Sentences with phrase «solar energy studies»

As usual, a really interesting line up of stories... from green homes as investment opportunities to solar energy studies in Arizona (a good place for them!).

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar has just announced that the Bureau of Land Management will designate some 24 sites in six western states as Solar Energy Study Areas; and will establish new solar power permitting offices and

It would also establish a Solar Energy Study Commission and phase out the use of Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, or SRECs, as a means of subsidizing solar in the state.

The Interior Department would break the 670,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management property into 24 Solar Energy Study Areas, and would expedite solar projects on the parcels.

Not exact matches

Last year, at least 24 states reviewed or made decisions to study the value of rooftop solar, according to the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center, which compiles a database of state renewable energy incenEnergy Technology Center, which compiles a database of state renewable energy incenenergy incentives.

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

Since Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy sent NYPA President Gil Quiniones a letter offering up space on the Times Union Center parking garage roof for solar panels, the authority has called for additional studies «to better evaluate renewable energy options for the project.»

The study notes that narrowing down that percent range requires particle accelerator experiments on water ice to more accurately gauge the number of chemical reactions that result per unit of energy deposited by cosmic rays and solar energetic particles.

«This makes the cost of solar energy — in this case — better and easier to understand,» said Case Western Reserve Professor Laura Bruckman, who directed the study with Abdulkerim Gok, a research associate at GTU formerly with Case Western Reserve.

Quickly dubbed the «weird life report,» the study dramatically concluded that many locales in the solar system could support life drawing on a variety of liquids and energy sources.

Even the energy - hungry US could in theory supply all of its electricity use, according to one study, using solar PV on an area equivalent to 0.6 per cent of the country — just a fraction of the existing developed and urban space.

The study, published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, proposes that high - energy particles from uncommon, large solar storms penetrate the moon's frigid, polar regions and electrically charge the soil.

Joseph Berry, senior research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who studies solar cells but was not involved in the research, said the research project is interesting because the device scales well and targets a specific part of the solar spectrum.

Because the eclipse blocks energy from the sun, scientists can study the ionosphere's response to a sudden drop in solar radiation.

Hayashi bought a system with batteries called an «energy shifter» and believes — based on what his solar contractor told him — that HECO can not refuse to connect the home once the utility's safety study is complete.

The KIT researchers present their study on solar sunglasses, entitled «Solar Glasses: A Case Study on Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells for Self - Powered, Smart Wearable Devices,» in the Energy Technology joustudy on solar sunglasses, entitled «Solar Glasses: A Case Study on Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells for Self - Powered, Smart Wearable Devices,» in the Energy Technology jousolar sunglasses, entitled «Solar Glasses: A Case Study on Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells for Self - Powered, Smart Wearable Devices,» in the Energy Technology jouSolar Glasses: A Case Study on Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells for Self - Powered, Smart Wearable Devices,» in the Energy Technology jouStudy on Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells for Self - Powered, Smart Wearable Devices,» in the Energy Technology jouSolar Cells for Self - Powered, Smart Wearable Devices,» in the Energy Technology journal.

One of Polar's goals was to study how energy from charged particles streaming out from the Sun — the solar wind — is transferred into the Earth's magnetosphere, the cocoon of charged particles travelling along the Earth's magnetic field...

The three are Euclid, which will study dark matter and dark energy; Plato, aimed at exoplanets; and Solar Orbiter, which will give us the closest view yet of the sun.

In dozens of studies over the past two decades, LANP researchers have explored the basic physics of plasmonics and shown that plasmonic interactions can be harnessed for applications as diverse as medical diagnostics, cancer treatment, solar - energy collection and optical computing.

A new study released in the journal Energy and Environmental Science by MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory looks at factors driving cheap (er) Chinese made solar panels.

A new study by Argonne and Northwestern scientists reported that solar panels manufactured in China are likely to use more energy to make and have a larger carbon footprint than those made in Europe.

The study did not include the energy cost of transporting a solar panel to its final destination.

Solar panels made in China have a higher overall carbon footprint and are likely to use substantially more energy during manufacturing than those made in Europe, said a new study from Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laborenergy during manufacturing than those made in Europe, said a new study from Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National LaborEnergy's Argonne National Laboratory.

The study found that, in particular, wind power, biogas, solar photovoltaics, energy efficiency and operational improvements to existing power sources could not only reduce greenhouse emissions but also offset the water used to cool thermal power generation.

Professor Colin Osborne, lead author of the study and Associate Director of the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, said: «Photosynthesis powers most life on Earth because it converts solar energy into sugars which are used by plants to grow.

Gunderson holds a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College and earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Northwestern University, studying energy and charge transfer principles to convert solar energy to electricity and liquid fuels.

GeneXpert also requires a constant and uninterrupted flow of electricity, lacking in many developing nations, although Weyer says studies are under way to attempt to power the machines with batteries and solar energy.

The receivers were designed and studied as part of a Laboratory Directed Research and Development project and are also being applied to Sandia's work for the Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States, or SERIIUS.

In a new study published in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, a team from Michigan Technological University calculated the cost of combusting coal in terms of human lives along with the potential benefits of switching to solar.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

A study in the journal Nature Materials details the creation of a nanowire - based technology that absorbs solar energy at comparable levels to currently available systems while using only 1 percent of the silicon material needed to capture photons.

Interestingly, an NSF - funded study also found that the Earth is bombarded by high speeds of solar energy during even quiet phases, called the solar minimum, when sunspots are fewer or have disappeared.

Yet increased energy efficiency and a focus on wind and solar power, which require less water, or the switch to more water efficient cooling technologies could help avoid this problem, the study shows.

Their new study outlines the design of a synthetic system for energy gathering, conversion and transport that may point the way to innovations in solar energy, materials science, nanotechnology and photonics.

Every solar energy site analyzed in the study is listed in a detailed appendix.

«Nature knows how to do chemistry and humans know how to make electricity,» says Thomas Moore, who studies solar energy capture at Arizona State University.

Such studies can reasonably account for the observed variations as a response to solar and volcanic forcing (and a few secondary things) with energy balance climate models tuned to have a climate sensitivity equivalent to 2.5 C per doubling of CO2.

Nuclear is an established energy alternative that generates no carbon dioxide, so there is interest at the federal level to further study nuclear energy while also exploring new options such as hydrogen, solar, and other alternatives.

In 2015, a team led by the University of Michigan's Sharon Glotzer used high - performance computing at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] to study melting in two - dimensional (2 - D) systems, a problem that could yield insights into surface interactions in materials important to technologies like solar panels, as well as into the mechanism behind three - dimensional melting.

As a member of Argonne's Solar Energy Conversion Group, Mulfort is part of a team studying artificial photosynthesis.

``... since we knew that the impact of the study could be high when successful, we decided to invest our time and effort on this new research project at the interface of biomass conversion and solar energy conversion.»

In a new study published today in Nature, researchers from UCL (University College London), University of Cambridge and University of Louvain have combined existing ideas to solve the problem of which solar energy peaks in the last 2.6 million years led to the melting of the ice sheets and the start of a warm period.

The Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis was established in 2009 to study catalysis for solar energy and fuel cells and renewed in 2014.

In a study published March 9 in Nature Chemistry, University of Wisconsin — Madison chemistry Professor Kyoung - Shin Choi presents a new approach to combine solar energy conversion and biomass conversion, two important research areas for renewable energy.

The details of how the energy is stored and catastrophically released are subjects of intense study by solar researchers.

The Solar Tower Atmosphereic Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE) is an experiment dedicated to the study of high energy light (gamma rays) produced in astrophysicical sources.

In fact, as another recent modeling study demonstrated, planets in tight orbits around red dwarf stars might be getting lashed by an insane number of high - energy solar flares, stripping their atmospheres faster than they can be replenished.

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)- Federal officials have pledged $ 75 million for the study of harnessing solar energy for fuel production at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.

A JCAP study shows that nearly 90 - percent of the electrons generated by a semiconductor / cobaloxime hybrid catalyst designed to store solar energy in hydrogen are being stored in their intended target molecules.

Over time, its mission expanded to the study of a broad range of science and technology issues, mostly related to energy production (including wind and solar to nuclear power).