Sentences with phrase «space heating from»

The end result is a house that has about half the heat loss of a conventional construction home and that will get a large fraction of its space heating from solar.
When thinking about the building energy system, it's helpful to distinguish space heating from space cooling and ventilation.

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SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.
Most daunting of all, Rutan and Scaled had never built a rocket motor — the source of fully half of all space - launch failures — and had never had to deal with the nightmarish heat and extreme forces generated from reentering the atmosphere at high speeds.
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Air conditioners work by removing heat from an enclosed space and taking it outside.
and being covered from head to toe in all black with only a tiny space for my eyes to glean the sun, seemed to draw the rays directly into me and intensify the already sapping heat that was bearing down on all of us.
The radio reported that others in Durham, away from the university's private generators, were huddling under blankets, and we called friends and students to offer them our heated space.
For example, the burning of the fire and the passage of heat from it through intervening space is the cause of the body, its nerves and its brain, functioning in certain ways.
These work like a cross between the two types of juicers above, so they take up less space but without applying any heat, extracting the maximum amount of nutrients without applying any heat from the mechanism.
Remove from heat and carefully pour into the jars, leaving 1/4» space from the top.
The boiler in my house is in a common space with the greenhouse and waste heat from the boiler does some of the heating.
Immediately remove syrup from heat, reduce mixer speed to medium, and gradually stream syrup into egg whites in the space between the side of the bowl and the whisk.
It was a night of heated tension as Manchester United came from behind only to gift West Ham two goals in the space of five minutes which allowed them to leave their home for the last 112 years on a high.
With that heat pumping from your vents, it's important to keep your space humidified.
The retail space is approximately 2,500 square feet and rent at the apartments range anywhere from $ 925 - $ 1,500 per month which includes geothermal heating, which does not use natural gas.
Heat is constantly flowing into space from the ground beneath our feet.
It has all of the safety shut - offs you want for a small space and has a wire guard to keep you and your things from getting too close to the heat.
Analysis of the Almahata Sitta meteorite reveals that it is an achondrite, a rare type of space rock that comes from celestial bodies that are large enough to generate internal heat early in their history so as to produce metallic cores surrounded by rock.
In that case, the ice seen on the surface now would once have been buried beneath dust and rock that insulated it from the sun's heat and prevented it from escaping into space.
Now they know that heat from the Big Bang, greatly diluted by cosmological expansion, yields an all - pervasive 4.91 degrees F warmth, meaning that the temperature of space, on average, is — 454.76 degrees F.
When a rock from space crashed to ground 38 million years ago, it briefly heated the impact zone to 2370 °C, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth's crust
Now, the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope has detected heat from five of these dusty galaxies, opening a window into the universe's biggest stellar construction boom.
Then you carefully measure the temperature of deep space, where the only heat is the faint glow remaining from the Big Bang.
And physics is constantly trying to push heat from the tropics toward the poles, where it can radiate back to space.
As the filaments pulse, the space is infused with heat, which attracts attention even from visitors who do not have the pillars in their line of sight.
EBS markets several different designs for its Enertia houses, but all share the basic premise of primary interior living space heated and cooled by air channeled in from a south - facing «buffer zone» envelope and from below grade.
As it plummets through the upper atmosphere, the various metal shells that will have shielded it from meteors and cosmic rays in space will burn away, exposing a ceramic heat shield.
Along with Mars 2020, STMD is hard at work, advancing promising technology for potential infusion into these Mars missions including: Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likeSpace Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likeSpace Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like GPS.
Currently, the amount of infrared heat radiated back to space is slightly less than what we absorb from the sun due to the increase in greenhouse gases.
The next most abundant gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — do absorb a portion of the infrared heat radiated by the earth's surface, thereby preventing it from reaching space.
It is the residual heat of creation — the afterglow of the big bang — streaming through space these last 14 billion years like the heat from a sun - warmed rock, reradiated at night.
The visible solar radiation mostly heats the surface, not the atmosphere, whereas most of the infrared radiation escaping to space is emitted from the upper atmosphere, not the surface.
In addition, ultraviolet light from newborn massive stars as well as gas heating and ram pressure from supernova explosions blows much of a galaxy's gas away into intergalactic space.
Researchers used NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, which measures the heat emitted from distant objects, to study a massive extrasolar planet that lies 40 light - years from Earth.
These efforts range from basic research about how polymers and other materials will react during the heating and deposition process to more industrial applications, such as developing a lower - cost, high - temperature process for working with thermoplastics used to make air and space vehicle components.
In 2009, the Spitzer Space Telescope discovered infrared radiation from a ring far beyond all the others encircling Saturn; sunlight heats the ring's dust, which emits its heat at infrared wavelengths.
Its central black hole is as massive as 16 million suns, and the region of space surrounding it shines with the strength of 1 trillion suns — energy derived, in part, from intense frictional heating within the disk of gas being sucked into the maw.
Scientists have long assumed that the heat from an impact of that size would cause hydrogen and other volatile elements to boil off into space, meaning the Moon must have started off completely dry.
But as transistors become tinier they waste more power and generate more heat — all in a smaller and smaller space, as evidenced by the warmth emanating from the bottom of a laptop.
«People usually see space as a source of heat from the sun, but away from the sun outer space is really a cold, cold place,» explained Shanhui Fan, professor of electrical engineering and the paper's senior author.
On Io, which orbits at about the same distance from the planet as the Earth to the moon, the heat is so intense that it triggers sulfurous plumes from massive volcanic vents, which spew into space.
In the 1990s, a few researchers, including a team from the National Aeronautics & Space Administration's Lewis Research Center, did report independently replicating the Mills approach and generating excess heat.
The team calculated that those hydrocarbon clumps could absorb heat from the sun as well as from gases in the atmosphere and radiate it back into space.
Every time you stroll outside you emit energy into the universe: Heat from the top of your head radiates into space as infrared light.
Even when all matter and heat radiation have been removed from a region of space, the vacuum of classical physics remains filled with a distinctive pattern of electromagnetic fields
The journey of light through space is illuminated in the water and gold dust, moving slowly with convection currents from heated elements beneath the tank, alluding to the similar structure of macro and microworlds: stars in the cosmos and micro-particles in the subatomic scale.
They may act as reflectors, bouncing incoming sunlight back into space, or like blankets, absorbing heat emitted from the surface and then radiating it back down.
«In theory, if you know how much energy is coming in from the sun, and how much is reflected or radiated away, the difference is how much is heating or cooling the planet,» says Adam Szabo, a heliophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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