Many Brazilian car bodies also don't contain crumple zones, areas that absorb energy during wrecks.
In the latest models, plastic cylinders inside the cushions absorb energy from collisions.
Set just off shore, it was designed to absorb wave energy and spare Male further damage.
This decreased level of reflectivity, or albedo, allowed the surface to absorb more energy from the Sun.
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Mr Booen said that once a material started getting hot, it affected the reflective ability, making the target absorb more energy and eventually leading to its destruction.
These wavelengths of light have a significant impact on the thermosphere, where air molecules absorb their energy and the reradiate it in the form of infrared energy.
"If a car's body cannot absorb the energy of a crash, it will logically result in more damage, more injuries to passengers, " said Alves, the doctor who specializes in traffic accident victims.
Pound for pound, aluminium is up to two-and-a-half times stronger than conventional steel and can absorb twice the energy in a crash.
Damp maritime air can absorb the laser energy before it reaches the target and - as developers discovered in the 1960s when trying to target Russian Mig aircraft - a reflective surface can negate much of the laser's effectiveness.
The rubberised bitumen itself is flexible and slightly springy, which enables it to absorb more unwanted sonic energy.
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Its legs mimic an animal's legs, and are able to absorb shock and recycle energy as the machine moves around.
Another reason to see this show is the exemplary scholarship and comprehensible labels that offer generous information for both the specialist and the layman, to the extent of the visitor's desire or energy to absorb it.
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These characteristics will allow the power grid to absorb large amounts of renewable energy without compromising reliability.
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They absorb the sea's energy, convert it to thrust and propel the machine.
But even if I am wrong, Total is priced attractively enough to absorb any sustained weakness in energy prices.
These activities absorb a great deal of energy and focus, but the fact is, you might be looking in the wrong direction.
Otegui imagines (see photos) merging living organisms to form a complex skin which will absorb and then utilize the energy created by the sun and wind.
Then there is one of the oldest ways of getting power out from the sun: solar "thermal" installations, which absorb the sun's energy, transforming it into heat so it can boil water and run a turbine.
The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy.
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