• In the presentation, he explained, as he has many times since, that shielding the earth properly could deflect one or two per cent of the sunlight that reaches the atmosphere.

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  • Juan Bonet lifts his wine glass into the sunlight, tilts it to one side and squints into the velvety red liquid with the expression of a man in the grip of a profound pleasure.

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  • In the UK "between October and May virtually no-one makes vitamin D because of the sunlight" regardless of your skin colour, so Vitamin D levels are dependent on dietary intake, he said.

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  • One is to reduce the amount of incoming sunlight that the planet absorbs.

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  • One way to do so is to concentrate sunlight onto them.

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  • They declined one offer from the umpires but with the golden sunlight darkening by the second, eventually it was decided to conclude an absorbing contest on Monday.

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  • The attraction of algae would seem to lie in the possibility that, since they photosynthesise, they could be engineered to contain the whole sunlight-to-fuel process in one genetically engineered package.

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  • As winter settled deep into the dark flesh of the barks and branches shielding sunlight away from my window, the one thing I kept thinking about was where do people go to recover?

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  • The tube-shaped panels, put together on racks, capture more sunlight than flat panels, which are usually tilted in one direction.

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  • Unlike the One Laptop Per Child Project, the Aakash does not feature any sunlight-readable displays, or any other cutting-edge, MIT-developed technology.

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  • One is out of reach of the craft's heaters but direct sunlight could do the trick, said the project manager.

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  • Along one of the main roads, a sparkling mega-mall gleams in the sunlight.

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  • "Sunlight has clearly had a big influence, and Vanguard is the one company everyone thought was probably doing a good job, " says Donald Phillips, managing director of fund tracker Morningstar.

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  • But there's another form of envy that is frequently overlooked and that may be just as potent, especially in a metropolis where sunlight is at a premium and it's easy to forget that one remains part of the natural world.

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  • One of the chaotic things that happen to the paths taken by asteroids is caused by sunlight, and is known as the Yarkovsky effect.

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  • If, on the one hand, you've got biofuels which represent only a half a percent conversion of sunlight, and let's say you've got photovoltaic cells and concentrated solar power systems, the efficiency of solar in terms of pure conversion is 50-100 times greater.

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  • He dreams of building gigawatt-size plants, of shipping solar thermal power to the cloudy Northeast and of using molten salt to store energy so thermal plants can power homes at night. (Nevada Solar One is only for daytime peak loads.) He envisions mirrors in space that can soak up sunlight 24 hours a day.

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  • For one thing, we're going to need to cool the planet somehow, probably by reflecting some sunlight back into space.

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  • They work with ruffles, layers, buttons, swirls, crinkles, rosettes and "feathers that dance in the sunlight" to create dazzling combinations of texture and hue that define the singular woman who requests one.

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