Sentences with phrase «solar wind back»

Much as the sun's solar wind blows out the tails of comets, the vanishingly thin stuff between the stars blows the charged particles and magnetic fields of the solar wind back into a tail.

Not exact matches

Following a record - breaking summer, Australia's energy market operator warned this week that eastern Australia desperately needs more gas for power stations within the next two years to provide back - up electricity for wind and solar and avert blackouts.

Back in the petroleum - challenged 1970s, alternative energy of all sorts — solar, wind, geothermal, and anything cleaner and environmentally friendlier than fossil fuels — was the wave of the future and hence the stuff of entrepreneurial dreams.

In fact, it is expected to have a surplus of solar, wind and kinetic energy that can be sold back to the grid and make the service profitable.

Regulators are now looking for alternatives to the conventional power grid, like microgrids, and are hoping that backing them up with renewable solar and wind power would reduce the bottlenecks in the power system and get the lights back on more quickly after a future disaster.

«There might be some places where solar would have won for new generation that now might revert back to wind or natural gas,» Mr. Shiao said.

Home owners, renters, small and large business, all started producing their own solar and wind power and feeding it back into the grid.

By 2012, that figure had soared to 22 per cent, on the back of investment in biofuels, wind turbines and, in particular, solar power.

A CAST - OFF crumb from the solar system's early days has wound its way back towards the sun.

Contrary to predictions, the sun's tail is slightly twisted by the interstellar magnetic field and reflects the varying intensity of solar wind emissions back on the sun.

Particles from the Sun (the so - called solar wind) blow the gases back in a straight tail, whilst sunlight exerts a pressure on the dust particles to create a curved tail.

Such a radiation bath would have vaporized most of Mercury's crust, and over the eons the solar wind would have blown the remnants back out into the solar system.

On a cold, still winter's morning, wind and solar need to be backed up by a complementary source such as coal or gas.

The two - way system could store energy as hydrogen to back up intermittent solar or wind power installations and even the Solar Eagle, a dragonflylike unmanned aerial vehicle that is to fly multiyear misssolar or wind power installations and even the Solar Eagle, a dragonflylike unmanned aerial vehicle that is to fly multiyear missSolar Eagle, a dragonflylike unmanned aerial vehicle that is to fly multiyear missions.

A decrease in solar radiation, they suspect, forces the jet stream to fold back on itself over the Atlantic, creating a large spiral of air that can stay stable for weeks and prevent westerly winds from reaching Europe.

Most of the gas cascades back onto the sun, but a small fraction may escape into the outer atmosphere to feed the solar wind — a steady stream of particles that blows far into space.

The «not in my back yard» opposition to renewable energy systems is still a reality, the researchers said, and there are still some environmental concerns about virtually any form of energy, whether it's birds killed by wind turbine rotors, fish losses in hydroelectric dams or chemical contaminants from use of solar energy.

Zank's models show that if we were to plow into a cloud a mere 100 times denser, the leading edge of the heliosphere would begin forming an incredibly large wall, one too heavy for the solar wind to hold back.

The renewables milestone comes amid actions by the Trump administration to turn back federal climate policies intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions by embracing wind, solar and other renewable energy.

These cuts would scale back federal efforts to foster the development of wind and solar energy, in line with President Donald Trump's campaign promise to bring back coal industry jobs.

When the solar wind carries CMEs and other powerful bursts of radiation into a planet's magnetic field, it can cause the magnetic field on the back side to press together, a process known as magnetic reconnection.

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

Hale says that their model of Charon / Pluto interaction is valuable because it helps us look back in time at the chemicals present when our Solar System was formed, as Pluto hasn't had its atmosphere blasted away by either the extreme heat of the Sun or its solar Solar System was formed, as Pluto hasn't had its atmosphere blasted away by either the extreme heat of the Sun or its solar solar wind.

Overcome crowded mobs, virus androids, gigantic bosses and solve a series of puzzles to get you back where you belong; at peace and partying the night away on the Songbringer as you sail the solar winds of the galaxy with your friends.

Good solar wind data only goes back to November 1994 otherwise I would go back earlier to the 1980's when the so called «manmade global warming» started.

And that's why, in my State of the Union address back in January, I called for a new Clean Energy Standard for America: By 2035, 80 percent of our electricity needs to come from a wide range of clean energy sources — renewables like wind and solar, efficient natural gas.

Wind turbines are huge structures, true, as are hydro or solar or nuclear installations, but they pay back the cost in CO2 of their own construction already very early in their useful life.

That's the full embodied energy in all the materials and construction equipment and trucks doing deliveries for the construction of the building, paid back over the estimated 60 year life of the building, generated through self - produced solar, wind, and cooling from the sea, air or the ground via heat pump.

Since these electric devices can all be charged by large solar and wind arrays, there's no need for fossil fuels anywhere in the process (for example, the first such «solar breeder» proposals for solar panel factories powered by solar panels date back to 1978 or so.)

As we speak, old factories are reopening to produce wind turbines, people are going back to work installing energy - efficient windows, and small businesses are making solar panels.

Whole communities are coming back to life in the midwest to support wind and solar energy projects.

The introduction of legislation to reduce the use of our resources and the steep rise in energy prices (wind and solar in need of conventional sources for back - up will double or even triple the electricity price compared to coal) will undermine our economies further.

For example, it backs rapid growth in the use of non-hydro renewables, such as wind and solar.

At the same time, state regulators have had utility companies build natural gas power plants to provide reliable power and back - up power to the wind and solar units.

With our Renewable Rewards buy - back program, you can maximize the return on your investment in distributed generation like solar or wind energy systems by receiving credit for any excess energy your system exports to the grid.

They set in motion the ability for people who had solar collectors or wind generators to run their meter backwards and put their locally made electricity back into the grid and get paid for it.

The collapse triggered a revamp of the entire RET scheme in February and prompted Climate Change Minister Greg Combet to wind back the solar credits program earlier this month.

California, in particular, is saying «no» to new gas - fired plants and even considering closing existing gas plants despite their ability to supply reliable power at low cost and back - up intermittent wind and solar plants.

The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.

The cause is due to excessive demand for power (and other resources) created by massive over-population and the rate of population growth continues to expand exponentially as we sit and pat ourselves on the back for building wind and solar farms all over our best agricultural land, thus removing the vital source of the food we so urgently need to feed the bourgeoning population.

RenewEconomy While the large - scale solar market continues to wow, a new report has forecast a near doubling of the world's installed wind power capacity in the next five years, citing new policy pushes in China and India — and a «roaring back» to form from Australia.

Not even the most enthusiastic advocates of renewables back then (and I'm one of them) could have imagined the spectacular growth of wind and solar we see today.

British buildings equipped with solar panels, mini wind turbines and other renewable energy sources could generate as much electricity a year as five nuclear power stations, a government - backed industry report has shown.

Like rollover minutes on a cell phone, net - energy metering allows customers to offset their electricity bills with clean energy — such as solar or wind power, for example — and to receive bill credits for extra energy sent back to the utility.

If fossil and nuclear technologies are not acceptable as back - up due to Germany's phasing out of nuclear power and its plan to decarbonize its electric sector, the only consideration left to a 100 percent renewable system is to adapt to the intermittency of wind and solar power and accept periods of darkness when the energy is not available.

In a further blow, the looming UK referendum on EU membership is creating uncertainty for investors, while the Tory government has reined back sharply on support for renewables such as onshore wind and solar power, claiming cost reasons.

Then there is NOTHING left to provide that 100 % back - up that is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL with wind and solar.

It is worth noting that much of that $ 50 billion was spent acquiring wind and solar generation and its associated spending on transmission, plus gas plants (to back them because the power is intermittent), and distribution assets to hook them into the grid or embed them with the local distribution companies.

Wind and solar have severe limitations because they require 100 percent back up from conventional sources.

Community energy projects exist in many forms right across Europe — from solar villages in Spain, to co-operative wind farms in Belgium, and community energy saving schemes in the Czech Republic — but they need more political attention and backing to fulfil their potential.