Sentences with phrase «small amounts of energy from»

If even a small amount of energy from phonons (the sound units that carry the energy through the germanium or silicon, much as photons are the units of light) hit the detector, it can be enough to make the device lose superconductivity and register a potential dark matter event through a device called a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID.

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Currently relatively small amounts of energy are consumed from this category (i.e., 4 % in adults and 5.5 % in children).

The small amounts of «milk» they receive from their mothers in these early days, called colostrum, offers high levels of protective immunological benefits and sugars for energy and prepare the baby for the larger volume of milk that comes in by the third or fourth day of life.

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.

The ability to send large amounts of energy across greater physical distance to in - motion platforms from low cost charging plates could one day allow the technology to expand beyond small consumer electronics like cell phones and begin powering bigger things like automobiles.

The amount of energy needed from food is relatively small: around 250 calories a day until they are 9 months old.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

«The project team's result is an excellent example of how a small amount of catalytic funding from ARPA - E can help build the foundation to hopefully turn scientific discoveries into low - cost, early - stage energy technologies.»

The system's spectral energy distribution reveals a mid-infrared excess, which we model as thermal emission from a small amount of dust located in the inner cavity of a circumbinary disk.

To explain active galaxies, scientists must be able to explain how they emit such large amounts of energy from such small areas of the galactic nuclei.

In order to achieve the state of ketosis, you are only allowed to eat a small amount of carbohydrate energy from fruits and starchy vegetables.

When you start getting that low, you run into problems because your body isn't getting enough energy and nutrients from the small amount of food you're eating.

Solar power would comprise over 85 percent of this total, with the remainder coming from wind power and smaller amounts of geothermal energy and biomass - based fuels.

Also the C2 aspect of the equation acts as a symbol of an enormous amount of energy that can be produced from a small amount of matter which is traveling at the speed of light; we then get into interesting paradoxes like: an object approaching the speed of light would have infinite mass, but an object traveling at the speed of light has no mass.

A huge laser delivers a large amount of energy in a short time to heat the walls of the larger chamber, and the radiation emitted from those walls in turn drives the small capsule to a very small size, increasing the density of the gases inside to much higher density than lead and heating it at the same time to very high temperatures required for fusion to occur.

But does that industry require large amounts of energy, more than could be derived from say a small hydroelectric plant?

He concluded that the amount of «free energy» that humans have to play with - from the planet's sun - driven tumult of wind, wave, solar and organic life - is quite small.

The industry touts the amount of potential energy that can be gained from a fracking well relative to its «small» footprint as a major advantage of the process over conventional gas wells and coal extraction.

Only a small amount of energy input is needed to keep the mass from cooling down so controlling heat buildup from solar gain is the priority in this climate.

What is particularly galling to me is when my colleagues predict all sorts of adverse health consequences from a small amount of warming and greening of the planet, when the reverse is far more likely, and when health and life expectancy always rise hand - in - hand with the deployment of reliable, affordable fossil fuel energy.

Wrap them in a small amount of regular ice to shield them from a high speed passage through the atmosphere and then use the energy from the other part of the windfarms to power a mass driver and simply throw the stuff off into space.

It seems that in terms of the total amount of energy coming from the sun there is only a very small variation due to the changing level of solar activity during a single cycle.

The Earth is not producing extra thermal energy, it receives a given amount of thermal energy from the sun (a smaller amount that it would with no atmosphere) and it releases a given amount of thermal energy into space.

So, yes, it is important to maintain Australia's future export income, but given the small amount of export income we actually receive from fossil fuel exports, it should be relatively easy to replace that with new climate - safe exports and new foreign investment in local renewable energy projects provided we plan and prepare accordingly.

So a small extra amount of energy flowing into the Arctic is multiplied into a large increase in energy — from where exactly?

But I suspect the process the Navy is working on, for directly removing CO2 from sea - water with a small amount of electrical energy, will turn out more cost - effective.

«Having sat through all of those schooling's you present, there is undeniable error in the amount of energy accruing at the depths presented to be all from those small CO2 related mechanisms.»

He claimed that METI in the past had «orchestrated the defeat of legislation that supported alternatives energy development, and instead secured the passage of the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) act,» which simply required power companies to purchase a very small amount of their electricity from alternative sources.

We can't wait to see how they'll deal with Peter Kent, at a Kyoto - type meeting, delivering a much - needed reality check to delegates that there are much bigger problems in the world than a relatively small amount of of carbon dioxide coming from a hugely beneficial energy project in Canada.

Also, the amount of energy converted from solar to chemical energy will be a small effect compared to the reduction in greenhouse warming resulting from taking CO2 out of the atmosphere (much like burning coal doesn't release much energy compared to the increase in greenhouse effect warming), so you don't even have the right negative feedback.

Instead of trying to directly create or remove heat, a heat pump uses a relatively small amount of energy to simply move (or pump) heat from one place to another.

In any case, sweating is a good thing, just the body regulating temperature, a small or sometimes not - so - small reminder that we humans are too alive and not entirely dissimilar from other animal species, not disconnected from natural cycles, something everyone does so why should we care if we ourselves are doing it or others around us are, something which if we simply accepted perhaps we'd not feel the need to constantly manipulate interior temperatures, expending inordinate and unfair amounts of energy (and carbon emissions) to do so, all so that we don't let other people see us, eee gads, doing what we're meant to do as biological beings.

This shift, combined with unusually low heating demand last winter and reduced gasoline demand, meant the country emitted the smallest amount of energy - related carbon dioxide in a January - to - March stretch since 1992, according to a report out this month from the U.S. Energy Information Administrenergy - related carbon dioxide in a January - to - March stretch since 1992, according to a report out this month from the U.S. Energy Information AdministrEnergy Information Administration.

Thus, a relatively small amount of increased evaporation would skew the results away from the energy remaining as latent heat — i.e. an ocean temperature increase.

If it were true we could generate huge amounts of energy from a small input simply by placing an infra - red barrier around a radiator — just tap some of the heat off at regular intervals — free energy.

Place a moon - like solid object (no or infinitesimal amounts of liquids and gases) with a small internal radioactive - decay source of thermal energy in space isolated from all other matter.

Both large mainland utilities and relatively small and / or isolated grids that wish to integrate significant amounts of renewable energy while maintaining reliability for their customers can learn from this study,» said Hawaii HNEI director Dr. Rick Rocheleau.