Sentences with phrase «like photovoltaics»

Passive techniques such as shading, thermal mass and natural ventilation come before active technologies like photovoltaics and wind turbines.

The time - tested passive strategies still work to reduce the need for cooling, and modern technologies like photovoltaics, daylight integrated lighting and smart controls can bridge the gap to a more sustainable future.

The petroleum oil monopoly does NOT want you to know that there are also many feasible clean energy sources, in addition to the vastly unfeasible technologies advertised to the public such as solar heating - which only produces a bunch of hot water - NOT electricity like photovoltaics.

11 of the supertrees are embedded with environmentally sustainable functions like photovoltaic cells to harvest solar energy.

Meanwhile, researcher in Israel have been experimenting with organic solar cells that generate current from sunlight, like their photovoltaic cousins made of silicon.

Not exact matches

Initial prototypes are not dissimilar to crude displays on pocket calculators, but electrochromics promises ultra-thin full - colour displays complete with integrated microprocessors, batteries, photovoltaics, wireless antennas and other components, printed out much like paper documents.

In the mid-20th century, the U.S. championed innovation globally, creating and commercializing quintessentially big ideas like semiconductors, lithium - ion batteries, photovoltaic cells, and the Internet.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

The goal is to turn scientific advances into deployable technology, like better batteries for the electric cars that could further reduce U.S. demand for oil and cheaper photovoltaics to produce the electricity that would go into those batteries.

«Likewise, it's not sensible to build energetically expensive batteries for an energetically cheap resource like wind, but it does make sense for photovoltaic systems, which require lots of energy to produce.»

At the time, Bell Labs was developing liquid - junction photovoltaics (a type of solar cell that employs liquid electrolytes), which seemed like a nice fit for her electrochemical training.

In other words, the types of solar farms previously dominated by traditional silicon photovoltaics now used to generate electricity from sunshine in states like Arizona and California.

The prototype is like a miniature e-reader with photovoltaic cells able to harvest energy from office lighting.

Some energy sources, like rooftop photovoltaics and most wind power, are not water hogs, but experts say they are not likely to fill the nation's growing power needs by themselves.

Today's most efficient photovoltaic cells use a combination of semiconductors that are made from rare and expensive elements like gallium and indium.

Zhang and colleagues derived the PS - I from plants, stabilized it chemically and formed a layer on a glass substrate that could — like a conventional photovoltaic cell — produce an electric current when exposed to light.

Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods), advances in biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)

The Materials Project, a Google - like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation, has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and a host of other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new research avenues.

But with their Un-plugged Flexible E-paper Display, AUO has sandwiched a flexible organic TFT display to a thin - film photovoltaic battery to create a self - powered e-reader that can be bent and twisted just like a piece of paper.

At the same time, innovators like the Caltech chemist Nate Lewis focus on pushing forward photovoltaics and other energy technologies.

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

I am saying that like it or not, for better or worse, ultra-cheap ultra-efficient photovoltaic materials are already plentiful and readily available all over the world, and there is every reason to expect that trend to continue, with the technology becoming rapidly more powerful and less expensive and easier to produce.

Photovoltaic panels are built in to the wheels, sort of like those aero discs used in racing bikes to reduce wind drag.

As I've written repeatedly, it's tough to sustain a focus on long - term needs, like sustained research on the frontiers of photovoltaics and energy storage, when congressional politics is about building short - term coalitions by satisfying demands presented by influential players, from coal companies to unions.

The Breakthrough team warns that while deployment of today's technologies is vital, if money for deployment is included in the $ 150 - billion pie, that dangerously reduces the amount of money for laboratories pursuing vital advances on photovoltaics or energy storage and for big tests of technologies that must be demonstrated at large scale — like capturing carbon dioxide from power plants.

There is wide agreement among scientists that inadequate funds are going to basic research in such fields as capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks or the atmosphere, advancing photovoltaic cells and other solar power systems, finding ways to store large amounts of electricity from intermittent sources like wind or the sun, and making nuclear power more secure.

Indeed, his core objection appears to be with technology fixes in general, or the conviction that any bit of technological derring - do — be it a high - efficiency photovoltaic cell or a low - emissions vehicle — will be sufficient to nudge the planet from unpleasant trajectories like global warming.

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.

Whether it be solar tower and mirror plants, or photovoltaic panel ones, UAE countries like Abu Dhabi are making a wise decision to wean the country and region off environmentally damaging fossil fuels.

This view is shared by leading energy scientists like Nate Lewis of Cal Tech and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, the latter of who has repeatedly argued that Nobel - caliber breakthroughs are needed in areas like solar photovoltaics, advanced batteries for vehicles and energy storage technologies.

While they need a lot of concrete for their foundations (a 1.5 MW turbine will need 200 - 450t), producing their materials isn't as energy - intensive as solar photovoltaic, they don't need purified silicon, cadmium, gallium or anything fancy like that.

The (CFR controlled) mainstream media is only talking about unsustainable, inefficient, unreliable energy resources like: solar (NOT photovoltaics), windmills, nukes, and electric cars that only go 40 miles per charge (Tesla's 2008 electric car goes 250 miles, doesn't use any gasoline, and was actually invented in the 1920s).

The prices of photovoltaic systems have dropped like crazy over the past few years, and they'll go even lower, I'm sure.

Photovoltaic power generation can produce pollutants like cadmium and tellurium as they are required in the panel production.

From this, they further predicted the amount of energy that could be produced from weather - related energy sources like onshore and offshore wind turbines, solar photovoltaics on rooftops and in power plants, concentrated solar power plants and solar thermal plants over time.

At the gigafactory Tesla and Panasonic also will produce solar cells for the Solar Roof product, which promises to replace traditional roofing tiles — in a variety of styles — with photovoltaic tiles that look exactly like regular roofing tiles.

In the mid-1990s, I helped run what was then the largest program in the world for low carbon RDD&D; — the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy — $ 1 billion in funding aimed at developing and commercializing low carbon technologies like solar photovoltaics, wind power, advanced batteries, and a broad spectrum of super-efficient technologies including LED lighting.

Like conventional photovoltaics, the artificial leaf used common semiconducting materials (in this case, amorphous silicon) to absorb sunlight and emit electrons.

Solar photovoltaic tree - like structures will generate energy and provide shade for cars parked underneath while solar thermal panels will provide hot water for factory processes.

This fully transparent solar cell could make every window and screen a power source (updated) Back in August 2014, researchers at Michigan State University created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone's screen) into a photovoltaic solar cell.

When I studied photovoltaics as an undergraduate in the early 1990s the buzz at UNSW was that on projected trends photovoltaics would be cost competitive with coal and the like by about 2015.

Like standard PV systems, the photovoltaic glass tiles are installed only on a portion of the roof, while non-PV tiles cover the remaining part.

But the MS Tûranor Planet Solar catamaran is better than beautiful: the photovoltaic panels that completely cover its deck and fold out from its sides like wings provide 93 kW of solar capacity, equivalent to about 127 horsepower.

Like PCs and cell phones, electric cars and photovoltaics in particular (because they are all about technology, not «resources», and because they are consumer technologies that can be adopted by individuals) have the potential to cause disruptive radical change in a short time.

Some, like Harrison Pitt, shown above, have designed New Survivalist dream houses with water tanks, photovoltaics, terraces to grow and dry food, everything but a gun rack.

The silicon - based fibers are photovoltaic just like crystalline silicon solar cells used in solar panels and could eventually be used to make electricity - generating fabrics for clothing, tents, backpacks — basically anything you could imagine.

Perhaps previous studies missed these inputs because their authors weren't overseeing several large photovoltaic projects and signing every purchase order like author Pedro Prieto.

Proving that photovoltaic materials need not always be part of large, bulky solar panels, Sheila Kennedy, principal architect at Kennedy & Violich Architecture and a lecturer at MIT, has developed solar textiles — membrane - like surfaces that can be draped like curtains or used to cover walls or roofs — using 3D modeling software.

Like this house, it would probably be made with a lot of wood, recycled materials, cellulose insulation, concrete and foam free and with a serious load of photovoltaics on the roof.

Like all semiconductor photovoltaic devices, cadmium telluride (CdTe) modules have a characteristic response to temperature changes.