Sentences with phrase «energy applications because»

Where heat pumps are used for heating, they are capable of highly cost - efficient energy applications because they tap into a limitless supply of «free» heat — either the surrounding air or heat captured in the ground or water, such as a lake.

Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science and nanoengineering, said hot electrons are particularly interesting for solar - energy applications because they can be used to create devices that produce direct current or to drive chemical reactions on otherwise inert metal surfaces.

Not exact matches

As Greenhalgh says, «The future applications for this material don't stop [with cars]-- you might have a mobile phone that is as thin as a credit card because it no longer needs a bulky battery, or a laptop that can draw energy from its casing so it can run for a longer time without recharging.»

But Ángel Rubio believes these applications are a long way off because he sees limitations in the design of the observers: «We have worked from a theoretical perspective in which we have proposed a simple model and the theory can be easily verified because all the energy and entropy flows are preserved.

It leads the nation in patent applications because of the high concentration of high - tech research institutes, including the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW).

But such hybrid generators would likely be limited to small - scale applications, because piezoelectric materials aren't very energy - dense.

«Although some aspects of normal state spin electronics, or spintronics, are more efficient than standard semiconductor electronics, the large - scale application has been prevented because the large charge currents required to generate spin currents waste too much energy,» said Professor Mark Blamire of Cambridge's Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, who led the research.

Because the reactors produce less energy, they are well suited to isolated applications such as powering a small city or for some large industrial usage.

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.

It is not cheaper, it is not more efficient, it does not save us energy, nobody was complaining about how film or digital looked at the original fps, it does not improve the artistic value, because art is not something germane to the tools, but the application.

Because of its energy - saving properties, electronic paper has proved a technology suited to digital signage applications.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company, did not sway from its support (financial or otherwise) for the controversial ads placed in Kansas newspapers on Monday that said Iranian, Venezuelan and Russian leaders were smiling because of the governor's recent rejection of two applications for coal - burning power plants.

Debenham described the scenario this way: Forest Service lands are not financeable for energy projects by developers and banks because permitting is weaponized to defeat all applications.

The impact category has limited application on its own because it does not differentiate between energy sources (e.g. oil or coal).

So while the use of storage is by no means limited to renewable energy applications, I include it here because it will interest those who follow wind and solar policy.

For these applications, one unit of fuel energy is equivalent to at least one unit of electricity (probably more because the fuel is often a critical reactant in the process).

Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company, did not sway from its support (financial or otherwise) for the controversial ads placed in Kansans newspapers on Monday that said Iraqi, Venezuelan, and Russian leaders were smiling because of the governor's recent rejection of two applications for coal - burning power plants.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company, did not sway from its support (financial or otherwise) for the controversial ads it placed in Kansas newspapers that said Iraqi, Venezuelan, and Russian leaders were smiling because of the governor's recent rejection of two applications for coal - burning power plants.

O'Neil said opposition to wind projects has escalated significantly since the Wind Energy Act passed, but because the Act remains law, applications filed for projects in the Expedited Area are effectively rubber - stamped as they navigate the process to secure a permit.

The new result opens the door to the potential application of MEG for greatly enhancing the conversion efficiency of solar cells based on silicon because more of the sunâ $ ™ s energy is converted to electricity.

Energy Northwest's application for the 793 MW Pacific Mountain Energy Center in Kalama, Washington, is suspended by state regulators because of insufficient plans for carbon sequestration.

«This has a general and broad application because it is a unit that not only harvests energy but also stores it.

The study is important though because it pushes the idea forward and shows that the application would actually work and areas with little space to offer could still add wind power to the renewable energy mix.

Because keeping surfaces dry and ice - free is energy intensive, this breakthrough could save time, money and energy in a variety of applications.

The crash should be welcomed because it will focus the energy currently devoted to Bitcoin on more useful and sustainable blockchain applications such as smart contracts.

This is because, one job vacancy attracts a number of number of job applications and the recruiters do not want to waste their time and energy in looking through for relevant information in a badly written resume.