Ammonia is used to cool the solar arrays that provide electricity to station systems.
Assuming demand continues for Skyline's solar arrays, it's a nice win-win for Skyline and Magna.
New chillers, Stirling engines, solar arrays, and transmission lines must be fabricated, shipped, and installed.
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Powering these stations could readily be augmented with solar arrays on the roof of the Burger King.
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Ammonia is used to cool each of the solar arrays that provide electricity to station systems, NASA said.
The Starboard 6 truss holds the fourth pair of solar arrays needed to fully power the orbiting outpost.
The solar arrays would no longer be correctly pointed at the sun, and the storage batteries would run down.
Most residential solar arrays currently are funded by tax equity investors who receive a 30% tax credit for every installation.
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On Monday, California investors could browse prospectuses from three affordable housing complexes in Northern California seeking to install solar arrays.
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The space station's solar arrays generate the electricity used by AMS, and they provide up to 1, 780 watts of continuous power.
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Controllers, worried about complicating an already tough situation, opted to delay deployment of solar arrays that provide electricity to onboard systems.
Thus Italy could build solar arrays in north Africa, as long as it laid undersea cables to bring back the electricity.
They also opened boxes containing the new solar arrays and deployed the Beta Gimbal Assemblies containing masts that support the solar arrays.
Leasing solar arrays to homeowners has exploded over the past two years and represents, for example, 80% of rival SolarCity's 15, 000 installations.
Rooftop solar arrays, rainwater catchment systems, a hot water recycling pump, sliding sunscreens, trellises and a few other features are optional upgrades.
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The mega-chain has been placing solar arrays atop its stores since 2008 and recently installed an array atop its 100th retail outpost in San Diego.
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Sainsbury's, for instance, has just laid claim to managing one of the biggest solar arrays in Europe after laying 69, 500 solar panels on its stores.
SunPower will lease the photovoltaic systems to Citi and Credit Suisse, which in turn will sublease the solar arrays to homeowners, according to SunPower chief financial officer Charles Boynton.
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Big solar arrays work great in the Southwest.
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Mission managers in Houston, Texas, asked Gernhardt and Reilly to check an item that wasn't on their work order: a motor that drives one of the Space Station's solar arrays that had been acting up.
"We're committed to building the world's most environmentally responsible data centers and are leading the industry in the use of renewable energy, including the nation's largest private solar arrays and non-utility fuel cell installation, " the statement said.
SolarCity, which has said it plans to go public and has filed a confidential IPO registration statement, will install, own and maintain the solar arrays, financing the projects through debt-equity funds it taps to pay for panels for customers who lease their photovoltaic systems.
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So over the course of the day on Thursday and Friday, an emergency spacewalk plan was put together and given the okay by NASA. During that time, the pump to the array was shut down, leaving the station to function on only 7 of its 8 solar arrays.
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But with Apple moving to install giant solar arrays and a fuel cell power station at its iDataCenter in North Carolina as part of an effort to create a coal-free iCloud, Greenpeace on Thursday issued a report that gives a slight upgrade to low marks the group previously gave the company.
Each robot can adjust 200 solar panel arrays in 40 minutes and consumes about 30 cents of electricity a day, according to Bokhari.
The bots run on lithium-ion batteries and can adjust 200 solar panel arrays in 40 minutes for only about 30 cents of electricity a day, according to Bokhari.
After all, the concept - creating flexible electronics and assembling them on equally flexible plastic - has been touted since the 1960s, when the first flexible solar cell arrays appeared.
Behind a high fence in Menlo Park, Calif. a gray, tuna-shaped robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride.
Separate from the energy savings achieved by the solar panel arrays, Panasonic's new full-color, dual-sided LED video board will use less energy than the previous sign, which was powered by 7, 000 traditional light bulbs.
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Behind a high fence a robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride. (See video below.) The robot, made by Menlo Park, Calif.
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