Sentences with phrase «solar system produces»

The owned solar system produces enough electricity to power the entire home and is transferable to the new owner!

Another type of solar lease, called a power purchase agreement, or PPA, requires customers to pay a set amount for every killowatt hour the solar system produces.

When a solar system produces more power than what is being used in the home this excess power is sent to the grid and credited by SCE at the retail power rate per kWh.

«Since both stars and the planets in our Solar System produce radio emission, detailed study of the radio emission properties of these brown dwarfs may enable us to distinguish where the boundary between stellar and planetary behavior occurs in these not - quite - stars, not - quite - planets,» Osten explained.

If their solar system produced more energy than they consumed, they receive a credit for their excess generation which will carry over to future months.

Most solar systems produce more electricity than is needed during the day.

Not exact matches

That's equal to what 1,000 residential rooftop solar systems are capable of producing.

SolarCity pays to install and maintain rooftop solar systems for homes or businesses in exchange for monthly payments for the power that the panels produce.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today announced an Australian - first trial of drinking water systems that produce clean drinking water drawn directly from the air using solar power.

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

Last July, for example, China's GCL System Integration Technology (GCL - SI) and Vina Solar revealed that they had started jointly producing PV cells in Vietnam.

This point was reinforced about 200 years after Newton when Albert Einstein's discovery of general relativity produced the modern theory of gravity — capable of explaining not only the behavior of our little local solar system but also the structure of the whole cosmos.

To identify and take advantage of every opportunity to save and produce energy, especially through a geothermal system and 3,000 m ² of rooftop solar panels.

Specifically, the team found that the angrites» remnant magnetization could have been produced by an extremely weak magnetic field of no more than 0.6 microteslas, 4.563 billion years ago, or, about 4 million years after the start of the solar system.

«The IAU's planet definition resolution is an example of science at its worst — it's sloppy internally inconsistent, and designed backwards, that is, to produce a desired result that only eight planets are in our solar system.

Starting with the total amount of observed infrared light, the researchers had to subtract the so - called zodiacal light produced by dust within our solar system and infrared light from stars and dust in the rest of our galaxy.

To understand the important interfaces in a solar cell connected to a water - splitting catalyst, researchers from Missouri University of Science & Technology developed a method to simply and controllably produce such a system.

The sun produces some of these particles, but most come from beyond the solar system.

The 1.5 - kilowatt solar - panel system will produce enough electricity for you and your plug - in hybrid car, and the dwelling is built off - site, which reduces construction waste by up to 75 percent (remember that the next time you sneer at the local trailer park).

The key to Crane's vision of a decentralized system is the cost of a power producing system to the individual homeowner, and the price of solar power keeps dropping.

Higher efficiency means more electricity produced for a given size of solar cell, which increases power output and lowers overall system costs.

Yet, according to Jean - Loup Bertaux and Rosine Lallement — from the Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (CNRS / UPMC / Université de Versailles Saint - Quentin - en - Yvelines) and the Galaxies, Étoiles, Physique et Instrumentation department of the Paris Observatory (Observatoire de Paris / CNRS / Université Paris Diderot), respectively — these organic molecules were produced in interstellar space, well before the formation of the Solar System.

TVA produces energy from 18 wind turbines built atop Buffalo Mountain near Oak Ridge, Tenn., and it has installed small solar photovoltaic systems at 14 locations throughout its territory, including two sites in Alabama.

Three recent missions have found an unexpectedly large supply of water on the moon that could both quench the thirst of future lunar dwellers and produce fuel for missions to other places in the solar system.

As deuterium is thought to have been produced in the big bang, it should once have had similar abundances on all the planets in the solar system.

The HEMS system helps consumers use data on driving times, solar intensity forecasts and current household energy consumption to synchronize electric vehicle charging times with rooftop energy production, so they can maximize the proportion of household - produced energy they use.

In his article, Fray also suggested that metal electrolysis could be used to produce oxygen on other planets, «making human colonization of the Solar System more feasible.»

Impacts have been shown to produce giant moons in our solar system, including our own.

A team of astronomers has found a gas cloud that existed when the universe was 13 % of its current age that appears to be made of the pristine gas produced in the big bang but with just a wisp of heavier elements: 1/3000 of the level in our solar system.

The system's controller monitors the level of sunlight using a pyranometer — a single solar cell producing a tiny current which is proportional to the amount of sunlight striking it.

«We have developed a new type of protective coating that enables a key process in the solar - driven production of fuels to be performed with record efficiency, stability, and effectiveness, and in a system that is intrinsically safe and does not produce explosive mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen,» says Nate Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of a new study, published the week of March 9 in the online issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that describes the film.

Advances in high - temperature components and improved system modeling, combined with the potential for conversion costs an order of magnitude lower than those of turbines, suggest that TPV could offer a pathway for efficiently storing and producing electrical power from solar thermal sources, a new study suggests.

Using a technique called adaptive optics, astronomers were able to produce the first image of an entire solar system far from ours.

Such a pull could disrupt the Oort cloud, a distant collection of frozen material thought to surround the solar system and produce some comets, including comet ISON, which last year caused a stir as it flew towards the sun.

Meanwhile, HP earlier this month began licensing technology to Xtreme Energetics, Inc., in Livermore, Calif., designed to help that start - up company deliver rooftop solar energy systems that produce twice as much energy as conventional solar panels at half the cost.

Traveling at nearly the speed of light, the charged particles produced by the nuclear reactions would fly out of the back end of the craft, propelling it beyond the solar system.

Of the 65 moons in the solar system, ours is the only one that produces total eclipses of the sun.

During the last two months, several of these powerful solar flares have been observed, some with associated coronal mass ejections that, in turn, can produce geomagnetic storms that perturb the communication systems in some regions of Earth, especially radio broadcasts and GPS systems.

The third facility studied was the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Bernardino County, Calif., where birds can be burned as they pass through concentrated sunrays that are reflected off thousands of mirrors toward a solar power tower, where water is boiled to produce electricity - generating sSolar Electric Generating System in Bernardino County, Calif., where birds can be burned as they pass through concentrated sunrays that are reflected off thousands of mirrors toward a solar power tower, where water is boiled to produce electricity - generating ssolar power tower, where water is boiled to produce electricity - generating steam.

The oxygen would have «burned up» the carbon to produce gases such as carbon dioxide and monoxide, which would have moved into the outer disk along with water vapor before chilling into ices, so that any solid carbon in the inner solar system would have been destroyed within a few years.

This general purpose, long - lived facility would be the prime tool for generations of astronomers, producing transformational scientific advances in every area of astronomy and astrophysics from black hole physics to galaxy formation, from star and planet formation to the Solar System.

«We describe here a system that utilises concentrated solar power, which is inexpensive to produce, and an electrolyser module based on Earth - abundant materials capable of operating under benign conditions.

The last major solar flare was the «Carrington event» of 1859, which produced massive worldwide auroral displays and made the telegraph system do some scary things: Aside from delivering shocks to operators, telegraph paper caught fire, and there was enough residual juice in the system to send and receive telegrams even after they shut the network down.

It is thought to have been produced in supernova nucleosynthesis from the collision of two neutron stars and to have been present in the dust from which the Solar System formed.

Spectacular light displays, or auroras, are produced on the planets in our Solar System when those particles interact with chemical elements in the planets» atmospheres.

The discovery team presumes that VP113 has an icy reflective surface like other relatively small, outer Solar System objects, as the dwarf planet is observed to have a pink tinge, which is hypothesized to result from chemical changes produced by the effect of radiation on frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide.

Indeed, using Mars - produced fuel and transforming Martian resources would constitute «an effective inner solar system Walmart for, eventually, nearly everything required for spacefaring and colonization,» the memorandum concludes.

If the project is successful, it could produce an image to rival the iconic «pale blue dot» photograph taken in 1990 when Nasa's Voyager 1 probe looked back at Earth as it barrelled out of the solar system.

They arrived at that date because that's when Voyager recorded a permanent drop in heliosphere - produced particles and an increase in galactic cosmic rays from outside the solar system.

GPI will produce the first comprehensive survey of giant exoplanets in the region where giant planets exist in our solar system — from 5 to 40 astronomical units radius.