Sentences with phrase «supported by our solar system»

While we only discovered an exoplanet (that is, a planet not supported by our solar system) for the first time in 1992, scientists were pretty darn quick to figure out ways to determine the composition of some of Earth's far - distant cousins [source: Encyclopedia Brittanica].

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Among her plans of what she'd like to accomplish once elected: Promote / support bills in Congress that adopt clean sources of energy by helping to end the intricate system of public subsidies that keep dirty sources of energy artificially cheap, and promote renewable sources: solar, wind, and hydro; Protect waterways / drinking supply by reducing the risk of contamination and ensure that when contamination is found, the responsible parties are held accountable; Fight for public financing of elections; Work every day to overturn Citizens United.

Cutting the costs of solar, including modules and supporting systems, by half from $ 3.50 or more per watt currently would establish solar as a viable option without subsidies, experts agree.

This work was supported by the NASA Origins of Solar Systems program and the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

The Deep Space Network, managed by JPL, is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe.

If correct, it upsets current thinking on how our solar system formed and, by extension, how other life - supporting solar systems might have formed.

«It's not either - or,» he says, because the moon can enable Mars by tapping lunar resources to support a sustainable human expansion deeper into the solar system.

The authors note that their study supports the existence of a planetary object within the range of parameters considered both in the Planet Nine hypothesis of Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin from Caltech, and in the original one proposed in 2014 by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institute and Chadwick Trujillo from the University of North Arizona; in addition to following the lines of their own earlier studies (the latest led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), which suggested that there is more than one unknown planet in our Solar System.

The work by Thomas Kruijer and colleagues at the University of Münster in Germany supports the timeline of a leading theory of the early solar system — the grand tack hypothesis — which supposes that Jupiter was born a few million years before Saturn.

The study was supported by NASA through the Harriet G. Jenkins Graduate Fellowship (NNX16AT19H) and the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute.

The low end of this temperature range can be supported by existing molten nitrate salt power tower systems while the high end temperatures will require advanced molten - salt or particle - based concentrating solar thermal (CST) systems currently under development.

Grade Level: 6 - 12 Journey Through the Galaxy, supported by Case Western University, features information and resources for teaching and learning about «our solar system, stars, extra-solar planets, the theories about the past and future of the universe, and human exploration of space.»

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As Hawaii's first LEED - EBOM Silver resort, Hyatt Regency Maui's list of leading environmental initiatives include LEED - EBOM certification maintenance by the resort's own Green Team; sustainability and recycling tactics supporting renewable energy and recycling; the recent installation of one of the largest photovoltaic solar panel systems in Hawaii that significantly reducing the resort's carbon footprint; and a new sustainability tour for guests to learn about environmental initiatives on site.

In - kind support provided by Freedom Solar Power, Prentice Cultural, and Jayson H. Seidman Special thanks to Ben Barwise, The Big Bend Sentinel, Vicente Celis, Brent Charlesworth, the Chinati Foundation, Andy Cope, Alice Hackney, Craig Hawker, Louise Hayward, Judd Foundation, Emma Gifford - Mead, Robert Potts, Stephen Rabourn, Gryphon Rue, Alex Seyer, Marfa Public Radio, Marfa Solar System, and Leo Villareal.

The HANS Solar Briefcase and PowerPack systems do double duty by supporting the Billions in Change movement.

... we strongly support Delworth and Knutson's (2000) contention that this high - latitude warming event represents primarily natural variability within the climate system, rather than being caused primarily by external forcings, whether solar forcing alone (Thejll and Lassen, 2000) or a combination of increasing solar irradiance, increasing anthropogenic trace gases, and decreasing volcanic aerosols.

Where previously home solar was supported by necessary subsidies in order to prove attractive to cash - conscious homeowners, now costs are so low in many leading markets that typical rooftop solar systems make economic sense on their own.

The conclusion that greenhouse warming dominates over solar warming is supported further by a detection and attribution analysis using 13 models from the MMD at PCMDI (Stone et al., 2007a) and an analysis of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate System Model (CCSM1.4; Stone et al., 2007b).

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A $ 45 million ($ 55.2 million) renewable heat and power facility has been opened in Denmark, supported by an advanced solar energy system provided by Aalborg CSP.

CSP concepts and technology solutions supported by the latest funding opportunity will be aimed at enabling the solar industry to reach DOE's 2030 levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) targets for CSP, including $ 0.05 per kilowatt - hour for systems with greater than 12 hours of onsite storage.

Iron Horse, E.ON's first grid connected lithium battery system project, consisting of a 10 MW energy storage facility with an adjacent 2 MW solar array southeast of Tucson, Ariz., is online and helping Tucson Electric Power (TEP) maintain reliable electric service for more than 400,000 customers by providing frequency regulation and voltage control support.

In January 2017, GRID Alternatives completed construction of a 6.36 kW ground - mount solar PV system at Robert and Sue Dorame's home as part of a demonstration project in partnership with NPHA that is supported by a grant from All Points North Foundation.

By making it easier for municipal governments to incorporate solar into local permitting, the guide supports Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers and the Clean Energy Standard commitment that 50 percent of New York State's electricity come from renewable energy sources by 203By making it easier for municipal governments to incorporate solar into local permitting, the guide supports Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers and the Clean Energy Standard commitment that 50 percent of New York State's electricity come from renewable energy sources by 203by 2030.

Hansen began his career studying Venus, which was once a very Earth - like planet with plenty of life - supporting water before runaway climate change rapidly transformed it into an arid and uninhabitable sphere enveloped in an unbreathable gas; he switched to studying our planet by 30, wondering why he should be squinting across the solar system to explore rapid environmental change when he could see it all around him on the planet he was standing on.

The system consists of roof top panels designed to minimize the carbon footprint by utilizing solar energy to support backup systems.