Sentences with phrase «solar is on the move»

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These are the stocks posting the largest moves after the bell on Wednesday, including: NetApp, Cisco Systems, First Solar and more.

And the new levies stand to be yet another blow to solar installers in the US on top of the 30 percent tariffs on imported solar panels the White House announced in January, a move that was meant to corner China and shore up US solar panel manufacturers.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.

Since Trump's move on solar panels and washing machines, China has announced it is investigating U.S. exports of sorghum, an agricultural product, and imposing measures on styrene, which is used to make plastic products.

Another good line: «If this is a prime minister saving the world, God help us when he moves on to the rest of the solar system.»

SOLAR cells built into clothing sound like a great way to charge gadgets while on the move, but for the idea to work the cells will have to be both flexible and cheap.

Here's our original story, published on 27 October: Around the world, telescopes are swiveling to welcome, and then wave farewell to, a new guest to the solar system: a fast - moving asteroid, or potentially a comet.

The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the comet on Wednesday, 12 November, has not moved from its landing spot and so its solar panels are not getting enough sunlight.

We have known since the 1970s that our solar system is moving through a cloud of interstellar gas out on the edge of the Milky Way.

Then in 2011, Goddard engineer Donald Dichmann, who at the time worked for Applied Defense Solutions in Columbia, Md., and his co-authors began work on a paper reviewing the trade studies NASA made when it decided to move its Interstellar Boundary Explorer from its original orbit to a more stable position at another lunar - resonant orbit — P / 3 — where it's mapping the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere protect us on the ground from most of the harmful effects of space weather, but astronauts in low - Earth orbit — or even, one day, in interplanetary space — are more exposed to space weather, including bursts of fast - moving particles called solar energetic particles, or SEPs.

Hathaway's research focused on shifting speeds of the meridional flow, which moves from the solar equator toward the poles, finding that the flow was anomalously fast at the most recent minimum.

By moving the TPV cells when their power isn't needed, the system could be rapidly switched on and off to supplement electricity from wind or direct solar PV sources, Henry said.

(That's right — a company built on chips based on silicon is trying to get the world to move away from using it in solar cells.)

«We are not saying Enceladus has life, but the discovery does move the moon higher on the list of potentially habitable places in the solar system,» says study coauthor J. Hunter Waite of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

Red implies that the gas is moving away from us - this corresponds to a downward motion on the solar surface.

Move over solar, Zero Mass Water thinks there's room on the roof for a new kind of panel — one that creates water from sun and air

Blue implies that the gas is moving towards us - this corresponds to an upward motion on the solar surface.

Charged winds moving at speeds up to 1000 kilometers per second from the star, much like those in our Sun's solar wind but millions of times denser, are able to follow the twisted field lines on their way out into space.

The average orbital distance of planet «b» from this star is 0.080 AU and so it could have liquid water on its surface, although it moves arount its host star well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

This covers three extras: «Pose Camera» (1:43) again with Neil, explaining how the 2D characters were drawn on the 3D moving RLS Legacy; «Effects Animation» (1:20) which covers the creation of solar sails, the black hole, and the cannon; and a link back to the RLS Legacy: Virtual 3D Tour found in the Space Adventures Section.

On the other hand, I'm not against debating what we should do about GW — ignore it and throw a big GHG party, adapt to it, or mitigate it; go with solar or wind power; move closer to the husband's workplace or the wife's workplace, etc...

While the rest of the world moves forward with Kyoto, while Germany becomes the worlds largest Solar producer, and so on, the USA is being left behind, the gap is widening.

It builds on other signs that common ground can be found on boosting community resilience to coastal and climatic hazards and even on renewable energy, as was illustrated in passage of a big spending bill in December extending tax credits for solar and wind energy (even as it ended the 40 - year - old ban on oil exports, a move with minor environmental consequences, as Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations explained).

The Sun is unpredictable... that's one of the reasons I quit solar physics (after publishing articles on solar activity in Solar Physics and Astrophysical Journal) and moved to history of scisolar physics (after publishing articles on solar activity in Solar Physics and Astrophysical Journal) and moved to history of scisolar activity in Solar Physics and Astrophysical Journal) and moved to history of sciSolar Physics and Astrophysical Journal) and moved to history of science.

Despite its anti-wind provisions, on the whole, NCSEA is confident the new law will help move North Carolina clean energy forward, which includes maintaining our leadership in solar energy.

Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

As PV CYCLE (http://www.pvcycle.org), the voluntary PV module take back and recycling initiative of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) continues to move forward, I wonder where is the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) on this important PV industry sustainability issue?

Faced with the on - going nuclear crisis in Japan — the costs of which could make the March earthquake and subsequent tsnuami the most expensive natural disaster the world has ever seen — nearby China may be moving to double its target for solar photovoltaic (PV) power capacity over the next five years.

With many large solar projects planned in California, it would seem to be a logical move to slow down and find out what our money is being spent on and what the return on investment will be as opposed to rushing in head first, only to find another government mandated, costly boondoggle.

Depending on the customer's living or business situation a long - term community solar contract could be difficult to get out of if a person or business moves.

We sat down to chat with John Gorman, President & CEO of CanSIA, about the outlook on renewable energy, how government has been supporting the move to clean energy and how Solar Canada will deliver...

Here's our 5 step plan for keeping the U.S. moving forward on solar in 2017 - regardless of what happens in Washington: 1: Bring power to the people.

But billions in US investment to help India move ahead on ambitious targets for expanding its use of wind and solar power, as well as initiatives to clean up the dangerous levels of soot and smog, are very much on the cards.

The costs of moving to a low - carbon energy system (based on wind, solar and other low - carbon power; electric vehicles; heat pumps for buildings; smart grids and efficient appliances; and so on) are falling very rapidly, and would most likely be less than 1 % of income.

If comets and other bodies, accelerated both on their approach to the Sun and as they moved away from it, they would have gotten faster and faster until the solar system flew apart, and we would not now be around to discuss it.

The MDB average rainfall during the last three decades has been recording a 10 % loss per decade, I believe this is primarily due to declining solar radiation levels, moving from the highest for 8000 years to presently the lowest for 100 years, this solar decline is expected to continue for at least another 3 decades, maybe 6 decades like it did in the 16th century, brining on the last little ice age.

The atmosphere is never in equilibrium because the planet rotates, there is a non-uniform surface and moving clouds which alter the solar energy falling on the surface.

Adjacent grids have the exact same problem — the wind and solar are moving approximately in sync — meaning supply in adjacent regions is quite highly correlated; and hot and cold temperatures are likewise in sync so air - conditioning and heating demand is similar in adjacent regions — therefore another region will be drawing on their storage at the same times as the PJM region.

«Vancouver is a city that increasingly has a reputation as a leader on sustainability and so it is no surprise that Solshare Energy was able to move this important, community owned solar project forward,» said Ron Seftel, CEO, Bullfrog Power.

This workshop, building on a 2015 meeting on disclosure mechanisms for solar radiation management convened in Ottawa, [1] was designed to move such a clearinghouse from principle to practice.

The national solar association is setting up a committee to focus on solar expansion in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin in a move designed to refocus the association on state - level policy battles, which are where most observers believe the future of solar will now be decided.

I felt as though there were mountains in front of us that needed moving to put solar on the map.

Depending on how fast carbon emissions can be reduced (by switching to a clean energy economy based on renewable resources like off - shore wind, desert solar, green building technology and electric vehicles) the predictions are for a temperature increase to affect the region of between 2C or 3.6 F (if we move fast) and 4C (if we delay) which would be a 7.2 degrees rise Fahrenheit.

Other examples of the military embracing Mr. Obama's climate goals include the construction of a massive solar power project at Fort Benning, Georgia, and the Navy's move toward a «green fleet» that is far less reliant on fossil fuels.

Thus if the two mid latitude jets move equatorward at the same time as the ITCZ moves closer to the equator the combined effect on global albedo and the amount of solar energy able to penetrate the oceans will be substantial and would dwarf the other proposed effects on albedo from changes in cosmic ray intensity generating changes in cloud totals as per Svensmark and from suggested changes caused in upper cloud quantities by changes in atmospheric chemistry involving ozone which various other climate sceptics propose.

The natural causes of climate variations that have time scales (century, decadal; e.g. Schwabe sunspot cycles, average solar output during the satellite measuring era,, ENSO / PDO / AMO and the rest of the alphabet soup of «oscillations», volcanism) either don't capture energy over multiple cycles — if I push a child on a swing, his average position doesn't move away from me — or are going in the wrong direction.

Since a basic North American continental experiment was already successfully executed on the few post 911 clear sky days, I posit that simple solar L1 irradiance modification experiments could be designed to test the hypothesis without any serious side effects (certainly without moving an asteroid) to successfully obtain the desired data to enable more permanent temporary solutions, and in order to give us more time to develop the necessary carbon dioxide removal and sequestration schemes — aka carbon containing products).

Secondly, the Solar energy which the cartoon claims converts to heat to produce this outgoing Thermal IR is composed of UV, Visible and Near IR, none of which are actual thermal IR, heat on the move, we can not feel them, and there is no attempt made to prove that these energies convert to enough heat of land and sea to raise the temperature of the Earth.