Sentences with phrase «from use of solar energy»

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.

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Put simply, for every kilowatt hour of electricity the company used in 2017, it bought a kilowatt hour of renewable energy from a solar or wind farm built specifically for Google.

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.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business moSolar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business mosolar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today announced an Australian - first trial of drinking water systems that produce clean drinking water drawn directly from the air using solar power.

While it is becoming cheaper and cheaper to produce and use solar energy, the cost of transitioning from fossil fuels is still very real.

Blockchain - based energy initiatives from LO3 and Power Ledger that allow for the trading of solar energy can influence future use cases for The Sun Exchange and other renewable energy blockchain platforms.

They also include shifting from the use of the private automobile to more environmentally sound means of public transportation, dwellings that insure sufficient privacy while fostering a greater sense of community and interconnectedness in the manner of Paolo Soleri's model city, Arcosanti, and decreased use of non-renewable sources of energy and the increased use of solar energy.

In Green Tour, viewers get a snapshot of what sustainable winegrowing means — from using solar energy and preserving water, to planting cover crops between vine rows for soil health and attracting beneficial insects.

The draft bill would require utilities above a certain size to supply 25 percent of their power from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass energy by 2025, although efficiency measures could be used to meet a fifth of the target.

One of the Royal Scientific Society's pursuits is the Trans - Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation, or TREC, a multinational effort that would use wind, water, geothermal, and solar resources to provide renewable energy from Oman to IcEnergy Cooperation, or TREC, a multinational effort that would use wind, water, geothermal, and solar resources to provide renewable energy from Oman to Icenergy from Oman to Iceland.

Using excess energy from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind to split water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process called electrolysis — could be the best solution for creating large supplies of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight into electricity using CIGS thin film solar cells on flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.

It's more efficient than previous devices, the researchers say, because its two cells absorb more light than single - layer solar devices, because it uses light from a wider portion of the solar spectrum, and because it incorporates a layer of novel materials between the two cells to reduce energy loss.

Australian scientists have paved the way for carbon neutral fuel with the development of a new efficient catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air into synthetic natural gas in a «clean» process using solar energy.

Over the last 20 years, electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction has attracted attention because of the ability to use electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and wave.

Yet, says botanist Jan Pokorny of Charles University in Prague, these snippets from Kenya are not about greenhouse gases, but rather the way that land - use changes — specifically deforestation — affect climate; newly tree - free ground «represents huge amounts of solar energy changed into sensible heat, i.e. hot air.»

Solar panels made in China have a higher overall carbon footprint and are likely to use substantially more energy during manufacturing than those made in Europe, said a new study from Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laborenergy during manufacturing than those made in Europe, said a new study from Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National LaborEnergy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

Keeping cool during the manufacturing process opens up a world of possibilities for applications of perovskite solar cells, from smartphone covers that provide charging capabilities to solar - active tinted windows that offset building energy use.

«While it might be an economically attractive option to move solar panel manufacturing from Europe to China, it is actually less sustainable from the life cycle energy and environmental perspective — especially under the motivation of using solar panels for a more sustainable future,» he said.

Urban land use creates a heat - island effect because asphalt, brick, and concrete absorb and conduct solar energy, while the cooling effect of evaporation from soil and vegetation is reduced.

At the same time, the Chinese have taken the lead in producing clean energy — from topping the world in the production and installation of solar power to building an entire new series of nuclear power plants, making use of the latest technology.

Then they used current costs of solar installations from the Department of Energy and calculated the potential return on investment.

In order to replace a big fraction of fossil fuel power with solar power, we need a way to store energy from the bright noon sun to use at night or when it's cloudy.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

While current energy policies play key roles in providing incentives for the use of solar energy in Indiana, businesses have an additional cost - saving option not available to residences: Businesses can deduct their investment in solar from their revenues — a tax policy known as depreciation.

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

«Using solar energy to drive the production of liquid fuels such as gasoline from CO2 is one of the holy grails in renewable energy research.

In 1954, solar energy pioneer Maria Telkes used a sheet of thermoelectric material to soak up the sun's heat and from that, generate electricity.

The annual potential of solar energy far exceeds the world's energy consumption, but the goal of using the sun to provide a significant fraction of global electricity demand is far from being realized.

Most obviously, renewable sources of electricity from wind and solar sources can be used to electrolyze water — although the overall energy efficiency of this process is likely to be quite low.

The organisms using it efficiently transport the energy of sunlight from receptors, which gather photons from sunlight, to reaction centers where the energy may be harnessed — a performance easily rivaling the most efficient humanmade solar cells.

2 Most of the fuels we use derive their energy from trapped solar rays.

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report on the land use requirements of solar power plants based on actual land - use practices from existing solar facilities.

But in any case, if you are going to go to the lengths of growing micro-organisms for food, why not grow those that can use energy from solar - farm style concentrators?

«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in residential buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards; and

These findings, published recently by the high - impact journal Nanoscale («Tessellated gold nanostructures from Au144 (SCH2CH2Ph) 60 molecular precursors and their use in organic solar cell enhancement»), represent a game - changing innovation that holds the potential to take solar power mainstream and dramatically decrease the world's dependence on traditional, resource - based sources of energy, says Giovanni Fanchini from Western's Faculty of Science.

They are made from recycled yarn with eco-friendly dyes in factories that treat water post-dyeing and use solar power for much of the energy needed in the manufacturing process.

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.

The company plans to start selling raw materials used in solar panels and other solar energy devices, made from some of the ingredients used in LCD panel manufacturing, including thin film and silicon.

For those who financed the purchase of their solar panels as part of their taxes, such as through the Home Energy Renovation Opportunity (HERO) program, they will be required to pay off the remaining loan balance at closing using proceeds obtained from the reverse mortgage.

All forms of conservation are very important, as is making maximal practical use of solar, wind, geothermal, falling water, and tide differentials as sources of energy, but all these factors taken together will not allow us to fully transition away from fossil fuels for our growing energy needs.

I am therefore surprised that Ike Solem (# 14), Joseph Romm (# 15) and SecularAnimist (# 18) all prosetalise about the risks we face and the benefits of wind and solar energy solutions but, nevertheless, appear to turn their faces against any major expansion in the use power from nuclear fission, apparently regardless of the type of fission.

Localization will help solve required transitions from high fossil fuel and nuclear energy costs and global problems created by Peak Oil.This will be done by moving quickly to mass public and commercial use of economic and greener energy supplies from solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy sources.

Portable solar has come a long way from the horribly inefficient and ill - designed devices of just a few short years ago, which were all too often more of a gimmick than a reliable and effective source of energy for daily use.

Although solar - generated electricity certainly has its place, and meets a specific need, it's just one way in which we can use the free energy that streams down on us from the sun, and unfortunately, it also seems way more desirable to our modern gadget - centric society than the simple method of using solar energy directly, through devices such as solar cookers, solar ovens, and solar water heaters.

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Secondly we aim to secure 10 % of our power supply from distributed energy systems at our sites, using technologies for wind, solar and combined heat and power generation.

Well, beyond a wealth of details on system size, average installed cost and California solar incentives, I verified that most solar home energy systems in the state use name - brand panels from large, well established manufacturers.