Sentences with phrase «about average capacity»

That's about average capacity.

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This is the highest - capacity undersea cable ever built — about ten million times faster than your average cable modem — and we're beaming light through it starting today.»

«The [U.S. Department of Energy] expects the Obama administration's recent drilling moratorium to cut U.S. production by an average 70,000 [barrels a day] next year, which is equal to only about 1 per cent of current OPEC spare capacity.»

The prototype car, which has a capacity of about 150 people and cost about $ 100,000 to construct, features street - level boarding and higher average speeds than buses, according to Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector.

The Arkwright Summit Wind Farm will connect to the grid in the Town of Pomfret and will have an installed capacity of 78.4 megawatts, enough to power about 33,000 average homes with clean energy each year.

• Coral reefs that maintained 500 kilograms of fish biomass per hectare (about 50 percent of an average reef's carrying capacity) were found to maintain ecological functions while sustaining local fisheries, providing fishers and marine managers with a critical target.

«Our main conclusion is that geophysically - forced variability in wind and solar generation means that the amount of electricity demand satisfied using wind and solar resources is fairly linear up to about 80 % of annually averaged electricity demand, but that beyond this level of penetration the amount of added wind and solar generation capacity or the amount of electricity storage needed would rise sharply.»

Though the space it of a decent size (we were able to fit two small suitcases in the trunk side - by - side with enough room spare to squeeze a duffel bag in), the Infiniti Q60's capacity of 8.7 cubic feet is fairly disappointing in a class where a capacity in the 10 cubic feet region (as displayed in the Lexus RC, Cadillac ATS Coupe and Mercedes - Benz C - Class Coupe) is about average by segment standards.

Though the outright cargo capacity of 14.3 cubic feet is about average for this class (an Audi A6, for example, boasts 14.1 cubic feet of space), it trails behind the Jaguar XF's capacity of 17.8 cubic feet.

Average fuel economy in the low 20s many not be anything to write home about, but it is quite good for an SUV of this capacity.

In terms of cargo capacity, the RDX provides 26.1 cubic feet of storage behind the rear seats, which is about average for this class.

Cargo capacity is about average for the class at 13 cubic feet.

But a more average user, who probably won't use the full storage capacity, will buy about three e-books per Kindle per month, and the report predicts that average consumer would displace closer to 168 kg of CO2 per year.

PPA increases the city shelter's capacity by about 17 % on average per year.

(By comparison, the average coal - burning power plant has a capacity of about 800 megawatts, but generates electricity day or night.)

The paper shows that the North Eastern US could run for 99,9 % on renewables, providing 72GW on average by installing about 260 GW renewables capacity + an enormous chemical battery backup system.

(Remember that solar farms generate electricity at about 20 - 25 % of «nameplate» capacity on average, while combined - cycle gas plants nationally average 50 - 60 %, and can achieve 70 % or higher.

For peak hours — from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. — capacity factors averaged about 50 % (the red line) on a national basis in 2010 compared to about 40 % in 2005.

That fluctuation is amplified by land surface temperatures in the same latitude band of about the same area, because the land surface temperatures are at a higher average altitude with a lower average specific heat capacity and the (Tmax + Tmin) / 2 method of determining «average» amplifies the variance.

(Capacity factor of wind power in Australia is about twice that of solar PV power, so the capital cost per average MW of generation by Ms McBain's figures, would be similar for wind and solar.)

After annual average growth of about 50 percent for five years, the U.S. electricity industry installed a total of 1 gigawatt - hour of new storage capacity between 2013 and 2017, according to the firm GTM Research.

Well now, that is something you should take up with Webster, I just know that more efficient mixing increases the average temperature of the oceans which is increasing the total heat in the ocean system which has about 1000 times the heat capacity of the air that that heat would be lost to if the mixing didn't take place as efficiently.

The capacity factor (the percent of maximum generation potential actually generated) of the best sites for wind turbines is about 40 %, and the average capacity of all the wind turbines used to generate utility power in the United States was 25 % in 2007.

Also note that the average cost of renewable energy in 2014 was about 2.7 billion USD per GW capacity.

In a country that on average receives about as much sunlight as cloudy Seattle, this premium payment for solar electricity has not only spurred Germany to preeminence in installed PV capacity, it has also helped grow a domestic solar industry with more than 10 billion euros ($ 13 billion) in annual sales.

China is also adding new high voltage power cables and averaging about 25 GW of new wind energy capacity each year.

But, again, if that capacity averages only 30 % utilisation, while fossil sources average 70 %, then that is equivalent to only about 22 % of electricity generation.

[Note that many statements and press releases on the subject of wind do not clarify whether they are talking about «peak», i.e., nameplate, or «average», i.e. the nameplate x capacity factor — it is essential to clarify this before putting any weight on the claim].

* The average annual capacity factor for windmills in the project would be about 35.7 %.

If wind operated at 30 % of capacity and solar at 15 % they could have produced 986,000 MWh of intermittent electricity or enough to supply about 220,000 average Ontario households for the six months in that report.

The smaller part of this misrepresentation by Senator Boswell was his statement that the capacity factor of wind power is around 20 % to 30 %, while the fact for the average of all south - eastern Australian wind farms is a capacity factor of about 35 % (from Australian Energy Market Operator figures).

The current world electricity system operates at an average capacity factor of about 50 %, so that means about 64TW of generation.

The natural variability in sink capacity is around + / - 2 GtC, quite constant over the years, while the human emissions increased from 1.5 to 8 GtC / year and the average increase in the atmosphere followed with about 53 % of the emissions.

In fact the typical utility - scale wind turbine seen in Australia today has the capacity to generate up to about two megawatts, and on average will generate about 35 % of that (see capacity factor, on another page).

Perhaps the most revealing point in the article is made by a graph that shows the proportion of China's installed power capacity from wind, hydro and solar having grown from 20 % in 2007 to 35 % in 2016, that is an average rate of about 1.5 % per year.

Not only is the Hallett group the biggest in installed capacity, it is by far the most productive wind farm in Australia, generating an average of about 134 MW.

During 2016 the capacity weighted average LCOE of CSP plants was estimated to be USD 0.27 / kWh (a fifth lower than in 2009) although IRENA data suggests that the LCOE, although about 18 % during 2017 to USD 0.22 / kWh.

(Currently, there are about 100,000 wind turbines worldwide with an average generating capacity of about 1 MW.)

This average electric power requirement of 230 watts per person implies that Africa needs about 230 GW of generation capacity for its billion people.

In the US, installed wind capacity (43GW) is providing about 13GW average, about one third that provided by hydro but only a fraction of potential sites have been developed.

Over a period of time, usually a year, the actual production is averaged out to what is called the «capacity factor», which, is necessarily much less than the the nameplate capacity, since that is attained only in wind speeds from about 30 to 55 mph.

As I understand it the difference in the heat capacity of moist and dry does not amount to much, as the average percentage of water vapour in air is only about 2 %.

Assuming a 1GW coal plant, with a capacity factor of 45 % (average in the UK of the last five years)-- it would take about 500 windmills occupying about one hundred square km.

While the average Li - Ion cell loses approximately 20 - percent of its maximum capacity after 400 charging cycles which amounts to about a year of regular use, the cells found inside the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus retain around 95 - percent of their capacity over the same period.

Since the Great Recession, the program has reached its capacity, averaging about $ 5 billion per year in invested capital.