Clouds in sentence

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For instance, even a few cumulus clouds in front of the sun can reduce the electricity production in solar towers to almost zero because of this dependence on direct rays.

In solar panels, those clouds would decrease energy output as well, though not as much because solar panels can use all types of irradiance.

However, all this depends on the clouds exact positioning.

Due to reflection, or a particular phenomeon called Mie scattering, the sun's rays can actually be focused forward by clouds to create a more than 50% increase in the solar irradiance reaching a solar panel.

Because it's impossible for an employee at a coal fired or a nuclear plant to turn a knob to produce more or less electricity depending on how many clouds there are in the sky.

For this reason, a lot of researchers are interested in forcasting the motion and formation of clouds through satellite images or cameras that look up at the sky to maximize the energy from solar power plants and minimize energy waste.

Here we're starting with just a picture of clouds, and as we optimize, basically, this network is figuring out what it sees in the clouds.

And the more time you spend looking at this, the more things you also will see in the clouds.

Some of that heat generates evaporation, which creates clouds and then eventually leads to precipitation.

Once on land, they may have looked up into the sky and said, "It would be nice to go to the clouds, I'm going to fly." "You can't break the law of gravity, there's no way you can fly."

And then all of a sudden, magically, the bikes fly up in the air, over the clouds, over the moon, and they're going to save "E.T."

In "The Starry Night," his circular brushstrokes create a night sky filled with swirling clouds and eddies of stars.

But one day in May, after he had mulled over the puzzle with his friend Michele Besso, the clouds parted.

So I don't want to experience clouds, let alone study them.

But clouds seem to follow me wherever I go.

The thing is, clouds are a real challenge for climate science.

Maybe, just maybe, clouds could slow down global warming, and buy us a little bit more time to get our act together, which would be very convenient right now.

I mean, even I could put up with a few more cloudy days if clouds saved the planet.

Well, to a large extent, it's because they don't agree on what clouds will do in the future.

And that is because, just like me, computers hate clouds.

Computers hate clouds because they're simultaneously very large and very small.

In order to really accurately model clouds, we'd need to track the behavior of every water droplet and dust grain in the entire atmosphere, and there's no computer powerful enough to do that.

Now, it is unfortunate that computers struggle with clouds, because clouds are crucially important in regulating the temperature of the planet.

In fact, if all the clouds went away, we would experience profound climate changes.

But without clouds, would it be warmer or colder?

But even I know that clouds come in all shapes and sizes.

Low, thick clouds like these are really good at blocking out the sun and ruining your barbecue, and high, wispy clouds like these cirrus largely let that sunlight stream through.

And it's this diversity that can make the global impact of clouds very hard to understand.

So to see this global effect of clouds, it really helps to take a selfie.

These low, thick clouds are extremely effective sunshades.

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