Sentences with phrase «right by our solar system»

Some might even zip right by our solar system.

Not exact matches

ne = the number of habitable planets around each star In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's «habitable zone» — a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface.

Even a near miss of the Oort cloud by a passing star might be enough of a gravitational tug to redirect some comets toward the inner solar system; Gliese 710, by current estimates, will pass right through.

NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft, which flew by those outer planets during the 1970s and»80s, revealed a very different picture: an assortment of dynamic, active, and ever - changing moons orbiting their equally fascinating planets, in set - ups that could best be described as mini solar systems in their own right.

Putting that plan into action, Common Ground routinely plants trees with its students, teaches them about sustainability by gardening and farming right on the school grounds, and recently unveiled their new sustainable building which uses geothermal, solar, and a rainwater treatment system.

Unlike many other investments, with a solar panel system you should expect to see immediate returns on your investment by saving you money on your electricity bill right away, even as you're paying on the lease or loan.

Then, «right after the daylight hours, as other plants — primarily gas — are ramped up to compensate for the rapid ramp - down of inflexible solar production,» he explained, citing simulations by the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO) that show that stored CSP generation can be dispatched.

Symptoms include an advocacy for a carbon tax, a predilection for decentralized renewables like rooftop solar, and an unexamined presumption that AGW must be solved by cleverly devising a truly cunning new plan using the free market system (that's the same free market system that works for carbon fuels, right?).

The orthodox organized religion of global warming and its disastrous consequences for our freedom of speech, freedom of mobility and our right to remain outside of the system, needs to be questioned on the foundational basis that the phenomenon is solar - system wide and it is mainly caused by the natural evolution of the sun and not human activity.

The right rate designs and incentives can do this by finding a way for solar - plus - storage to be so valuable to the electric distribution system that utilities will choose it over traditional solutions, CEERT's White said.

As I wrote, we must first multiply by 0.25 to account for the fact that half the Earth System is not illuminated by the Sun at any given time, and the hemisphere that is illuminated is not all at right angles to the Solar rays.