Sentences with phrase «released enormous amounts of heat»
These fusion reactions convert part of these atoms» mass (roughly 4 million tons) into energy, and release an enormous amount of this heat and light energy into the Solar System.
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Dr David Jess from the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University Belfast explains: «For a long time scientists across the globe have predicted that Alfvén waves travel upwards from the solar surface to break in the higher layers, releasing enormous amounts of energy in the form of heat.
The following lava streams entered carbonate rocks and coal beds, from which they in turn released enormous amounts of CO2, perhaps equivalent to 3 trillion tonnes of pure carbon, or some 11 gigatonnes of CO2, a 2010 Nature Geoscience study estimates, quite suddenly switching the world from cooling to heating.