Sentences with phrase «as electricity produced»

Wind energy supplied at 1 am does not have the same value as electricity produced during the daily peak.

So electricity from solar PV in China costs three times as much as electricity produced conventionally.

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As Bitcoin's price has soared, so too has the energy consumption to produce it — to the point that Bitcoin mining now guzzles more electricity than all the electric cars in the world.

Under Paris deal, China committed to produce as much clean electricity by 2030 as the US does from all sources today https://t.co/F8Ppr2o7Rl

One type, known as plastic, organic or polymer photovoltaic solar cells, uses conductive organic polymers or organic molecules to absorb light, transfer the charge and produce electricity.

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

Both companies produce fuel cells that convert hydrogen into clean electricity and nearly half of Ballard's sales now come from China, as the country adds hydrogen - fuelled electric buses to its roads.

Aluminum smelters are electricity guzzlers, with power accounting for as much as half the cost of producing refined metal.

Factors impacting natural gas value include seasonal variations (since natural gas is used to generate electricity and heat / cool homes), severe weather disruptions (such as hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, a key natural gas - producing region in the world), and alternative energy developments.

Given the high cost of producing one Bitcoin in the UK, which apparently is about 8,400 dollars, the majority of the funds raised will cover the cost of electricity, as the company plans to 1280 Bitcoins.

This idea could be used on any sort of vehicle as long as the generator produces more electricity than it uses due to wind resistance.)

Perhaps we can come to terms with the exploitations of the past, but should we complacently stand aside as the sacred mountain of the Navajos is strip - mined and the ecology of their region destroyed in order to produce more electricity to meet the insatiable demands of us Californians?

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

KARPOWER barges will as a result, continue to produce electricity for Ghanaians, without consequence to the availability of light crude oil and gas in Ghana.

A Columbia County city plans to become the first community in New York state to purchase its electricity as locally - produced wind power.

But he expects a similar empowerment as individuals gain the ability to produce, store and use electricity at will.

The plant parts left over after juice extraction, known as bagasse, can be burned to produce steam and electricity.

Last April natural gas tied coal as the top electricity - producing fuel in the United States (each generated 32 percent of the total).

In the lab, such combinations turned as much as 20 percent of sunlight into electricity, although panels produced in a factory under less than ideal lab conditions only managed 13 percent at best — and Solyndra's averaged around 10 percent.

The Indian Central Electricity Authority (CEA) only produced its draft plan to install PMUs across the grid in April and, as of 31 May, there were just 14 operating in the country.

A new report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its carbon dioxide emissions

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

«So as long as you're using renewable electricity and not some kind of brown electricity, that is really the most direct pathway to producing real, carbon - free hydrogen fuel.»

On the surface, the hydrogen is cleanly burned in a turbine to produce electricity and the carbon dioxide, as well as processed carbon monoxide, is liquefied for underground storage.

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«This should reduce overall costs for the energy industry because, rather than creating large, expensive solar cells, you can use much smaller cells that produce just as much electricity by absorbing intensified solar energy from concentrating lenses.

Even in parts of the country where coal makes up most of the electricity supply, EVs produce the same amount of greenhouse gases as the best gasoline - powered nonhybrid vehicles that get about 33 mpg.

Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

TerraPower has not issued an estimate of the cost of its reactor, but says its goal is to produce electricity at the same cost as the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor, or lower.

As strain is increased more electricity is produced by the piezoelectric effect.

To power Mourdiah's nightlife, the container stores electricity in batteries, as well as producing it from solar panels.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

Of course, copper is the primary metal used around the world to move electricity and that's a route Hochschild followed as well, moving into energy products and, then, in 2003, starting to trade renewable energy credits — another government run market in chits that show a given electric utility has produced or bought a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandate.

As the tubes» sections rise up and down on the passing waves they tug on the hinges, which are resisted by hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid through hydraulic motors and turn electrical generators to produce electricity.

Some 80 restaurants, caterers and hotels, including gourmet food company Fauchon and Michelin - starred Taillevent, signed up for a pilot project to collect their food waste, which is used to generate biogas and produce electricity and heat, as well as compost for farms around Paris.

The researchers envision thousands of underwater turbines producing as much energy as 10 nuclear power plants and supplying one third of the state's electricity.

As part of that commitment, the government has pledged to produce 15 percent of all electricity by 2020 using renewable resources, including 250 GW of wind power expected to come online by the end of the decade.

Doctoral student and first author Tim Gehan says that organic solar cells made in this way can be semi-transparent, as well, «so you could replace tinted windows in a skyscraper and have them all producing electricity during the day when it's needed.

As a wave passes, the horseshoe pivots away from the anchored lever, activating the generator and producing a burst of electricity, transferred to shore via an electric cable running through the mooring line and along the ocean floor.

These properties make the cells ideal for things like windows or roofs, although they are probably less suitable for large - scale commercial applications, such as solar farms, because they need more area to produce the same amount of electricity as more typical silicon - based solar cells.

Sodium - Sulfur Batteries Sodium - sulfur batteries work much the same way as the lead - acid battery that starts your car; both use chemical reactions to store and produce electricity.

One reason for this problem is that electricity, as we've chosen to produce it, is pretty wet stuff.

Since its western neighbors this year failed to send as much electricity as usual, the manufacturing hub, with a capacity to produce more than half of the world's desktops and toys, is forced to conserve electricity.

The researchers specifically excluded power resources such as nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar as each of these already produce electricity at maximum capacity.

A new study in Canada has found that some hydroelectric reservoirs give off as much carbon dioxide and methane — the two most important causes of the man - made greenhouse effect — as coal - fired power stations producing a similar amount of electricity.

Power supply The CEC also has a mandate to prioritize new electricity - generating projects that either improve the efficiency of producing that power or are derived from renewable resources, such as the sun, wind and hot rocks (geothermal).

Perovskites are perhaps the most promising of these alternatives: they are cheap and easy to produce, and in just a few short years of development, perovskites have become almost as efficient as silicon at converting sunlight into electricity.

Less than 1 per cent of the world's deserts could produce as much electricity as the...

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