Sentences with phrase «for conventional technologies»

An average capacity factor of 21 percent is used for micro wind, compared to 55 percent for conventional technologies such as coal, natural gas, and oil power plants.

An average fixed operation and maintenance cost of US$ 212.7 per kilowatt was used in the calculations, compared to US$ 33.0 per kilowatt for the conventional technologies.

An average capacity factor of 80 percent was used for the solution, compared to 55 percent for conventional technologies.

This is compared to a weighted average of US$ 1,923 per kilowatt for conventional technologies such as coal, natural gas, and oil power plants.

Variable operation and maintenance costs of US$ 0.033 per kilowatt - hour and of US$ 98.1 per kilowatt for fixed costs are considered for biomass technologies, compared to US$ 0.005 and US$ 33.0, respectively, for the conventional technologies.

Not exact matches

It's not even conventional wisdom it's so ingrained: entrepreneurs tend to look to new industries and new technologies as springboards for their ventures and innovation.

For example, Google published a paper on Monday claiming that it had been able to perform a calculation with the technology that was significantly faster than what a conventional computer could crunch.

The technology giant said Thursday that several companies and universities have joined its initiative to create practical uses for quantum computing, a nascent technology that researchers believe could eventually surpass conventional computers in speed and power.

The opportunity from Global Opportunity Report 2017, Business of Power, showcases how decentralised, peer - to - peer platforms and innovative energy storage technologies are disrupting the conventional concept of utility delivery and better preparing cities and residents for energy and climate resilience.

In contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.»

Accordingly, blockchain has been touted as everything from a replacement for conventional stock exchanges to a new distribution mechanism for digital music, but most viable uses for the technology are decidedly more practical.

As a side note, we in Australia have not tended to allow much role for «new economy» developments, such as the adoption of information technology, though some research does suggest that this may have played a greater role than conventional wisdom has allowed.

Apart from offering potential cost savings, the adoption of distributed ledger technology could start to threaten financial institutions by effectively removing the need for conventional, regulated payment systems.

Innovation & development: How cryptocurrencies can be viewed through conventional innovation frameworks, what this unique positioning tells us about their future as a technology, and what possibilities exist for cryptocurrencies in developing countries as crucibles of transparency, positive change and financial inclusion.

But technology transfers and investment restrictions are not conventional trade, says Dean Baker, economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonpartisan think tank.

In U.S. markets, for instance, green cyclicals and technology bonds trade at a premium to their non-green peers, but utilities and materials trade wide to their conventional curve.

Despite the modestly slowing rate of cost declines for utility - scale alternative energy generation, the gap between the costs of certain alternative energy technologies (e.g., utility - scale solar and onshore wind) and conventional generation technologies continues to widen as the cost profiles of such conventional generation remain flat (e.g., coal) and, in certain instances, increase (e.g., nuclear).

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Food processors worldwide are increasingly relying on Eagle's superior MDX technology, originally pioneered for use in the security sector, to detect foreign bodies previously unseen by x-ray or other conventional inspection technologies in difficult product applications.

X-ray technology is ideally suited for applications where conventional food optical sorting systems have reached their limits.

The workflow of conventional technologies for food testing is straightforward: the chemist tells the analytical lab instrument what compounds to look for, and the instrument works to find them.

In collaboration with CSIRO and FIAL through the SME solution centre we've piloted EPT applications for high protein dairy and coffee products and we were able to confirm that coffee made with our technology retained more aroma than conventional spray drying does.

We are able to imagine new ingredients for products such as probiotics, bioactives or flavour that could not be made on standard and conventional drying technologies.

Advantageous for EPT compared to conventional spray drying technology are better functionality for the products, the flexibility of the platform, energy savings and finally better flavour retention.

Printpack won a Gold Award in the 28th Annual DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation for its innovative new Rust - Oleum ® SpraySmart ™ packaging, which replaces a conventional aerosol can with a technology enhanced barrier pouch.

The technology enables a 15 percent weight reduction from an earlier Vitaminwater ® bottle with enhanced vacuum absorption capabilities compared to conventional bases used for hot - fill containers.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Still, the city will serve as a test lab for technologies that could be deployed less dramatically, but more meaningfully, in conventional cities.

However, JCESR's main measure for success may not be technology produced, but whether DOE's hub model outperforms conventional research paradigms.

The Greens want the same strict regulation for organisms that have been gene edited with precision technologies such as CRISPR, as has been put in place for those modified with conventional, less precise techniques.

The single molecule array (Simoa) technology developed by Quanterix, and the fully automated HD - 1 analyzer, offers unprecedented improvement in sensitivity proteins over current technologies for the detection of blood - based biomarkers — as much as 1000 times more sensitive than conventional immunoassays.

Senior author Jelena Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, has been working for years to develop various nanoscale lasers and quantum technologies that might help conventional computers communicate faster and more efficiently using light instead of electricity.

Reporting in today's issue of Science, Gershenfeld and colleagues describe how they designed the new technology using the presence or absence of a sequence of bubbles as a substitute for the conventional «on» or «off» binary language of computer circuits.

Andrew Gilbert of Ingenia Technology, a London - based firm that provides conventional laser scanning authentication, says such a small mark may be hard for users to scan each time.

The work, carried out at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea, could be a step towards replacing conventional platinum (Pt)- based catalysts for energy conversion.

Ultimately, the researchers believe their device design — a combination of a carbon nanotube antenna and diode rectifier — could compete with conventional photovoltaic technologies for producing electricity from sunlight and other sources.

The lawyers at the university's technology transfer office are satisfied that the process meets conventional standards for rigorous laboratory record - keeping, Ané says.

And that's especially true for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degrees, according to conventional wisdom.

The new technology is designed for conventional lithium - ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones, laptops and other electronic devices, as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.

Since the method can boost the energy of the surfing particles up to 1,000 times more over a given distance than conventional technology, it could pave the way for next - generation accelerators that are more powerful, smaller and less expensive.

«The results, which demonstrate a reduction in both noise and energy consumption, raise the interesting issue of a technology «transfer» by which conventional cars could be fitted with tires developed for electric cars, combined with a re-assessment of what road surfacing textures should be used in heavy traffic areas.

Being able to study quantum systems with a large number of components — or «qubits,» as they are often called — also has important implications for future quantum technologies, as Carleo points out: «If we want to test quantum computers with more than a handful of qubits, that won't be possible with conventional means because of the exponential scaling.

In addition to being able to detect NMR in far smaller samples than conventional machines, our technique does not require the application of microwave fields that might disrupt biological samples» said Hollenberg, who is Deputy Director of the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) and Thomas Baker Chair at the University of Melbourne.

As Jiang explained, the efficiency of coal conversion technologies remains low, and coal - derived liquid fuels or coal - based synthetic gas have lost their price advantage due to falling prices for conventional energy sources.

In fertility clinics, iPS cells could enable prospective parents to choose embryos for desired traits more easily than they can with conventional assisted - reproduction technologies.

«An analogy from conventional computing hardware would be that we have finally worked out how to build a transistor with good enough performance to make logic circuits, but the technology for wiring thousands of those transistors together to build an electronic computer is still in its infancy.»

The most commonly used or conventional method for assisted reproductive technologies involves a technique called centrifugation.

Varadan said these low - resolution images can substitute for conventional neuro - imaging technology, such as MRI and computerized tomography (CT scan).

Meanwhile Niels Jensen, head of ESA's Technology Programmes Department, hopes that «by creating a highly motivated team of researchers and experts and letting them work together in the same laboratory for an intense period with everything they could possibly require, we may create a synergy not attainable to the same extent in conventional R&D.

There are good indications that graphene is a prime candidate for «Beyond CMOS» components, and is, despite its revolutionary nature, complementary to conventional CMOS technologies.