Sentences with phrase «as much electricity»

In a recent research, experts argued that bitcoin transactions may consume as much electricity as Denmark by 2020.

This time next year, Bitcoin's worldwide operations are expected to consume about as much electricity as Sweden, more than twice what they consume today.

By some estimates, the Bitcoin network alone already consumes as much electricity as the nation of Denmark.

Creating a single token requires as much electricity as two years» worth of consumption by an average American home.

Modern devices like phones, tablets, and even laptops are being equipped with bigger and more efficient batteries, so getting as much electricity to them as safely possible is a necessity.

By February 2020, it will use as much electricity as the entire world does today.»

A common measurement is that running Bitcoins in the world today uses as much electricity as all of Denmark.

But I bet with a 35 mile range you're going to get home frequently for 30 - 60 minutes before heading out again and you're going to wish that you could cram in as much electricity as possible...

Together, the solar power projects are projected to provide as much electricity as approximately 1000 local homes use.

Therefore, a megawatt of wind generates about as much electricity as 225 to 300 households use.

Speaking of toys, once one considers servers and towers, a single iPhone uses as much electricity as a refrigerator.

He estimates that PV panels installed in Sahara could produce up to 3 times as much electricity.

This is about as much electricity as one medium size (~ 700 MW) coal station generates in a typical year.

While before 2015 it was uncommon for natural gas generation to approach equivalent levels of coal generation, in March 2016 nearly 1.5 times as much electricity was produced from natural gas - fired generators as coal - fired generators.

An even newer lighting technology — light - emitting diodes or LEDs — uses only one fifth as much electricity as the old - fashioned incandescent bulbs.

Just to cite one example, in early 2007 Australia announced that it would ban incandescent light bulbs by 2010, replacing them with highly efficient compact fluorescents that use only one fourth as much electricity.

And if you consider residential buildings separately, they can produce about as much electricity as people use in their homes.

Old refrigerators, made prior to 1990, also use three times as much electricity as new ones, the utilities say.

Efficiency is very important in the case of fossil fuel power stations because fossil fuels are a finite resource — once we use them they are gone — and when burned they produce carbon dioxide and other substances that kill people and cause climate change and ocean acidification; so it is very important to get as much electricity as we possibly can per tonne of fossil fuel.

In fact,... it would've taken 140 reactors in the 1980s to produce as much electricity as our reactors do today,» she said.

Incandescents are being replaced by compact fluorescent bulbs that use one fourth as much electricity.

Even with these measures, by 2050 California would need about twice as much electricity as we use today and still nearly 70 percent of the fuel consumed today.

The accountants wanted to generate and sell as much electricity as they could to make Snowy Hydro look more profitable so the governments could sell it for the best price they could get.

In each location, the capacity factor is 30 %, that is, over a year, windmills produce 30 % as much electricity as they would if they ran 24/7 at full tilt.

For example, Californians, as a result of astute actions and policies, use only half as much electricity per person as those in the rest of the country, saving the typical household about a thousand dollars a year.

Strides are being made: some of the huge wind farm complexes under construction in China will each produce as much electricity as several nuclear power plants, and an electrified transport system supplemented by the use of bicycles could reshape the way we think about mobility.

And because they are now 100 meters tall, instead of less than 40 meters, they harvest a far larger, stronger, and more reliable wind regime, generating 20 times as much electricity as the turbines installed in the early 1980s when modern wind power development began.

A worldwide survey of wind energy by the Stanford team of Cristina Archer and Mark Jacobson concluded that harnessing one fifth of the earth's available wind energy would provide seven times as much electricity as the world currently uses.

twice as much electricity as it produces and sells.

Arizona receives the highest amount of solar irradiation in the country, a solar system in Arizona will make nearly twice as much electricity that one for example in Rhode - Island.

On February 20, 2007, Australia announced it would phase out the sale of inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2010, replacing them with highly efficient compact fluorescent bulbs that use one fourth as much electricity.

Only the more knowledgeable consumers knew that a compact fluorescent bulb uses only one fourth as much electricity as an incandescent bulb, lasts 10 times as long, and easily saves $ 50 during its lifetime.

«The average turbine is seven times larger than it was in the 1990s,» Kelley said, «but generates fifteen times as much electricity.»

British buildings equipped with solar panels, mini wind turbines and other renewable energy sources could generate as much electricity a year as five nuclear power stations, a government - backed industry report has shown.

Today's air conditioners use only about half as much electricity now as in 1990, and continued advances in energy efficiency could reduce the energy consumption impacts substantially.

With 6,000 square metres of solar panels, energy saving lighting, natural ventilation systems and other green features, the office is designed to generate as much electricity as its 1,200 occupants consume.

This much wind capacity will produce about as much electricity as 30 nuclear plants, and that will be a bit less than 5 % of the country's electricity.

As we discuss in Paper 2, India has roughly 4 times the population of the U.S., but only uses one eight as much electricity.

According to Obama, the United States currently produces as much electricity from solar power as the nation did during all of 2008.

By putting in a system that would produce as much electricity as we use annually, our payback period will be shorter.

In South Dakota, a wind - rich, sparsely populated state, development has begun on a vast 5,050 - megawatt wind farm (1 megawatt of wind capacity supplies 300 U.S. homes) that when completed will produce nearly five times as much electricity as the 810,000 people living in the state need.

The NRDC and Eco estimated that gamers consume roughly as much electricity in a year as the city of San Diego.

If we deployed offshore wind on the east coast stretching from Maine to Georgia we would have 4 times as much electricity as we currently produce from every source in the USA.

An Energy Department review of geothermal sources last year said we might be able to generate as much electricity by 2050 that way as is now produced with nuclear plants.

Of course, we should use as much electricity directly as possible (e.g. in plug - in hybrid vehicles), but when we need dense chemical fuels, this is a valid option.

It needs to be used sparingly, with as much electricity as possible coming from renewable electricity.

Because it is so compute - intensive, it takes as much electricity to create a single bitcoin — a process called «mining» — as it does to power an average American household for two years.

If 15 per cent of the UK roofs had solar, they would generate as much electricity as six existing nuclear power stations.

Worldwide, by the end of 2004, these supposedly inadeqaute alternatives had more installed capacity than nuclear, produced 92 percent as much electricity, and were growing 5.9 times faster and accelerating, while nuclear was fading.»

Power generation cost using solar panels depends on getting as much electricity out of the panels as possible while keeping the manufacturing costs low.