Sentences with phrase «use air currents»

Now, scientists have shown that vultures also use air currents from power plants to get a lift.

In the right conditions hang glider pilots can fly sometimes over 500 km by simply using air currents and thermals.

Not exact matches

With these and other changes afoot, it's worth taking a look at current global rankings to see how China, the US, and other countries stack up when it comes to air quality, total energy use, and renewable contributions to power production.

The Air Multiplier circulates a smooth air current without the use of cumbersome blades or grilAir Multiplier circulates a smooth air current without the use of cumbersome blades or grilair current without the use of cumbersome blades or grills.

If I saw a replay or heard the announcers going crazy, I turned my attention to the TV, but the UFC really needs to start thinking about making some changes that help make the presentation of the sport more appealing to casual / lapsed / new fans by say starting things 1 hour earlier, use current Fox technology by airing a commercial while minimizing the arena camera in the top left corner so you can see what is going on, and coming up with some sort of naming system for events that mark said events as high, medium, and low importance.

And Whitman is not done yet - she still has just under seven weeks to go in her campaign against Democratic nominee Jerry Brown, the current state attorney general who has only just started airing ads after spending the summer using independent expenditure groups as his equalizer against the Republican's money juggernaut.

Executive use of state aircraft has been a politically contentious subject in New York, and «Air Cuomo» was a campaign issue used by George Pataki in his 1994 campaign against Mario Cuomo, the current governor's late father.

In addition to temperature, wind, and solar radiation data, the Pacific saildrones are measuring how the ocean and air exchange gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen, and they are using Doppler instruments to gauge currents coursing up to 100 meters below the surface.

Natural daylight can replace 30 to 60 percent of our current energy consumption for lighting, natural ventilation can reduce the energy used for air - conditioning by 20 to 40 percent, and better use of natural shading could cut another 10 percent.

The team studied the impacts of sulphur emitted by ships using current marine fuels, which produce air pollution particles that are small enough to be breathed deeply into the lungs and are considered harmful to human health.

The system consumes about 40 per cent less electricity than current compressor - based air - conditioners used in homes and commercial buildings.

Pesticides used on banana, coffee and rice plantations are contaminating remote Central American tropical rainforests by hitching a ride on air currents as they sweep up mountainsides.

Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.

The large, bald - headed birds float on rising currents of warm air known as thermals, which they use to soar high into the sky without beating their wings, thereby saving energy.

Using an onboard source of energy (such as a battery, ultracapacitor, solar panel or any combination thereof), the electrodes will send an electrical current into the plasma, causing the plasma to push against the neutral (noncharged) air surrounding the craft, theoretically generating enough force for liftoff and movement in different directions (depending on where on the craft's surface you direct the electrical current).

This is the rise in air temperature expected by the year 2040, if current trends in the use of fossil fuels and forest - burning continue.

The project outcomes can be used to improve current mitigation measures to prevent adverse effects of seismic air gun noise on large whale behaviour.

The current clinical trial uses information of air movement from existing 4D CT data and «some equations,» says Vinogradskiy (diplomatically) to calculate lung function in tissue surrounding tumors.

Inspired by rats and seals, scientists have developed a robotic «whisker» that detects air currents and builds two - dimensional images of what it senses using tomography, an imaging technique commonly implemented in MRI or CT scans.

The current air traffic flow - management system used by the FAA uses multiple algorithms, or sets of rules, to manage aggregate delays.

By using climate models to simulate what air pollution was like in 1850 and 2000, Jason West at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his colleagues have estimated its effect on current death rates.

These data are used in large - eddy simulation (LES) models, which simulate atmospheric air currents and cloud processes, to provide context and a self - consistent representation of the atmosphere surrounding the SGP.

How do we sustain the rapid growth in the global heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) market using current vapor - compression technology?

Visual signaling from biologically - inspired robots has been used to investigate the behavior of birds [27]--[31], dogs [32], lizards [33], fish [22], [34]--[42], and rats [43]; salient chemical cues have been implemented on a miniature mobile robot to investigate social behavior of cockroaches [44]; audio feedback has been integrated in a model of a robotic squirrel to influence squirrels» behavior [45]; pulsing air currents created by robotic honeybees have been used to investigate honeybees» dance [46]; and hydrodynamic cues from a swimming robotic fish have been considered in [20] to modulate fish behavior in a water tunnel.

The weather was beautiful, the air was fabulous, and I was able to trek around the city and use my legs until they wouldnt go anymore (which is a good thing since the current trend here is short skirts, toned legs, and low boots which these legs of mine still arent ready for).

This unique set of properties generally indicates that the process used to produce the product involves arcing a high voltage AC current through the air to the surface of the water.

Current HVAC systems rely on heating or cooling a flow of air from outside to inside the vehicle, a process which uses a significant amount of energy, and in turn, fuel.

The truck's aero efficiency also gets a 7 % boost as Chevy used front grille air curtains similar to those seen on the current Camaro.

Although not radically different from that used by the current model, the new nose has a wider main air intake and narrower mounting area for the aluminium «bash plate».

This strategy looks much further ahead than Ford managed with vehicles on the C1 platform underpinning vehicles such as the current Focus, Escape and Transit Connect van, which used different air - conditioning systems, for example.

The Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, known as the FAST Act, opens the door for the building of turn - key replica vehicles by low - volume manufacturers if builders use engines that meet current model year Clean Air Act standards for the model year in which they are produced.

Our shops are all Air - Conditioned and feature the most current equipment available.Our new and used car business has grown significantly over the last 3 years, and our shops are busier than ever before.

A current example of SAN's efforts is the «Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2016» (RPM Act), which would ensure that converting street vehicles to racecars used exclusively in competition does not violate the Clean Air Act.

Capable of up to 9,000 rpm like the regular 911 GT3, the thoroughbred engine takes in ram air through openings in the rear quarter panels, and it is closely related to the unit used in current Porsche 911 race cars.

The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 has high performance Low Temperature Poly Silicon LTPS LCDs and the iPad Air high performance IGZO Metal Oxide LCDs, significantly better than the a-Si amorphous Silicon LCDs being used in most current displays,» says Soneira.

The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 has high performance Low Temperature Poly Silicon LTPS LCDs and the iPad Air high performance IGZO Metal Oxide LCDs, significantly better than the a-Si amorphous Silicon LCDs being used in most current displays.

I also decided that I wanted to handle my own investing online using a discount brokerage firm so I starting looking at my options: My current online brokerage account (I had purchased Air Canada stock about 6 months before bankruptcy, but that story is for another time) was an option, but they charged $ 29 / trade and an annual RRSP account fee ($ 50 / year).

Topics include: interview questions for your client, expectations, determining current energy usage, what to look for with past utility usage, types of HVAC systems, implications of back - drafting, combustion air concerns, understanding insulation and vapor barriers, lighting considerations, locating air leaks, terminology used by energy audit professionals, Department of Energy and related agency guidelines used nationwide, depressurization considerations, understanding heating degree days & making adjustments, types of insulation, voltage drop considerations, using infrared technology, and much more.

For example, there might be a big pile of chicken meal in a warehouse next to a big pile of pork meal, so naturally the air currents will blow one onto the other, and a very very sensitive test (like the DNA tests used in the study) will find even a few little molecules that might happen to drift from one to another.

With a wingspan of up to 3 metres / 10 feet, this regal bird uses the warm air currents to float effortlessly through the canyon searching for food.

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The Cloud City levels have currents of air that toss your birds (as well as any debris you create) around in predictable patterns you can use to cause a lot of destruction.

Among the features demonstrated in the trailer, it showed Link swinging from ropes, tight walking, using the old bug net, and riding currents of air with his cloth parachute.

If there is one real complaint about the game, it's that the graphics are not using much of the potential that current gen consoles offer, and even though graphics don't make a good game, I think this series that could definitely benefit and get a breath of fresh air from an overhaul in the graphics department.

In «Leaves of Ore II,» Tam Van Tran begins with fragments such as porcelain shards that evoke memories of ceramic jars his mother used in Vietnam to make fish sauce and copper sheets that lift with air currents like palm fronds in the California Santa Ana winds.

The almost manic sense of exhilaration expressed in the mash - up — fans used to blow air currents across a work's surface, tires, coke bottles, taxidermy, a bed, or any of the innumerable curiosities Rauschenberg absorbed into the Combines — amazingly retains much of its punch, even after so many years and so much reproduction in art history texts.

Å 1/2 ilvinas Kempinas is known for his use of unspooled videotape as sculptural medium like in his work Flying Tape (2004), which levitated a room - size loop of videotape on the air currents from a circle of fans.

His later mobiles, inspired in part by his visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, use an ingenious system of weights and counterbalances that allowed each piece's suspended parts to move in response to air currents, retaining the movement of the circus performances.

However, Calder soon abandoned the mechanical aspects of the works when he realised he could create moving sculptures simply using the dynamics of air currents instead.

In the same topological vein but with a more explicitly scientific approach, Alyson Shotz's works try to visibilize phenomena like gravitational waves or quantum interweaving, while Agnieszka Kurant uses the surprising levitation of her meteorites to suggest the convergence of the artistic value of air (beginning with the iconic Paris Air bottled by Marcel Duchamp in 1919) and its property value in the current econoair (beginning with the iconic Paris Air bottled by Marcel Duchamp in 1919) and its property value in the current econoAir bottled by Marcel Duchamp in 1919) and its property value in the current economy.