Sentences with phrase «develop over billions of years»

These deep fields have given astronomers unprecedented access to understanding how galaxies form and develop over billions of years in the history of our universe, from shortly after the Big Bang to today.

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Two major concerns for investors and analysts over the past few months have been Netflix's growth prospects internationally, as well as the massive amounts of cash ($ 5 billion this year alone) that it is spending on developing new shows.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

So, even if the universe has the nature of developing over 13.7 billion years, and Earth over 4.5 billion years, God made it all happen (jump start) during the days of Creation!

(He assumed that this molecule had the opportunity to develop by natural chemical reactions on 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1020) «hospitable» planets over a period of four billion years.

Following up on discussions in the regular negotiations, the accord would establish a start - up fund of roughly US$ 30 billion over the next three years to help developing countries prepare for a warmer climate, integrate new technologies into sustainable development plans and protect their forests.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

So historians had papered over the fact that when we developed the atomic bomb we made a decisive bad judgment that cost more than half a billion of 1940s dollars and delayed the war's end by about a year.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

Seeing the sharp declines in parts of the ocean I have come to know and love reminds me that as we look into new ways to protect our planet from climate change, we need to look again at the natural machinery that already works, that developed over four and a half billion years, and do everything we can to restore its functions.

The researchers ran more than 2500 simulations based on a model they developed that projected the precise orbits and interactions of the entire solar system over the next 5 billion years.

They included China's ambitious 15 - year plan aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive functions while developing the tools to diagnose and treat brain diseases early; it is likely to be funded with $ 1 billion over the first 10 years.

They test their hypotheses about the universe by developing mathematical models that describe the underlying complex physical processes and run them on high - performance computers trying to reproduce the evolution of the Universe over billions of years.

The sum of these efforts in developing countries will reduce growth in warming emissions by billions of metric tons of warming gases per year over the coming decade.

And while district leaders have yet to develop a total capital cost estimate for the new class size caps that will be phased in over the next four years, experts say districts — particularly those located in economically depressed regions — will be hard - pressed to find the billions of dollars necessary for new K - 12 infrastructure in North Carolina.

With an operating history dating back over 100 years and billions of advertising dollars cumulatively spent, Brown - Forman has created a loyal following of consumers who have developed a preference for the taste of its whiskeys.

Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.

The value of doing this is clear: «Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.»

The Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois called for a mandatory national cap on carbon emissions, as well as an investment of $ 150 billion over 10 years to develop new energy resources, in order to reduce the country's appetite for foreign oil by 35 percent by 2030.

SkyPower, a Canada - based owner and developer of solar energy projects, has signed a $ 2.2 billion agreement with the Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to develop 1 GW of solar projects in Kenya to be built in four phases over the next five years.

http://www.law360.com/articles/709789/skypower-to-invest-4-3b-in-bangladesh-solar-energy SkyPower Global will be investing about $ 4.3 billion to develop two gigawatts of utility - scale solar projects in Bangladesh over the next five years, the solar developer announced Thursday.

More than 300,000 refugees fled severe drought, conflict and famine in southern Somalia in 2011 into Ethiopia and Kenya (William Davies / AFP / Getty Images) That's why, in recent years, many of the world's wealthier nations — including the United States, Germany, Britain, and Japan — have promised billions of dollars in aid to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of global warming and switch over to cleaner energy sources.

This need is not lost on the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate — a group of national finance ministers, former heads of state, and leading global economists — who called in 2015 for international financial institutions to develop a package of $ 1 billion over five years to support the world's 500 largest cities in reducing climate pollution and building urban resilience.

I mean, the president has called for an 18 percent reduction in greenhouse gas intensity; we spend over $ 4 billion a year now in climate change technology and research development; we have bilateral, multilateral agreements with most of the rest of the developed world on things like coalbed methane and hydrogen fuel cells.

OnSwitch was formed by a leadership team who worked side by side over the past 17 years at commercial solar energy pioneer PowerLight, SunPower, and Hanwha Q Cells, developing and building well over $ 1 Billion of rooftop, ground - mount, and carport commercial solar energy projects for hundreds of businesses, public agencies and non-profits across the U.S., including Target, Lowes, Hewlett - Packard, City of San Francisco, Toyota, U.S. Navy, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, and the like.

23 February 2015 A two - year assessment of the potential to develop blue carbon projects on Louisiana's coast estimates that carbon finance revenue can provide up to $ 1.6 billion in critical funding to assist with wetland restoration over the next 50 years.

But was it not scientists, with their words printed in the Guardian, repeated by policy - makers, which warned of «Arctic death spirals»; «ice - free Arctic summers»; the proliferation of disease; worsening, intensifying and increasing frequency of storms, flood, drought and fire; dramatic decreases in agricultural productivity in Africa; increased warming between 2009 - 14; the immanent demise of Himalayan glaciers and the consequent denial of water to over a billion people; The deaths of 150,000 and then 300,000 people in the developing world each year; and so on?

Estimates produced for about 60 countries around the world revealed that gas flaring has remained largely stable over the last 12 years — in the range of 150 - 170 billion cubic meters annually — although 22 mostly lesser developed countries increased its use over that period (on the other hand, 16 other countries decreased its use).

Staggering amounts of capital are required to develop the oil sands, perhaps $ 250 billion in initial capital, spent mostly over the next ten years.

Mrs. Nonas has 17 years of combined experience; worked at Moody \'s Investors Service covering the entire spectrum of mortgage backed securities products and small balance commercial loans; at WestLB and Barclays Capital, was the mortgage lead on the risk management team underwriting over $ 15 billion in mortgage financing facilities, established warehouse lines of credit, reverse repurchase agreements, Asset - Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) conduits and other credit facilities for subprime mortgage originators and servicers; developed a process to conduct and document on site due diligence at the counterparty \'s origination and servicing base of operations.

Global housing needs will be driven by a huge population shift over the next 30 years as 3 billion people, mostly in developing countries, migrate from rural to urban areas in search of opportunity.