Sentences with phrase «more use of solar energy»

Not exact matches

A combined Tesla and SolarCity will be able to offer customers better and more affordable ways to drive clean cars, use battery packs to consume energy more efficiently, and make use of solar energy.

Lower cost solar panels, improvements in geothermal and wind, and advances in building energy efficiency are giving us new alternatives to create as many or more high - quality jobs using non-emitting sources of power.

Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have more control over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.

«A key component of this tariff is that Staff doesn't have all the information and analysis they would need to calculate these values in a precise way, so they are using proxies instead as a first step toward more granular compensation,» notes a statement by Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

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.

Remember that smaller containers will require more frequent watering, and that lighter - colored pots will reflect more solar energy and keep the roots of the plant cooler.Gardeners can use their imaginations when selecting containers.

Trade and industry minister Lord Truscott makes the case for nuclear power as just one part of an overall strategy, which includes greater energy efficiency and more use of renewables such as wind, wave and solar power.

Bullock said divestiture is «only one of the tools» that the state can use to combat the worst effects of climate change, and called Monday for more investment in solar energy and electric vehicle infrastructure in Albany County.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

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.

Such initiatives include research focused on more efficient production of gaseous hydrogen fuel by using solar energy to break water down into its components of hydrogen and oxygen.

We could more than halve our energy use by increasing the use of technology like compact fluorescent lightbulbs and passive solar and geothermal heating.

To our knowledge, this is the first time a plasmonic SSA has been made using such a process, and the scalability and cost of this approach brings us closer to making solar energy a practical reality for more people.»

This provides a more accurate picture of the overall energy consumed and produced and the environmental impact of making and using a solar panel.

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.

«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.

This is more than ten times the UK's current electricity storage capacity, enabling the use of significantly more wind and solar energy.

The idea is that the film, when applied to different surfaces such as glass or brick, can produce solar energy more efficiently than conventional silicon wafer — based solar cells — which are made of materials similar to those used to fabricate computer chips.

Here's a seemingly simple solar power fact *: the sun bathes Earth with enough energy in one hour (4.3 x 1020 joules) to more than fill all of humanity's present energy use in a year (4.1 x 1020 joules).

But now, researchers have taken a more sizable jump with solar panels, creating a hybrid device that uses a combination of catalysts and microbes to convert 10 % of the captured solar energy into liquid fuels and other commodity chemicals.

Sunlight is a form of renewable energy that is virtually limitless: more solar energy strikes the earth each hour than the entire world uses in a year!

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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.

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.

Now, with a host of enhancements, the resort has reopened to offer more unique signature experiences and natural attractions and will soon be the only African island resort to use 100 per cent solar energy.

Marfa Mayor Dan Dunlap proclaimed May 9, 2009 as Green Mountain Solar Energy at Ballroom Marfa Day, urged Marfa citizens and businesses to learn more about green power and to engage in other activities that encourage the use of clean, abundant, reliable, renewable eEnergy at Ballroom Marfa Day, urged Marfa citizens and businesses to learn more about green power and to engage in other activities that encourage the use of clean, abundant, reliable, renewable energyenergy.

New solar technologies are developed all of the time, but lately it seems that the focus has been less on making the perfect solar cell and more on making more adaptable solar tech that expands how we can use and harness solar energy.

Yet more evidence that the world has vast commercially - exploitable wind and solar energy resources, that are more than sufficient to produce more than enough electricity for all current uses, plus the electrification of ground transport, without fossil fuels or nuclear power.

Apple plans to build more than 200 megawatts of solar projects in the northern, eastern and southern grid regions of China, which will produce the equivalent of the energy used by more by than 265,000 Chinese homes in a year and will begin to offset the energy used in Apple's supply chain.

I'm not arguing that storage isn't very helpful, or necessary to meet some needs, but solar energy can do a whole lot more than «shaving peak loads», and the whole notion of how we think of «base» and «peaking» should be rethought, or at least (to the degree we use the notion) we should understand it's ultimate sources and limits.

And that, to my way of thinking, is a bit of a bummer, because using direct solar energy is a lot more accessible, affordable, and eco-friendly than any solar gadget.

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.

Once green technology (solar and wind energy, and more efficient and low carbon intensive ways of production) becomes more profitable than the alternative (carbon intensive sources of energy, and industries that use them)....

«In the project Solar Poland you will find farms that are committed to the production of fine foods (organic and traditional) as well as to taking a caring attitude to the environment, through maximizing the economic and ecological use of renewable energy sources in their homes and businesses... By staying at a Solar Poland farmhouse you will play your part in supporting a clean and green future — helping to make Polish countryside an even more pleasant environment for us and for future generations.»

We have more tools available to make solar and other variable renewable technologies more reliable than ever, such as larger and more integrated grids, better resource forecasting, and more use of energy storage technologies.

Because PV panels are able to capture more solar energy when they are pointed directly at the sun, installers may configure systems to optimize output by adjusting the orientation and tilt of a system, or by using mechanisms that track the sun as it traverses the sky.

Today's solar systems are generating more electricity and a larger percentage of total household energy use.

More specifically, the scientists have successfully been able to solve the problem of dye - sensitized solar cells (DSSC), namely that the dyes used to create energy in these cells would eventually be destroyed by UV radiation.

For instance, if the customer is billed under Time of Use rates, in order to understand how much a solar installation will reduce their utility bill, it is essential to understand how much energy they consume during peak demand times when energy is more expensive, and how those usage patterns intersect with the amount of energy their solar array is likely to be producing at different times.

If you look at being able to being able to put [energy storage] into wind turbines, making sure to stabilize grid, allowing more renewables to come in, and you can use it with solar to absorb power in middle of the day.

By increasing the humidity, the solar energy is used more efficiently, or putting it another way there is less energy lost to space by the emission of longwave radiation because humid air has a strong greenhouse effect.

Aside from its investment in CCS, the country is also working on increasing its renewable energy sources — it's already the world's largest producer of solar energy — as well as using more electric vehicles in a number of its cities.

By using some of the latest solar energy technologies, we are able to have all our needs taken care of and more, especially when we make some simple lifestyle changes that drastically reduce what we need to consume.

Here's hoping he uses it to commit the Commonwealth more firmly to the solar energy he so loves, along with the other essentials of the 21st century energy economy: wind power, battery storage, and energy efficiency.

On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.

When fossil fuel runs out, will it be possible to use the relative trickle of energy which comes from wind turbines and solar panels to mine and fabricate the raw materials necessary to build more solar panels and more wind turbines?

A move to time - of - use pricing as part of the transition to Net Metering 2.0 is also expected to drive increased deployment of residential energy storage paired with solar, as solar customers move to more of a self - consumption model.

To involve their community, they installed a network of solar water heaters in local homes — the energy savings brought from this wide network of solar water heaters were then used to fund the church's more large - scale energetic retrofit.