Solar energy, whose time has come, is very suitable to heat water or make electricity.
太阳能的时代已经到来，它非常适合用来加热水或发电。
It produces more electricity from falling rain than solar energy.
它从降雨中产生的电能比从太阳能中的还多。
Cars powered by gasoline were sold for many years before hybrid vehicles that use gasoline, electricity, and solar energy. Car companies are now making cars that are fully powered by electricity only.
在使用汽油、电力和太阳能的混合动力汽车出现之前，汽油动力汽车已经销售了很多年。汽车公司现在正在生产完全由电力驱动的汽车。
In many parts of the world, solar energy is now the cheapest form of electricity.
在世界许多地方，太阳能现在是最便宜的电能。
Solar panels take energy from the sun and turn it into electricity.
太阳能电池板从太阳获取能量并将其转化为电能。
It would be better, he argues, to improve energy efficiency, rely on natural gas in niche vehicle markets and balance continued construction of wind and solar power to produce electricity.
他说，更好的做法是提高能源利用效率，在特定汽车市场主要使用天然气而且合理进行风能和太阳能发电设施的持续建设。
That means that barring a breakthrough technology in electricity storage, wind and solar are likely to contribute only small - that is, single-digit - percentages of our overall energy needs.
那也就意味着除非有电力储存上的技术突破，风能和太阳能很可能在我们总的能源需求中只能做出占百分比个位数的少量贡献。
First Solar produces thin-film modules capable of creating energy at around $2 per watt, equivalent to 15 cents per kilowatt hour--matching electricity prices in many global markets.
最初的太阳能薄膜模块可产能量为每瓦2美元左右，相当于15美分/千瓦时- 相当于全球许多市场的电力价格。
The solar energy companies are using the solar panel design with new semiconductors to catch the electricity caused by the positive charge.
该公司设计的太阳能电池板装有一种新型的半导体，这种半导体能捕获正电荷产生电能。
The artificial leaf is a thin sheet of semiconducting silicon - the material most solar cells are made of - which turns the energy of sunlight into a flow of wireless electricity within the sheet.
人造叶子主要是一层很薄的半导体硅板，能够将太阳光转化为硅板内的无线电流，硅也是大部分太阳能电池的主要材料。
Concentrating solar power, or solar thermal, involves using the sun's energy to create heat that can be turned into electricity.
集中式太阳能，也称为太阳能热，其需要利用太阳能来产生热量，然后再把这种热量转化成电力。
The best modules made with the new technology convert about 18 percent of the energy in light into electricity — as opposed to 13 percent for the company's original solar panels.
使用新技术用最好的模式，在光的照射下，有18%的能量能转化为电力-这是与原始的太阳能板的13%相对照。
Establishing a national renewable electricity standard will help to unify the fragmented U.S. grid system — an important step in the wider adoption of using more wind and solar for energy generation.
建立一个国家新兴能源发电统一标准将有助于统一美国零散的电网系统，这是广泛采用风能和太阳能发电重要的一步。
In a way it is a little like solar power. We know we can convert solar energy into electricity but it has taken many years to lower the cost.
某种程度上和太阳能有点像，大家都知道太阳能可以转化成电能，但是多年以来，成本问题一直没有解决。
A novel approach that USES both heat and light from the sun to make electricity could potentially double the output of solar panels (a New Way to use the sun's Energy).
这种同时利用太阳热力和光线来发电的新方法，可能会让太阳能电池板的电力输出增加一倍(参见“使用太阳能的新方式”一文)。
By decreasing the amount of light that is reflected from a solar panel, nanostructures will enable more solar energy to be converted into electricity.
通过减少从太阳能面板上反射的光量，纳米结构可以转化更多的太阳能至电能。
Solar panels generate electricity by converting photons (packets of light energy) into an electric current.
太阳能电池板通过将光子(光的能量包)转化为电流来发电。
Renewable energy systems include systems (wind, solar, biomass and geothermal) that may be used to produce and sell electricity.
这里的可再生能源系统是指风能、太阳能、生物能和地热等可用于电力生产和销售的系统。
The proprietary Stirling engine was developed by Cool energy to efficiently convert solar thermal energy or waste heat into electricity.
专有的斯特林发动机能有效地太阳能或废热转换成电能。
In Japan, where electricity is expensive, solar power is now fully cost-competitive with power from the grid, says Paul Maycock of PV Energy Systems, a consultancy based in Virginia.
弗吉尼亚州PV能源系统咨询公司（PV Energy Systems）的保罗‧梅科恪列（PaulMaycock）说，日本的电力很贵，太阳能动力如今已完全能与电网电力等价消费。
According to America's Department of Energy, solar panels could, if placed on about 0.5% of the country's mainland landmass, provide for all of its current electricity needs.
据美国能源部(america ' sDepartment ofEnergy)的统计，如果太阳能帆板占据那怕仅仅0.5%大陆面积，就已足够供应目前所有的电力需求。
Electricity can be generated by nuclear fission, hydropower, biomass, wind and solar energy; and cars and lorries can run on electricity or biofuels.
电能可以靠核裂变、水力发电、生物量、风和太阳能产生；轿车和卡车可以通过电或生物燃料运作。
When most people think about changing the way America USES energy, they imagine new ways of generating electricity like solar farms or new nuclear reactors.
当大多数人考虑如何改变美国使用能源的方式时，他们都会设想发电的新途径，如太阳能农场或新的核反应堆。
As the cost of electricity from solar continues to decrease compared to traditional energy sources we will see tremendous market adoption, and I suspect it will be a growth limited only by supply.
随着太阳能发电的成本相比传统能源持续走低，我们将看到惊人的市场普及，我怀疑增长唯一的瓶颈是供应。
Using regulatory mandates has also been a popular way, at the state level, to nudge electricity generators towards getting more of their power from alternative energy sources such as wind and solar.
借助法规要求同样也是通行的做法，在各州，通过诸如风能和太阳能之类的可再生能源，推动发电机来获得更多的能量。
Yet even if Congress enacted that ambitious law, coal would still dominate the nation's electricity portfolio two decades from now, and solar energy would probably remain a minor contributor.
然而，即时是国会颁布了这项雄心勃勃的法令，但在未来的二十年中，煤仍主导这个国家的电力，而太阳能仅可能占据较小的一部分。
A smart grid could also provide for the two-way flow of electricity, as well as large-scale integration of intermittent solar and wind energy.
智能电网也可能提供电力的双向流动，同时提供大范围内的间歇太阳能和风能的一体化。
Converting solar energy beamed from space into electricity in a power grid, however, has not yet been demonstrated.
可是，能否把从太空上发射来的太阳能转变成可以进入输电网中的电能，则还没有实例。
Indeed, many experts believe that the future of electricity generation will not come from further refinement of solar, wind, coal or nuclear energy, but from fuel cells.
很多专家认为未来的电能不会来自改良后的太阳能、风能、煤炭或核能，而将来自燃料电池。
Indeed, many experts believe that the future of electricity generation will not come from further refinement of solar, wind, coal or nuclear energy, but from fuel cells.
很多专家认为未来的电能不会来自改良后的太阳能、风能、煤炭或核能，而将来自燃料电池。
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