyme, modifying just a small fraction of the liver's cells should be enough to treat the disease.

Regardless of how much warming is natural vs anthropogenic, if the warming rate is half, one - third, or an even smaller fraction over the past 25 yrs than you have been led to believe it was, would that not be cause for serious reflection?

Because it covers more of the sky, the K2 mission is capable of observing a larger fraction of cooler, smaller, red - dwarf type stars, and because such stars are much more common in the Milky Way than Sun - like stars, nearby stars will predominantly be red dwarfs.

A weekly column, Astronomically Speaking, filled local newspapers between 2002 and 2009, thousands pass through the York University Observatory annually, weekly public viewings continue to this day, and astronomy - related coursework continues to be offered at York University — these accomplishments and much more are only a small fraction of Delaney's outreach successes.

Based on studies that have been done, surprisingly, only a small fraction of good bacteria was affected by the oregano oil, while the bad bacteria was eradicated at much higher levels.

A study that I recently posted on another blog showed that small, dense LDL particles were much more susceptible to oxidation compared to large particles, and it is becoming fairly well known that oxidized LDL is the fraction that is particularly damaging.

Like usual, I packed way too much and only wore a small fraction of what I brought, but that's pretty much always the case with me.

When you hear that, you have to wonder why training professionals put so much of their time and effort (and budget) into such a small fraction of the training experience.

A mathematician I know who teaches at a small college told me that a graduate of his education school caused much embarrassment when, during the interview for a job in an elementary school, the job seeker was unable to add two fractions when asked to do so.

As a country, we can choose to increase spending by billions of dollars for very modest results — or, for a small fraction of the cost, we can achieve much more by simply letting great educators open up schools.

But the budget that brought them here is a far smaller fraction than even that: «I don't know the exact figure,» Winskill admits, «but it's not much.

And only OverDrive among the library digital vendors offers much in the way of recent release eComics, and that only a small fraction of what's potentially available.

There are a couple of other reasons why the Kindle makes a superior e-book reading device than the iPad: it costs a small fraction of the price ($ 139 vs. $ 499), it weighs 1 / 3rd as much (8.5 ounces vs. 24 ounces), and it's smaller and more portable.

This is a small percentage — anywhere from a fraction of a percent to as much as 2 % or more of your balance — that is skimmed off of your return.

Fractions of a percent don't add up to much in small portfolios.

I imagine that no major publisher would be interested in having a division that focuses on indie games because they would much prefer to devote their resources to their large financial risks, so they don't have the bandwidth to put people on these smaller projects that could be profitable, but are a small fraction of the company's revenue.

When we asked how much it cost to put the 3x3 meter stage together, the team told us it was around the price of a small smart car — a fraction of what a major studio would pay.

Despite this much of the public remains familiar with only a very small fraction of her work.

But if such a biofuel is grown and manufactured without much fossil - based energy, if it doesn't come from fields or forests (Mr. Charles stressed there is no palm oil involved), this might be the first hint that aviation — still a small fraction of the overall greenhouse - gas pie, but one of the fastest - growing wedges — could avoid adding greatly to the climate challenge while subtracting just a little bit from the world's energy challenge.

And for the foreseeable future, as long as we are burning it in cars and trucks that utilize such a small fraction of the energy in internal combustion engines we will not have much to show for our efforts in the end.

Most of the grounded West Antarctic ice sheet drains into the floating Ross and Ronne - Filchner ice shelves, but a significant fraction also drains into the much smaller Pine Island Glacier.

Near surface tropospheric temperatures are such a small fraction of Earth's non-tectonic energy reservoir, and the thermal inertia of this region is so small compared to the ocean, that it's like trying to see how much extra weight and inertia a flee or does not add to a dog.

Methane that escapes the sea is generally a small fraction of methane that is released from clathrates at the sea floor, though if the concentration rose high enough so much could make it to the atmosphere that the impact of methane as a GHG in air (before it devolves to CO2 in air) overwhelmed the negative effects of methane decomposing to CO2 in the oceans..

Of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions only a small fraction comes from the activities of human beings, but it is that small fraction that might threaten the equilibrium between the much greater flows.

Chemistry tells us how much CO2 should rise from ocean outgassing with each degree and it is a small fraction of the rise that has actually occurred with the first degree of warming.

The authors of the study estimate that all bird fatalities from wind turbines range from 214,000 to 368,000 annually — a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers, 1.4 to 3.7 billion fatalities from cats, and of the many other, much larger threats that birds face today.

If over the course of 40 years the world switched all the coal power plants over to natural gas, generating half as much greenhouse gas per watt - hour of electricity, then the warming would slow — but only by a small fraction.

... re my last comment — interesting point, the actual change in kinetic energy dissipation in the area of the wind farm was a small fraction of the energy output of the wind farm, because much of that energy would otherwise have been dissipated by land cover.

If one also understands all the other issues we face in terms of resource constraints, environmental issues, climate change, etc., then one also understands we must ultimately use a fraction of the resources we do today, thus must replace a much smaller percentage than we are using today.

I believe that this has not changed very much despite dramatic falls in the cost of the solar cells themselves, because the cost of the solar cells are but a small fraction of the total installation costs.

Since the Polish data is a such a small fraction of the globe (and there are a few Polish stations in any case via RBSC or GCOS), this doesn't make much difference to hemispheric means or regional climate.

0.08 % might not sound like much, but when you consider the total area covered by forests around the world, a small fraction of a very big number is still a big number.

Now the only thing I don't seem to know is the proper division of rates of overall radiation from the bulk atmosphere and how much might actually reverse thermalize back to the GHG gases with most molecules just thermalizing again and a small fraction actually radiating.

Since 2003, solo and small - firm lawyers across North America have relied on Ruby's charming receptionists to answer calls live in English and Spanish, transfer calls, take messages, collect new client intake, make follow - up calls, and much more — just like an in - house receptionist, at a fraction of the cost.

I don't think it is possible in the majority of cases to successfully stop this or even much hope that more than a small fraction of cases will be even be classified as such when you have unrepresented parents going up against trained lawyers.

Since 2003, solo and small - firm lawyers across North America have relied on Ruby's charming receptionists to answer calls live, transfer calls, take messages, collect new client intake, make follow - up calls, and much more — just like an in - house receptionist, at a fraction of the cost.

The results of LegalTech are always skewed because it's such a small sample, and because only a small fraction of attendees get to see much more than the exhibits floor.

Such a small, low climb up the rate scale may not seem like much, but analysts believe ratcheting up even a fraction of a point may affect millions of Americans financially.

So the Bitcoin network used 59 times as much power as the Visa network to perform a small fraction of the transactions.

At more than $ 1,500, you would need to have a very good reason to pay that much for a USB drive, when you could simply use multiple smaller drives and spend a fraction of that.