Sentences with phrase «terrestrial energy»

«Figure 4: The spinning Earth is imagined to intercept solar flux over a disk and radiate terrestrial energy away isotropically from the sphere.

Terrestrial Energy USA has been invited by US DOE to submit part II of its application for loan guarantee support to license and build a 190MW (E) IMSR power plant

Terrestrial Energy, a developer of Advanced Nuclear power plants, today announced that it has secured CAD $ 22.5 million (USD $ 17.2 million) of financing since inception

1990 bis 1995 Mitglied der Arbeitsgruppe 5 des «Solar - Terrestrial Energy Program» (STEP); Leiter der Aktivität 5.3 «Modelling of possible solar variability effects in the lower and middle atmosphere» (MELA)

Terrestrial Energy CEO Simon Irish said the company, which aims to deploy the IMSR in the 2020s, was pleased to begin the process to identify a suitable location to build the plant.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has completed the first phase of a vendor design review of Terrestrial Energy Inc's Integrated Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR).

Earlier this year, Terrestrial Energy began a feasibility study for the siting of the first commercial IMSR at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories» (CNL) Chalk River site.

Terrestrial Energy has begun a feasibility study for the siting of the first commercial Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories» (CNL) Chalk River site, with a further vision of creating a technology hub at CNL to support the commercialisation of small modular reactors (SMR).

CNL and Terrestrial Energy last year signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct testing and validation activities in support of Terrestrial's IMSR engineering program.

Terrestrial Energy uses a completely different nuclear technology for its small modular reactor — molten salt fuel instead of conventional solid fuel.

Terrestrial Energy has received the Trailblazer Special Achievement Award from the United States Nuclear Infrastructure Council (USNIC) in recognition of our completion of the Phase One Pre-Licensing Vendor Design Review with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in November 2017.

Not exact matches

One refers to the dual constitution of terrestrial entities, the other to a certain level of energy - density (I am not a scientist, I must confess).

He said government had commenced the process to migrate Ghana from analogue to an energy efficient Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting in line with international standards.

In ordinary four - dimensional space - time, however, the electric charge would approach zero only at energies well beyond the reach of terrestrial experiment.

Because they're located in the transition between land and ocean — the terrestrial - aquatic interface — the challenge for salt marshes is that their biogeochemistry is also influenced by tides, which bring matter and energy in as they rise.

Cosmic forces determine the abundances of the terrestrial elements, the ultimate source of energy for the Earth is the Sun, and cosmic events over the ages have shaped the course of the evolution of the Solar System.

Given the dearth of terrestrial plants on islands in the Gulf of California, Polis and Hurd set out to discover where the energy in the spiders» food came from.

Indeed, when it comes to walking, penguins expend twice as much energy as any other terrestrial animal of the same size.

We explore the implications of fully integrating terrestrial systems and the energy system into a comprehensive mitigation regime that limits atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

Based on an extensive collection of lunar and terrestrial samples, a new study probing the elusive origins of the Moon — now typically thought to have formed from a collision between a proto - Earth and a solid impactor — supports theories of a collision with extremely high energy.

It also detected perchlorate, an energy source used by some terrestrial microbes.

The serendipitous flybys of two satellites near a tropical thunderstorm have given researchers an unprecedented look at terrestrial gamma - ray flashes — a mysterious, high - energy phenomenon that scientists first observed in 1991.

Rocks that crashed to Earth could have supplied early organisms with essential molecules that allowed them to store energy, ensuring that they could go on to give rise to all terrestrial life we see today.

Over the past few years, terrestrial telescopes such as the Major Atmospheric Gamma - ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescope (MAGIC) in the Canary Islands and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) in Namibia have seen low - energy photons from a gamma - ray burst (GRB) arriving before their high - energy counterEnergy Stereoscopic System (HESS) in Namibia have seen low - energy photons from a gamma - ray burst (GRB) arriving before their high - energy counterenergy photons from a gamma - ray burst (GRB) arriving before their high - energy counterenergy counterparts.

This name refers to the fact that several terrestrial experiments, spanning the past three decades, have consistently observed fewer solar neutrinos than would be necessary to produce the energy emitted from the sun.

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The reason the WTF star is famous is the hypothesis put forward to explain the dimming by Penn State astronomer Jason Wright: That what's orbiting the star could be a «swarm of megastructures,» alien - built energy collectors, much like terrestrial solar panels.

This research is part of the U.S. Department of Energy Consortium for Research on Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE) which also includes researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The initial set of science lessons focuses on renewable energy, environmental sustainability, clean and potable water, and terrestrial ecosystems — topics that are not only relevant immediately after Hurricane Maria, but to rebuild a stronger and more resilient Puerto Rico.

Terrestrial predators can modulate the energy used for prey capture to maximize efficiency, but diving animals face the conflicting metabolic demands of energy intake and the minimization of oxygen depletion during a breath hold.

The clouds affect the «global radiative balance» by reflecting solar energy or trapping terrestrial radiation.

Extensive pseudogenization was found among isolates from marine mammals as compared with terrestrial ones, causing degradation in pathways related to energy, transport of metabolites, and regulation / transcription.

Funding for work on both papers was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy - Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

If you've got energy to burn, choose from a variety of activities — swim, snorkel, scuba - dive, kayak, fish or cross over to Camiguin and enjoy its terrestrial and underwater wonders.

Diamond vortexes connect the terrestrial to the beyond in beams of energy and morph them into abstraction.

With the current GHG content in the atmosphere, more solar energy arrives than leaves via radiation -LRB-.85 + / -.15 Watt / m ^ 2), which raises the heat content of the terrestrial system, i.e., the average temperature over the whole earth + oceans + atmosphere.

Lynas goes on, of course, to explain why he remains in support of harnessing nuclear energy, particularly through advanced reactor designs that don't come with the waste stream and complexity of the light - water reactor design that dominates the industry today — overgrown terrestrial versions of the power source in nuclear submarines.

Furthermore, the key global energy balance consideration for the terrestrial greenhouse that is in hydrostatic and thermal equilibrium, is that the solar energy that is absorbed by the ground surface and atmosphere must be balanced by the outgoing LW emission to space.

Modelling interactions between terrestrial and atmospheric systems requires coupling successional models to biogeochemical models and physiological models that describe the exchange of water and energy between vegetation and the atmosphere at fine time - scales.

If it were not for convective energy transport, the terrestrial greenhouse effect would be 66K for the current atmospheric composition instead of the current climate 33K, which takes convective energy transport into account.

Heat Budget is the result of a balance between energy received (insolation and Earth's Interior) and energy lost (terrestrial.

Radiative energy (solar and terrestrial radiation).

It combines representations of the global economy, energy systems, agriculture and land use, with representation of terrestrial and ocean carbon cycles, a suite of coupled gas - cycle, climate, and ice - melt models.

COLE BAY — A lack of local food production, unrestricted and uninspected development, insufficient use of renewable energy, solid waste issues, no terrestrial conservation areas, and ineffective public transport have resulted in St. Maarten running at an ecological deficit,» says environmental agency St....

I showed the energy and environment committee a graph showing the mean of the temperature anomalies from the three terrestrial and two satellite datasets.

Terrestrial, solar radiation propagation in the atmosphere; radiative components in energy budgets, weather systems, climate studies; remote sensing

The decision by the U.S. on whether to continue pursuit of liquid fuel and other forms of energy from food and terrestrial ecosystems will be of great importance to the well - being and survival of humanity and the Earth.

Algae is extremely attractive as a natural resource for biofuel production because of its tremendous efficiency at conversion of sunlight into a usable biofuel, up to 30 times more energy per acre than terrestrial crops.

But the simple fact is that (essentially all) energy arrives at the earth in the form of solar EM radiation and (essentially all) energy leaves the earth in the form of terrestrial EM radiation (thermal IR).

The IPCC model suggests that the heat and latent energy exchange between the underlying surface and the atmosphere is a direct response to the imbalance of solar energy and terrestrial radiation at the surface.