News tagged with heat transport

Jumping droplets take a lot of heat

Microscopic water droplets jumping from one surface to another may hold the key to a wide array of more energy efficient products, ranging from large solar panels to compact laptop computers.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

US energy use chart shows we waste more than half of our energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- This flow chart of the estimated US energy use in 2009, assembled by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), paints a pretty sobering picture of our energy situation. To begin with, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 09, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (24) | comments 101 | with audio podcast report

New discoveries improve climate models

New discoveries on how underwater ridges impact the ocean's circulation system will help improve climate projections.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Plan to use submarines to subdue typhoons/hurricanes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Japanese hydraulic manufacturing company has unveiled plans to use submarines to downgrade the force of typhoons. The company, Ise Kogyo, from Mie in Central Japan, has had patents approved ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

Temperature fluctuations cause excess noise

The thermal noise of the electric current has been well known for almost a century. In an article published this week in Physical Review Letters, a group of researchers from the Low Temperature Laboratory of Aalto Univer ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Hurricanes' effects on ocean temperature revisited

(PhysOrg.com) -- The role of hurricanes in the global climate system has gained interest ever since scientists suggested that strong hurricanes have become more frequent in recent decades and might continue ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Turbulence around heat transport

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heat transport in the earth's mantle and in the atmosphere is probably not as effective as previously thought.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Laser-flash analysis echnique measures heat transport in the Earth's crust

(PhysOrg.com) -- Putting a new spin on an old technique, Anne M. Hofmeister, Ph.D., research professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has revolutionized ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0