Sentences with phrase «available sunlight for»

Another tool Davis uses is Google's Project Sunroof, which estimates available sunlight for a particular location.

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The following criteria are important for a good compost pile: ample available water, an inconspicuous location convenient to the garden, and at least six hours of sunlight a day.

Mashing up Google Earth and with the companies, universities and nonprofit recipients of earmarks in the House Defense Appropriations bill (available from Sunlight and Taxpayers for Common Sense on EarmarkWatch.org), citizens can get a bird's eye view of where members of Congress are shipping our defense dollars, and zoom in close on recipients.

«You can't use today's commercially available switchable glass for this application because in the darkened state the windshield still absorbs sunlight and becomes hot,» said Goossen.

More than 80 % of the incident visible sunlight was photoelectrically converted by this composite system into electric current available for the hydrogen generation,» says Schedel - Niedrig.

If the shell is thin, it could mean the moon's ocean receives sunlight and radiation from cracks in the surface, boosting the energy available for life and the chances that future missions could be sent to explore the ocean, potentially with a robotic submarine.

The hope is that this fusion of biology and electricity can solve one of chemistry's biggest problems: how to take the freely available power of sunlight and convert it into a cheap, green energy source for everyone.

For more information read my book «Perfect Weight» which focuses on this system in great detail, in particular the chapters on «Happy Hormones», «Exercise» and «Sunlight» Available from most book shops in South Africa

Tri-Pane Panoramic Sunroof means more sunlight and open air for you and your family, but while the Pacifica has this option available, you do not have that luxury with the Sienna.

This anti-glare screen protector for the iPad, available from Power Support, shields your iPad from dust, fingerprints and scratches, also far reducing glare in full sunlight.

Sun shining down on sunny day: 800 W / m2 Area of car available to harness this: 5 m2 Therefore, available energy shining on car: 4 kW Efficiency of solar panels: let's be generous, 25 % Therefore, available energy from solar panels: 1 kW Length of time sunlight available: let's say 8 hours Therefore, total energy available per day: 8 kw hours Add in efficiency loss in charging electric car batteries: 7 kW.hr Energy usage of electric car: 0.23 kW.hr / km Therefore, the car could go (7 / 0.23) = 28 km a day, for free, in the sunshine.

Currently, commercially available solar cells can convert about 25 percent of sunlight into electricity, and scientists have been trying to create better solar cells for years.

But there could be a lot more clouds and the result * could be * less sunlight for solar panels, but it seems the net result would tend to increase the amount sunlight available at the surface.

Few other plants can compete with them for the available sunlight they're so well adapted to the unchanging climate there.

Sunlight is available for only part of the day.

Because sunlight is readily available almost everywhere and doesn't require fuel or a connection to a power grid (an interconnected network used to deliver electricity from suppliers to consumers), solar power is particularly useful for supplying power to remote areas and to some portable devices.

What I see is that by using sunlight and wind more efficiently coal, gas, and oil are more available for other uses, which their producers certainly will exploit.

For example, growth or death (with falling) of a nearby tree may alter available sunlight.

The supply is unreliable, although more consistent than wind generation which is notoriously unreliable and thermal, nuclear, or hydro power (if available) is required to carry sufficient reserve in the grid system to compensate for any changes in solar plant output due to any changes in sunlight during the day.

Existing projections suggest an increase in primary production at high latitudes such as the Arctic and the Southern Ocean (because the amount of sunlight available for photosynthesis of phytoplankton goes up as the amount of water covered by ice decreases).

Co2 can only cause the effect where there is extra radiation for it to absorb, in the low sunlight model there is less available radiation in the bandwidths that would already be more than saturated by elevated co2.

Perhaps we do, if only to be able to choose the most appropriate power source for the situation at hand, considering that sometimes, direct sunlight just isn't available when you need a charge, so a solar charger isn't always the answer.

Of course, Sunlight is available for only half the day and less of it falls on each square meter of surface near the poles than near the equator.