Sentences with phrase «energy systems»

Intel is looking at components of solar energy systems outside of the cell itself, says Wilson, who is tight - lipped about the specifics of SpectraWatt's technology.

While writing his dissertation, which examined the potential benefits of using small - scale renewable energy systems in sheltered housing for elderly people provided by the city council in North Tyneside, he decided to continue with a Ph.D..

During his Ph.D., Hope was based mostly at North Tyneside Council, where he acted as a sustainable energy systems officer.

And of the $ 300 trillion to $ 400 trillion likely to be invested in the total global economy, $ 90 trillion will be poured into the world's cities, land - use production and energy systems.

With this, they could make a series of predictions about when low - carbon energy systems might catch up with traditional fossil - fuel systems.

He also teaches how to contribute to sustainable development goals via alternative building techniques, renewable energy systems, and methods of evaluating buildings for sustainability in Northumbria's Construction Project Management and Architectural Technology B.Sc.

One Energy Future Lab project that has already been funded is Urban Energy Systems, a # 4.5 million joint venture between Imperial and the oil company British Petroleum.

If the less polluting technologies pan out at low cost, as seems possible, the rich countries will be able to afford to clean up their own energy systems while also bearing part of the costs to enable the poor to make the needed conversions.

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 technology.

For the E.U. and Japan, national emissions grew at a much slower rate, due in part to slower economic expansion, fortuitous changes in their energy systems and societal choices to use energy more efficiently.

The technology they have developed could help increase the efficiency of energy systems based on concentrated solar thermal energy.

Energy R&D Investment It is sobering to note that true solutions to the carbon problem will require massive deployment of new energy systems that emit little or no carbon and yet are reasonably competitive with current methods [see «A Plan to Keep Carbon in Check,» by Robert H. Socolow and Stephen W. Pacala; Scientific American; September 2006].

In calculating the payback times for investment in alternative energy systems (27 March, p 46), Ed Douglas used an erroneous assumption.

In calculating the payback times for investment in alternative energy systems (27 March, p 46), Ed Douglas used an erroneous...

Ozone and pollen will simply get worse unless nations pursue aggressive emissions controls and a rapid transition to low - or no - carbon energy systems.

So they instead have focused on projects to install marginal «end of pipe» technologies, rather than more fundamental changes in energy systems.

Merging multiple micro smart grids in the future will allow energy systems to be integrated into a larger smart grid in a gradual process that keeps pace with demand.

By making more sophisticated use of that basic concept in a connected grid, and pairing it with more advanced forms of energy storage, the door could be opened for a much wider use of renewable energy systems, scientists say.

Smart Living focuses on developing processes and technology to turn home, workplace, transportation and energy systems into «smart» environments.

Those benefits include the restoration of tax revenues that can support other critical programs and projects, such as education and health care, as well as the stimulation of new business and technology development around cleaner, more sustainable energy systems.

Diverting just a portion of the world's food waste to waste - to - energy systems could free up large amounts of landfill space while powering vehicles and heating homes

By tweaking the size of the rhodium nanoparticles, they also hope to develop a version of the catalyst that is powered by sunlight, creating a solar - powered reaction that could be integrated into renewable energy systems.

The «not in my back yard» opposition to renewable energy systems is still a reality, the researchers said, and there are still some environmental concerns about virtually any form of energy, whether it's birds killed by wind turbine rotors, fish losses in hydroelectric dams or chemical contaminants from use of solar energy.

Wind farms can alter the nearby rainfall and temperature, suggesting a need for more comprehensive studies of future energy systems

A remarkable feature of the recent debates over climate change, energy systems, infrastructure rehabilitation and health care reform is the lack of detailed forward - looking government proposals and plans.

The use of renewable energy in the United States could take a significant leap forward with improved storage technologies or more efforts to «match» different forms of alternative energy systems that provide an overall more steady flow of electricity, researchers say in a new report.

Help design energy systems that meet demand and save the greatest amount of carbon emissions for the least amount of money

And the public has to more readily accept energy systems like wind, wave or solar in practice, not just in theory.»

Surplus power can be fed into the public grid as well as be used for charging the household electric vehicle,» explains Dominik Noeren, a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg.

Yet without investing more resources in skilled public managers in health care, energy systems, and national security, we are probably doomed to remain stuck in the hands of vested interests and lobbies.

Energy systems must respect ecological as well as economic constraints.

Lithium - ion technologies make up a large part of the proceedings because energy storage is a crucial enabling technology for clean energy systems, such as powering electric vehicles and smoothing out electricity from wind and solar generators.

Fewer blackouts and money savings aside, equipping homes with smart energy systems could allow electric companies to switch to using more energy from renewable sources like wind and solar.

This paper is a snapshot of one health aspect, but the new knowledge can be applied broadly to energy systems and water systems.»

And with a barrel of oil costing more than $ 80 per barrel, making gasoline from the carbohydrates in plants rather than much - touted hydrogen is proving a better business opportunity for Cortright and Virent Energy Systems, the Madison, Wisc. - based company he founded to commercialize the technology.

Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Terry Johnson, left, the project leader for the Hydrogen Station Equipment Performance (HyStEP) device, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory researcher Chris Ainscough prepare HyStEP for testing at NREL's Energy Systems Integration Lab.

«Together these technologies create significant opportunities to speedily address pressures on both our housing and energy systems in one go.»

The new SunCatcher design is being developed by the US firms Stirling Energy Systems (SES), based in Phoenix, Arizona, and Tessera Solar, based in Houston, Texas.

And that creates a, kind of a, steady state of functionality for energy systems.

Ferroelectric power affects a number of technologies, including cloud computing, sensing devices, solar energy systems and nanoelectronics.

But that has not stopped mechanical engineers at the University of Strathclyde's Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU) in Scotland from developing one that will ride the tide while latched to the seabed by a cable — like a kite flying on a windy day.

The president needs his «I have a dream» speech on climate and energy systems.

Dr Sarvapali Ramchurn, co-author from ECS, adds: «Smart energy systems that use machine learning techniques are increasingly integrated in all aspects of our lives.

To understand how users interact with smart energy systems, a team of researchers from Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at Southampton and the University of Zurich produced three different smart thermostats that automated heating based on users» heating preferences and real - time price variations: a manual one through which participants explicitly specify how the heating should respond to price changes, and two learning - based ones that employed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to automate the temperature settings based on learned households» preferences.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

Patiño - Echeverri is Gendell Assistant Professor of Energy Systems and Public Policy at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Despite the large amount of emissions produced by shipping the coal such a long distance, our analysis shows that the total emissions would drop because of the superior energy efficiency of South Korea's newer coal - fired power plants,» said Dalia Patiño - Echeverri, assistant professor of energy systems and public policy at Duke.

«All the political parties have said we will have 100 per cent renewable energy in the long term — it's just a question of the pace of change,» says Volker Quaschning, a renewable energy systems researcher at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.

The challenge is difficult, however, because several factors are at work, including the building itself, the energy systems it uses and, above all, human behaviour.

«Regulations may be less strict,» explains Peter Burgherr, head of technology assessment at the energy systems analysis laboratory at the institute.