Sentences with phrase «point of use solar»

Quokka, Germany's installation costs are aproaching $ 2 a watt for point of use solar.

Many Indians are installing point of use solar to help cope with an unreliable grid and save fuel costs on diesel generators.

This point of use solar capacity reduces demand for grid electricity and so reduces the wholesale price as lower demand results in lower prices.

As point of use solar competes at retail prices and not wholesale prices, this certainly makes it look as though point of use solar is cheaper than nuclear in India, especially when the costs of insurance etc. for nuclear are included.

As for point of use solar in Germany, get back to me when it generates as much low emission electricity as the nuclear capacity that has recklessly been shut down or is on death row.

So even $ 1.6 billion a gigawatt nuclear power won't be able to compete with point of use solar as it competes with retail prices, not wholesale prices.

For the very last time — point of use solar is little more than a distraction from the main game which is to shut down coal.

I assume that South Korea will be able to install solar as cheaply as Germany and looking at South Korean capacity levels for solar and seeing that the cost of money to homeowners is about 5 %, the cost of point of use solar in South Korea should be about 11 cents a kilowatt - hour.

If the cost of solar electricity is higher than the wholesale price, but lower than the retail price then point of use solar capacity will be installed as it saves people money on their electricity bills.

So, it appears that point of use solar will be competitive in South Korea once they reach German installation costs.

You see, it works like this, because of an unreliability of grid power, because it saves money on electricity bills, or because there is no electricity grid, people purchase point of use solar.

The future certainly includes point of use solar, CHP natural gas, and fuel cell power generation.

Not exact matches

- 95 per cent of touring caravans on UK roads are actually made in Britain - In many caravan parks, great attention is paid to protecting the environment, with e.g. use of solar power to heat communal shower blocks, wildlife areas, recycling points etc. - Water and power usage during the holiday is often less than in a hotel.

The new edict for Oahu mostly focuses on grid circuits where power available from rooftop solar reaches or exceeds 100 percent of the minimum daytime load, the low point of the total power that customers on a circuit are using.

The IRIS team will use information from other satellites that observe the whole sun, such as Japan's Hinode and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, to identify active areas of the sun and point IRIS toward flares as they grow, when it will obtain spectra every two seconds.

If they would use a more realistic climate transfer sensitivity of 0.11 K / Wm -2, or even somewhat higher (0.12 or 0.13) for the long - term, and use trends instead of smooth curve points, they would end up with solar contributions of 10 % or less for 1950 - 2000 and near 0 % and about 10 % in 1980 - 2000 using the PMOD and ACRIM data, respectively.

Normally, NASA watches for this wild space weather using solar observatories like SOHO and the STEREO mission, a pair of solar - orbiting satellites pointed at the Sun from two different angles.

Solar power emits no greenhouse gases, no carbon dioxide and, when distributed, can provide power at or near the point of use without turning our cities into smog factories.

Because the telescope can also be pointed toward the sun, others have suggested shifting its field of view and using it to study objects in the inner solar system, such as asteroids that might be heading toward Earth.

As you might hope, «Alan Smithee» is only used in exceptional circumstances, and most of the movies credited to the non-existent director are rightly forgotten: Mark Harmon / Robert Duvall actioner «Let's Get Harry» (actually helmed by «Cool Hand Luke» director Stuart Rosenberg), Jon Cryer comedy «Morgan Stewart's Coming Home,» ropey Charlton Heston sci - fi «Solar Crisis» (originally by «Vanishing Point» director Richard C. Sarafian), with Dennis Hopper's «Catchfire,» starring Jodie Foster, perhaps being the best known example.

In the description of the DE200 planetary ephemeris, it is pointed out that, contrary to all the other objects in the computation which use the Solar system barycentre, the orbit of our own moon is computed relative to the Earth - Moon barycentre, because then, the orbit integration will behave nicer numerically — which is good, as the Moon is an object of special interest.

; or maybe in a sense we do, but they could be of either the political / social or technological sort; the more the better, but just political / social could work okay (although that would work partly by boosting R&D to continue technological progress, but I'm not sure if that's necessarily breakthroughs (it wouldn't surprise me if someone got a zinc phosphide, CZTS, or pyrite solar cell to work economically at some point in the future, or used light - trapping to make c - Si cheaper and more efficient, or... — it would surprise me if it happenned tomorrow, but...).

I got to spend some time recently trying out a review unit of the MiPow Playbulb solar garden light, and after using it for a bit, I can honestly say that while this device has its weak points (don't they all?)

The weakest point of the device that I could see is that the Playbulb garden light is only chargeable via the solar cell, which is not necessarily a bad thing if it's only meant to be used outside, but which seems to be a drawback if you want to use the device inside for long periods.

In post # 40, CobblyWorlds points to a recent analysis by Perovich et al. (2008), which uses calculations of solar energy input to the Arctic Ocean to assess the melting last summer.

There is, however, an interesting alternative.Tubular skylights, such as the ones shown here from Discount Solar, allow sunlight to find its way to any point in your home using a system of reflective tubes.

Some of these shortcomings can be overcome, such as by buying a battery pack for convenience (in order to charge the battery during the day, and to then use the battery pack to charge other devices at night), but some of the weak points can make the products an almost complete waste of money, such as ones with a solar panel or cells that are too small to be practical for everything except adding a little boost to a device's battery (which, to be fair, can be very useful indeed if your device's battery is completely flat).

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.

There has been growing tension between the electric utility industry and the solar industry — specifically the part of solar industry that is focused on distributed, or point of use, solar installations.

The accelerating pace of adoption of solar panels for distributed generation (installed at the point of use, rather than sold into the power grid) and the downward trend of module prices have created exuberance over the industry's future.

The point about, say solar panels, is that they use a fraction of the energy used to build, run and decommission conventional power stations for the outputs.

When used as a source of energy to manufacture hydrocarbons such as methane and liquid fuels, as you point out solar panels can only do this in the daytime.

Indeed, we point out specifically that the 1940s peak in the temperature record is not matched in the forced component of our simulations regardless of the solar forcing used.

I would have liked to see mention of uncertainty that inherent in examining short term data, whether the end points used introduces an element of bias, whether the «pause» is on a much higher plateau of warming than in the past, whether decadel cycles in ocean heat displacement may have interacted with the the known minimum levels of solar activity (not modelled) to cause this «pause».

The power - generating equipment used with a solar dish can be mounted at the focal point of the dish, making it well suited for remote locations, or the energy may be collected from a number of installations and converted into electricity at a central point.

In India, the government has advocated efforts to massively increase the use of solar energy as a way to boost domestic solar firms and has set aside a large chunk of the solar market for them in order to make that point.

The other point about renewable subsidies, at least for solar, is that subsidies are provided directly to consumers in the form of tax credits to install and use solar panels.

Wouldn't relatively - small, easily - refueled, modular nuclear generators, sited below ground near point of use and augmented with rooftop solar in warm climes, enable «mini-grids» to power sub-communities and small towns without extensive transmission lines?

In an article breaking down the cost and break even point of solar panels, Wise Bread uses EnergySage pricing data to explain today's average gross cost per watt.

or even a sum of sine waves — and NOT a straight line — were extended through the average of the CET using an 11 year solar sunspot as a smoothing interval, when would the MWP, LIA, Dark Ages, and RWP show up as high and low points?

«Climate models used historic data for factors like greenhouse gas concentrations, solar output, volcanic eruptions, air pollution, and other factors that can affect the climate through 2005 or so, but after that point made assumptions of how these would change in the future.

Some of Monckton's talking points included that CO2 is beneficial and a «life - giving gas on the planet,» that ocean acidification «is not a threat,» that climate change is solar - driven, and that we should be increasing fossil fuel use otherwise we are «depriving the poor of inexpensive fuel.»

Since there aren't enough solar homes in every neighborhood across the country at this point, it's hard to use this method to evaluate the value of a solar array.

You then asked «Or perhaps you can point me to the dataset that shows, for several individual locations for the same period as the temperature set the: * CO2 concentrations (OK, we could use Mauna Loa for that) * Aerosols (sorry, can't use global records for that, there can be huge differences on a local scale) * Absolute humidity * TSI with correction for local albedo, including cloud albedo, and the place on earth» Well actually, I can and have for the USA in terms of CO2, humidity (RH but AH also if you insist), and albedo, not to mention actual solar surface radiation, and various other variables (eg windspeed), as I have previously reported here for quite a few locations, eg Pt Barrow.

Google also took advantage of the first solar eclipse in 99 years that will sweep the U.S. from coast to coast, using this uncommon solar event as an opportunity to launch Android 8.0 Oreo for maximum impact and lightheartedly pointing out the visual similarities between a total eclipse and an Oreo.

But he pointed out that adding solar panels to an inefficient building doesn't reduce the amount of energy being used; it simply means the energy is coming from the sun instead of oil or coal.