Sentences with phrase «as solar water»

For solar thermal (also known as solar water) systems, the payoff can arrive in a couple of years.

The huge projected expansion in solar water and space heating in industrial countries could close some existing coal - fired power plants and reduce natural gas use, as solar water heaters replace electric and gas water heaters.

Hawaii has mandated other energy - efficiency measures, such as solar water heaters.

What's more, investing in solar energy systems, such as solar water heaters, can help you save money on utility bills and may even qualify you for a tax credit next year — leading to a bigger refund.

Distributed energy such as biomass has potential, and simple technologies such as solar water heaters could make a huge difference in securing energy for the poor.

Not exact matches

Launched in 1973 as a plastic injection molder with six employees, Cascade Engineering has blossomed into a diversified manufacturer with 15 business units and a product line that includes waste containers, auto parts, and furniture components — and, more recently, wind turbines, solar panels, and affordable water filters for the developing world.

It is an «off - the - grid,» modularly designed kiosk that becomes a hub of community activity by providing a place of commerce as well as safe drinking water, solar power and wireless communication.

The Middle Eastern firm is going the extra mile, however, utilizing other electric vehicles, machines that run on compressed natural gas and biodiesel, as well as solar - powered boats that are capable of cleaning lakes and other bodies of water for its operations.

Focused on clean energy infrastructure assets in North America, including solar, wind, energy efficiency, storage, and water, the Fund seeks to encompass a broad array of investment structures, such as senior debt, subordinated debt, and preferred equity.

«The product mix will remain largely the same as currently offered, covering health promotion, basic treatments, fortified foods, clean stoves, water filters and solar lights.»

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

Note that the estimate does not take into account any other potential benefits of the program, such as improved health in non-fatal cases or economic benefits from the purchase of money - saving durables such as solar lights, more efficient cook stoves, or water filters (discussed above).

This consumer deserves more choices and better terms, so KWF created new products such as a Low - FICO Solar PPA, 20 - year Solar Loan, and competitively priced unsecured loans for energy / water efficiency upgrades.

One speaks, for example, of the wheel as a solar symbol, of the cosmogonic egg as the symbol of the non-differentiated totality, or of the serpent as a chthonian, sexual, or funeral symbol, etc. (In like manner it is agreed that the term «symbolism» should be reserved for a structurally coherent ensemble, for example, we speak of aquatic symbolism, the structure of which can not be deciphered except through studying a great number of religious facts which are heterogeneous in appearance, such as baptismal and lustration rites, aquatic cosmogonies, myths relative to floods or to marine catastrophes, myths featuring fecundity through contact with water, etc. [Cf. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 ff.

My 100,000 - square - foot roof produces two million gallons of rainwater per year and as the first solar array farm in the world, I will have no electric, water or gas bill.»

Limoneira takes pride in its status as a sustainably operated agribusiness, and Edwards says it strives to reduce its carbon footprint by making strategic investments in solar, water, soil and integrated pest management (IPM).

Over half of the facility's electricity is generated through solar power, and all winery process water is recycled for use as vineyard and landscape irrigation.

All local California locations will leverage reclaimed wood from California ports and, where possible, newly built restaurants will incorporate more sustainable landscape features such as solar panel canopies over drive - thrus and reclaimed water for irrigation.

Solar thermal domestic hot water heating for the shower house at Camp Wildwood, as well as the campground shower house, dormitories, and nature center at Wellfleet Bay.

In winter, the solar panel will preheat the water by as much as 30 % meaning the gas combination boiler does not have to work as hard; cost as much; or produce as much carbon.

Commenting on the innovations, Mr. Razak Opoku, said the implementation of E-Kiosks powered Solar Energy (Solar Power Systems) introduced by Mr. Ameyaw and the Board will serve as the receiving point for payment of Light Bills, Water Bills, GRA Revenue Collections as well as Banking Transactions.

Throne - Holst said «You can't beat my record on the environment,» touting a clean water research center's opening, solar initiatives and a ban on plastic bags during her tenure as Southampton supervisor.

Taking money meant for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, such as solar panels for schools and modernizing inefficient buildings, and putting it into the EPF for clean water protection, farmland preservation and recycling programs is a shell game.

* Implementation of E-Kiosks powered by Solar Energy (Solar Power Systems) * The 30, 000 modernised lotto kiosks known as * E-Kiosk * introduced by Kofi Osei - Ameyaw and the Board of NLA shall be a multi-purpose centre for the staking of Lotto and serves as the receiving point for the payment of Light Bills, Water Bills, GRA Revenue Collections as well as Banking Transactions.

The match means our water ice stores have the same cosmic origin as the solar system's comets — among its oldest known objects.

Kesterites acting as photocatalysts might be able to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight, and to store solar energy in the form of chemical energy,» explains Schorr.

Combined with a decrease in atmospheric water vapor and a weaker sun due to the most recent solar cycle, the aerosol finding may explain why climate change has not been accelerating as fast as it did in the 1990s.

Almost all of the moon's water comes from the action of particles in the solar wind and not from the shattered remnants of water - rich comets and meteorites, as was once believed.

He was part of the team that introduced sugarcane - based charcoal as a cheap cooking fuel, and his solar disinfecting plastic bags purify water for drinking.

Sustaining fresh water and energy resources; mitigating the effects of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, severe weather, landslides, coastal erosion, and solar flares; and dealing with the consequences of global warming and sea - level rise are issues that affect all populations, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or cultural traditions.

«It is a thrilling possibility that this influx of dust on the surfaces of solar system bodies has acted as a continuous rainfall of little reaction vessels containing both the water and organics needed for the eventual origin of life.»

«You have bugs that eat hydrogen as their only food source, and the hydrogen came from solar energy water splitting.

Using excess energy from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind to split water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process called electrolysis — could be the best solution for creating large supplies of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

Certain tidally stressed moons in the outer solar system, such as Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, harbor oceans of liquid water beneath their icy crusts.

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

As the two of us started to evaluate the feasibility of such a change, we took on an even larger challenge: to determine how 100 percent of the world's energy, for all purposes, could be supplied by wind, water and solar resources, by as early as 203As the two of us started to evaluate the feasibility of such a change, we took on an even larger challenge: to determine how 100 percent of the world's energy, for all purposes, could be supplied by wind, water and solar resources, by as early as 203as early as 203as 2030.

The Solar System Habitable Zone One of the guiding tenets in the search for life as we know it (the only kind we can meaningfully speculate about) is that it requires water.

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

The so - called greenhouse gases — mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide — make the planet warm and habitable by trapping solar heat as it radiates back off the Earth.

By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, via both remote and in - situ observations, the Rosetta mission should be a key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life.

Previous research has suggested that the majority of the water was lost to space as a result of the collapse of the planet's magnetic field, when it was either swept away by high intensity solar winds or locked up as sub-surface ice.

In the absence of giant planets, water delivery could happen naturally as planets pull in debris from different parts of the solar system.

If a cosmic tugboat were to drag Titan into the inner solar system, the sun would quickly boil off the water and just about everything else, leaving Titan as nothing more than a modest rock.

That finding pushes the influx of water back, possibly as early as 8 million years after the start of the solar system.

Fuel Cells Electricity from any source, such as solar, wind and even coal, can be used to break up water molecules into their hydrogen and oxygen components in a device called an electrolyzer.

With eruptions of ice and water vapor, and an ocean covered by an ice shell, Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the most fascinating in the Solar System, especially as interpretations of data provided by the Cassini spacecraft have been contradictory until now.

The «ice line» in any solar system, including TRAPPIST - 1's, is the distance from the star beyond which water exists as ice and can be accreted into a planet; inside the ice line water exists as vapor and will not be accreted.

Titanium - based semiconductors are particularly popular as catalysts for solar water - splitting reactions to produce hydrogen, a clean renewable - energy source.

Titan is the only place in the solar system, besides Earth, that has large bodies of liquid on its surface, though its seas are composed of hydrocarbons such as methane rather than water.

Living up to all the ambitions of its official name, OSIRIS - REx would explore the origins of asteroids and thus the solar system itself, connect spectral colors observable from Earth to specific minerals on the asteroid, identify potential resources such as water for rocket fuel, help evaluate the threat of asteroids to Earth, and return some regolith (asteroid soil) for detailed analysis.