Sentences with phrase «than the input energy»

If ignited, thermonuclear fuel would unleash copious amounts of fusion energy, much greater than the input energy to the fuel.

The bridge collapsed because the input energy could not be dissipated faster than the input energy before fatigue set in and the materials lost their integrity.

Not exact matches

Since Australians pay world prices for energy and materials (albeit with smaller taxes added than Europeans), as users we face this same apparent backward shift in the supply curve in that part of the economy: it costs more now to use the same amount of these inputs as before.

The energy efficiency (food energy output / kg / energy input / kg) is five times higher than soy, twice that of corn and more than 100 times higher than grain - fed beef, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and nutrients, energy and water cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than on the use of external inputs with adverse effects.

In the third year, the fertilizer energy accounted for 84.6 percent of the total energy inputs, 8.57 times more than in the non-organic system.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

By following carbon emissions in more than 100 countries and 57 industrial sectors — from the extraction of the fuels to the energy inputs in creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse gases, and at which point in the supply chain.

Sorghum can potentially yield more energy per area of land than other crops while requiring much less input in terms of fertilizer or chemicals.

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 total energy in this «hot dot» was about four orders of magnitude greater than the electrical energy input!

This energy input is more than 11 times greater than that for grain protein production, which is about 2.2 kcal of fossil energy input per 1 kcal of plant protein produced (Table 4).

We have fallen victim to the societal, culturally constructed concept that our input (the effort and energy we expend) is more vital to our success than our output (the actual value we produce).

8A / 12A switchable Level 1 charging cable CHAdeMO DC quick charge port Battery warming system MiEV remote system (pre-activated air conditioning, heater and timer battery charging) Approaching Vehicle Audio System (AVAS) for alerting pedestrians Charging Times: 3 22 hours for 8amp 14 hours for 12 amp 7 hours with 240V / 15A Level 2 charging system Less than 30 minutes to 80 % full with CHAdeMO Level 3 DC Quick Charger Driving Modes: «D» — allows maximum performance as it generates 100 % torque in direct response to accelerator input «ECO» — helps maximize energy usage («fuel economy») by slightly reducing overall power output to reduce the rate of battery consumption «B» — increases regenerative brake biasing to augment energy recycling (with 100 % of power production available)

Well if the meme is now that mans contribution to the greenhouse effect is that we are now and will in the future, cause increased energy input into the oceans which is being distributed there rather than immediately coming out to heat the troposphere, why should we be concerned?

There's more input than output, energy budget imbalance, so it's getting warm - er, not on a straight line... as weather is changing with it and continuing to go through it's fast and slow motions.

The information I could find on US bioethanol is not encouraging — according to a recent University of Berkley study (see here Source: http://rael.berkeley.edu/EBAMM/FarrellEthanolScience012706.pdf), US bioethanol has 13 % less greenhouse gas emissions than diesel or petrol, because of the energy intensive refining process, the energy input to farming, and fertilizer production and use.

The Oil Drum post some interesting data on the energy input required to produce different kinds of I threw them into bar chart form and it sure looks like Graham Hill should be pitching the idea of a Weekday Vegan rather than a Weekday

And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.

Solar PV is reaching that point now (I think it's in Japan), where PV energy is being used to produce new panels, and the input savings are becoming that much greater, even than they were before.

Focusing on the energy system is key: it's the inputs that matter, much more than the activities.

Science: Climate changes in the past suggest that our climate reacts to energy input and output, such that if the planet accumulates more heat than it gives off global temperatures will rise.

The report was based on input from more than 100 energy experts, including officials from utilities such as NextEra, Sempra, and Southwest Power, and at least one major natural - gas producer, Anadarko.

The project was completed with little public input, bypassing the Texas Public Utility Commission's Competitive Energy Renewable Zones (CREZ) process in which the PUC designated new transmission routes and assigned companies to add more than 2,300 miles to the grid in a $ 5 billion plan to reduce congestion and allow Texas wind capacity to swell to 18,500 MW by late 2013.

Amplification necessarily involves drawing from an auxiliary energy source (you can not have more output than the input without adding energy).

One was The World's Largest Experiment Manipulating Solar Energy Input To Earth Resumed In 2003 by PL Ward, who claims that gasses other than CO2, especially SO2, play the crucial role in global warming.

The real world is, of course, more complicated; instead of a «glass» you have the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, but the point is that as long as * some * of the energy they re-radiate goes down, and not up into space, the Earth will have to get warmer than it would be if they were not there, in order for the next flux into space to match the solar input Iin.

Agriculture in industrialized countries is generally much more energy intensive than in developing countries, although as they move to more advanced cultivation practices, energy inputs tend to increase.

The major advantage of forests and trees as a source of biomass is their lower energy inputs and their ability to grow on sites with lower fertility than those required for agriculture.

Some options hold the potential for net emission reductions that exceed 100 percent — meaning that more carbon would be sequestered during the production process than would be emitted as carbon dioxide during its life cycle — if fertilizer inputs are minimized and biomass or other renewable sources are used for process energy (see Worldwatch Institute, 2007).

The latter theory is worth examining...» Exactly the latter theory is absurd for simple arithmetical reasons, because it would mean more energy output than input.

That the earth adjusts for us, rather than vice versa, so major gg changes and the huge increase of lower atmospheric / earth energy input will self regulate in a way conducive to our evolution and not ultimately reflect the new energy balance irrespective of us.

Once underway the energy they create can be greater than the energy input, to the extend that they reduce the GAPV, especially if a number form at the same time, which is often the case.

For example, equatorward - moving weather systems — known as «transient eddies» — fulfill much of the poleward energy export required to balance the net energy input, with the energy transport associated with vertical motion times gross moist stability less important than in the ITCZ.

OSPE's Energy Task Force has provided strategic engineering input to Ontario's Ministry of Energy for more than ten years.

L is a matter of the physical characteristics of water rather than the size of the energy input that provokes evaporation.

On balance in the real world energy is taken mostly from the water because in most situations and at most times on Earth the water is warmer than the air due to solar input.

«Energy outputs from ethanol produced using corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass were each less than the respective fossil energy iEnergy outputs from ethanol produced using corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass were each less than the respective fossil energy ienergy inputs.

However a suitable change in the basic conditions or an additional energy input will obviously «provoke» more evaporation than would otherwise occur.

It's not (necessarily) true that, if energy input is higher than energy output, oil extraction is unfeasible.

I am not arguing against what you say, just trying to understand the mechanism... I have always known an object cools more slowly and reaches a higher equilibrium temperature in a warm surroundings than a cold one, but had considered that an effect of gradient, not as you say a result of energy input from the colder surroundings.

Using tax incentives for landlords to upgrade energy efficiency, with a focus on outcomes rather than inputs or a combination (with an energy audit and / or proof of declining utility usage as the rewarded metric) could move many who have no personal financial incentive, other than the slim possibility of getting a higher rent, for making efficiency upgrades.

Another example is in using biofuels that have a high fossil energy input in fertilizer or machinery, or planting trees to reduce CO2, but finding out they also absorb solar radiation more than what they replace.

Remarkably Trenberth uses this energy balance diagram as input for models that show just 0.3158 waqtts / m ^ 2 over the period of time thjat Trenberth has adjusted his numbers by more than ten times that amount.

Extensive demonstrations and trials have shown that biomass can replace up to about 15 % of the total energy input with little more than burner and feed - intake system modifications to existing stations (CONEG, 1996).

Water purification and desalination equipment can turn dirty water or sea water into clean drinkable water, but many of the existing water solutions, on top of being rather costly, also require additional inputs, from energy to materials, and other than passive solar stills (which tend to have low yields), there aren't a whole lot of other options, especially if portability and affordability are factored in to the equation.

Note that most life cycle analyses analyzing energy payback time for wind turbines counting only the fuel inputs to the wind turbine life cycle such that the energy payback is calculated at less than one year for modern turbines.

But even after the input from the sun tapers off the surface is still absorbing more energy than it is losing so it continues to get warmer for a few hours.