Sentences with phrase «as air source»

As Air Source heat pumps need electricity to work, the cost savings are dependent on the electricity prices so it is difficult to give exact figures on savings and they also depend on what heating source is being replaced.

Not exact matches

Indeed, a recent research report from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released in the air over the last 10 years likely came from agricultural sources (cow burps) as opposed to fossil fuel production.

Syrian state news agency SANA cited a military source as saying a number of air defense missiles had been fired but no foreign attack had taken place.

«In reality, the vast majority of the source term will never escape from the ocean as air - borne particles,» Spriggs said.

And of course we can source more food locally and seasonally as well as considering preserved options if we want to cut down on air miles.

Over the next few months, when Musk was asked about it, he said that when he had time he might publish an open - source version of this Hyperloop plan for others to work on, and meanwhile he offered more opaque clues as to what his idea was («a cross between a Concorde and a rail gun and an air - hockey table... if they had a three - way and had a baby somehow»), which inspired lots of online speculation, much of it deeply skeptical.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The analyses show that coal combustion is the single largest source of air pollution - related health impact, contributing to some 366,000 premature deaths in China in 2013, with industry and household combustion as major contributors as well.

The current Wikipedia entry on air pollution, for example, now asserts that pollution includes: «carbon dioxide (CO2)-- a colorless, odorless, non-toxic greenhouse gas associated with ocean acidification, emitted from sources such as combustion, cement production, and respiration.»

Also, Ice core samples that go back as far as 800,000 years have atmospheric gasses trapped within, so give a source to determine the make - up of the air, showing consistant level of carbon... directly refuting the AiG site that claimns the air has changed.

Multiple sources are reporting that Joint Base Andrews (JBA) in Maryland — commonly known simply as Andrews Air Force Base — is currently on lockdown after an active shooter was reported at the Air Force base just a little bit ago.

Undaunted, the company built a distilled spirits plant in Downey, Calif., and partnered with a China - based engineering firm that custom - built production machinery for the plant, which uses air as its main power source instead of only electricity.

Fresh and authentic ingredients such as Thai basil and Malaysian spices are sourced locally from open - air farmers markets in Chinatown.

As for whether Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr. plays tonight vs the Lions, one source described it as «up in the air.&raquAs for whether Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr. plays tonight vs the Lions, one source described it as «up in the air.&raquas «up in the air.»

Experts from The Hospital for Sick Children recommend a cool mist vaporizer as a safe, cool to the touch tool source of moisture for the air in your babies room.

What's cringeworthy about this on a baby food label is that it's totally up in the air as to what the flavor is sourced from.

As a side note, I'm hearing from reliable sources that nothing changed in the risk assessment given to Air Mauritius the first time or the second time.

Labour was planning to vote against the programme motion, which allowed 10 days for line - by - line debate in a committee of the whole house, but party sources indicated around 20 - 25 days may be regarded as sufficient for the issues to be adequately aired.

Channel 5, for example, spent nearly as much time airing vox pops — 45.3 % of all sources — as allowing political parties to convey their message.

Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, reporting from Nigeria's capital, Abuja, said that according to multiple security sources, a «deployment comprising of air component, the navy as well as ground troops was under way to go to Gambia.

A refinery operating in Richmond since 1901, first as Standard Oil and later as the Chevron Corporation, had long been the city's biggest single source of tax revenues — and air pollution.

Steps taken to clean up car exhaust over the past few decades have had a huge effect, and as a result, «the sources of air pollution are now becoming more diverse in cities,» said McDonald, a chemist at Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences in Boulder, Colo..

The lasers themselves could be located up to a few hundred meters away from the radioactive source, Isaacs said, as long as line - of - sight was maintained and the air was not too turbulent or polluted with aerosols.

Our energy systems are the source of the vast majority of our greenhouse gas emissions as well as a great deal of our air and water pollution.

Urban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissions.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

Filling in all these details will make it possible to refine the accuracy of atmospheric models and help to assess such things as strategies to mitigate specific air pollution issues, from ozone to particulate matter, or to assess the sources and removal mechanisms of atmospheric components that affect Earth's climate.

The research focuses on the power of minute airborne particles known as aerosols, which can come from urban and industrial air pollution, wildfires and other sources.

Not surprisingly, cigarette smoke emerged as a major source of airborne particles in homes with smokers, but cleaning products, candles, frying food and marijuana smoking also jumped out as in - home air polluters.

As it has for more than a century, air pollution in America largely arises from power plants, industries, vehicles and other sources of fuel burning.

For almost 100 years, Science News has been reporting the latest advances in science, such as this week's cover story by reporter Laurel Hamers, «When bogs burn, the environment takes a hit,» on how the increased frequency of bog fires worldwide is becoming a surprisingly large source of air pollution and climate - warming carbon dioxide.

With many sources of pollution in some parts of the world, however, air pollution also can contain a mix of hazardous gaseous molecules, such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide and other volatile organic compounds.

Pollution from nonfactory sources, such as smog from car tailpipes and lawn equipment, still fouls the air and contributes to asthma.

Smith is up - front as he rattles off their funding sources: DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency); the Air Force, the Army, the Navy, the intelligence community.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

The pollution problem is not restricted to outdoor air, as families in developing countries also encounter pollution inside the home; according to Pinkerton, almost half the world prepares food with wood, charcoal or coal, all common sources of air pollutants.

The source of the spiral flow is simple: As the wing pivots, the tip travels farther than the base and so moves through the air faster.

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

In Krakow, Poland, where the study took place, as in many areas worldwide, coal burning is an important air pollution source.

Air Force energy director Dave King hopes that by 2016, 300 million gallons of that total will come from alternative sources such as biofuels, a move that he argues will increase the stability of the force's fuel supply and reduce its vulnerability to cost fluctuations.

Another good source of information on jobs in the air and space industry is the German Aerospace Center, DLR, which manages German space activities such as the German Space Agency and is closely linked to ESA.

Individuals in poor rural areas, as well as in low - income urban communities such as Richmond, Calif., suffer disproportionately from childhood asthma, in part because of inadequate housing, deficient medical care and proximity to multiple sources of air pollution.

Infrasonic waves, with frequencies much lower than an audible voice, can be generated by sources as diverse as volcanoes, earthquakes, rocket launches and meteor air blasts.

China shut down 8,347 heavily polluting companies last year in northern Hebei province, which has the worst air in the country, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday, as the government moves to tackle a problem that has been a source of discontent.

New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.

The researchers hope an added bonus could be understanding how pollutants are transported and transformed as air is pushed along the tropics, which could have a direct effect on people living downwind of major air pollution sources.

«Aravind's model for surgery — its use of reusable instruments, energy - efficient appliances and air handling systems, and investment in low - carbon energy sources — serves as an example of more sustainable, efficient cataract surgery,» adds senior author Joel S. Schuman, MD, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at NYU School of Medicine.

As Princeton University mechanical engineer Robert Socolow argues: it makes little sense to capture CO2 from the air until these sources of pollution have been eliminated.

Using an onboard source of energy (such as a battery, ultracapacitor, solar panel or any combination thereof), the electrodes will send an electrical current into the plasma, causing the plasma to push against the neutral (noncharged) air surrounding the craft, theoretically generating enough force for liftoff and movement in different directions (depending on where on the craft's surface you direct the electrical current).

Natural sources of emissions such as volcanoes can been seen from space and it seems obvious that there output has been neglected in determining the amount of carbon going into the air at an given time.