Sentences with phrase «produces little energy»

A collision that produces little energy passes through the impacted material at no more than the speed of sound.

Isolated from electrical systems, the lodge has so far produced the little energy it consumes (for laundry, refrigeration, lighting and low consuming artifacts like fans or guests» computers) with regular diesel generators; but is now adjusting its electrical generation system to work with biodiesel.

Not exact matches

The firm's hard - driving, solution - oriented sales culture has produced a new set of clients in a space that may seem to have little in common with energy giants and others in infrastructure.

The energy minister for the UAE, Suhail Mohammed al Mazrouei, said OPEC produce 30.4 million barrels of crude oil a day which is a «little above the organization's target, and this reflects the demand on its crude».

Did you know for example that bioluminescence in fireflies is nearly 100 % efficient, meaning that little energy is wasted to produce their light.

There are so many amazing hormones, are all produced by the placenta, that are taken out of your body with the birth of the placenta (which is why some experience baby blues, drops in energy, etc.) By encapsulating, you are providing your postpartum body the opportunity to benefit from small amounts of these while recovering from birth and caring for your little one.

«To be asked to dig deeper into the pockets of their constituents so a huge, profitable energy company can keep three outdated nuclear plants open is simply unfair and wrong - headed, especially when many areas of the state will not receive little, if any, of the energy produced by the plants.»

Once heralded by the governor as a transformative way to bring down energy costs for consumers while increasing jobs at upstate power producers, the plan announced more than three years ago has produced little progress on a core initiative: a nearly $ 1 billion project to run AC transmission lines around Utica or the Catskills and down the Hudson Valley to meet downstate's growing power needs.

That result contrasts sharply with a controversial study published just over a year ago in Science that suggested that a mixture of prairie grasses farmed with little fertilizer or other inputs would produce a higher net energy yield than ethanol produced from corn (Science, 8 December 2006, p. 1598).

The U.S. has 104 reactors scattered throughout the country, producing 20 percent of the nation's electricity — and 70 percent of our electricity that emits relatively little CO2 pollution, a point emphasized by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.

A nuclear explosion produces lots of energy but little momentum.

The slurry seal is only rock and asphalt, which requires little energy to produce, while the reflective coating contains energy - intensive polymer.»

Traditional lead - acid batteries (like the one that starts your car) produce energy for as little as one - tenth the cost of lithium batteries, but they wear out more quickly and are heavy.

And while it's early - stage work in an area that still recieves little investment from government and industry sources, Matthew O'Connor's mitochondrial mutations team at SENS Research Foundation continue their work to create «backup copies» for the genes that encode the proteins of our energy - producing mitochondria.

In the heart of Wisconsin, a project is underway to produce energy from a resource in little danger of running low: cow manure, also known as «brown gold.»

Brown fat is brown because it is rich in mitochondria, those little parts of the cell that burn fuel and produce energy.

If you eat a fat - rich meal, and hence produce little insulin, then you will presumably still utilise the digested dietary fat as a direct energy source.

But so what happens is inside the mitochondria, the little energy producing cells of the body, we use oxygen to help make ATP.

However, with diabetes, the produces little to no insulin, so the cells do not respond properly, then glucose builds up in the blood and is excreted through the urine; therefore, even though the body has a large amount of glucose, all of that energy is lost.

I love that these balls include energy producing, fiber filled Bob's Red Mill Oats, Omega - 3 rich Raw Chia Seeds and Hemp Hearts and Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Chips - so much goodness in such a small little bite!

To explain the science bit a little, magnesium is a «co-factor» for the enzymes that produce energy for your cells.

Vitamins B6 and B12 don't absorb well when taken orally, so the small amounts placed in most energy drinks will likely have little chance of producing the desired effect.

Here's a little background; ketones are produced when there isn't glucose around for your liver to break down for energy, so your liver breaks down fatty acids instead, hence, Ketones.

Clean energy sources are rich in trace minerals, electrolytes and anti-oxidants and produce very little free radicals.

Mitochondria are little cell powerhouses that produce energy (ATP).

Flat panel displays are also much more energy efficient and low maintenance, producing little to no excess heat or noise, and unlike interactive whiteboards, with TV - style screens, teachers no longer have to squint through the beam of the projector while delivering their lessons.

«A 1990 report produced by the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories broke down the flaws in the «A Nation at Risk» analysis but got little attention.

Watts in itself mean little as it is the amount of energy required to emit a certain amount of light and now that there are different choices from the old plain household incandescent bulb, efficiency has increased so the energy used is less related to the light produced.

More subtly, he was part of a trend that has been little discussed — the desire to transform the physical energy of AbEx into a vocabulary of coolly produced, impersonal, industrial - and commercial - looking forms.

There is also little urgency or decisive economic mechanisms in the document's language about moving toward new ways of producing energy.

Since the fabric is made out of the industrial waste from flax fibre, it doesn't use any extra natural resources and requires little energy to produce.

The truth is if you produce power using old power plants, you're going to be emitting more carbon — but to upgrade those plants, energy's going to be a little bit more expensive, at least on the front end.

Net metering is important because most people are out of the house during the day when solar is producing the most energy and little to none is used.

Enough of this stupidity, this is the AGWSF Greenhouse Effect energy budget, that «shortwave heats the Earth and no longwave infrared from the Sun plays any part in heating the Earth's land and water», either because it doesn't get through some unknown unexplained silly idea of an invisible barrier like the glass of a greenhouse, as per Arrhenius's getting Fourier wrong, or, as Pekka gives, that the Sun produces very little longwave infrared.

California's LCFS also would have little or no impact on GHG emissions nationwide and would harm our nation's energy security by discouraging the use of Canadian crude oil — our nation's largest source of crude — and ethanol produced in the American Midwest.

Anyone with a little curiosity and access to the web can easily determine that wind and solar can not produce enough energy over their life to enable system maintenance.

OLED lights provide low glare, are energy efficient, and produce little to no heat.

And while making wool requires little energy, it is associated with a lot of greenhouse gas emissions because sheep are ruminants (chew the cud) and thus produce methane.

It requires little more energy than what our solar generator produces.

In contrast, most renewable energy sources produce little to no global warming emissions.

Little wonder that the current generation have no idea how energy is produced, how much is consumed and who or what -LSB-...]

It produces a stream of hydrogen instantaneously, using very little energy.

It would be used to produce energy if there appeared to be a risk of power shortages, for example on cold, gray winter days when there is little solar energy available and when neighboring countries have little energy available for export, due to their own needs.

I did bring this up yesterday — only to get an extended and repeated rant from Peter Lang about how current green - energy technologies still cost far too much and produce far too little to replace existing energy sources.

And yet we are being told we must subsidize these behemoths — which produce relatively little power — at huge costs to families, businesses, hospitals, factories and other energy consumers.

«The current green - energy technologies still cost far too much and produce far too little to replace existing energy sources.

The discussion began with the current green - energy technologies still cost far too much and produce far too little to replace existing energy sources.

This is because solar panels tend to produce a little less energy every year.

A collaboration between the MicroPro Company in Ireland and the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in Berlin to develop a computer that's lighter on the environment has produced the iameco (pronounced «I - am - eco»), a wooden touch pad computer that uses very little energy over its entire lifecycle and is 98 percent recyclable.

They also note on their website that» Our manufacturing process uses minimal energy and produces very little waste.