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Light: the participants' sharings and response. Most fitting, finally, the perfect autumn morning, the sunlight on the pool, the insects in commotion across it, the rings and ribbons of reflected light caressing the logs and banks. The Headwaters, even if just this little pool, were everywhere full of harmonious and living motions, little light caresses, like songs ...
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Sourcebook: Landscaping for Energy Savings
Landscaping can reduce direct sun from striking and heating up building surfaces. It can prevent reflected light carrying heat into a house from the ground or other surfaces. By reducing wind velocity ... than above a heat absorbent material such as asphalt or a reflective material such as light colored gravel or rock. A heat absorbent material like asphalt will also continue to radiate ...
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Sourcebook: Lighting
Reflected Light Reflected light can be achieved with light shelves and louvered window coverings. The primary drawback is that direct light is needed. Venetian ... the light to the ceiling. A light colored ceiling will illuminate from the reflected light. A horizontal reflective surface placed near the top of a window (light shelf) will similarly reflect light ...
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Weather and climate
(However, clouds, fog and haze block visible light at times.) Blackbody radiation Everyone ... the form of clouds reflect sunlight from their topsides. The reflected light is energy lost to space and therefore does not warm ... reflected back to the Earth by greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. This increases the balance point to 15°C. Earth Visible light ...
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Data and Satellite Imagery - Data Description
Page What Is Water Reflectance? Water reflectance is the proportion of light entering the water that is reflected back out of the water. This property depends on the optical characteristics ... In the included processed imagery, the reflected light emerging from the water column ranges from 0 to 12 percent. The reflectance percentage can be correlated to light attenuation, Secchi disc depth, or ...
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With reflected sound, called echolocation or sonar, dolphins can 'see' elements that are invisible for animals -- including humans -- that are sight oriented, depending on reflected light for vision. This is ... at the shallow end of the sea pen, swimming in a circle. Seen in the light of this incidence, it's meaningless to even talk about releasing Stephania. She is already ...
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With reflected sound, called echolocation or sonar, dolphins can 'see' elements that are invisible for other animals -- including humans -- that are sight oriented, depending on reflected light for vision. This ...
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Science Explorer: Up Periscope! Build a mirrored tube to see around corners and over walls
How does my periscope work? Light always reflects away from a mirror at the same angle ... light hits the top mirror at a 45-degree angle and reflects away at the same angle, which bounces it down to the bottom mirror. That reflected light ... and submarines have magnifying lenses between the mirrors to make the reflected image bigger. This and dozens of other cool activities are ...
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Science Explorer: Reflecting Rainbows--decorate walls with rainbows from compact disks!
CD shines onto the paper. The reflected light will make fabulous rainbow colors on ... on the CD are created by white light reflecting from ridges in the metal. When light reflects off or passes through something with ... patterns. Squint at a distant bright light at night. You'll see starburst patterns around the light. If you look closely, you ...
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Renewable Energy - Solar Energy, radiant/light energy, heat/thermal energy
Renewable Energy - Solar Energy, radiant/light energy, heat/thermal energy Solar Energy -- Energy from the Sun Energy from the Sun Photovoltaic ... different wavelengths of the solar spectrum. When photons strike a photovoltaic cell, they may be reflected, pass right through, or be absorbed. Only the absorbed photons provide energy to generate electricity ...
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