Sentences with phrase «scale solar system»

All of the above cited arguments that have already led to string inverters capturing an ever growing share of the utility - scale solar system market can be summarized with the terms of flexibility and vendor independence.

Seriously, this game has been in development forever, but that's OK since it has a true - to - scale solar system with no loading or zoning anywhere in the game.

Infinity: Battlescape (I - Novae Studios): Kickstarter ends November 20 — Procedurally generated space sim — True - to - scale solar system — Seamless planetary transitions, no zoning — Newtonian physics — Optional offline sandbox mode for experimentation

Among the highlights are Newtonian physics, a seamless true - to - scale solar system, and modding support.

THE Milky Way is brimming with small - scale solar system lookalikes.

Overall, utility - scale solar systems make up about 1.1 % of the total U.S. electric generating capacity, while distributed generation PV systems provide another 0.8 %.

The biggest driver in the increase in solar power, Patterson says, is utilities installing large scale solar systems.

Expertise: Community building, marketing, media relations, urban beekeeping, visual arts Credentials: Developed the award - winning Homegrown National Park Project and Got Milkweed campaign; volunteer with The Laneway Project, LEAF, Friends of Christie Pits and Not Far From the Tree Passion: Leading community art projects, from musical bike parades and pop - up comedy shows to scale solar systems in city parks

As one of the region's leading solar companies, Conergy has extensive experience in the delivery of highly complex large - scale solar systems in some of the most challenging environments, having closed over 460 MWp of EPC contracts and provided Operations & Maintenance services for over 400 MWp of solar projects within APAC.

Not exact matches

But you can get a sense for the real scale of the solar system, how big the Sun is, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and then the little guys and on the right are Pluto and friends.

Well, just to sort of put things in perspective, this is what, this is an actual scale of what the solar system looks like.

«But on galactic time scales, when you're creating stars and solar systems, that's not that much time.»

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

GEM Energy, a subsidiary of the broader Rudolph Libbe Group that also own Rudolph Libbe Inc., has built 50 MW worth of solar farms — some of them First Solar projects (including the below — and relatively unique — non-utility scale First Solar syssolar farms — some of them First Solar projects (including the below — and relatively unique — non-utility scale First Solar sysSolar projects (including the below — and relatively unique — non-utility scale First Solar sysSolar system).

One is on «utility - scale solar,» which means solar systems larger than 5 MW.

By pv magazine's own calculations The combination of solar, steel and aluminum tariffs could add $ 0.13 per watt to PV system prices, an increase of roughly 4 - 13 % depending on the scale of the system.

All told, the tariffs will increase the cost of utility - scale solar projects by about 10 percent and residential rooftop systems by just 3 percent — raising them roughly to prices seen two years ago.

Total solar capacity in California (including both distributed and utility - scale systems) has grown from less than 1 GW in 2007 to nearly 14 GW by the end of 2016.

According to the California Independent System Operator (ISO), utility - scale solar generation reached 10,521 MW on Thursday April 26, as the first time it had surpassed 10.5 GW.

Some have notices this can lead to taboo results wherein the galaxies, solar systems and planets are forced to coalesce quite quickly and get uncomfortably close to a much smaller time scale for the universe without really messing with the standard model.

The amendment allows $ 8.3 million to support residential solar and $ 6.7 million will continue supporting large - scale systems.

Alternatively, in response to various astrophysical puzzles, other physicists, including Milgrom and his collaborator, Jacob Bekenstein, have argued that Newton's laws, which describe motion in our solar system wonderfully well, break down on the scale of galaxies.

The effects of gravity leaking into such dimensions would be visible only over long distances — explaining why gravity on smaller scales, such as the size of the solar system, behaves as if there are three spatial dimensions.

«Of course the planets evolve after that, but the large - scale structure of the solar system was essentially established in the first 4 million years.»

It might not be measurable on local scales, like here in the solar system, or in any matter - strewn environs, such as galaxy clusters.

It works spectacularly well at describing smaller - scale interactions, like planets» orbits in the solar system, but on sprawling cosmological scales, gravity might act differently — the idea behind so - called modified gravity theories.

Climate engineering, an application of geoengineering, is the deliberate and large - scale intervention in Earth's climatic system with the aim of reducing global warmingClimate engineering has two categories of technologies - carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management.

Generating electricity from solar - thermal energy, however, usually requires a large - scale system, with an array of mirrors that reflect and concentrate sunlight onto tanks or pipes filled with water or other liquids.

From, 2010 to 2020 roughly, the federal government would have to supply about 420 billion dollars in subsidies to get these massive scale [s] of production for, you know, all the mix of photovoltaic systems, solar power systems, the compressed air systems, the direct current system.

Such a sequence of events, on a much larger scale, may explain the birth of our own Moon in the early days of the Solar System, as well as the origin of many other satellites around planets and asteroids.

According to MOND, gravity simply works differently on galactic scales than on the scale of solar systems, and we just need to figure out how.

To have this sort of rapid evolution, especially something that happens in two years or less, on the solar system spatial scale...» Well, it was unbelievable.

Funding from Future Energy Source Ltd. has allowed Dr Khan and his team to set up labs in Poole, which include a scale model of the solar thermal system — an invaluable tool for testing.

General relativity has been tested with great precision within the solar system, and in binary pulsar systems where gravitational fields are very strong, but never on large scales where gravity's pull is weak.

This system resembles a scaled - up version of the outer portion of our solar system.

Infrared images from the Keck and Gemini telescopes reveal three giant planets orbiting counterclockwise around a young star, in a scaled - up version of our solar system.

The Pluto - Charon system is the only other place in our solar system where we believe this happened on a planetary scale.

Innumerable impacts of this scale battered the solar system billions of years ago, potentially blasting biological material between neighboring worlds.

This is GPI imaging polarimetry of the circumstellar disk around HR 4796A, a ring of dust and planetesimals similar in some ways to a scaled up version of the solar system's Kuiper Belt.

Such storage systems will be critical for scaling up the use of intermittent power sources such as wind and solar.

So, with his wife's blessing and working by candlelight, this self - taught polymath embarked on an ambitious construction project to transform his bedroom ceiling into a working scale model of the Solar System, or orrery.

Another part of his proposal is to build a scale model of the solar system within Manhattan, with a model of the sun in Battery Park, inner planets throughout downtown and midtown, and outer planets in the Bronx.

Korenaga is a co-investigator of the NASA «Alternative Earths» team, which is organized around the principle of understanding how Earth has maintained a persistent biosphere through most of its history, how the biosphere manifests in «biosignatures» on a planetary scale, and how reconstructing this history can inform the search for life within and beyond the solar system.

Meanwhile, a group of recent and current MIT engineering students is working to bring solar thermal to Africa with an off - grid system that operates on a much smaller scale.

«The use of a solarized supercritical carbon - dioxide Brayton cycle would increase efficiencies, reduce space requirements and reduce costs associated with current large - scale concentrating solar power systems.»

It was «a marvellous old machine», says Christian Holter, chief executive of SOLID, a company in Graz, Austria, that specializes in large - scale solar - thermal cooling and heating systems.

While accounting for only a handful of total U.S. solar installations, the development of utility - scale solar thermal systems that concentrate the sun's energy to drive a traditional turbine using very high temperatures have also seen significant growth in recent years.

GPI imaging polarimetry of the circumstellar disk around HR 4796A, a ring of dust and planetesimals similar in some ways to a scaled up version of the solar system's Kuiper Belt.

Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop size.

The waves are an interesting piece of the puzzle: we see large - scale waves in the solar system planets (including Earth), but we have not yet seen waves with wavelengths similar to the entire planet — like the ones we now found in brown dwarfs.