Sentences with phrase «by their solar system at»

Assuming a hypothetical PPA that would allow the Parkers to purchase the energy produced by their solar system at a rate of $ 0.06 per kWh, with a 2 % annual escalation over a 20 - year contract, the solar project looks a lot more appealing.

Not exact matches

The hope: Convince NASA by December 2018 that they're worth $ 850 million and a free rocket ride into the solar system, at a combined value of about $ 1 billion.

Second, the Powerwall 2 storage system, which starts production this quarter at the Gigafactory, will take the energy that is generated by any source (whether from the solar roof, another solar power system, or even the grid) and use it when it's most beneficial, such as during the night, during a power outage, or when the customer can make money by doing so.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

to dandintac, the evolution of stars or solar systems or life forms to different species takes billons of years to complete., that we in our lifetime cant comprehend its teleology or purposefullness.At the University of Illinois, a super computer called The nautilus, predicts the future by analysing through computational methods mathematical algorithim the historical inputs for hundreds of years and discovered that it has a direction or intepreted as has a purpose.Someday in the future when we will be technologically advanced, Gods will will be clearly reveald to us.All of this will be part of his will, at this time beyond our comprehension, but will be in the future, The next generation of quantum computers which are tens of thousands more powerfull and faster than todays will provide us the informations to solidify the future religious faith based in science.

there wold be no life to «adapt to the environment» the solar system we live in... is strategically placed for life... if it were in any other place, then we would be bombarded by meteors and such... plus with the solar system where it is at is making it so that the earth going around the sun in the track it is in possible... thus providing FOR life... your argument only goes part way..

Nevertheless, scientists have been able to determine the probable age of the Solar System and to calculate an age for the Earth by assuming that the Earth and the rest of the solid bodies in the Solar System formed at the same time and are, therefore, of the same age.

For example, we know with certainty that the Earth is roughly spherical and revolves around the Sun - not flat and at the center of the solar system, as was once erroneously believed by people in a greater state of ignorance than ours at present.

I disagreed fiercely at first, but eventually decided it was unimportant to the claims of Christianity — just like a spherical earth or a heliocentric solar system is, even though neither were believed by the biblical writers.

In a move that has been awaited for months by people interested in working at SolarCity, the company is now prescreening applicants for the production jobs that will make up the bulk of the 1,460 positions that the solar energy systems installer has promised to create in Buffalo.

Enugu metropolis today have roads built with green verges, pedestrian walkways, drainage systems, street lights and bus stops powered by solar - energy lights, all thanks to the development oriented personality of the man at the helm of affairs in Enugu State, Mr Sullivian Chime.

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

Stephen Doig, program director at the Rocky Mountain Institute, said in the phone conference that the solar pilot projects around the country funded by the Energy Department provide the laboratories for attacking the cost and systems issues.

The specific issues that I addressed in my Ph.D. thesis were all associated with, or at least motivated by, problems in theoretical astrophysics, gravitational dynamics in particular: the evolution of the orbits of planets in the solar system and the evolution of structure in galaxies.

«The bottom line is that we're paying a lot more attention to modeling very small accelerations, such as those exerted by solar radiation pressure, than previous missions have had to do,» said Michael Moreau, OSIRIS - REx flight dynamics system manager at Goddard.

Planet Nine the undiscovered planet at the edge of the solar system that was predicted by the work of Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016 appears to be responsible for the unusual tilt of the Sun, according to a new study.

This high - resolution image of Jupiter's moon Io was snapped last November 6 by the Galileo spacecraft, and it has given astronomers their best look at the most volcanically active object in the solar system since the Voyager flyby in 1979.

Part of the problem is that we do not know exactly where the boundary of the solar system is — only that it is marked by the edge of a magnetic bubble known as the heliopause, at which the influence of other stars starts to dominate that of the sun.

Micro-mineral analyses of the pebble by the original research team at the University of Johannesburg have now provided unsettling answers that spiral away from conventional views of the material our solar system was formed from.

7 The Sky at Night: How to read the solar system by Chris North and Paul Abel, BBC Books, # 12.99 Keen to find out what makes a gassy giant or a wandering star?

Occasionally, the earth would rumble as he studied at his desk in a room dominated by a poster of the solar system.

By modeling how the disk evolved over time, researchers at the University of Chicago hope to determine how different kinds of material spread out through the solar system.

The Oort Cloud is too distant to be seen by current telescopes, but is thought to be a spherical distribution of small icy bodies at the outermost edge of the solar system.

The 1.5 - kilowatt solar - panel system will produce enough electricity for you and your plug - in hybrid car, and the dwelling is built off - site, which reduces construction waste by up to 75 percent (remember that the next time you sneer at the local trailer park).

The Rosetta spacecraft's first look at comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko shows a diverse, complex world, shaped by eruptions and erosion, that may hint at what the solar system was like 4.6 billion years ago.

«This significant achievement by our team mates at DOE signals a new renaissance in the exploration of our solar system,» said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

But as Price points out, there are very few spacecraft monitoring the planets at present, and any exceptional phenomena are quite likely to be discovered by amateur observers rather than professionals, who are justifiably far more concerned with objects far beyond the Solar System.

For example, a team led by Licheng Sun at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, is working on a system that uses a photosensitised anode similar to those used in dye - sensitised solar cells (Chemical Communications, DOI: 10.1039 / c0cc01828g).

At around 70,000 feet, the peak stands more than twice as tall as Mount Everest and is rivaled in the solar system only by Mars's monster volcano, Olympus Mons.

«Tools used by developers to predict energy yields of solar panels and plan solar systems are often expensive and inaccurate,» says first author Ian Marius Peters, a research associate at the MIT Photovoltaics Research Laboratory (@MITPVLab).

«Prior to approximately four billion years ago, no large region of Earth's surface could have survived untouched by impacts and their effects,» says Simone Marchi, of NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute at the Southwest Research Institute.

The collaboration was inspired by the recently proposed ninth planet, possibly orbiting at the fringes of our solar system beyond Pluto.

For every 1 per cent of the sun's rays deflected into space, the average output of solar systems that rely on direct sunlight would drop by 4 to 5 per cent, says Daniel Murphy at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

The SunCatcher solar thermal system, developed by Tessera Solar and built by Stirling Energy Systems at the Sandia National Laboratories» National Solar Thermal Test Facility, captures solar energy at 31.25 percent efficiency, the highest ever achieved by this technosolar thermal system, developed by Tessera Solar and built by Stirling Energy Systems at the Sandia National Laboratories» National Solar Thermal Test Facility, captures solar energy at 31.25 percent efficiency, the highest ever achieved by this technoSolar and built by Stirling Energy Systems at the Sandia National Laboratories» National Solar Thermal Test Facility, captures solar energy at 31.25 percent efficiency, the highest ever achieved by this technoSolar Thermal Test Facility, captures solar energy at 31.25 percent efficiency, the highest ever achieved by this technosolar energy at 31.25 percent efficiency, the highest ever achieved by this technology.

In August a 424 - person vote by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague settled the long - standing debate over how many planets our solar system contains, bumping Pluto and fixing the number at a modest eight.

The close fly - by of this star 70,000 years ago did not disturb all the hyperbolic objects of the solar system, only those that were closest to it at that time.

Every Kuiper belt object and Oort cloud entity is a geologic fossil, preserved at low temperatures, largely unaltered by time, and made up of the material from which the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago.

Traveling at nearly the speed of light, the charged particles produced by the nuclear reactions would fly out of the back end of the craft, propelling it beyond the solar system.

Writing today (Feb. 23, 2014) in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison geoscience Professor John Valley reveals data that confirm the Earth's crust first formed at least 4.4 billion years ago, just 160 million years after the formation of our solar system.

The work by Thomas Kruijer and colleagues at the University of Münster in Germany supports the timeline of a leading theory of the early solar system — the grand tack hypothesis — which supposes that Jupiter was born a few million years before Saturn.

The Pluto Files By Neil deGrasse Tyson We loved Pluto, but now that crazy little ball of ice and rock at the edge of the solar system has lost its planetary status.

Every Kuiper belt object and Oort cloud entity is a geologic fossil, preserved at low temperatures, largely unaltered by time, and made up of the material from which the solar system formed.

More than half of that additional capacity — 5,251 MW — has been installed by home and business owners participating in utility net metering programs that allow owners of solar systems to sell excess capacity back to their local utility at retail rates, according to EIA.

The team found that Jupiter's core grew to about 20 Earth masses within 1 million years, followed by a more prolonged growth to 50 Earth masses until at least 3 - 4 million years after the solar system formed.

By looking at tungsten and molybdenum isotopes on iron meteorites, the team, made up of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Institut für Planetologie at the University of Münsterin Germany, found that meteorites are made up from two genetically distinct nebular reservoirs that coexisted but remained separated between 1 million and 3 - 4 million years after the solar system formed.

But «Oumuamua has a more neutral colour, suggesting it has only been impacted by cosmic rays for, at most, hundreds of million years rather than for the billions of years that our solar system has existed.

In late 2003, astronomers announced that the latest computer models indicate that the structure of a faint dust disk observed around Vega can be best explained by the presence of Neptune - sized and Jupiter - sized planets orbiting at distances roughly similar to those held by their apparent «cousins» in the Solar System (more discussion below — ROE press release).

Kepler lead scientist William Borucki, with NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, said he's not surprised by the finding of the European team, which uses a light - splitting spectrograph called HARPS on a telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile to look for planets beyond the solar system.

Like the famous «Pale Blue Dot» photograph of a distant Earth captured by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it was speeding into the unknown frontiers of our solar system, to Cassini's own portrait of Earth during the 2013 «Wave at Saturn» event, space exploration can give the world a sense of «togetherness.»

Scientists believe that by looking at Mercury, they will learn not only about planets in our solar system, but also about the increasing number of rocky planets being found around other stars.