Sentences with phrase «by electricity passing»

In incandescent light, the trigger to push electrons into a higher orbit is heat provided by electricity passing through a carbon filament in a vacuum; in bioluminescence, the electrons are pushed up by two chemicals working together.

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He said that California's latest energy plan, which would require that half of electricity come from clean energy by 2030, took just a year to get passed compared with seven to ten years at the federal level.

The government accused the holders of using the provision as an excuse to pass losses caused by historically low electricity prices on to the taxpayer, and announced that it was seeking a court order to declare the «change in law» provision void.

Wilmar is concerned that the bill passed last year will be used by canegrowers to have non-sugar profits included in new cane supply agreements, such as molasses and co-generated electricity.

Electroconvulsive therapy, also known as electroshock or ECT, is a type of psychiatric shock therapy involving the induction of an artificial seizure in a patient by passing electricity through the brain.

EPRI's conclusions about energy technology gains were fed into a second computer model to assess the costs of stripping 80 percent of 1990 - level carbon emissions out of the electricity sector by 2050, approximating the goal of the House - passed climate bill.

The bright bluish areas to the left and right are the points closest to and farthest from Jupiter; electricity generated by Jupiter's magnetic field arcs to Io's surface, passes through the moon, and shoots out the other end.

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.

Scientists from the University of Bath's Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology and Centre for Regenerative Medicine and from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil, showed that ozone gas, obtained by passing electricity through oxygen, effectively sterilises one of the most common types of polymer used in medical implants.

Most computers work by using a series of transistors, gates that allow electricity to pass or not pass.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Actually, it's the other nations that have already agreed, and it is the U.S. that is refusing to go along by passing a benchmark renewable energy generation goal — a law that mandates that 20 % of electricity will be from renewable sources within, say, five years.

The original Energy Bill passed in the House by a margin of 235 - 181 had called for a national Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) that would require Investor Owned Utilities to produce 15 % of their electricity from Renewable Sources by 2020.

A future hydrogen economy could use the gas as an energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with electricity in the national grids carried by ageing cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes used currently for natural methane gas.

If it passes, the initiative would only increase the share of the state's electricity from clean energy sources by four percent.

High - intensity discharge (HID) lamp: A lamp that produces light by passing electricity through gas, which causes the gas to glow.

California will soon receive 50 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources thanks to a state law passed in 2015, and wind power will continue to play a significant role in the California energy supply, locking in additional consumer savings by 2030.

We expect the REPS, a bipartisan measure passed in 2007 that requires 12.5 % of North Carolina's electricity to come from renewable energy and energy efficiency by 2021, to remain under fire (but not from industry, ratepayers, or utilities) as we enter the upcoming 2016 short session.

[16] Ultimately, Tenaska could not persuade the General Assembly to pass legislation requiring Illinois consumers to purchase the electricity by the end of the June 2012 session.

To connect this to the attack on renewable energy, STAMP assumes that an increase in electricity rates is paid by businesses everywhere and passed on to customers in higher prices.

Last week, the New Jersey Senate passed a bill to require that utilities in the state source 80 % of their electricity from renewable energy by 2050.

I - 937 was passed by the voters to diversify and clean up Washington's electric grid by requiring utilities to generate at least 15 % of their electricity from new, non-hydro, renewable sources such as wind and solar.

Instead of charging the internal battery and using the battery to charge the connected devices, by allowing pass - through charging the amount of electricity needed is reduced.

Jamie DeMarco, Campaign Co-Manager, was born and raised in Baltimore and, during his time at the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, he organized grassroots support in Baltimore to help pass legislation requiring the state to reach 25 % renewable electricity by 2020.

Michigan's legislature passed a law in 2008 requiring the state to obtain 10 percent of its electricity from renewable energy by 2015.

«It's projected that by 2020 we could be producing 20 % more energy or electricity than we need and that cost of double - building is passed on to the ratepayer,» Skinner told Utility Dive.

Passed in 2007 with overwhelming support, Senate Bill 3 created North Carolina's REPS to promote the development of clean energy resources in our state by requiring electric utilities to meet a portion of their electricity sales with renewable energy and energy efficiency.

He landed a job in renewable energy advocacy with Renewable Northwest in Portland, and helped develop, negotiate and pass Oregon's Renewable Energy Act of 2007, which established the state's requirement that utilities purchase 25 % of their electricity from renewable resources by 2025.

In 2015, UCS helped California pass a law (SB 350) that requires half of California's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030.

Under a bill introduced by Delegate Randy Minchew (R - Leesburg) and passed in 2013, owners of Virginia farms with more than one electric meter are permitted to attribute the electricity produced by a system that serves one meter (say, on a barn) to other meters on the property (the farmhouse and other outbuildings).

The fixing of a maximum price in the case at hand, by limiting the ability of electricity providers to pass on the extra costs to final users, means that the supply obligation must be complied with by means of the electricity providers» own financial resources; by contrast, the national legislation at issue in Association Vent de Colère, by enabling the electricity distributors to cash in a tax imposed on the consumers, guaranteed that the additional costs resulting from an obligation to purchase wind - generated electricity would be offset.

It is precisely the function of the fixing of the maximum price provided by Polish legislation to limiting the ability of electricity providers to pass on the extra costs resulting from the supply obligation to end users, so that they are not eventually compensated for the costs incurred in discharging that obligation.

OLED lighting is the next - generation of energy - efficient lighting that generates beautiful, warm, natural light by passing electricity through a thin layer of carbon - based organic dyes.

He says dust from the dirt bikes ripping by and the permanent hum of electricity passing through transformers outside the home raised aesthetic and health concerns for basically all of the 30 buyers who viewed the property.