Sentences with phrase «in solar design»

Assessing the impact of shading on system performance is an essential step in solar design.

The grandiose three - story executive residence has various obstructions on the roof, making it difficult to place large arrays there in our solar design.

In the case of the LIDAR data used in solar design, the scanner is typically outfitted on a plane to map the topography of the land below, but LIDAR has other applications as well.

For commercial customers, whose utility bills include demand charges, the benefits of using Green Button data in the solar design process are a little more nuanced, so we will cover them in a later post.

Not exact matches

Bourquin and Taverna started the business as a consultancy, travelling widely — Morocco, Trinidad, the Bahamas and that highway in Colombia — to fix solar lighting systems designed by other manufacturers.

People in manufacturing design installation and sales to mention but a few of the possibilities of a fully fledged Solar industry that Australia could embrace and possibly lead the way for the world to follow?

In October, he presided over a splashy reveal of the first joint product of Tesla and SolarCity — solar roofs designed to look like regular roofs that can harvest almost as much energy as traditional solar panels.

Take PowerLight Corp., a $ 10 - million company in Berkeley, Calif., that designs and manufactures photovoltaic arrays — solar - electric panels — and installs them on commercial and industrial rooftops.

But space posed a unique design constraint on Stearns: solar radiation and extreme environmental temperature shifts would melt and degrade the paint and ink he worked with, making them hazards to the delicate optical hardware in the satellites.

For example, d.light design has an ambitious goal: Reach 100 million people in far reaches of the globe by 2020 with its inexpensive solar - powered lanterns.

The two - year program focuses on technical design, project development, and energy management in renewable energy sources, including solar electric, solar thermal, hydro, wind, geothermal, and cogeneration.

It's a notable accomplishment because the Solar Roof is the first major design change for rooftop solar in decades and could excite the same type of customers who have fallen in love with Tesla's electric vehiSolar Roof is the first major design change for rooftop solar in decades and could excite the same type of customers who have fallen in love with Tesla's electric vehisolar in decades and could excite the same type of customers who have fallen in love with Tesla's electric vehicles.

Other areas with potential are passive - solar design, highly efficient woodstoves in nonmetro areas, and windpower.

Normally, solar panels are designed to last several decades on rooftops, but according to these sources, in early 2016, the Whitney panels failed internal tests that determined whether they met industry - standard longevity.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a $ 5 million impact investment in Little Sun, creators of portable, solar - powered lamps designed by co-founders: artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen.

The plant's original plan called for producing enough solar panels to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, although Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer, said this month that improvements to the equipment design and factory layout could allow it to produce more than 1 gigawatt in panels.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

For example, Newton pointed to the stability of the solar system, and the Intelligent Design movement points to the origin of life and to irreducibly complex structures in biology.

Metropolis Farms designed its own lights, rainwater recapture and solar power system, and has not had a gas or water bill in two years.

Once fully ripe, the pineapples are hand - sliced and dried in specially designed solar driers.

As part of an undergraduate internship, Taya designed and built a passive - air solar food dehydrator to address the needs of a community in rural Rwanda.

Our materials make innovation design solutions possible in a range of industries including consumer electronics, solar and wind energy, fuel cells, package printing, aerospace, automotive, food safety and industrial applications.

These Olymobiles, built by British manufacturer Frazer - Nash, come in a variety of designs and colors, including the Windsor, which looks like a Model T, and the VW Beetle - like Solar Baby (above).

With activities designed for all ages, families are invited to spend the day experimenting together as they explore the celestial mechanics of a solar eclipse, relate size and distance in space, and test different materials to determine how well they protect from the sun's UV rays.

The out - of - this - world Community Design Lab where kids and adults alike can participate in hands - on astronomy crafts such as DIY solar phone filters, pinhole eclipse projectors and more.

For example, the canopy should be specially designed in mesh to reduce the certain amount of solar heat and other UVA / UVB rays that probably reach your kid's sensitive eyes or skin more than 65 %.

CHA did some site design work for a solar panel factory that SUNY Poly is building in South Buffalo, and also has more than $ 30 million in various state contracts for everything from dam inspection to crafting a high speed rail plan.

Local government officials who complete this course are eligible to receive complementary one - on - one technical support in designing and implementing smart solar policy in their local jurisdiction.

The Town of Gardiner is bracing itself for some fiscal shocks in 2018, as residents clamor for overhauls of the town's outdated Master Plan and a Zoning Code that was not designed to cope with some types of contemporary development pressures, such as «glamping» and solar farms.

She designs, codes, and maintains the website and creates graphic content for web and print in order to educate the public about solar energy.

NUKE BILL OUTCRY — POLITICO's Danielle Muoio: The latest draft of a controversial nuclear subsidy bill is drawing widespread concern from wind and solar leaders who say the newest language would hurt programs designed to expand renewables in New Jersey.

It is designed to probe dark energy and dark matter, take a thorough inventory of the solar system, map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, and generally watch for anything that changes or moves in the sky.

Teasing out how plants use light could lead to improvements in renewable energy, like designing solar materials that optimize both electronic and vibrational energy transfer.

Many efforts are underway to design atomically thin materials for quantum communication, low - power electronics and solar cells, according to Oliver Monti, a professor in the department and Eads» adviser.

NASA's Near - Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite the size of a shoebox, designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a full - scale solar sail deployment test at ManTech NeXolve's facility in Huntsville, Alabama, Sept. 13.

There have been many challenging design issues on Solar - B, as well as the usual problems involved in designing for the hostile space environment, not to mention communication difficulties!

«The IAU's planet definition resolution is an example of science at its worst — it's sloppy internally inconsistent, and designed backwards, that is, to produce a desired result that only eight planets are in our solar system.

In the first practical application for the machine learning, the team worked with Assistant Professor Jim Cahoon, Ph.D., in the UNC Department of Chemistry to design a new electrode material for a type of low - cost solar cellIn the first practical application for the machine learning, the team worked with Assistant Professor Jim Cahoon, Ph.D., in the UNC Department of Chemistry to design a new electrode material for a type of low - cost solar cellin the UNC Department of Chemistry to design a new electrode material for a type of low - cost solar cells.

Fridlund helped design COROT (for convection, rotation, and planetary transits), ESA's early entry in the race to find rocky, Earth - like planets outside our solar system.

Architectural inventor Michael Sykes coined the term «Enertia» in the 1980s to describe the innovative homes he was designing that would store solar and geothermal energy and make use of it for most if not all heating and cooling needs.

The unusual way ladybird wings fold and unfold could help us design solar array paddles that unfold in space and even pave the way to better umbrellas

Researchers at the McMath - Pierce Solar Telescope in Arizona test a 4 - inch starshade, designed to precisely block out a star's light, but not the light of orbiting planets.

Mars — Valles Marineris © Ron Guyatt Sol System — Meteor Shower © Ron Guyatt In an explosion of heroic art deco design, illustrator and designer Ron Guyatt has created a massive series of posters making our own solar system fascinating again.

If solar rooftop arrays became as ubiquitous in home design as chimneys, the U.S. grid could indeed cease to exist — an end to power lines, electrical substations and transformers atop equally archaic wooden utility poles.

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.

In 2013, Lewis was awarded a Fulbright that he used to travel to the Czech Republic explore ways to more quickly design materials for solar applications.

Shadia Habbal of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and colleagues used a specially designed spectrometer to observe the eruption from Svalbard, Norway, during the March 2015 solar eclipse.

In designing their solar plane, Piccard and Borschberg and their team faced a structural challenge.

With the 2015 takeoff date looming, the Solar Impulse engineers went back to the drawing board, finally deciding on a design that added a bit of weight to get a wing that could weather the challenges in store.