Sentences with phrase «biggest use of electricity»

Breaking the figures down further, the EIA estimates that «space cooling» — in other words, air conditioning — was the single biggest use of electricity in the U.S. residential sector.

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That equates to more than half the 38 terawatt - hours of electricity used annually by the world's biggest miner (as in literal, pull materials out of the ground mining), BHP Billiton Ltd..

Kohl's Department Stores Menomonee Falls, WI Retail 601 million green kWh, 50 % of total power used This chain is already the biggest solar electricity host in the U.S. To soak up rays on 60 (and counting) store and corporate rooftops, the retailer has partnered with Sun - Edison, which owns and maintains the solar panels and sells the electricity to Kohl's.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

According to IDC's Data Age 2025 study in 2017, the recent explosion of Big Data and global cloud storage generates 2.5 PB (1015 bytes) a day, stored in massive, power - hungry data centers that use 3 percent of the world's electricity supply.

- Batman, Wyldstyle, Gandalf, and the Batmobile all come in the Starter Pack for $ 99.99 - complete the entire critical path with just this content - extra characters, vehicles, or weapons are sold separately - you may see ghosts flying around a level and need the Ghostbusters to take them out - use Scooby - Doo to dig and open up a new area - gameplay has you collecting studs, building and rebuilding within the world, and switching between characters - use Batman's grapple hook to tear down big obstacles - you can also drive the Batmobile to run over poppies (flowers that put characters to sleep if they're near them)- fight the Wicked Witch of the West - use the Lego Gateway outside of the game to avoid obstacles - when the Wicked Witch cast a magic spell, it can lock you into a position - when this happens, the Lego Gateway will flash red, save for one white safe area - move the actual figurine to the white area to be safe - every vehicle has three different forms - you must build and rebuild them throughout the adventure to get by - on mission makes you repower a gateway, but the generator is encased in blue Lego brick - build the Batblaster to use the brick - blaster and electricity shield to get by - in - game instructions tell you how to take apart the Batmobile and physically morph it into the Batblaste - use the sonar brick - blaster to destroy blue bricks

The biggest GHGs reducer was our SunFrost frig (see http://www.sunfrost.com) in 1990, which uses 1/12 the electricity of our old clonker.

As steam is one of the world's most used industrial fluids, used to generate up to 90 % of electricity, as well as for water purification and food preparation, this breakthrough could make a big difference in many areas of society:

But, when Project Laundry List inform us that electric clothes dryers use 6 % of residential electricity in the United States, while the US Department of Energy rate them as the second biggest muncher of household energy, maybe that aversion needs redressing.Wanna get some solar energy mojo happening at your house?

This regenerative braking feature isn't meant to, or able to, fully recharge the vehicle's battery in most cases, but for a big electric vehicle that travels downhill while fully loaded, using the electric motors as brakes and generating electricity, and then travels back up again when empty, it can produce a surprising amount of electricity.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

I was in an e-mail conversation over the weekend with Pentland and Thomas G. Bourgeois, the deputy director of Pace University's Energy and Climate Center, who's a big fan of cogeneration of both heat and electricity at sites where it is used.

According to PhysOrg, the biggest challenge for the team was in developing a system that could release silver ions continuously as part of the purification process, without using any electricity.

That's why there are two distinct ways of getting useful work from the Sun, photovoltaic which utilises the tinier energy of Light to convert to electricity, and thermal panels which use the much bigger molecule moving power of beam Heat from the Sun to convert water to heat.

Lakeside Dairy in California's central valley has installed a big solar power system that will cut its use of conventional electricity by 75 percent.

Customers may be the biggest losers when utilities use their electricity subsidiaries to guarantee the success of their gas subsidiaries, but the arrangement also harms other business interests.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up -LSB-...]

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up to 40 miles without kicking on their gasoline engines.

California's three big utilities are shifting to time - of - use rates for residential customers — meaning ratepayers will be charged more for electricity when it is more valuable.

In the first quarter of this year, one fifth of all electricity used in Britain was generated from renewable sources: that's an indicator of how far we've come and how big the opportunity is.

We need Population Control, We have reached and passed the worlds amount of people, Time to stop making babies Anyway to cut back on electricity use in big cities is great --- oh yea and because we cut back on energy use doesn't mean we have left over energy to use for other things.

The biggest risk to increased use of gas for electricity generation is price.

(in the US) 4100 TWhrs Electricity = 352 Million TOE = 16 % of 2182 MTOE (Total US Energy Used) So we can change over 75 % of electricity to some type of nuclear and some biElectricity = 352 Million TOE = 16 % of 2182 MTOE (Total US Energy Used) So we can change over 75 % of electricity to some type of nuclear and some bielectricity to some type of nuclear and some big industry.

One of the biggest users of energy is heating (which is currently mostly done by burning fossil fuels on site, as using electricity for resistive heating is very wasteful as involves needlessly paying Carnot).

While demand charges are more common for commercial customers with big electricity bills, some states and utilities are considering the addition of demand charges to their electricity rates to motivate people to reduce their electricity use.

However, big cities offer opportunities for co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.

Reduce unnecessary use of private cars — use cars that are no bigger than we need, move toward highly efficient cars such as hybrids, or use electric cars powered by green electricity.

Note that electricity (blue bar) is a relatively small part of the energy we use, but that small part contributes the biggest share of green house gas.

Solar towers, which are kind of big funnels that generate electricity by using the fact that hot air rises, are too often forgotten when we discuss solar energy.

Buildings designed before the widespread use of electricity feature transoms, high ceilings, and big, operable windows for natural light and ventilation, as well as shaded porches, overhanging eaves and other features to reduce solar gain.

New York University, for example, may rank as a big emitter in New York, but a year ago it opened a co-generation facility that makes electricity and uses the waste heat to heat and cool buildings, thus doing far more work per pound of carbon dioxide emitted than most other sources.

This is a big deal when you know that, according to the US Department of Energy, lighting accounts for 1/4 of all electricity used in the US.

One of BTC's biggest issues is the mining of BTC uses up enormous amounts of electricity.