Sentences with phrase «example using solar»

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In photovoltaic solar cells, for example, the European Copper Institute (ECI) states that copper is used in cabling, earthing, inverters and transformers, among other things.

Programming when electric car chargers start charging and how home devices make use of energy from solar panels versus the grid are two examples he mentioned.

For example, we are used to the idea of retrofitting homes not built for energy efficiency with solar panels installed on their rooftops.

In Pennsylvania, for example, a well - known, big box retailer uses solar equipment financed by PNC Energy Capital to provide a majority of the power required to operate five of its stores.

Prior to showing real - life examples of solar - roof installations, Musk unveiled the Powerwall 2, a 7 kW, 14 kWh battery system to store the power the solar roof captures during the day so homeowners can use it at night.

For example, I have voted to improve fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, to provide communities with funding to expand public transportation, to provide tax credits to expand the use of wind and solar technologies, as well as expanding access to grants and tax credits for homeowners to weatherize their homes and purchase more fuel efficient vehicles.

In the meantime, he suggests that solar - powered planes, which can stay aloft for weeks at a time, could enable QKD to be used in military surveillance, for example.

One example is BASF's UV blockers, which are also used to coat solar cells, helping them last longer and work more efficiently.

For example, plain gold nanorods of different lengths may allow effective plasmonic absorption in the near - infrared range for use in solar energy conversion with improved harvesting of solar spectrum.

For example, it could be used to create supersensitive solar cells or even to power a Mars rover that would gather energy from a microwave beam sent by a satellite orbiting the Red Planet.

For example, a team led by Licheng Sun at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, is working on a system that uses a photosensitised anode similar to those used in dye - sensitised solar cells (Chemical Communications, DOI: 10.1039 / c0cc01828g).

Using recently discovered planets outside our solar system (exoplanets) as examples, they investigated the potential for these planets to host life.

By contrast, semi-transparent solar cells use, for example, organic or dye - sensitized materials.

An NCAR research team, for example, will use the NSF / NCAR Gulfstream - V research aircraft to take infrared measurements for about four minutes, helping scientists better understand the solar corona's magnetism and thermal structure.

Antimony, for example, is a naturally occurring silver - colored metal that is widely used by numerous industries to make plastics, vulcanized rubber, flame retardants and a host of electronic components including solar cells and LEDs.

In solar cells, it is not possible to use as pure a form of silicon as in, for example, microelectronics, and thus they exhibit a higher degree of impurities.

A national study of American adults conducted by the University of Michigan under a cooperative agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration found that 154 million American adults watched the eclipse directly, using a combination of solar glasses designed to allow the direct viewing of the sun and various other devices — pin - hole viewers, for example.

«It is important for us to understand this, so that we can design new materials, for example, to build better or more efficient solar cells, or make better and more economical use of fossil fuels,» Elmlund said.

For example, scientists using the telescope's coronagraph to create an artificial eclipse that blocks out the sun will seek to better understand the fundamental physics behind solar eruptive events.

In principle, this diamond - coated yarn is the ideal material on which to base a new generation of saws, which could be used in the solar industry for example.

For example, the Internal Revenue Service will revamp its facility in Andover, Md., to reduce energy use by more than 25 percent through light monitors, rooftop photovoltaic solar cells, efficient electrical devices, and a geothermal heating and cooling system.

One important class of organic solar cells uses dyes applied to a semiconductor material like titanium dioxide (TiO2), for example.

For example, by removing some of the oxygen from graphene oxide, the electrically insulating material can be rendered conductive, opening up prospects for use in flexible electronics, sensors, solar cells and biomedical devices.

Model simulations of 20th century global warming typically use actual observed amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, together with other human (for example chloroflorocarbons or CFCs) and natural (solar brightness variations, volcanic eruptions,...) climate - forcing factors.

Electric vehicles that use solar and wind for energy are one example.

The resulting device marks the most efficient example of a solar - derived carbon dioxide splitter using a low - cost catalyst.

For example, the furnace has been used for solar thermochemical hydrogen (STCH) solar receiver and materials testing for over 20 years based on funding through DOE's FCTO.

As you might hope, «Alan Smithee» is only used in exceptional circumstances, and most of the movies credited to the non-existent director are rightly forgotten: Mark Harmon / Robert Duvall actioner «Let's Get Harry» (actually helmed by «Cool Hand Luke» director Stuart Rosenberg), Jon Cryer comedy «Morgan Stewart's Coming Home,» ropey Charlton Heston sci - fi «Solar Crisis» (originally by «Vanishing Point» director Richard C. Sarafian), with Dennis Hopper's «Catchfire,» starring Jodie Foster, perhaps being the best known example.

For example, a display about the solar system could use paper plates or different sized balls, such as ping pong or tennis balls (bowling balls are probably a bad idea!)

For example, they might teach about the Civil War using songs from that period or teach the solar system by having students physically act out the rotation of planets around the sun.

All of this helps explains why, for example, the number of schools using solar power grew from roughly 700 to more than 3,750 between 2008 and 2012, according to the most recent figures available from the Solar Foundation and the U.S. Department of Ensolar power grew from roughly 700 to more than 3,750 between 2008 and 2012, according to the most recent figures available from the Solar Foundation and the U.S. Department of EnSolar Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Remind students that a telescope is just one tool used to learn about the solar system, but it provides a great example of how scientific discovery and technological advances go together.

An electronic paper sign, for example, will require no cables, running on batteries for months on end or achieving self - sustainability through the use of solar power, all the while providing impeccable visibility even in the bright sun of the campus grounds or the fluorescent light of the lobby.

Silver also serves a more than useful industrial purpose and is used extensively in a growing number of manufacturing processes, including solar energy panels for example.

To give you an example, the Titan's Striker subclass uses Arc energy to smash the ground with an area - of - effect blast; Sunbreaker uses Solar energy to form a throwable flaming hammer; and Sentinel utilises Void energy to create either a Captain America - like shield or a protective bubble for you and your allies.

Maybe someone would like to generate some examples using a basic red - noise process overlaid with a climate signal (for instance from solar or volcanic forcing histories) and then compute the auto - correlations?

As examples: energy demand can be balanced between day time and night time; summer heat from solar collectors can be stored interseasonally for use in winter; and cold obtained from winter air can be provided for summer air conditioning.

Trading off cotton farming for concentrating solar is a good example of smart planning — take out one of the most water - wasteful subsidized crops we don't grow very well, and replace it with a plant that uses less water and produces electricity.

It does depend upon the technology, but for example, the concentrated solar power plants proposed for Ivanpah Valley in the Mojave Desert would use about 100 acre feet of water a year — but most of that would be not in power productions but used to wash the mirrors:

We have a lot to learn from the way things are designed in nature, and both the general principle and more specific examples can be applied to everyday products to help them more effective, last longer, and be more efficient (see our recent look at sea sponges used for solar power for a great example).

If most of this investment were focused on alternative energy and new technologies (e.g., better solar collectors using carbon nanonets as one example), this could be the basis for a huge industry in which the USA could be a world leader.

As always I use recent examples to disprove solar impact.

It seems that we have to strive to substitute non-emissions based methods for coal whenever possible so if substantial solar, for example, is in place, and less coal can be used while the solar is being effective then that would be good.

For example they are using the measured CO2 as an external forcing, without considering that CO2 concentration is also the results of several carbon cycles natural mechanisms that might in part respond to solar variation too.

I also am building several solar devices for off grid use and setting examples of helping make my brick ranch home close to Net Zero as possible.

Covering the uninhabited land of the Sahara with solar panels, for example, might provide 50 times the power used currently across the globe.

For example, it backs rapid growth in the use of non-hydro renewables, such as wind and solar.

The first prototype of solar cells was, for example, used to provide the satellite Vanguard I with energy in 1958 and the technology has been used in this area ever since.

For example, solar photovoltaic (PV) cells convert sunlight directly into energy that people can use, much like bioenergy, but with greater efficiency and less water use.

For another example swing over to the post on the Ivanpah solar plant... another waste of $ s in the name of «global climate change» that could have been used to solve a real problem.