Sentences with phrase «energy storage needs»

We believe our battery technology will help meet future renewable energy storage needs.

For energy storage needs, hydrogen, methane, and ethane could be used in biofuels.

For these reasons, supercapacitive materials hold great promise for a wide variety of energy storage needs, particularly in computer technology and hybrid or electric vehicles.

Not exact matches

Within MLPs specifically, the new energy revolution in the United States is driving the need for more pipeline transportation and storage.

The concept eliminates the need for refrigerated storage and distribution, which reduces energy consumption.

Solutions that remove or reduce the need for frozen storage and distribution will reduce energy costs, improve customer perception of freshness and nutrition, and provide businesses with a greater capacity to manage stock.

The $ 8m upgrade involves the installation of solar panels to reduce the need to draw energy from the power grid, as well as improved cold chain storage management to ensure quality, freshness and food safety.

This means that her development is slow and that her body needs storage of energy to grow stronger and healthier.

But I could imagine a day when the entire energy mix is fueled by renewable energy sources, and then all of the hydrocarbon products — consumable plastics, the fuels that you need for long - term energy storage and heating your home in the winter — all of that could be derived from CO2 conversion.

Worldwide, carbon storage has the capability to provide more than 15 percent of the emissions reductions needed to limit the rise in atmospheric CO2 to 450 parts per million by 2050, an oft - cited target associated with a roughly 50 - percent chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees, but that would involve 3,200 projects sequestering some 150 gigatons of CO2, says Juho Lipponen, who heads the CCS unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

«Renewable energy sources like wind and solar need storage.

Insulin levels rise and fall depending on the body's energy needs and how much blood sugar is available for storage.

The material could also provide major improvements in energy production and storage — because superconductors have zero resistance energy could be stored by maintaining currents in superconducting coils, and then be used when needed.

It turns out they are indispensable for a range of urgently needed green energy technologies such as wind turbine generators, low - energy lighting, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, magnetic refrigeration and hydrogen storage.

A common refrain in this country is that as long as you keep increasing wind and solar, we are going to need storage, otherwise there are never going to be major factors in our energy portfolio.

The new system is also designed to allow a PHEV to use its battery as an energy storage device, enabling the car to hold electrical energy in the battery while the grid has surplus power (during off - peak hours, for example) and contribute its surplus energy back to the grid when the latter needs more power to meet peak demand, Su says.

It's a major step forward, but the U.S. Department of Energy has set a target capacity for hydrogen - storage techniques of 6 % of weight, so the carbonized feathers need improvement.

Conventional approaches to compact hydrogen storage — compressing the gas to up to 10,000 pounds per square inch (psi) or cooling it down to cryogenic temperatures so that it liquefies (around 252 degrees Celsius)-- can attain only about half the energy density needed to fit enough fuel inside something the size of a gas tank.

Pirate is a member of a class of chemicals called pyrroles, which kill by tampering with several enzymes needed to manufacture the energy storage molecule ATP in cells» mitochondria.

«Efficient hydrogen production and storage represents the future for efficient and safe aircraft inflight energy needs.»

Plants have the renewable energy storage problem pretty well figured out: Capture photons from the sun, use them to split water into hydrogen and oxygen to make sugars, then extract the energy from the sugars when it's needed.

The benefit of using molten salt as both the energy collector that creates steam and the energy storage mechanism, however, is that it eliminates the need for expensive heat exchangers to go between different fluids.

«There are many applications that need energy storage devices to work in extreme environments, and there needs to be innovation in the materials systems, particularly electrolytes, to expand the window of operation conditions,» Ajayan said.

Because they're stable, only a few nanometers in size, and need just small electric currents to transport them, skyrmions hold potential as the basis for ultra-compact and energy - efficient information storage and processing devices in the future.

And to avoid brownouts and absorb these surges, utilities will need to spend between $ 70 billion and $ 180 billion in grid upgrades — power plants and futuristic energy storage systems for which ratepayers would ultimately foot the bill.

«The solar industry needs to continue to reduce the amount of energy it needs to build photovoltaic modules before it can afford as much storage as wind can today.»

«Furthermore, large - scale energy storage systems are strongly needed in China [as backup during] frequent natural disasters» such as the recent Sichuan earthquake.

Hydrogen Hydrogen - based energy storage looks great on paper: Use electricity to split hydrogen out of water, then convert the hydrogen back into electricity in a fuel cell when needed.

NSF officials are trying to increase fuel storage capacity and conserve energy in an effort to reduce the need for the annual resupply of McMurdo Station, a worsening logistical challenge given the aging fleet of U.S. icebreakers.

Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.

The wide - ranging discussion touched on everything from the need for grid - scale energy storage to the future of nuclear weapons.

Why do we need grid - scale energy storage?

«Since the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to take a very long time, we foresee a long - term need to deal with coal - based emissions and, therefore, the sooner we begin to develop [carbon capture and storage] technology, the better,» Austin - based energy policy specialist Scott Anderson of Environmental Defense told a Senate panel earlier this year during a hearing on CCS technology.

The process works in air at room temperature and eliminates the need for hot furnaces and controlled environments, and it makes graphene that may be suitable for electronics or energy storage.

People still need electricity when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining, which is why renewable energy developers are increasingly investing in energy storage systems.

Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods), advances in biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)

Some alternatives, such as solar, wind, and hydrogen power have potential as readily available, clean, renewable energy sources, but many production, storage, and delivery issues need to be worked out.»

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The book includes chapters on the economic assumptions used, energy supply and storage technologies, demand and technology assumptions, a reference scenario, variations on that scenario, federal and state policies needed, a «roadmap,» and a final chapter of the main findings and recommendations.

Storage of energy is needed due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.

«There is a huge need to develop long - term sustainable, lightweight, high capacity energy storage systems for a range of applications», says Maria Strømme.

In order to power entire communities with clean energy, such as solar and wind power, a reliable backup storage system is needed to provide energy when the sun isn't shining and the wind doesn't blow.

According to a paper by Xuegang Liu of the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Engineering, The Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing («Spent Nuclear Fuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storage.

In other words, eating more calories than you need and having chronically high levels of insulin in the bloodstream will keep the body in «fat storage mode», while feeding your body with less calories than it normally burns will make it turn to its stored fat as an energy source.

Simple: When your body needs energy because you're consuming fewer calories than you are burning (an energy deficit), then your body releases hormones and enzymes that signal your fat cells to release your fat reserves instead of keeping them in storage.

More glucose than what the body needs for energy or glycogen is converted to triglycerides in the liver and stored as a more permanent energy storage compound — body fat.

I read that having above 20 % BF means you don't really need to Bulk that much at all as the energy is taken from your excess fat storage, as long as you get quality protein into muscles asap.

Eat more energy than you need and you will burn that energy and fat will remain in storage.

Is our long - term insulin response simply related to the amount of energy in our food and hence the amount of energy needs to be held back in storage by the liver?