Sentences with phrase «of emissions space»

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If you live in California and don't need a ton of space for your everyday driving needs, the Clarity is a solid, zero - emission vehicle option.
It provides the greatest cube efficiency, and its light weight allows a truckload to cube out before it weighs out — meaning that every available inch of space is optimally utilized, minimizing freight and handling costs with fewer trucks, less fuel, and lower emissions.
«These vehicles will increase urban mobility, use less space, waste less energy and have a reduced level of emissions
Over 7,500 new cycle spaces at railway stations and 38 new and improved routes have been agreed, as part of a # 30 million package of developments to connect communities, reduce carbon emissions, get people active and make cycling safer and more convenient.
See http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2bIM-PRESS%2b20111205IPR33211%2b0%2bDOC%2bXML%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN Following that vote, the man responsible for steering the legislation through Parliament, motorcycling Dutch MEP and IMCO Rapporteur Wim van de Camp, said that «These vehicles will increase urban mobility, use less space, waste less energy and have a reduced level of emissions» adding that «riding a motorbike has now become greener and safer.»
Next week, the heads of 11 space agencies are expected to issue a joint communique from a meeting in New Delhi calling for cooperation to calibrate instruments and validate measurements «to achieve an international, independent system for estimating the global emissions based on internationally accepted data.»
Although no firm figures for carbon dioxide emissions are available for SpaceShipTwo, a single NASA space shuttle launch produces 28 tons of carbon dioxide.
The instrument is sensitive to near - infrared light, the wavelengths at which the emissions of extremely distant galaxies — stretched by the expansion of space — shine most brightly.
Unlike Europe, China is still in the middle of industrialization, and that requires space for further emissions.
Radio galaxies typically produce two jets of radio frequency emissions spewing into space in opposite directions.
According to the European Space Agency, about a quarter of all human CO2 emissions are being taken in by the world's oceans.
- The giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network — which perform radio and radar astronomy research in addition to their communications functions — were tasked with observing radio emissions from Jupiter's radiation belt, looking for disturbances caused by comet dust.
This is because its low temperature and high phase - space density make coherent stimulated emission possible: in an ordinary thermal gas of Ps, the Doppler shifts of the atoms would suppress lasing action.
Space - based constraints on spatial and temporal patterns of NOx emissions in California, 2005 − 2008.
James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and a vociferous advocate for lowering global greenhouse gas emissions, was chosen for his work modeling Earth's climate, predicting global warming, and warning the world about the consequences.
The world's first space - based system to help identify specific sources of greenhouse gas emissions is now circling the Earth.
The report is based on the JRC's Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), which is not only unique in its space and time coverage, but also in its completeness and consistency of the emissions compilations for multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (GHG), air pollutants and Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), which is not only unique in its space and time coverage, but also in its completeness and consistency of the emissions compilations for multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (GHG), air pollutants and emissions compilations for multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (GHG), air pollutants and aerosols.
By studying such a large data set — over 200,000 galaxies in 21 different wavelengths, or colors of light, from ultraviolet to infrared — astronomers compared the energy emissions from galaxies across a wide swath of space and time to read the history of the universe.
Now, thanks to the much higher sensitivity of XMM - Newton, a group led by Jelle Kaastra of the SRON National Institute for Space Research in Utrecht, the Netherlands, says it has detected the feeble x-ray emission of the WHIM.
In the same way large antennas on rooftops direct emission of classical radio waves for cellular and satellite transmissions, the nano - antenna efficiently directed the single photons emitted from the nanocrystals into a well - defined direction in space.
«We think it's quite possible that the radio beam is narrower than the gamma - ray emission, but we don't yet know how gamma rays are produced in the pulsar,» says Fermi project scientist Steve Ritz of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Studying the emission lines observed by the SPIRE instrument allows astronomers to study the chemistry of outer space.
Natural sources of emissions such as volcanoes can been seen from space and it seems obvious that there output has been neglected in determining the amount of carbon going into the air at an given time.
Beyond the wavelength coverage of the space - borne observatories, the spectra taken in Hawaii even turned up a curious new feature — a boost in emissions of unknown origin at wavelengths of about 3.3 microns.
Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are using already available satellite measurements of sulfur dioxide (SO2), a main components of volcanic emissions, along with the more recent ability to map the location and vertical profiles of volcanic aerosols.
Referred to as equatorial noise or «Russell noise,» in tribute to Russell — who is now a professor of space physics and planetary science at UCLA — the waves are among the most frequently observed emissions in the near - Earth space.
And it has long resisted calls to cap its future emissions, arguing that it has not historically contributed much to climate change, and will need «carbon space» in the future to grow its economy and lift hundreds of millions of people from poverty.
Robert Sausen of the German government's Institute for Air and Space Travel (DLR), near Munich, told New Scientist that «within five years I think we will be able to draw up flight paths that would avoid emissions from aircraft reaching the stratosphere.
One line of evidence emerged earlier this year, with the publication of thermal emission data from the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft in Science.
Data from SUVI will provide an estimation of coronal plasma temperatures and emission measurements which are important to space weather forecasting.
When the Fermi Gamma - Ray Space Telescope, launched in 2008 by NASA, detected gamma ray emission from four spiral galaxies in its first year of orbit, physicists were perplexed.
Looking at the technologies over a span of 50 years, including manufacture, installation, use, and disposal / recycling, they found that the extra energy and emissions embodied in cool pavement materials usually exceed the expected energy and emissions savings from reduced space conditioning (cooling and heating) in buildings.
Quasars turn out to be prodigious broadcasters of radio emissions, issuing faint whispers of smooth jazz and shadow traffic from across the inky vastness of Space.
Making roads more reflective and thereby sending more sunlight back to space helps cool the planet, offsetting some of the atmospheric warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
At a cosmology workshop held here on 20 March, scientists unveiled Tianlai, or «Sound of Heaven,» a project to listen to radio emissions from deep space that may reveal the nature of dark energy.
Using publicly available data from NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, independent scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Chicago have developed new maps showing that the galactic center produces more high - energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess emission is consistent with some forms of dark matter.
Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303
Auroral emissions, occurring when charged particles in a planetary object's magnetosphere collide with atoms in its upper atmosphere, causing them to glow, are an important demonstration of planetary space weather.
«In addition to these intriguing properties, NRL astronomer Dr. Paul Ray and colleague, Dr. Craig Markwardt of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, have searched the source for X-ray emission but have not found any convincing evidence.
The Space Science Laboratory (as part of the wider Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC) at The University of Sheffield) was recently awarded the STFC grant «Dynamics of key radiation belt emissions» (April 2018 to March 2021) and the successful applicant would have the opportunity to contribute to this active research project (depending on the topic of PhD chosen).
Researchers said that Chandra and European Space Agency's XMM - Newton Observatory detected diffuse X-ray emission that came from a large amount of hot gas, which, according to astronomers, is a major defining feature of a true galaxy cluster.
The European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT), developed by the European Space Agency, was capable of greater spectral resolution than the Einstein Observatory and was more sensitive to X-ray emissions at shorter wavelengths.
Blais is accustomed to covering space in his music by now — his recent piece on cosmic background radiation, to the tune of Circle of Life, lays down the science behind the search for evidence of cosmic inflation and gravitational waves in space's emissions.
The result has been significant contamination of much of the frequency space with unpredictable and broadband emissions from an array of communication devices.
We characterize the main emission lines found in the spectrum, which primarily arise from a range of components associated with Orion KL including the hot core, but... ▽ More We present the first high spectral resolution observations of Orion KL in the frequency ranges 1573.4 - 1702.8 GHz (band 6b) and 1788.4 - 1906.8 GHz (band 7b) obtained using the HIFI instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory.
Although GRB 000131, like other gamma - ray bursts, appears to have taken place in a remote «early galaxy» (or «sub-galactic clumps» of stars) that is smaller than today's luminous galaxies, astronomers found it difficult to detect that extremely dim, sub-galactic clump of stars even with the Hubble Space Telescope, as the observed fading of the afterglow indicated that the maximum brightness of the gamma - ray emission was explosion was at least 10,000 times brighter than its host galaxy.
«The best picture yet of magnetic reconnection in space» offer insight into the role of magnetic reconnection in celestial explosions, eruptions and extraordinary emissions of energy.
The Guo Shou Jing telescope was able to harvest short ultraviolet light emissions from the 100,000 stars involved in the study, in the space of a few weeks.
The presence of the Lyman - alpha line was unexpected: while it is frequently detected in galaxies closer to Earth, the team thought that EGSY8p7's emission line would have been absorbed when the universe was formed by the hydrogen atoms believed to inhabit the space between galaxies.
As a result, X-ray emissions are generated from the source and a pair of jets are taking some of the energy generated by the material away into space.
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