Sentences with phrase «using solar water»

The utility offered those using solar water heaters the electric equivalent at reduced rates in order to totally eliminate the solar industry in southern Florida.

Nice touch: The water for the showers is heated using a solar water heater.

It would be wise to also use solar water heating panels as far as possible for heating this water, however the efficiency of solar water heating is much reduced when the sun is not shining, as is often the case when heat is most needed.

Use solar water heaters to drive absorption heat pumps, and Stirling cycle engines.

Many places use solar water heaters, and there are also concentrated solar power plants that generate electricity directly from the sun's heat rather than via PV, so the total amount of solar power is actually higher than the PV number alone.

Not exact matches

The team's design uses solar energy (captured with photovoltaic panels) to power an electrochemical reactor that converts water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen.

And in Rosslyn, South Africa, BMW uses more than 70 solar collectors on its roof to supply most of the hot water it needs in its paint shop.

A large - scale facility that sits on 360 acres, the Nevada Solar One plant uses 850 gallons of water per megawatt hour, the SEIA states.

The Ohmpilot is a consumption regulator that can utilize solar electricity not used in the home to heat water in boilers or buffer storage tanks.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today announced an Australian - first trial of drinking water systems that produce clean drinking water drawn directly from the air using solar power.

Where Quay Valley stands out is its plan to be solar - powered with extremely low water use.

Agents evaluate and advise homes on nutrition, family planning, hygiene practices, use of key preventative methods including bed nets, water treatment, clean stoves, and solar lights.»

Remember that smaller containers will require more frequent watering, and that lighter - colored pots will reflect more solar energy and keep the roots of the plant cooler.Gardeners can use their imaginations when selecting containers.

Both of the company's stores are equipped with solar panels and Harvest uses condensed water captured from refrigerated cases in the Mendocino store to flush toilets.

Over half of the facility's electricity is generated through solar power, and all winery process water is recycled for use as vineyard and landscape irrigation.

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In Green Tour, viewers get a snapshot of what sustainable winegrowing means — from using solar energy and preserving water, to planting cover crops between vine rows for soil health and attracting beneficial insects.

The new brewery cuts energy use by 50 % per barrel through thoughtful building design, solar lighting and the recycling of process waste streams like water and heat.

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- 95 per cent of touring caravans on UK roads are actually made in Britain - In many caravan parks, great attention is paid to protecting the environment, with e.g. use of solar power to heat communal shower blocks, wildlife areas, recycling points etc. - Water and power usage during the holiday is often less than in a hotel.

This water - resistant, fold - able, and altogether cool cube is a high - tech solar light that you can inflate and use for 12 hours.

The term solar panel can be applied to either solar hot water panels (usually used for providing domestic hot water) or solar photovoltaic panels (providing electricity).

The water would be used in seawater greenhouses and a concentrated solar power operation, in which mirrors focus sunlight onto water boilers to push steam - powered turbines.

Kesterites acting as photocatalysts might be able to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight, and to store solar energy in the form of chemical energy,» explains Schorr.

THE solar system is littered with millions of asteroids, but only a few can be profitably mined for valuable metals and water using current technology.

Most concentrating solar power plants with a storage component use molten salt to save up heat and release it at night to boil water and spin a turbine.

One of the Royal Scientific Society's pursuits is the Trans - Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation, or TREC, a multinational effort that would use wind, water, geothermal, and solar resources to provide renewable energy from Oman to Iceland.

The device uses solar electricity from a photovoltaic panel to power the chemistry that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, then adds pre-starved microbes to feed on the hydrogen and convert CO2 in the air into alcohol fuels.

During photosynthesis plants use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into hydrogen - storing carbohydrates and oxygen.

Using excess energy from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind to split water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process called electrolysis — could be the best solution for creating large supplies of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

In April the company announced a plan to mine asteroids for water and minerals that could be used to supply orbiting stations or permanent outposts in the solar system.

He envisions a system that uses electric power generated during the day by solar cells to separate water using his new electrode.

MacDonnell also has worked on developing new photocatalysts for hydrogen generation, with the goal of creating an artificial photosynthetic system which uses solar energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

The company is working toward a greener, more abundant hydrogen supply line; a research station at its R&D headquarters turns water into fuel using solar power.

Fuel Cells Electricity from any source, such as solar, wind and even coal, can be used to break up water molecules into their hydrogen and oxygen components in a device called an electrolyzer.

Such initiatives include research focused on more efficient production of gaseous hydrogen fuel by using solar energy to break water down into its components of hydrogen and oxygen.

An alternative device, called an electrolyzer, uses solar - generated electricity to split water into clean hydrogen and oxygen, but the technique is very energy intensive and expensive.

And although a handful of other concentrating solar plants around the world use solar rays to heat water directly into steam, it is much more volatile than molten salt and can not be easily stored, Ho explains.

At the dig site, they camp in tents, dig wells for water, and use solar panels, supplemented by generators, for energy.

That money would go to a variety of specific instruments, from a sensor to measure the impact of solar irradiance to a thermal infrared sensor that can be used to manage water resources.

Solar power facilities are cropping up in deserts across California, Spain and North Africa, and they could be used to run chemical plants able to split both carbon dioxide and water.

It employs reclaimed water for its cooling and was built near existing transmission lines on what used to be farmland rather than the pristine desert areas nearby that have provoked opposition to some other planned solar power plants.

CONVERTING sunlight into electricity, rather than using it to heat water directly, could lead to cheaper domestic solar energy, say engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland.

Scientists have tried building the electrodes out of common semiconductors such as silicon or gallium arsenide — which absorb light and are also used in solar panels — but a major problem is that these materials develop an oxide layer (that is, rust) when exposed to water.

The study found that, in particular, wind power, biogas, solar photovoltaics, energy efficiency and operational improvements to existing power sources could not only reduce greenhouse emissions but also offset the water used to cool thermal power generation.

Ideally, Ren said, solar power would be used to generate the electric power used to split water.

He added that using solar cells and abundantly available elements to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has enormous potential for reducing the cost of hydrogen production and that the approach could eventually replace the current method, which relies on fossil fuels.

All over the world researchers are investigating solar cells which imitate plant photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to create synthetic fuels such as hydrogen.