Sentences with phrase «about efficient power»

I felt that the S4 would be much better with a DSG rather than a manual gearbox, because this car is more about efficient power than it is goofy fun.

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Ecomagination's decade - long manufacturing of energy - efficient technologies like these — along with the acquisition of Alstom's power division last year — has now made GE responsible for about one - third of the world's electricity capacity, making its commitment to clean energy a critical step for the future.

It may be that, but it may also be the place where for the first time the worker and his employer meet with such balance of power that each is forced to listen to the position of the other.22 Some employers have been won over to the collective bargaining method through the discovery that they could learn more about efficient production through this process.23

After lunch, you will be taken to see OIST's sustainable homes and will learn about their plans for efficient, intelligent use of solar power.

The manufacturer says it uses about 61 % less power than similar models, making it extremely efficient yet still effective.

An efficient wireless power transfer technology may bring about commercial systems that will indeed allow owners to charge electronic devices without any physical contact with the charger.

There has been much excitement among scientists about the power of these new gene editing methods, and particularly about the CRISPR / Cas9 system, which is relatively simple to use and generally very efficient.

«What these vehicles are about is shifting portions of the American mobile sector onto a more efficient and domestically produced power source,» he said.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

These designs can absorb about 80 to 90 percent of the concentrated sunlight directed at them when considering reflections and heat loss, but Ho said design improvements to make the receivers even more efficient are needed to help reduce the cost of concentrating solar power and improve scalability.

«If you scale down the system, you become much more power - efficient and agile,» Sitti says about the insects» superior speed.

«When we started this research program there was a clear lack of tools and mathematical models to help the software engineers to program in an energy efficient way, and also to reason abstractly about the power and energy behavior of her software» says Philippas Tsigas, professor in Computer Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, and project leader of Excess.

But the power of a new chemical cage announced this week lies in its weakness: It's about 100 times more efficient at releasing its prisoner than its widely used counterparts.

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And that's where real power comes from in performance: Not from the guy flailing about and tearing up a room, but from the one whose movements are compact, efficient, and suffused with quiet confidence.

The most efficient method of driving seems to be to accelerate up to speed in town using both power sources and then lift off the gas pedal to shift it into EV mode, which is able to maintain speeds of up to about 40 mph on its own, sort of a takeoff on hypermilers» «pulse and glide» approach.

The Bad The 3.5 - liter V - 6 engine is particularly efficient, pulling in about 20 mpg average, and the transmission tends to hunt under steady power.

The base trim doesn't get sat - nav or a powered tailgate, which seems mean, although 142g / km CO2 from the cheaper 180bhp 2.0 - litre diesel variant is about as efficient as hefty, non-hybrid SUVs get.

There have been rumors about BMW signing a partnership for batteries and parts with Tesla Motors and even the possibility of a hydrogen - fueled i5, but what we do know for a fact is that the Germans are working on a very efficient hybrid drivetrain that goes by the name Power eDrive.

The 2018 Chevrolet Express Cargo is priced about the same as other cargo vans, but it is far less customizable and rivals are mostly powered by smaller, more fuel - efficient engines.

With the advent of better battery technology, more efficient power management solutions, ever increasing oil prices, and concerns about the automobile's impact on the environment, resurgence in the development of electric cars has ensued.

The Power Control Unit (PCU) is lighter, smaller and more efficient by about 20 per cent, Toyota claims.

While it delivers more power and torque than the Lexus LS 460's V8, it's about a mile - per - gallon less fuel efficient than both that and the Mercedes - Benz S550's much more torquey V8.

While still impressively efficient, the new Ford Focus ST is more about fun to drive power than anything else.

According to the tuner, in all settings, the power was linear and the difference between Sport Plus and Efficient only being about 15 horsepower.

Also, apart from the Nvidia Tegra 2 platform that the Adam will be based on, a whole new platform is also being talked about which is turning out to be extremely power efficient and will be a lot cheaper as well.

Nearly 15 years ago I wrote a story for MONEY Magazine in which index investing pioneer and Vanguard founder John Bogle worried that the industry's slicing and dicing of broad indexes into ever smaller and specialized slivers was turning the concept of indexing on its head, making it more about speculating which area of the market will outperform than harnessing the power of the broad market in a low - cost efficient way.

The only real danger there could be is not having enough power for all of your hard drives, but this only really becomes a problem if you're running a bunch of different hard drives in the same computer — as mentioned, SSDs are very power efficient, and if you're simply replacing your hard drive, you've got nothing to worry about.

According to my back - of - the - envelope calculation, assuming solar panels that are 15 % efficient, 12 square miles of panels should produce a peak of about 4 gigawatts of power, five times more than the capacity mentioned.

For more on efficient water use in agriculture in dry regions, click back to my post on the pioneering work on drip irrigation by Daniel Hillel and read about how solar - powered pumping systems and drip irrigation are improving incomes and lives in sub-Saharan Africa.

Four layers of Plextronics» inks used in a solar cell would measure about 1/1, 000 th the thickness of a human hair, Thompson said, and the substances are designed to conduct power and light in an inexpensive, cost - efficient way.

But the best part is that about 36 % of the light emitted by the backlight is getting through, making them potentially about 3.6 and 7 times more power - efficient than LCDs.

Ok, how about assuming the battery car is fueled upon coal power and poor efficient grid?

Each dollar spent on a new reactor buys about two to ten times less carbon savings and is 20 to 40 times slower, than spending that dollar on the cheaper, faster, safer solutions that make nuclear power unnecessary and uneconomic: efficient use of electricity, making heat and power together in factories or buildings («cogeneration»), and renewable energy.

The new rules are widely expected to cut carbon emissions from existing power plants by about 25 percent from 2012 levels by 2020, in part by encouraging more customers to buy energy - efficient appliances and use weather stripping on buildings.

This is how we found out about the Solar Decathlon China 2013, a design competition that will challenge collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar - powered houses that are Net Zero Energy Buildings and are affordable, energy - efficient and attractive.

The report also identifies that if the least efficient 500 TWh of power generation in China's national coal fleet were to be upgraded to the same technology used at Zhoushan Unit 4, this could reduce China's CO2 by about 850 million tonnes each year and it would achieve this reduction at a much lower cost than any other equivalent, scalable, emission reduction strategy currently available in China.

A new super-efficient diesel, operating at its optimum load, will be about as efficient as an old inefficient power station.

These remarks about helping the grid to be more efficient come in stark contrast to the plethora of power industry bodies and media reports blaming renewables for the electricity price hikes in South Australia of late as well as others claiming that efforts to hit renewables targets are compromising the stability of the grid.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

By the way, thermal solar power, such as is used in solar hot water, is about 60 to 65 % efficient, and has much lower cost, in terms of global warming gasses, than PVs.

That's unfortunate, according to scientists at the Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University in India, because using the sun's power to heat water is a far more efficient process and offers a much quicker return on investment: According to their analysis, published in the International Journal of Global Energy, as the payback time for a solar water heating system is about two years (with a lifespan of 20), this is a far more cost - effective use of solar energy in the developing world than using it to generate electricity.

This is particularly important given the prospect of increased risk of power outages during heat waves — as we saw in western France a few weeks ago... Yes, we need to keep doing all that — and doing it better — but we should also be thinking about incorporating efficient mechanical cooling systems.

So we need to make sure that when the government talks about subsidizing things like solar and wind power, that they're also talking about things like using waste to create energy, because, as you know, when the government subsidizes it, you'll find new technologies to make it more efficient.

Getting the younger generation to care about conserving power can not only spur the parents into also being more energy efficient, but can hopefully instill habits in the children that'll last into adulthood.

One can talk about hybrids and wind power and alternative energy sources but the best source of energy is conservation - get rid of the old crap, get modern efficient appliances, change incandescent to compact flourescent, the simple and logical solutions can reduce consumption and greenhouse gas generation.

The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.

When Delos started with $ 15 million apartments, I complained about how much power they would need to run, how much material to build, how the words sustainable and efficient could not be applied to them.

Already, Germany has created about 250,000 jobs in areas ranging from fuel cells and electric cars to wind power and energy - efficient houses (the German Passivhaus dispenses with conventional furnaces for heating).

We live in an era where many people are concerned about their carbon footprint and architects try to design buildings that are more energy efficient, even if it is heated by clean power like you get around the dams on the St. Lawrence River.