Sentences with phrase «use huge amount of energy»

Because make fuel from CO2 means to continue to dig coal and oil and use huge amount of energy from nuclear, these make this idea lose advantage much.

Antiferromagnets could outdo our fastest technology without using huge amounts of energy

In addition, it is believed that we also use huge amounts of energy to digest raw vegetables, thus, by drinking raw juices we may omit this process and feel better by saving a lot of energy.

«If you look at the building as a whole rather than per capita, it's using a huge amount of energy that wouldn't have to be used heating and cooling because of all that glass.»

But a new study from the Natural Resources Defense Council suggests the powering of so many devices around the clock is using huge amounts of energy — $ 19 billion worth of electricity on an annual basis, equivalent to the output of 50 large power plants.»]

And we also know that steel production uses a huge amount of energy, creating its own emissions problems.

Not exact matches

Marc Bevand, an investor and entrepreneur, was skeptical of de Vries» tally of Bitcoin's energy use and argued that the real global energy footprint of mining was likely closer to 15 terawatt - hours, which is still a huge amount of electricity, but half of the estimate on Digiconomist.

IBFAN argues that formula production uses a huge and unnecessary amount of precious resources and energy.

Energy companies I used to work for SSE, one of the Big Six, so I know them from the inside... I was privileged because I learnt a huge amount, and to respect many of the people working there, because they do quite a difficult job keeping the lights on.

However, this study has provided proof - of - concept that devastating tsunamis could be mitigated by using acoustic - gravity waves to redistribute the huge amounts of energy stored within the wave, potentially saving lives and billions of pounds worth of damage.»

But when physicists use the equations of quantum theory to calculate the amount of that virtual energy, they get a ridiculously huge number — about 120 orders of magnitude too large.

The finding that fission releases huge amounts of energy launched a scientific and military race to understand and use this new atomic source of power

We then smash the ores out of the ground, expend huge amounts of energy purifying them, use them and then discard them.

Yet, says botanist Jan Pokorny of Charles University in Prague, these snippets from Kenya are not about greenhouse gases, but rather the way that land - use changes — specifically deforestation — affect climate; newly tree - free ground «represents huge amounts of solar energy changed into sensible heat, i.e. hot air.»

Renner's statement can be illustrated by the Bitcoin boom: it is not computing capacity itself, but the exorbitant energy use — which produces a huge amount of heat — and the associated costs that have become the deciding factors for the future of the cryptocurrency.

Using present - day technology it would be impossible to create a gravitational wormhole, as the field would have to be manipulated with huge amounts of gravitational energy, which no one yet knows how to generate.

The huge amounts of energy either used or released when a phase changes are elevating the importance of thermodynamics, says Entekhabi.

While it's true that complex carbs are better than simple carbs, since they contain longer chains of sugar molecules which take more time for the body to break down and use, resulting with a more even amount of energy and avoiding huge insulin peaks, that doesn't mean that we're free to eat as much of them as we want and expect to maintain optimal health.

Muscle cells require huge amounts of this molecule known as ATP for movement, and they make use of phosphocreatine as an available source of energy for manufacturing ATP.

Increasing the energy supply to an existing site or changing premises altogether if the current site has outgrown its use, can come with problems - and a huge amount of paperwork.

Beagles have a huge amount of energy and must be given time to use some of this energy.

The amount of thermal energy stored in the upper 10 km of Earth's crust is huge and extraction of that energy using enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) technology would have no effect on Earth's thermal field.

The processes use huge amounts of water and energy.

The United States use 30 trillion kilowatt - hours of energy a year, a huge amount, and much of it is imported.

We don't need to think that being ecologically responsible necessarily means reducing our energy use, or that our energy future means reductions in our quality of life, or that the huge amounts of new infrastructure that we need is going to be expensive on a personal level.

The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)

It uses huge amounts of water, energy, and chemicals, often with little regard to long - term adverse effects.

Thermal equilibrium doesn't mean the same temperature, if for example, a gas in getting hotter expands and rises becoming less dense and under less pressure it can move faster, it's using thermal energy to move, there's no energy lost, it's just become something else, or, as temperature relates to kinetic energy not thermal energy then heat capacity comes into play, as water can absorb a huge amount of thermal energy before there's any rise in temperature, or whatever, but if you're equating all «energy» to «heat» as thermal energy then that's a different idea altogether, not all energy is heat.

Thanks to its unique geography and commitment to environmental preservation, small but mighty Costa Rica meets a huge amount of its energy needs using hydroelectric, geothermal, solar, wind, and other low - carbon sources.

It was very clear that the blackout was caused by the huge amount of energy sucked up by air - conditioners in addition to the regular energy use (it happened when businesses were still open and many people had returned home also).

Forecasts place Non-Carbon Energy supply amounting to ~ 6,000 Mtoe in 2050 6000 Mtoe equals 60 % of the fossil fuel used in 2011, so it's a huge amount!

The result, say the researchers, is that EVs can be designed to use almost exclusively regenerative braking - recapturing a huge amount of the energy that is normally lost in city driving.

And thirdly, the energetics are really screwed up: a huge amount of energy is used — as much or more than goes into producing a pure petroleum - based package.

Assuming everything else is constant (which I don't like, given the huge changes is energy use and mix), a decline in solar forcing of.1 to.15 should have dropped your non-GHG forcing curve by the same amount, n'est ce - pas?

Almost all who have used it are highly critical of it: it frequently fails to deliver its promise of success: it is extremely costly, very slow, and takes up huge amounts of time, money and energy.