As she was preparing her doctoral research project she decided to determine how
much energy engineers could count on wastewater to provide.
Not exact matches
Engineers have welcomed the government's
much - trailed
Energy Bill, setting out the roadmap for the UK's switch to «a low - carbon economy».
This year, Summit's list of long - term visitors includes Brandon Strellis, an environmental
engineering graduate student from the Georgia Institute of Technology studying how aerosols influence how
much energy is reflected and absorbed by Greenland's ice — and where those particles are coming from.
The challenge of human spaceflight is that you deal with
energies that are
much greater than those found in most
engineering problems.
Engineers still use Reynolds's «laws of resistance» today to calculate how
much energy is lost to friction as liquids and gases flow through a pipe.
«Ion propulsion isn't limited by how
much energy is stored on board,» says NASA
engineer Marc Rayman.
Rudy Diaz, an electrical
engineer at Arizona State University in Tempe, likes the concept and execution, but he suspects that in a consumer device or inside the body the antennas will give off too
much heat because of their high
energy density.
Typically, these systems are also
much less efficient, but environmental
engineer Peter McGrail at the U.S. Department of
Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory may have found a simple way to improve them.
The
engineers at the Gear Research Center (FZG) at TUM focused on recouping as
much braking
energy as possible with the goal of enhancing the range of the vehicle.
The battery in the Sonata Hybrid is a lithium - polymer design that is lightweight and
energy dense, yet it is
engineered to discharge
much slower and retain more
energy, and Hyundai backs the battery with a limited lifetime warranty, the first such warranty offered on a hybrid.
We have looked extensively at renewable
energy options with a recent 50 page
engineering study focusing on adding as
much renewable
energy as possible.
«When we communicate with a cell tower or Wi - Fi router, so
much energy goes to waste,» explained Chi - Chih Chen, research associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering.
Scientists and
engineers invariably see technology innovation as the primary if not sole driver of
energy transformation, but changing the
energy system involves
much more.
We process
engineers who have to get the sums right use the term «operational emissivity» to specify how
much net IR
energy is transferred relative to a black body emitter.
The potential exists at one particular Arizona mine with 10,000 acres of waste rock and tailings to produce up to 1 gigawatt of combined solar and wind power, about as
much as an average coal - fired power plant, said Blair Loftis, national director of alternative and renewable
energy for Kleinfelder, a large
engineering consultant firm.
And the people will be able to do geo -
engineering with
much more knowledge of the climate systems, with
much more advanced technology, and with
much greater wealth than we have today; so long as we don't destroy our own economy by attempting to return to 19th Century
energy levels.
Today, the
engineers would say that the heat loss or gain through so
much exterior wall would use far more
energy than would be saved using daylight and natural cross-ventilation.
It's such a waste of
energy and resources to have a large group of
engineers trying to come up with a way to do something different, rather than investing their time into making it
much better.