Sentences with phrase «with less electricity»

With less electricity consumption and increasing wind and solar power, coal - generation will tend to be pushed out of the Australian market.

These adaptors, conspicuously exposed and adorned with plastic insect wings, provide the objects with less electricity than required by their original design — allowing an AAA battery to function in the place of an AA, for example.

Rather than heating tungsten to at least 3,100 degrees Fahrenheit (1,700 degrees Celsius) or exciting fluorescent gases, LEDs can produce lumens with less electricity.

Not exact matches

As with carbon dioxide emission rankings, less developed nations tend to score better on electricity consumption because access to electrical power is not as widely available.

These provide a much less rosy picture, with rail freight volumes down 11 % on a year ago and electricity production flat.

They appeared to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk said they'd actually been retrofitted with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promised, that lasts longer and costs less, all while generating electricity.

They appear to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk says they've actually been retrofitted with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promises, that lasts longer and costs less, all while generating electricity.

The arrangement is made possible by a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the project's developer where the customer pays an electricity rate equal to or less than what other customers pay for their existing power.

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

Is torturing with a razor, as the National Liberation Front did, worse or less bad than torturing with electricity, as the French paras did?

Individuals with free access to electricity fell asleep later, and slept, on average, about 45 - 60 minutes less each night than those who relied exclusively on natural light (de la Iglesia et al 2015).

Another 6 percent heat with electricity, and less than 2 percent apiece use fuel oil or propane.

To qualify for additional assistance, a household must meet income eligibility requirements; have exhausted both regular and first emergency benefits during the 2010 - 11 HEAP season; and have a current shut - off notice on either heat or «heat - related» electricity or an oil, propane, wood or other fuel supply with less than 1/4 tank remaining.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

The biggest hurdle to getting more electricity from renewable energy sources is the intermittency of the sun and wind — a problem that better batteries with less expensive materials could solve by storing large amounts of energy until needed.

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

Pretreating with thermal depolymerization also makes coal more friable, so less energy is needed to crush it before combustion in electricity - generating plants.

Indeed, the Clean Power Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollution.

If they were, gaming computers worldwide might well be consuming billions of dollars less in electricity use annually, with no loss in performance, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

In Maine, cooking the same turkey in the same oven but with electricity generated primarily from renewable energy releases less than three pounds of carbon dioxide.

Electricity Transmission Intermittent sources are less troublesome if they feed a bigger grid; a region with 100 scattered installations of wind and solar could count on some average level of input.

That is in part because you waste less making the electricity and also because electric engines convert as much as 75 percent of available energy into forward motion, compared with the 20 percent energy conversion rate of gasoline engines.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burniWith more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burniwith electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

CIGS on glass panels can drop that cost to $ 1.50 per watt, Guha says, but he also acknowledges that solar energy will not be able to compete with fossil fuel — based electricity until it costs less than $ 1 per watt.

A report published by Friends of the Earth Cymru in 2007 quotes evidence that tidal lagoons in the Severn estuary could produce more electricity than the proposed barrage, and with less harm to wildlife.

Some states have a goal of zero electric growth, achieved by replacing lamps, pumps, blowers and everything else that runs on electricity with updated equipment that does the same work with less energy.

As we have proven, combining the two gives us synergy — a more efficient use of electricity and it also improves engine braking, which stops the car faster with lesser wear on the brake pads.»

One of the problems with previous methods was that the amount of energy produced in, for example, a system using salty and less salty water to generate electricity, was too small relative to the amount of water used.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

With less water filling the state's reservoirs than usual, hydroelectric dams» ability to produce electricity is drastically reduced.

The NuScale Power Module's cost per kWh is competitive with other sources of base load electricity generation, and less than the cost per kWh of large nuclear units.

Of course, in modern times, with no shortage of electricity to light the post-sunset (and pre-dawn) hours, we are less limited by the sun than our ancestors might have been.

Adapting tactics that have helped drive more people to the polls, or persuade homeowners to use less electricity, schools are now trying to boost student attendance with «nudge» letters that compare students» attendance rates with averages for their school and district.

Electricity is far cheaper to fuel, no noise, less maintenance, fuel up at home, can generate your own fuel with solar PV panels, no vibration, no lurching transmission, no smog checks, no oil changes, etc..

I did agree, but additionally made the point that this is something that will become less and less true over the coming years; in responding you've shifted the argument to electricity generation not being able to keep up with demand.

With a more normal hybrid, also brilliantly because it uses less fuel, goes further and more speedily on electricity alone, is more fun to drive and somehow «purer» in concept.

That LED headlights illuminated the road ahead with a well - defined and bright light pattern, and incidentally drew significantly less electricity than standard lamps.

The following forms of passive income with cryptocurrencies are not high scale mining operations and require a bit less in electricity output.

With shares of Waste Management (WM) continuing to trade with a dividend yield of less than 2 %, additional shares of WM were sold in January and invested in AES Corporation (AES)-- essentially trading trash service for electricWith shares of Waste Management (WM) continuing to trade with a dividend yield of less than 2 %, additional shares of WM were sold in January and invested in AES Corporation (AES)-- essentially trading trash service for electricwith a dividend yield of less than 2 %, additional shares of WM were sold in January and invested in AES Corporation (AES)-- essentially trading trash service for electricity.

This landfill free solution is recommended as a «clean, reliable, and renewable source of energy» that «produces electricity with less environmental impact than almost any other source of electricity» by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

This reduces the use of electricity and cost of bills as compared with PSUs that are less efficient.

In the story on appliances, various experts told Alina Tugend that the energy and materials costs of manufacturing an appliance to begin with have to be weighed against the long - term savings from buying a new one that uses less electricity.

The ONLY way they will ever have electricity is with distributed renewable energy, principally photovoltaics — which are vastly less expensive than building a whole new grid - based electricity generation and distribution infrastructure.

Trading off cotton farming for concentrating solar is a good example of smart planning — take out one of the most water - wasteful subsidized crops we don't grow very well, and replace it with a plant that uses less water and produces electricity.

Allowing for that falling on the oceans, and further decline due to angle of incidence as distance from equator increases, less the amount required by vegetation for photosynthesis, we are left with how much energy for conversion of solar radiation to heat / electricity / catalytic reaction to other fuels?

Based on the design of a child's whirligig toy, this «paperfuge» can separate blood components in less than two minutes, with no electricity.

Re 273 — not that I am prone to agreeing with Edward Greisch, but those numbers are presumably before profit, or... Well, the number for coal seems about right, so far as I know, though it is much less than what anyone pays for retail electricity now.

In addition, some of us were eating less meat, bicycling for errands and to meetings, one had a rainwater collection system, a couple had organic gardens, two had completely retrofitted their houses with thick insulation, good windows, heat pumps, energy - sipping appliances, and supplied their own electricity with lots of rooftop solar panels.

... In the U.S. electricity supply sector, the cost benchmark for reducing carbon dioxide emissions lies with substitution of natural gas for coal, especially older, less efficient units.

In the New Mexico of 2020 includes a move away from fossil fuels, a perfected use of renewable power sources, zero - emissions buldings, fewer miles traveled, less imported power and fewer power lines, micorgrids that produce their own electricity for hundreds of communities, a reconfiguration of human organizations that aligns with better pricing and energy supply, green collar jobs, and supportive local governments.