Sentences with phrase «solar design for»

Proper solar orientation of a building on a site has been one of the core practices of passive solar design for decades.

So there you have it: a solar design for this famous Christmas landmark!

Peter Olorenshaw has been developing his passion for passive solar design for over 21 years in Nelson, one of New Zealand's sunniest spots.

An overhead 2 - D view of the proposed solar design for Mount Vernon, consisting of roof - mounted installations on the main building and kitchen and a ground mount.

In honor of Independence Day, we thought it was the perfect time to explore a solar design for a revolutionary hero: George Washington.

With that in mind, for this Landmark article, we decided to set our sights a little closer to our (new) home and use Aurora to model a solar design for San Francisco's iconic

We've explored solar designs for the White House and Buckingham Palace, so we thought it was time we set our sights on another executive residence, this time in Canada.

Not exact matches

People in manufacturing design installation and sales to mention but a few of the possibilities of a fully fledged Solar industry that Australia could embrace and possibly lead the way for the world to follow?

For example, d.light design has an ambitious goal: Reach 100 million people in far reaches of the globe by 2020 with its inexpensive solar - powered lanterns.

Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.

«They are really just designed to make it harder for people to go solar,» she said.

It's a notable accomplishment because the Solar Roof is the first major design change for rooftop solar in decades and could excite the same type of customers who have fallen in love with Tesla's electric vehiSolar Roof is the first major design change for rooftop solar in decades and could excite the same type of customers who have fallen in love with Tesla's electric vehisolar in decades and could excite the same type of customers who have fallen in love with Tesla's electric vehicles.

Rudolph Libbe Inc. will serve as the design / build contractor for First Solar's new 1.2 GW solar module facSolar's new 1.2 GW solar module facsolar module factory.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

Sparq designs and manufactures microinverters, which convert power produced from solar panels into usable grid power for home solar systems.

It's signature product is the Submaran ™, the first hybrid wind and solar - powered surface and subsurface vessel designed for extended ocean observation and data collection.

Sustainably designed LuminAID lanterns, specifically created to aid natural disaster survivors and relief workers, give off light for more than 30 hours on a single solar charge.

The plant's original plan called for producing enough solar panels to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, although Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer, said this month that improvements to the equipment design and factory layout could allow it to produce more than 1 gigawatt in panels.

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

Musk says the new solar roofs will cost less than a traditional roof plus the cost of electricity and last longer than traditional roofs which, according to the National Roofing Contractors Association, «are designed to provide useful service for about 20 years.

For example, Newton pointed to the stability of the solar system, and the Intelligent Design movement points to the origin of life and to irreducibly complex structures in biology.

The Cincinnati Cyclones, Toledo Walleye, Orlando Solar Bears, Indy Fuel and the Evansville Ice Men have all had similar uniforms designed for them.

With activities designed for all ages, families are invited to spend the day experimenting together as they explore the celestial mechanics of a solar eclipse, relate size and distance in space, and test different materials to determine how well they protect from the sun's UV rays.

For example, the canopy should be specially designed in mesh to reduce the certain amount of solar heat and other UVA / UVB rays that probably reach your kid's sensitive eyes or skin more than 65 %.

CHA did some site design work for a solar panel factory that SUNY Poly is building in South Buffalo, and also has more than $ 30 million in various state contracts for everything from dam inspection to crafting a high speed rail plan.

The Town of Gardiner is bracing itself for some fiscal shocks in 2018, as residents clamor for overhauls of the town's outdated Master Plan and a Zoning Code that was not designed to cope with some types of contemporary development pressures, such as «glamping» and solar farms.

Now recognized as one of the world's most followed sustainable design events, LAGI embodies similar goals and targets identical issues as Southern Tier Solar Works, creating the foundation for a perfect partnership.

She designs, codes, and maintains the website and creates graphic content for web and print in order to educate the public about solar energy.

PRESS RELEASE County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef has announced that the Department of Public Transportation recently retrofitted one of its bus shelters with solar panels and a light box designed to provide cost - efficient and reliable power, increased safety and improved delivery of customer information for its Transport of Rockland (TOR) and TAPPAN ZEExpress (TZx) bus -LSB-...]

Those designed to quickly stop and start a car's petrol engine to improve fuel efficiency need a quick burst of power, but for smoothing a domestic solar panel's output, capacity might be more important than speed.

It is designed to probe dark energy and dark matter, take a thorough inventory of the solar system, map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, and generally watch for anything that changes or moves in the sky.

Half science memorabilia, half fashion statement, this watch's design is understated to make room for the beauty of our solar system.

Spacecraft orbiting other planets won't be any help this time around for the same reason, but another set of instruments will step up: solar observatories like SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, all of which are designed to stare straight at the sun's sursolar observatories like SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, all of which are designed to stare straight at the sun's surSolar Dynamics Observatory, all of which are designed to stare straight at the sun's surface.

Solar power systems must be individually designed for unique site conditions around the country.

Many efforts are underway to design atomically thin materials for quantum communication, low - power electronics and solar cells, according to Oliver Monti, a professor in the department and Eads» adviser.

«Interplanetary space is what solar sails are really designed for.»

The Sierra Club, for example, is fighting a new line designed to bring solar, wind, and geothermal energy to San Diego.

That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered hoSolar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered hosolar - powered houses.

Solar - powered cars have been little more than a novelty to date, experimental vehicles resembling photovoltaic - laden surfboards designed mostly for racing across deserts.

There have been many challenging design issues on Solar - B, as well as the usual problems involved in designing for the hostile space environment, not to mention communication difficulties!

In the first practical application for the machine learning, the team worked with Assistant Professor Jim Cahoon, Ph.D., in the UNC Department of Chemistry to design a new electrode material for a type of low - cost solar cells.

Angaza's lighting system, which includes a solar panel and an LED light, is designed for families living on $ 2 a day.

Fridlund helped design COROT (for convection, rotation, and planetary transits), ESA's early entry in the race to find rocky, Earth - like planets outside our solar system.

Architectural inventor Michael Sykes coined the term «Enertia» in the 1980s to describe the innovative homes he was designing that would store solar and geothermal energy and make use of it for most if not all heating and cooling needs.

«Using near - UV light to power these windows means that the solar cells can be transparent and occupy the same footprint of the window without competing for the same spectral range or imposing aesthetic and design constraints,» Loo added.

The finding could aid the design of solar sails for interstellar sojourns.

Some of his best work resulted from the use of a meridian — a large sundial - like device for recording solar movements — that he designed and had installed on the top of a church steeple.

Designed by Harvard researcher Zachary Manchester, about half the wafer consists of a solar cell for generating electricity, and the rest includes a small microprocessor, a radio transceiver and magnetometer, and a gyroscope for navigation and orientation.

And a cleverly designed and positioned solar satellite can avoid the shadow of night for all but 44 hours a year, so there is no need to store energy to keep the electrons flowing almost continuously.

In 2013, Lewis was awarded a Fulbright that he used to travel to the Czech Republic explore ways to more quickly design materials for solar applications.