Sentences with phrase «panel array»

A "panel array" is a group of panels or flat surfaces arranged in an organized pattern, usually used to generate electricity from sunlight or for display purposes. Full definition
«Birds dying from solar flux is unique to [CSP] technology,» says Magdalena Rodriguez, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, though she added that there are rare instances of birds perishing near photovoltaic panel arrays as well.
SolarCity designs and then installs solar panel arrays on customer rooftops.
There are three systems that will go into the building: A solar photovoltaic tracker, a photovoltaic panel array, and a solar thermal domestic hot water system.
A wall - mounted Dickinson woodstove and Envi unit provides heat; a four - panel, 940 - watt solar panel array provides power; there's the requisite composting toilet; and there's a rainwater harvesting and storage system that provides filtered water for bathing and washing.
The 2.5 kW rooftop system comprises a compact, high - efficiency solar panel array good for an average 3000kWh a year — enough, the pair claim, to offset a driving average of about 1000 miles (1600 km) a month.
Lin once described her design concept — black - granite panels arrayed along a chevron - shaped indentation in the landscape that grows steeper toward the middle — as «a wound in the earth that is slowly healing.»
Construction on the 5,940 - panel array began last fall; Central Hudson gave the array its thumbs - up to go live on May 10 after the array passed required tests.
The problems continued even once it was safely in space, as the British - made solar panel arrays which provide power for the six separate instruments on board malfunctioned.
Jaguar Land Rover has completed the installation of the UK's largest rooftop solar panel array at its new state - of - the art Engine Manufacturing Centre.
It can carry 115 gallons of diesel fuel, 250 gallons of fresh water, and its solar panel array generates 2,100 watts of power and feeds a 20,000 kWh lithium - ion battery pack.
The Mercedes - Benz S - Class puts the equivalent of two movie screens side by side to form its instrument panel array.
The Sign Trees resemble overpopulated traffic signposts, each trunk splitting off into a constellation of branches supporting panels arrayed with the artist's signature symbols.
Now, now, the Vlad is perfectly aware that Obama's Solar Panel Array Missile Shield is impermeable, and that The Wan can fling Intercontinental Ballistic Windmills at will and with impunity.
The Cedar House gets power from a roof - based solar panel array linked up to backup batteries.
The basic design of this particular SWASH vessel is to have wind turbines located to the rear (or front, or front and rear) of the vessel and solar panel arrays mounted high on a lightweight structure as shown (above), several meters above the sea, with one fixed (central) panel and two moveable wings.
Inspired by the placement and angle of branches and leaves along a tree's trunk, teenager Aidan Dwyer set about creating a solar panel array in line with nature's arrangement with results that caught the attention of more than a few grown - ups.
A rooftop solar panel array harvests enough solar energy to lessen the home's dependence on the grid considerably.
The roof of the tool shed was an ideal choice of locations for Dan's solar panel array because it is low enough to access easily for general system maintenance and seasonal panel pitch adjustments.
Vermont's highest court rules that property owners could not claim that commercial solar panel array constituted a nuisance because the solar array did not interfere with the owners» use of their property, even though the owners claimed that the aesthetics of the solar panels had damaged their property values.
County Executive Mike Hein speaks, with the solar - panels array as a backdrop.
You may not be able to install a full solar panel array on your house, but you can pick up a solar charger without breaking the bank, and then keep your smartphone, tablet, or other mobile gadgets topped off with clean renewable energy.
The Terraform Three has a standard RV - style hookup for power, plus a small roof - based solar panel array.
He cites as examples Mosaic, an Oakland, Calif., company that facilitates crowdfunding loans for someone else's solar panel array, and India - based tripMD, which helps users find high - quality medical care outside of North America.
Of the $ 5.5 million dedicated for the centers, $ 3 million is for the east end visitor center and $ 2.5 million for the sustainable west end visitor center, which will be powered by a solar panel array.
Located in the West Village at the University of California, Davis, this 1,922 square foot home includes a 9.5 kW rooftop solar panel array and an electric vehicle with 10 kWh of battery storage, -LSB-...]
«A similar sized solar panel array, which would be huge, would probably be five times as expensive in terms of how much area it's covering and produce a fraction of the power output.»
The HEAT telescope is the black object on stilts at left, the instrument module is the yellow box and the solar panel array is on the right.
This issue is worst in the winter, when — according to research from Princeton University — air pollution in these regions blocks about 20 percent of sunlight from reaching solar panel arrays, on average.
Duke engineering professor Michael Bergin (left) stands with Indian Institute of Technology - Gandhinagar colleague Chinmay Ghoroi (right) next to that university's extremely dusty solar panel array.
The WallBox Pro version can even be integrated into your home solar - panel array.
As part of my volunteering, I helped the HOA set up a DSL account that is used to remotely monitor the building's solar panel array.
The stencilled lettering and patchwork of blues in the present work call to mind works by Jasper Johns such as Diver (1962), with its panelled array of mislabelled colours.
They hand out tax subsidies in the billions to Green Energy development of wind turbines and solar panel arrays.
Powered by three small wind turbines, a solar panel array and a battery pack, the equipment suite includes a high - tech LIDAR unit that uses laser beams to measure wind speeds and a satellite communication system that transfers real time data to GSOE's offices.
The larger the available solar panel array and the greater the difference between peak and off - peak rates (allowing the cheaper rates to top up the battery levels), the better the economics of larger battery systems.
Stewart calculated that adding a single PV panel to the installed 5 panel array would pull the building up to an A1, and Duffy now plans to install the panel prior to obtaining a final BER and the rare honour of an A1 rating.
A solar panel array will supply power to common areas of the building and a rainwater collection system will provide water for irrigation.
You can also use the patent - pending tri-fold solar panel array to charge the internal battery.
The Brown Bear is heated and cooled with a mini-split air - conditioning and heating unit, while power comes a roof - based solar panel array and a backup Humless solar generator.
Amid cheap natural gas prices and established wind farms in much of the solar - friendly regions, solar panel arrays are proving a tough sell.
You would think that a row of 10 - year old Sequoia or «redwood» trees, with prospects of living hundreds of years, would hardly be able to grow fast enough to shade a nearby residential solar panel array, which has a design life of only 30 years.
The device uses a combination of salts (which pull the moisture out of the air), fans, solar heat (which pulls the water out of the salt), and a condenser (to extract the distilled water for use), and requires both a solar thermal input (to provide the heat) and an electric input (which could be from a solar panel array or from the grid).
The Indians have been one of the teams on the forefront of sustainability efforts in baseball, launching an ongoing recycling campaign in 2008 that now includes organic - waste composting and become the first American League ball club to use alternative energy with their 2007 installation of a solar - panel array.
Whether you live in an apartment, condo or multi-family home, the prospect of installing a solar panel array, however attractive, is for the most part dimmed by the temporality of your residence.
To add the icing on top, at last year's cyber security contest DEF CON, contestants found 47 vulnerabilities in 23 IoT devices, including smart door locks, refrigerators, and solar panel arrays.
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