Sentences with phrase «energy systems scientist»

They play off one another and it's like a tug of rope almost,» says Evan Mills, an environmental and energy systems scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

Not exact matches

Finding alternative energy sources, combating pollution, providing mass transit systems for cities — to mention just three current issues — require knowledge that only highly trained scientists and technicians possess.

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The system we have now seems to be producing at least as many well - qualified scientists as the most obvious part of our S&T enterprise can absorb, and the energy, knowledge, and skill of those scientists is as high as it has ever been, or higher.

«Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that — unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future — there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels.

The scientists started with metabolically relevant cells — hepatocytes and adipocytes — representing major functions of the liver and adipose tissues, and thus important aspects of the body's energy processing and storing system.

Using a prototype system that uses only fresh water (bottle, left), salt water (right), and a chamber where certain types of energy - generating bacteria feed on nutrients (foreground), scientists have produced hyd

Working at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the scientists then used a newly designed injection system, engineered by a team from Arizona State University, to stream the gel into the path of the X-ray pulses, which hit the crystals and produced patterns used to reconstruct a high - resolution, 3 - D model of the receptor.

Fraser Stoddart, a AAAS fellow and member, was among three scientists to be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing miniaturized machines that hold the promise to revolutionize computers and energy through «new materials, sensors and energy storage systems,» the Royal Swedish Academy of...

Scientists from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and other international collaborators have proposed a system of mirrors, processed lunar soil and a heat engine to provide energy to vehicles and crew during the lunar night.

For this purpose, the Mainz physicists have been collaborating with scientists of the BESSY II synchrotron facility at the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, as well as with the Technical University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

«We didn't really know how our first experiment would turn out, but we were surprised how little difference abundant gas made to total greenhouse gas emissions even though it was dramatically changing the global energy system,» said James «Jae» Edmonds, PNNL's chief scientist at JGCRI.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

Such a system may help scientists understand matter's behavior when it gains or loses mass or energy.

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.

But in an analysis just published in The Electricity Journal, scientists say that much of this problem could be addressed with enhanced energy storage technology or by developing «hybrid» systems in which, on a broader geographic scale, one form of renewable energy is ramping up even while the other is declining.

It turns out the energy in this whip - like process is high enough to generate Alfvén waves, a strong kind of wave scientists suspect is key to heating the sun's atmosphere and propelling the solar wind, which constantly bathes the solar system with charged particles from the sun.

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.

Shwetak Patel, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life.

In February scientists in Hokkaido began ground tests of a power transmission system designed to send energy in microwave form to Earth.

Observations of the explosions of white dwarf stars in binary systems, so - called Type Ia supernovae, in the 1990s then led scientists to the conclusion that a third component, dark energy, made up 68 % of the cosmos, and is responsible for driving an acceleration in the expansion of the universe.

They then looked at another source of data: that of the Clouds» and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite instruments which measure fluxes of reflected and emitted radiation from Earth to space, to help scientists understand how the climate varies over time.

By using supercomputers such as Titan, a large multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Peter Thornton of the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) had the power required to integrate massive codes that combine physical and biological processes in Earth system with feedbacks from human activity.

Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have come up with a novel machine learning method that enables scientists to derive insights from systems of previously intractable complexity in record time.

The scientists have also found the VDVF system has a very energetic heat flux (the amount of energy it emits into the surrounding ocean) of around 500 megawatts.

The scientists also calculated the energy that would be necessary for the experimentally observed domain wall motion and came to the conclusion that the energy consumption of the proposed system would be quite cost - effective compared with the best components currently available.

The findings from this study, done through DOE's Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), could help scientists design a safe and stable metallic lithium anode and ultimately pave the way for the practical use of high - energy - density battery systems for electric vehicles and storing renewable eEnergy Storage Research (JCESR), could help scientists design a safe and stable metallic lithium anode and ultimately pave the way for the practical use of high - energy - density battery systems for electric vehicles and storing renewable eenergy - density battery systems for electric vehicles and storing renewable energyenergy.

July 21, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists play a significant role in a new project aimed at removing technical barriers to commercialize enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), a clean energy technology with the potential to power 100 million American homes.

Scientists in the northwest have made a new discovery about how whirlpools function, which could have important knock on effects for the design of flood defences, energy systems and other large scale infrastructure.

After working as a post-doctoral research staff in Tohoku University for 2010 - 2012, Yuki worked as a research scientist for Systems Engineering Laboratory, Toshiba Research and Development Center for October 2012 - December 2014, developing battery - based electric energy storage systems as part of the public infrastructureSystems Engineering Laboratory, Toshiba Research and Development Center for October 2012 - December 2014, developing battery - based electric energy storage systems as part of the public infrastructuresystems as part of the public infrastructures team.

### The research team In addition to Jonathan Claussen and Loreen Stromberg, co-authors of the paper describing water - repelling, inkjet - printed graphene circuits are: Suprem Das, an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Kansas State University, formerly an Iowa State postdoctoral research associate in mechanical engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory; Srilok Srinivasan, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Qing He, an Iowa State graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering; Nathaniel Garland, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Warren Straszheim, an Iowa State associate scientist with the Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State.

An internationally recognized expert in rare - earth metals known by the name «Mr. Rare Earth», he was a scientist in the Department of Energy's National Laboratory system for over 60 years and made his research home at Ames Laboratory since 1957.

When the human body kicks into high gear, the brain can run on recycled, alternative energy to make the whole system more efficient, scientists have discovered.

Independent sources of outrage like GamerGate were quickly connected to the burgeoning Koei Tecmo system, recycling unused energy into further spite and bile and creating a self - perpetuating cycle that has Koei Tecmo's best scientists scratching their heads in bewilderment.

As climate and energy scientists concerned with global climate change, we are writing to urge you to advocate the development and deployment of safer nuclear energy systems.

The scientists are looking for an energy storage system that has a time constant related to the frequency of oscillation.

But behavioral and social scientists keep telling me they find little evidence that the public will can shift sufficiently — without an extraordinary signal from the climate system, perhaps — to get the politicians into high gear on an energy transformation.

As conservation scientists concerned with global depletion of biodiversity and the degradation of the human life - support system this entails, we, the co-signed, support the broad conclusions drawn in the article «Key role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation» published in Conservation Biology (Brook & Bradshaw 2014).

Scientists and engineers invariably see technology innovation as the primary if not sole driver of energy transformation, but changing the energy system involves much more.

This mantra refers to a complex non-linear dynamic system with annual variation in forcing greater than 80Wm - 2 (20Wm - 2 for the guys that can only think in terms of averages) repeated by «scientists» so inept at thermodynamics and statistics that they confuse confidence intervals based on temperature anomalies with actually uncertainty of energy flow based on T ^ 4 relationship of the real T not the imaginary T anomaly.

To determine how fast Earth's systems are accumulating heat, scientists focus on Earth's energy imbalance (EEI): the difference between incoming solar radiation and outgoing longwave (thermal) radiation.

Muller, a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has devoted much of the past five years to understanding our climate problem and our global energy system.

Over the past few years, an international team of climate scientists, economists and energy systems modellers have built a range of new «pathways» that examine how global society, demographics and economics might change over the next century.

Scientists are one step closer to building a carbon - recycling system that can harvest solar energy to efficiently convert CO2 and water into liquid fuels.

I am a climate scientist (CV) interested in climate modeling, Earth's energy budget, emergent properties of complex systems, chaos, statistics, climate - society interaction and quantifying difficult - to - quantify things.

Reducing the argument to radiation as if it's «all the same energy» by stripping it of its individual properties and processes, has enabled the swapsies of properties and out of context use of laws to be made in the descriptions of energies, gases and processes, and, so ground into thinking through repetition in the education system that even the absence of the Water Cycle goes unacknowledged as you all busy yourselves arguing about the nuances of your fictional fisics with real world applied scientists who know better.

Scientists at the German Aerospace Center have tested a solar reactor concept known as CONTISOL, which also contains a thermal energy storage system to allow it to run day or night.

Above all, these supposed modeling experts and climate scientists need to terminate their biases and their evangelism of political agendas that seek to slash fossil fuel use, «transform» our energy and economic systems, reduce our standards of living, and «permit» African and other impoverished nations to enter the modern era only in a «sustainable manner,» as callous elitists often insist.

«What is unique about this assessment is that the IPCC allows us to draw on and bring together a broad spectrum of experts on each of the technologies reviewed in collaboration with scientists studying energy systems as a whole.

It also includes perspective from scientists developing climate - related data models at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the International Energy Agency.