Sentences with phrase «using smaller grids»

By using smaller grids — with spacing of just a few kilometers rather than several tens of kilometers as in conventional current models — they were able to show that they could more realistically model the amount of black carbon aerosols, mitigating the underestimation in more coarse - grained models.

If they were, they would have given better answers as they got larger, faster, and used smaller grid sizes... but they continue to give the same answers.

So... the models don't give better answers to questions like climate sensitivity despite getting larger, faster, and using smaller grid sizes... and your conclusion is that because they have not improved, we should trust them?

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The bomb first entered service 50 years ago, and weighs about 700 pounds - slightly smaller than the M117 bomb often used by the B - 52 Stratofortress for «grid square removal.»

The Illinois Smart Grid Regional Innovation Cluster has used the funds to provide support to small startups developing technology to help modernize and update Illinois» electric grid, the network for delivering power from suppliers to businesses and consumers.

Arrange them in a grid using the ruler, and mark each place where a hole will be with a small dot using the pen.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

My colleagues and I use a grid - like lattice to represent a small chunk of space and time.

The idea is that many small power plant operators can feed their electricity into the grid but act as a single power plant using computers to control the level of power.

What the company calls its «mPower» reactor would be used for smaller grids or limited electricity - demand areas, such as those of municipal districts or for individual industrial use.

Using a computer model that fused air pollution and atmospheric chemistry data, they estimated what annual average levels of ozone (a key smog ingredient) and fine particulates smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) were in 2010 within 100 - km - by -100-km grid squares across the world.

For communities still using kerosene lighting, she said, such small - scale distribution «is not saying people shouldn't have access to the grid, but in the meantime, there is a quick win.»

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

We use previous observations of the brown dwarf disk ISO - Oph 102 to inform a fiducial model around which we build a small grid of brown dwarf disk models, in order to explore the structure of CO isotopologue, HCN, and HCO + lines.

PNNL is a recognized leader in developing materials for energy storage, be it grid - scale batteries used to store energy from the sun or wind for later use, or smaller batteries used for transportation.

Models of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaciers.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

Can be played in pairs, where two dice are used alongside small grids.

A unique off - the - grid power solution for schools: children play on a merry - go - round that charges lanterns, which the students can take home and use to study in small g...

The bistable e-paper display uses the same concept: the smallest particles of the screen will hold the color — and the image of display — even when disconnected from the power grid.

Other methods of debridement include a procedure called a grid keratotomy, when your veterinarian numbs the eye and uses a small, sterile needle to gently «scratch» a grid on the surface of the cornea in the area of the ulcer.

Fire Emblem still draws in a respectable crowd on the Nintendo portables, and roguelikes like Bedlam make good use of the good old grid - and - single - units battle system, but they're small beer compared to Final Fantasy Tactics and, arriving at last at the point, Advance Wars.

His later work has branched into non-rectangular grids, topographic map style regions of similar colors, CMYK color grid work, and using larger grids to make the cell by cell nature of his work obvious even in small reproductions.

Would there be any advantage to having seperate models at seperate scales, where smaller scale processes would be modelled at fine resolution, and the larger scale model would, for each unit grid and time, search the results of the smaller model based on similarity of input conditions, perhaps interpolating and if necessary using a randomly chosen result based on probability distributions, and in the ocassion where the results of the smaller model are too sparse, telling the smaller scale model to do a new run (as time goes on this would happen less often)?

The FireBee Power Tower can make use of some of the heat produced for cooking food or warming a home to yield an additional harvest of clean electricity for keeping small electronics charged up, either for off - grid, home use, or both.

The journals use recycled gridded paper and the «Helsinki Tents» fabric is 100 % organic chambray, silk screened by hand in small batches in San Francisco.

The Sport weighs just 9 pounds, is built to be durable, and is small enough to be portable, which makes it a great option for an alternate cookstove for those of us who want to take a «baby step off the grid» by using solar energy for cooking.

Even a small increase in air temperature pushes up overall energy demand, and about 25 % of our energy bills are for only 40 hours per year when the grid is most heavily used.

Used for cooking at home and small agricultural farms, biogas is an important part of Tanzania's off - grid energy supply.

Popular in sub Saharan Africa, PayGo allows users who live off the grid to use a small and portable solar power system to have lights at night and a place to charge their cell phone.

I have also done it on a smaller scale using Japan GHCN stations, though in the Japanese case, I did not combine the ground station infilling with satellite (i.e., either RSS or UAH data) to obtain a gridded result.

Utilities, especially investor - owned utilities, aren't in love with it (to them it's just a more expensive version of a solar plant), but if they get their act together, they can use small, strategically sited shared solar projects to ease grid congestion or avoid expensive new grid investments.

For heating, most people use small propane heaters or electric space heaters if they have a utility grid connection.

Small scale (less than about 4 MW) storage in electromechanical systems (rotating dynamic compensators) or statcomms (power electronics with batteries or capacitors) is used for grid stabilization (voltage and frequency) at the distribution level.

Wind energy is great for small scale low intense needs, but large wind farms are just plain ugly, and putting them to a grid system not the most efficient use and also not the best way to harness the energy delivered to Earth from our free and safe distant fusion reactor that has zero maintenance costs.

To create sound waves, the survey teams use large trucks with vibrator units or set off small explosive charges buried underground in a grid pattern.

• The cost of a general distribution system for methane is orders of magnitude smaller than for major electrical grids, so areas still developing their energy systems can invest in local grids powered by small, re-deployable gas generators using a much cheaper distribution system that can also provide direct gas for heating, cooking, and other such purposes.

At the conference they showcased their efforts, including more than a dozen community solar projects, the widespread deployment of «smart meters» that give customers real - time information about their electricity use, and a range of microgrids — small, self - powering energy systems that can disconnect from the larger grid in times of emergency.

A small wind system can be used on - grid (for a cottage, home, farm, or business) or off - grid (for a boat, RV, cottage, home, farm, business, remote community, or remote station):

Atmospheric flow is well resolved, and GCM climates are not highly sensitive to resolution at the scales being run for AR4 or AR5 where smaller grid sizes have generally been used.

And here's the kicker: remember, the whole point of the paper is to show there is no difference in temperature trends between specifically rural sites and the unknown mix of gridded networks, and then use this to claim that any UHI effect is very small.

«I would: Put a price on carbon and use the revenue to support mass transit, fast trains, rebuild the grid, support renewable, small and large scale.

For example, the global average effect of any change in albedo from using solar power would be rather small in comparison to mitigation of climate change if that solar power is used (to displace fossil fuels) for a sufficient time period (example: if a 10 % efficient PV panel with zero albedo (reflectivity for solar (SW) radiation) covered ground with an albedo of 25 — 30 %, the ratio of total increased heating to electricity generation would be similar to that of many fuel - combusting or fission - powered power plants (setting aside inverter and grid efficiency, etc., but still it would be similar).

Solar Style's aim is to help consumers power their portable electronics without using the grid, using «free energy» («free,» of course, after making a small investment in their products), and they're well on their way.

The equal area grid is the primary data format used in most of our analyses and provides generally smaller files; however, that format may be less convenient for many users.

The low voltage used by the EBR can also easily be generated using a small solar power grid, helping to minimise the overall environmental impact.

Small - scale energy storage, the technology used in solar - plus - storage systems, can also be charged with electricity from the grid to provide backup power without the use of a diesel - powered backup generator.

The New York Times has released a viewer for its newspaper called the Times Skimmer, which displays stories in a simple grid format for use on small screens such as those on smart phones.

The Waka Waka is a combination battery pack, solar charger, and emergency / task light designed for use both in urban / suburban settings as well as off the grid to provide power solar power for small to mid-size devices as well as a portable source of light.