Sentences with phrase «watt light bulb»

If you simply stuck a 40 - watt light bulb behind your TV, you would have a super-cheap form of bias lighting.

What got me looking into this was a short piece in the New Scientist, «Search engines» dirty secret,» that made the astonishing claim that «one search [on Google] has the same energy cost as turning on a 100 - watt light bulb for an hour.»

One commenter reckoned the figure may be something closer to the energy expended by a 2.5 - watt light bulb.

After charging it was able to power a 15 - watt light bulb for eight hours.

Inlaid in the corrugated iron roofs, the bottles concentrate and transport sunlight generating light equivalent to a 40 to 60 watt light bulb.

A top - freezer refrigerator that has earned the ENERGY STAR uses less energy than a 60 - watt light bulb.

The freezing releases about 335,000 Joules of heat for each kilogram of water that turns to ice, roughly equivalent to one 60 - watt light bulb burning for an hour and a half (but of course we are talking about lots and lots of kilograms, not just one).

The students watched a short video about how solar panels work, and then tried a hands - on activity in which they discovered how much work is required to power a 60 - watt light bulb with hand cranks, compared with using a small solar panel.

A modern energy star certified fridge consumes on average about the same as a 60 watt light bulb.

And «A standard 100 watt light bulb is only about 8 % efficient at producing visible light....

An average of 100 kWh / year equates with powering a single 60 watt light bulb for five hours per day for a year.

A new ENERGY STAR Certified refrigerator uses less energy than a 60 - watt light bulb run continuously.

Ivanpah's brightness «will be the equivalent of looking at a 100 - watt light bulb from 25 feet away during daylight.

The solar hybrid model is supposed to use the same amount of energy as a 40 watt light bulb (incandescent, unfortunately) and be 90 percent recyclable.

2014 Porcelain lampholder, 11 watt light bulb, electrical system, orange peel spray texture, tinfoil, gum, acrylic paint 34 / 12 x 21 x 4 1/2 inches (116.8 x 53.3 x 11.4 cm) ARG # RMK2014 - 005

, you have the equivalent of a 55 - watt light bulb, sans electricity.

These are insulated cat houses that are designed to use just a 40 watt light bulb in conjunction with a thermostat.

Adding to the confusion are a few scattered CGI effects that can be detected with very little difficulty and some fairly erratic cinematography that includes headache - inducing handheld shots and scenes that are so poorly lit that it looks as if the sets were illuminated with a 40 - watt light bulb.

Miniature light detectors in frog eyes known as retinal rod cells are directly and unambiguously shown to detect single photons of light — an astounding sensitivity considering that a humble 60 watt light bulb spews out a staggering 1020 photons per second.

Due to its brain - inspired design, it can look for the complex patterns that indicate specific «bad apples,» all while using less electricity than a standard 60 - watt light bulb.

Despite their blazing appearance, they don't emit much heat and they're usually less bright than a 100 - watt light bulb.

A couple of hints I'd like to share: # 1: I use a «trouble light» in my oven — with a 75 - watt light bulb.

Recycling just one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100 - watt light bulb for four hours, power a computer for 30 minutes, or a television for 20 minutes.

I later found out it was a 1,000 - watt light bulb.

EXPO's modern interior pays homage to the City of Light (past and present), featuring glass panels reminiscent of Niagara Falls, a green wall celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect), 8 - watt light bulbs similar to those that illuminated the Pan American Exposition, a mural by local artist Kimberly Halavin, and three 12 - foot high murals by local artist Casey William Milbrand that juxtapose the Buffalo of today with extraordinary moments of its past.

AiroCide is energy efficient, consuming less Energy then (3) 100 watt light bulbs.

The government wants to see all traditional lightbulbs phased out by 2011, beginning with a voluntary ban on traditional 150 watt light bulbs from January next year.

The reason, Malkin surmised, was that the technician was using everyday 100 - watt light bulbs in a surgical fixture that called for special bulbs with an internal heat shield.

That's 150 billion 100 - watt light bulbs burning 24/7 for a year.

Felix Gonzalez - Torres «Untitled» (North) 1993 15 watt light bulbs, porcelain light sockets, and extension cords Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York

For perspective, Roemmich noted that the heat gain was the equivalent of adding the heat of two trillion continuously burning 100 - watt light bulbs to the world's oceans.

(A gigawatt is a billion watts, i.e., equivalent to 10 million 100 - watt light bulbs).

Scientists from around the world analyzed heat content estimates from between 1993 and 2008 to determine the amount and level of certainty around the heat storage on the ocean's surface and they came up with the startling conclusion that there is now enough energy stored there to light close to 500 100 - watt light bulbs for every person on the planet.

The world currently has enough coal - fired power plants to produce about one terawatt of electricity — the equivalent to each of the seven billion people on Earth using two 75 - watt light bulbs at the same time.

You can shine 100 100 - watt light bulbs on a surface, and you still will not get that surface to emit even 100 watts.

jae says: «You can shine 100 100 - watt light bulbs on a surface, and you still will not get that surface to emit even 100 watts.»

That's the rough equivalent of turning off 750,000 60 watt light bulbs.

«the energy stored is enough to power nearly 500 100 - watt light bulbs for each of the roughly 6.7 billion people on the planet.»

One billion atomic bombs has a very low entropy, but 2.5 trillion 100 watt light bulbs spread evenly over the Earth, and operating for a decade has a very high entropy.

Instead, home owners can operate a whole system «at about the cost of two or three 60 - watt light bulbs.»

Not exact matches

What's cool: Designed by Italians Alberto Meda and Paolo Rizzatto, this very bendable aluminum lamp draws just five watts of energy yet produces light comparable to that of a 60 - watt traditional bulb.

The bulb An 8.5 - watt LED bulb produces 600 lumens of light, about the same as a 50 - watt incandescent bulb, but uses up to 80 % less power.

Go to church, Sunday brunch, stop by the store and pick up those 40 - watt fluorescent light bulbs you've been needing (you really should consider some softer lighting, though), head home and watch Netflix like you always do on Sunday.

I used a 75 - watt or 60 - watt incadescent bulb (in one of those «trouble lights» that you can get at a hardware store) to maintain the 115 degrees.

Consider replacing your light bulbs with a warm white light, such as from a 75 - to a 100 - watt bulb.

These guys are soooooo dumb that you couldn't light a one watt bulb with the brain power that both generate.

For a Northern California household in a region served by the Pacific Gas & Electric utility, a one - time investment of $ 1,150 for 30 LED - based light bulbs of 60 watts at a cost of $ 35 each would pay itself back within two and a half years even if the bulbs operate only three hours per day on average, the J.P. Morgan report says.

The power and reach of the 60 - watt incandescent bulb About 20 percent of carbon dioxide emissions associated with buildings in the United States are related to indoor lighting.

Nearly 50 percent of all the lighting in the United States comes from 60 - watt incandescent bulbs, with 425 million sold each year.

That is equivalent to the electricity consumed by a 7 watt LED light bulb, left on continuously for almost nine years.