Sentences with phrase «of solar water»

Raw water is first passed through a sari cloth filter to improve efficiency of solar water disinfection (SODIS).

After all, companies like his in China now produce some 80 percent of the solar water heaters used in the world today.»

Austria is tied with Barbados for per - capita use of solar water panels.

A grassroots movement emerged with local communities developing do - it - yourself networks that supplied the initiative, know - how and training for the construction and installation of solar water heaters.

The number of solar units on the island increased over the last 30 years by a factor of nearly 3,000, making Barbados the third highest per - capita user of solar water heaters in the world.

He also shares a strong desire to see the price of solar water heating systems come down dramatically.

Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.

The story of solar water heating began in the 1760s in Geneva, Switzerland, where Horace - Bénédict de Saussure, a Swiss naturalist, observed that it is always hotter when sun rays pass through a glass - covered structure, whether in a coach or a building, than into a site unprotected by such material.

Currently, Israel shares with Cyprus the highest per - capita use of solar water heaters in the world, and more than 90 percent of Israeli households heat their water with the sun.

The real goliath of solar water heaters, based on the sheer number of solar water heaters in use, is China.

The government mandated the use of solar water heaters on all buildings less than 27 meters in height.

Huang Ming, the founder of the solar water heater business in China, built a prototype so his aging mother would avoid having her rheumatism flare up by washing the dishes and floor with cold water.

To ensure high quality and satisfactory performance of solar water heating systems, consider getting certified by the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC) of your solar energy equipment.

One reason for the explosive growth of solar water and space heaters in Europe and China is the economic appeal.

note 2; Ryan Hodum, «Kunming Heats Up as China's «Solar City»,» China Watch (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute and Global Environmental Institute, 5 June 2007); tripling of solar water heaters from Emma Graham - Harrison, «China Solar Power Firm Sees 25 Percent Growth,» Reuters, 4 October 2007.

Shows plumbing the system into the regular hot water tank to allow bypass of the solar water heater if desired.

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.

It would be wise to also use solar water heating panels as far as possible for heating this water, however the efficiency of solar water heating is much reduced when the sun is not shining, as is often the case when heat is most needed.

This design was developed by the Davis Energy Group in an effort to lower the price of solar water heaters.

I hadn't really expected them to maybe take the solar panel [the students came to Washington with one of the solar water - heating panels installed on the White House during the Carter administration] or to agree to put solar on the roof.

«Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of the electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.»

Hot water is in good supply due to the care of a solar water heating system and a heat pump.

Using superconducting, nano - particle infused ink, researchers have increased the efficiency of solar water heaters by up to 70 percent.

Not exact matches

So we should, particularly with six ships, have plenty of landed mass to construct the propellant depot, which will consist of a large array of solar panels — very large array — and then everything necessary to mine and refine water, and then draw the CO2 out of the atmosphere, and then create and store deep - cryo CH4 and O2.

Perth - based Energy Made Clean has struck a partnership deal with Aboriginal corporation Eastern Guruma for the rollout of solar power stations and solar water pumps in northern Australia.

«Water is required for all different forms of energy production, for the production of fossil fuels, biofuels, concentrated solar power.»

The Water Corporation is set to purchase the entire renewable energy output from Verve Energy's Mumbida Wind Farm and Greenough River Solar Farm to offset the energy requirements of its Southern Seawater Desalination Plant.

The enigmatic world may also contain clues about the origin of water on Earth and the solar system's formation.

And in Rosslyn, South Africa, BMW uses more than 70 solar collectors on its roof to supply most of the hot water it needs in its paint shop.

A large - scale facility that sits on 360 acres, the Nevada Solar One plant uses 850 gallons of water per megawatt hour, the SEIA states.

It may seem counterintuitive, but water plays a crucial role in the production of solar power.

LGH has gone above and beyond taking care of its workforce, actually installing solar cookers that provide the workers and their families with the ability to boil water and create clean drinking water.

Sola - Kleen Smalls is in what some might consider the enviable position of being the state's only locally owned and operated manufacturer of solar hot water heaters.

Lurking between Mars and Jupiter is the largest asteroid in the solar system: a dwarf planet called Ceres, which has ice volcanoes, salt deposits, and other features that suggest it's hiding an ocean of salt water.

It is an «off - the - grid,» modularly designed kiosk that becomes a hub of community activity by providing a place of commerce as well as safe drinking water, solar power and wireless communication.

The Middle Eastern firm is going the extra mile, however, utilizing other electric vehicles, machines that run on compressed natural gas and biodiesel, as well as solar - powered boats that are capable of cleaning lakes and other bodies of water for its operations.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today announced an Australian - first trial of drinking water systems that produce clean drinking water drawn directly from the air using solar power.

And there is a grant of up to $ 1,625 in provincial funds available for homeowners who want to install solar hot - water systems.

Water is the oil of the solar system, and the Moon will become a gas station in the sky.

The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund today announced an investment of $ 12.0 million in FLS Energy, Inc., the nation's largest installer of commercial solar hot water systems and one of the largest integrators of photovoltaic solar systems in the... Continue reading →

We raise much of our food, burn wood for heat, water is gravity spring (no pump), private septic system, solar power I installed feeds grid back, no electric bill, wireless internet tower income pays our property taxes, so basically we can live on a vastly reduced income should it be needed, Much of our savings is in precious metals.

Interested in solar power since he was a teenager, Gross» first business at age 15 was selling plans for solar - powered water heaters and ovens out of the back pages of Popular Science.

Focused on clean energy infrastructure assets in North America, including solar, wind, energy efficiency, storage, and water, the Fund seeks to encompass a broad array of investment structures, such as senior debt, subordinated debt, and preferred equity.

Agents evaluate and advise homes on nutrition, family planning, hygiene practices, use of key preventative methods including bed nets, water treatment, clean stoves, and solar lights.»

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

Note that the estimate does not take into account any other potential benefits of the program, such as improved health in non-fatal cases or economic benefits from the purchase of money - saving durables such as solar lights, more efficient cook stoves, or water filters (discussed above).

It applies to homeowners» purchase of qualified solar water heaters, geothermal heat pumps and other alternative energy equipment.

The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund today announced an investment of $ 12.0 million in FLS Energy, Inc., the nation's largest installer of commercial solar hot water systems and one of the largest integrators of photovoltaic solar systems in the southeastern United States.

Goal: By 2050, Canada must be overwhelmingly powered by clean and renewable energy sources — wind, solar, water, biomass, and the heat of the Earth — instead of fossil fuels.

They postulated the heliocentric theory of the solar system (Aristarchus of Samos) and suggested the atomic theory of matter but finally settled for the far more reasonable explanations that the Sun went around the Earth and that all things were composed of earth, air, fire, and water.