Sentences with phrase «overall energy balance»

Thus, if technological developments make it more efficient and at least as economical to produce liquid biofuels from cellulosic material rather than from food crops, the result would be reduced competition with food production, an increase in energy efficiency and improved overall energy balance.

Ocean heat content variability is thus a critical variable for detecting the effects of the observed increase in greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere and for resolving the Earth's overall energy balance.

Studies show what matter more than anything else is overall energy balance and getting all your protein in one meal vs. 6 spread out meals doesn't matter.

The overall energy balance sheet covering the entire vehicle life reveals the new A8 achieves better results than its predecessor with respect to all important environmental criteria, including CO2 emissions.

HYBRID: the system controls automatically select the most sensible operating mode with combustion engine and / or electric motor for optimising the overall energy balance

The ways that exercise reduces cancer risk is not fully understood, but Steven Moore, a researcher from the National Cancer Institute and the study leader, says that they suspect that changes in hormone levels, inflammation, digestion and overall energy balance are likely to play a role.

If the overall energy balance for the surface of the Earth is performed using only NET energy transfers, then the result would be as follows:

This does properly balance in with the other portions of the overall energy balance.

That claim is too simple to be useful, ignoring a) the complex interaction of Boltzmann radiation with the surface, the clouds, the GHGs, and the like, and b) the various regimes in the tropics, each of which modifies and changes the overall energy balance by things like convection and latent heat transfer.

These impact the overall energy balance of the planet, known as radiative forcing, which is what causes the global temperature to rise.

As a response, the atmosphere must warm up until the new radiating level is hot enough to re-establish an overall energy balance.

So, reduced sea ice during the sunnier summer months has a big impact on the Arctic's overall energy balance.

«To diagnose how sustainable you are right now, make a chart to determine whether your overall energy balance is positive or negative, and what might be sapping it,» she suggests.