Sentences with phrase «about electricity production»

Wind power is not about electricity production.

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Gradually, the state's 12,000 rivers have allowed Alaska to turn more to hydropower, which in 2016 accounted for about 30 percent of its total electricity production.

Musk went on to cite the ownership cost of the Model S, should it enter production, as «similar to a gasoline car with a sticker price of about $ 35,000» once the lower cost of electricity versus the likely future price of gasoline was taken into account.

It's quite a daunting challenge, given that the average hurricane's wind energy equals about half of the world's electricity production in a year.

The Saudis could ramp up production by about a million barrels per day as they begin to burn crude to meet electricity demands during the summer months, he said.

Or we could give ourselves permission to engage in the violence of electricity production by saying (in the manner of Reinhold Niebuhr) that the kingdom that Christ's life makes visible is an «impossible possibility» which stands at the edge of history as its judge rather than being the truth about history.

About 3000 tones went to food charities, while the rest was used for things like commercial composting, fertiliser, electricity production and animal feed for farmers and even at zoos.

Electricity production (including from coal) is the leading cause of green house gases right now, and the best estimate I can find about cement production puts it at about 5 % of the total man - made causes.

Stick - on solar cells about to flop off the production line could revolutionise the business of generating electricity from sunlight

Fossil fuel - based electricity production is responsible for about 38 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions — CO2 pollution being the major cause of global climate change.

In the six major economies assessed individually, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of electricity production falls by about 40 % between 2010 and 2030 and renewable electricity becomes the dominant source of electricity production at about 36 % of the electricity mix.

According to the most recent data available, in 2014, highway and aviation congestion cost the U.S. economy about $ 160 billion in lost time, productivity, and fuel and the transportation sector produced 26 % of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (second to electricity production).

Yet what we were talking about and what is relevant to the Energiewende and electricity production in Germany is rather the evolution of the emissions post 2005 - 2010 when wind turbines and solar panels began to feed a sizable amount of electricity to the grid.

Like before, I asked Southern California Edison (SCE), an Edison International (NYSE: EIX) company, about Sierra SunTower electricity production:

Oil accounted for about 10 per cent of electricity production in Central and South America in 2012, and about 29 per cent in the Middle East.

The doldrums that stopped wind power production about midday on Wednesday coincided with warnings from the Victorian government and the national electricity market operator that electricity users faced the possibility of blackouts.»

Similarly, there is broad agreement about the Midwest's potential for — and progress toward — lower - carbon electricity production.

Of course, that being said, even with this kind of growth, solar still only represents about one percent of our electricity production in this country.

«What's important to keep in mind when talking about solar and electricity prices is that solar energy production tends to align very well with the highest energy demand on a utility's system.

The exported electricity matches the annual production of photovoltaic solar energy or about two - thirds of the wind power production.

Together, renewables and nuclear provided about 33 % of overall U.S. electricity production in 2015, the highest share on record.

Although it does not negate your argument, I have an offering on your numbers: Generally accepted Carbon intensity of electricity production is about 450gCO2 / kWh, so you need to substitute around twice as much as you have in your calculation with Nuclear.

It is estimated that the 204 - MW plant will provide electricity for about 94,000 average - sized New Mexico homes, or about 4 percent of PNMs total power production.

[283] In 2011, Ukraine's Energy Ministry predicted that the installed capacity of generation from alternative and renewable energy sources would increase to 9 % (about 6 GW) of the total electricity production in the country.

In September, coal - fired electricity output and steel production, together representing about 75 percent of overall coal consumption, declined by 0.5 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively, and further dropped by 2.8 percent and 1.3 percent in October.

The report estimated that regulations cutting emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides would lead to the «premature» retirements of coal - fired power plants that can generate 47.8 gigawatts of electricity, about 15 percent of coal's U.S. production capacity.

Each year, the plant supplies about 33,000 GWh of clean electricity, at up to half the cost of electricity from conventional production.

The problem is both the high cost per BTU and importing it from countries that hate us, neither of which is a great concern for electricity unless you're worried about CO2 production and I'm not concerned about CO2 production which I consider a huge net benefit to agriculture and, in the future, a handy source of carbon for the fabrication of durable goods.

At the same time, new energy storage devices like Tesla's Powerwall and Powerpack batteries — which can be used to store electricity when solar panels aren't generating energy — are starting to change the way we think about the timing of electricity production altogether.

Canada already has one of the cleanest electricity systems in the world, with about 80 % of its electricity production coming from non-emitting sources.

ENERGY OVERVIEW Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 2.9 billion barrels Oil Production (2002E): 818,000 barrels per day (bbl / d), of which about 763,000 bbl / d was crude oil Oil Consumption (2002E): 483,000 bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2001E): 335,000 bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 27.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.32 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.17 Tcf Net Natural Gas Exports (2000E): 0.15 Tcf Coal Reserves (2000E): 474 million short tons (Mmst) Coal Production (2000E): 0.33 Mmst Coal Consumption (2000E): 1.47 Mmst Electric Generation Capacity (1 / 1 / 00E): 24 gigawatts (GW) Electricity Generation (2000E): 82.8 billion kilowattthours (bkwh); conventional thermal 52 %, hydroelectricity 41 %, nuclear 7 %

water that falls on hills and mountains HYDRO ENERGY RESOURCE Total resource: (about 15 times total world hydroelectric production Technical potential: about: Total world electricity consumption: 16 400 TWh Prefixes: 15,8 % of world / fall measurements.

The thing about nuclear waste is that it's the only waste from electricity production that is safely contained anywhere.

The reason also don't seem to line up with its actual importance in our power mix (6 % of all power use and about 13.5 % of electricity production).

Using the latest data about how electricity is generated around the country, as well as crunching the numbers on the energy and materials required to build the batteries that power electric cars, UCS analysts examined all global warming emissions created during an electric car's lifetime — from its production and years of driving to its eventual retirement.

Germany is the world's largest producer of brown coal, and 2013 was the biggest year for lignite - fired energy production in the country since 1990, with 162 billion kilowatt - hours produced, or about 26 percent of Germany's total electricity.

New Mexico now derives about 13.5 percent of its electricity production from wind energy.

To achieve the necessary renewable energy production, Ecofys envisions that solar energy supplies about half of our electricity, half of our building heating, and 15 % of our industrial heat and fuel by 2050.

Things have moved on greatly since this blog started posting about EVs, not least Ecotricity's national network of Electricity «Pumps» — the Electric Highway — it's great to read some real - world experiences of production cars.

Right now, about 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions come from electricity production, which must be reduced to combat climate change.

In the decade to 2014, coal's share of U.S. electricity production fell from just under half to about 39 percent.

Coal production in the state produces about 4 percent of the electricity in the United States, and auto manufacturing continues to play a critical role.