Sentences with phrase «solar system projects»

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They included SpaceX, the spaceflight company; Tesla, the electric - car manufacturer; SolarCity, a Tesla subsidiary that provides solar energy; and Hyperloop, the project to build a cross-country, high - speed transportation system.

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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.

In the meantime, the companies involved with the long rows of solar panels that have cropped up on the Vinson's land — Cypress Creek, the project's designer; RBI Solar, which made the mounting system; and Horne Brothers Construction — expect to be hurt by the measolar panels that have cropped up on the Vinson's land — Cypress Creek, the project's designer; RBI Solar, which made the mounting system; and Horne Brothers Construction — expect to be hurt by the meaSolar, which made the mounting system; and Horne Brothers Construction — expect to be hurt by the measure.

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.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is planning a pilot project to test a system that allows individuals to invest in solar energy - generating cells and effectively receive rent from consumers that use the hardware.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Projects are discussed in all seriousness of establishing radio communications with these «humanoids» in other solar systems and even other galaxies.

Wind, Solar, Efficiency Grants Awarded to Farmers U.S. Agriculture Secretary Vilsack has announced that 424 projects across the country will receive funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy system investments through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP)...

To achieve 100 % solar power would actually result in wasted power and not as efficient a system, so the carefully thought out project was capped at 89 % solar power.

In the project pipeline, 728 MW of community solar projects are planned, and the governor reports the state receives on average 900 applications monthly for residential systems.

Governor Cuomo today announced that $ 13.5 million is available through the NY - Sun initiative for projects aimed at reducing the overall cost of installing solar electric systems and streamlining the inspection and permitting process.

To improve mobility and traffic patterns, the project will include: · Improved access to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets · Replacing the Route 32 bridge over Route 17, which will include standard Interstate height clearance over Route 17 · Reconstruction and expansion of Park and Ride facilities which will include a bus stop and solar - powered bus station to promote public transit · Reconfiguring the Route 17, Exit 131 eastbound ramp leading to the Thruway · A new interconnected and adaptive traffic signal system along Route 32 to minimize delays and enhance access to local businesses and schools · Intelligent Transportation Systems to adapt to changing traffic conditions and optimize signal responses

The $ 35 million silicon carbide chip project is the centerpiece of the New York State Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium, a $ 500 million partnership between GE and SUNY Poly to develop next - generation power electronics chips used in everything from data centers and medical imaging to airplanes and solar power systems.

The projects inaugurated were a road, drainage systems and solar light for erosion control in some towns.

Frank Alfano, CEO of Mercury Solar Systems, said: «Our team is thrilled to bring these unique solar carports to Long Island, the largest project of its kind in all of the U.S.&rSolar Systems, said: «Our team is thrilled to bring these unique solar carports to Long Island, the largest project of its kind in all of the U.S.&rsolar carports to Long Island, the largest project of its kind in all of the U.S.»

ALBANY, NY (12/02/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson was today joined by local stakeholders and representatives of enXco and Mercury Solar Systems in announcing the beginning construction phase of the Suffolk Solar Carport Project which is expected to deliver up to 17 megawatts, enough to power nearly 1,800 homes with clean renewable energy for LIPA customers.

«By studying those rings up close and personal, you could draw analogies to how solar systems might form and evolve,» says Scott G. Edgington, Cassini's deputy project scientist.

Stephen Doig, program director at the Rocky Mountain Institute, said in the phone conference that the solar pilot projects around the country funded by the Energy Department provide the laboratories for attacking the cost and systems issues.

The work contributes to a larger Masdar Institute - MIT research project, which is aimed at developing a solar - powered, combined electrical power plant and cooling system.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

The $ 2.3 million research project may be a dress rehearsal for future exploration when a modified version of ENDURANCE could be dispatched to explore the extreme environments of the solar system, such as Mars or Jupiter's moons.

Or aliens might accidentally upset our planet or solar system while carrying out some grandiose interstellar construction project.

Participants in the SPOTSIM — Spot - forming convection simulations research project include Petri Käpylä (Aalto University and the Leibniz - Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)-RRB-, Maarit Käpylä (Aalto University and the Max - Planck - Institute for Solar System Research), Nishant Singh and Jörn Warnecke (Max - Planck - Institute for Solar System Research) as well as Axel Brandenburg (NORDITA and the University of Colorado Boulder).

The third part of the project looks at thermo - fluids, with the aim of improving the efficiency of fluids within the solar energy system.

The main topics covered at the KIT booth will be the Helmholtz «Energy Lab 2.0» research platform, the «SafetyFirst» project for efficient home storage systems, and experience gained from the operation of Germany's largest solar power storage park for research at KIT (hall 1B, booth B1.154 and special exhibit «Smart Renewable Energy»).

Fortunately, the risk of contaminating the Red Planet is extremely slim, says Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, who is charged with ensuring agency projects do not contaminate other solar system bodies.

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.

If the project secures permits from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the California Energy Commission and is built, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System project could be the world's largest concentrated solar power sySolar Electric Generating System project could be the world's largest concentrated solar power sSystem project could be the world's largest concentrated solar power sysolar power systemsystem.

The researchers ran more than 2500 simulations based on a model they developed that projected the precise orbits and interactions of the entire solar system over the next 5 billion years.

«To operate the grid more efficiently and keep fossil reserves at a minimum, operators need to have a better idea of how much wind and solar power to expect at any given time,» says Malte Siefert, a physicist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology in Kassel, Germany, and a leader on the project, called EWeLiNE.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

He's waiting for the telltale signs that Voyager 2 has left the solar system, as Voyager 1 did in 2012, and is preparing for his next project: a turn inward, toward the sun.

«Learning about the formation of Jupiter enlightens us about the formation of all the planets and what went on in the early solar system,» says Scott Bolton, the project's principal investigator.

«Titan's northern lakes region is one of the most Earth - like and intriguing in the solar system,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know lakes here change with the seasons, and Cassini's long mission at Saturn gives us the opportunity to watch the seasons change at Titan, too.

«After nearly 15 years of planning, building, and flying the New Horizons spacecraft across the solar system, we've reached our goal,» said project manager Glen Fountain at APL «The bounty of what we've collected is about to unfold.»

Another is the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab's Stardust@home project (stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu), which has recruited about 30,000 volunteers to scour, via the Internet, microscope images of interstellar dust particles collected from the tail of a comet that may hold clues to how the solar system formed.

The Max Planck researcher and his colleague propose another change to the strategy for the Starshot project: instead of a huge energy - hungry laser, the Sun's radiation could be used to accelerate a nanoprobe beyond the solar system.

Other project partners were University of Freiburg, University of Ljubljana, Université de Lorraine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems ISE, Nova - Institut GmbH and Ledoga Srl.

«The project results from the first year are a complete success: The agrophotovoltaic system proved suitable for the practice and costs as much as a small solar roof system.

In the demonstration project «Agrophotovoltaic — Resource Efficient Land Use» (APV - Resola)» led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, solar modules for electricity production are installed directly above crops covering an area of one third hecSolar Energy Systems ISE, solar modules for electricity production are installed directly above crops covering an area of one third hecsolar modules for electricity production are installed directly above crops covering an area of one third hectare.

A project to map the impact sequence on the asteroid Vesta is helping scientists compare its history to other solar system objects.

A recent analysis based on a sky mapping project called the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, which discovered more than 800 new «trans - Neptunian objects,» suggests that the evidence also could be consistent with a random distribution of such objects.

The universe around our solar system displayed with Mitaka Credit ： 4D2U Project, NAOJ.

Stassun is a deputy investigator on that project as well, which will give his team unusually comprehensive insight into the nearby solar systems that may have the potential to harbor or sustain life.

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The project may involve the following topics: — Interaction of the solar wind with magnetised and unmagnetised planets — Space weather forecasts — Numerical (HPC) and analytical modelling of MHD wave processes and jets in solar and astrophysical plasma — MHD wave observations and solar magneto - seismology — Application of advanced data analysis to solar system science — Physics of collisionless shocks (including planetary and interplanetary shocks)-- Analysis of multi-point measurements made by space missions, e.g Cluster (ESA), THEMIS (NASA), MMS (NASA)

For Stone, who has been project scientist for the Voyagers since 1972, his favorite memory was the jaw - dropping discovery of volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io in 1979: «The eruptions on Io were the first direct evidence of active volcanoes elsewhere in the solar system... This astonishing discovery clearly signaled that we could expect many more surprises,» he recounted.

«The Kepler mission showed us that planets larger in size than Earth and smaller than Neptune are common in the galaxy, yet they are absent in our solar system,» Steve Howell, a K2 project scientist at NASA, said in the statement.