Sentences with phrase «used as heat sinks»

Ultimately, the model could be applied to semiconductors used as high - efficiency thermoelectrics, and to graphene nanoribbons used as heat sinks for so - called ultra large scale integration devices, such as computer microprocessors.

Not exact matches

Indeed, a number of Scandinavian cities, including Stockholm, use bodies of water as heat sinks and have been doing so for more than a decade.

Bond conceived the idea of using the ultracold liquid hydrogen fuel as a heat sink to take the excess heat out of the incoming air and use some of the hot air to support fuel combustion.

Probably using heat pipes, and if it's floating water from below as the ultimate heat sink.

The reduction of heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions is stimulated by lowering existing subsidies that have the effect of raising emissions (such as subsidies to fossil fuel use) or by providing subsidies for practices that reduce emissions or enhance sinks (e.g. for insulation of buildings or for planting trees).

A whole bunch of heat engines using solid, liquid, and gaseous H2O as working fluid, heat reservoir, and heat sink all powered by the sun and earth's rotation setting the direction of rotation through Coriolis force.

Also known as thermoelectric cooling, it operates using electricity inputs and a heat sink, but without traditional hardware associated with refrigerants and compressors.

The molecule will first use the heat energy in expansion and on cooling will again condense and sink because heavier, and it will cool when its heat expanded volume flows to colder air which absorbs the heat, the internal kinetic energy of vibration, which if strong enough will pass that heat to another colder (which is why visible light is not a thermal energy, it is not powerful enough to move a molecule of matter into vibration, it takes the bigger heat wave, longwave infrared, aka thermal infrared called that because it is the wavelength of heat)-- that is how convective heating warms the fluid gas air in a room, by circulation, in the rise and fall of molecules as they expand and condense, not by heat energy propelling molecules to hit other molecules..

Conceptually, Kosaka & Xie are using the ocean as a heat sink and / or heat source to lend and / or borrow heat to / from so as to modify the ocean surface temperatures.

British designer Jake Dyson has built a heat pipe into the structure of the CSYS lamp to carry the heat away from the LEDs and then use the arm of the lamp as a heat sink to carry the heat away from the lamp.

In addition to the new wider field of view and high - performance lenses, Google has also improved the flap where you situate your phone when placing it in the headset, making it more grippy so the phone stays in place better, and it added magnesium heat pipes inside this flap to act as a heat sink that Google boasts will help the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL run apps without heat issues, which was a common problem with the original Pixel phones and the first Daydream View headset that were launched last year, often getting hot after using it for a certain amount of time.

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For example, capture cool shower water in a bucket as you wait for it to heat, and save water used for cooking that you'd otherwise pour down the sink.