Sentences with phrase «causing more electricity»

With bitcoin's incredible year - to - date price rally, the bitcoin mining craze continues around the globe causing more electricity to be consumed for the bitcoin network to run.

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Also, several websites claim that home - laundering causes more pollution than disposables because of electricity.

It refers to the phenomenon that a typical carbon capture system requires a great deal of electricity and thus saps power from a power plant and can cause electricity costs to spike by 70 percent or more.

Power is loaded into one large coil a couple of feet in diameter, causing electricity to surge back and forth more than a million times a second.

It is that the rise of electricity and the power - station & «clean» domestic coal 1940 - 1970 may have cut black carbon more than is presently accounted for and thus with the renewed ramp - up of SO2 emissions in that period, more readily provide the cause of the 1940 - 75 temperature «hiatus».

More than 4 months without electricity, without water — a crisis caused by a natural disaster, but made possible by over a century of U.S. colonialism.

The free solar energy that hits the Earth each day can keep us warm, light our homes, grow our food, and generate clean renewable electricity, so we often invite it into our lives, but when the weather heats up in the summer, the sun can actually cause us to use more energy, because we then need to run air conditioners to cool us back down.

They've caused electricity to be far more expensive than it could and should be, caused global GHG emissions to be 10 - 20 % higher than it could have been and caused the rate of emissions reductions over the coming decades to be very much slower than it would be of not for their irrational, ideologically driven scare mongering.

According to Pentland, increasing demand is unlikely to be the cause of rising electricity rates, due to the simple fact that «many if not most utilities are selling less — not more — electricity than they used to sell.»

Low freon makes a system use more electricity and that causes global warming...

The shortage has been caused by the increase in the level of demand for energy combined with a growing tendency to build wind turbines, at the expense of other, more reliable, electricity sources.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

Volatility causes power plants that can jump in faster to produce more electricity.

Power surplus in Ontario: in my presentation I had suggested that more wind power projects were not necessary, especially not for a form of power generation that is intermittent, produced out - of - phase with demand and is expensive, causing Ontario electricity rates to rise.

And even more so in Germany... a first world country in which 800,000 people a year can not afford to pay their electricity bills and so get cut off thanks to its renewable energy policies — especially solar — causing ever rising prices.

Their theory goes like this: Homeowners install solar panels, which reduces the amount of electricity they buy from the electric utility, thereby reducing the amount of fees that customers pay for grid maintenance, which then causes the utility to raise rates and, ultimately, encourages more and more customers to go solar which... causes rates to soar.

Because solar water heating can reduce the electricity or fuel used to heat water by 50 % or more, the pollution caused by water heating is reduced by the same amount.

Cats, skyscrapers, electricity lines, lead poisoning and others all cause far more deaths than wind mills.

Renewable energy (which includes solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, ocean currents, biomass, biofuel) can produce electricity more than enough to power our current and future lifestyle, without polluting the planet and causing global warming.

The change was made to comply with Ontario Regulation 405/12 and we surmise was to deflect on rising electricity costs caused by more and more renewable energy added to the grid.

In contrast, if plug - in vehicles are charged using coal - generated electricity, they could cause several thousands of dollars more damage per vehicle.

Surplus base load generation caused by renewable energy will add more costs for electricity ratepayers 25.

The second problem is that there is a hidden carbon tax - the renewable energy target - which is pushing up electricity prices as much, if not more than, the carbon tax, given there is not any compensation attached to the price rises the RET causes.

terra = mega mega [There are zero sources of energy that cause zero deaths, but not having the electricity causes the far more deaths because not having electricity is a form of poverty.]

A more certain method of reducing global arming caused by both fossil - fuel soot and carbon dioxide is to convert vehicles from fossil fuels to electric, plug - in hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, where the electricity or hydrogen is produced by a renewable energy sources [sic], such as wind, solar geothermal, hydroelectric, wave, or tidal power.»

Based on these Energy Economic findings, the CPP should not be replaced with anything because increasing the fraction of electricity generation from Intermittent Renewables will cause (1) enormous consumer electricity price increases, (2) the Grid to become even less reliable and less resilient, and (3) even more serious negative micro and macroeconomic impacts — but would have zero impact on the climate.

Bloomberg reported last year that soaring electricity prices in the country caused by tariffs are leaving many households paying more than factories for energy.