Sentences with phrase «cent of all energy at»

There is a loss of 90 per cent of energy at each step of the food cycle.

For instance, a star called Beta Pictoris radiates 0.24 per cent of its energy at far - infrared wavelengths, and is surrounded by a disc of dust which astronomers have actually photographed.

Another main - sequence star, HR 4796, has a thicker dust cloud orbiting it, but even that star emits only 0.5 per cent of its energy at far - infrared wavelengths (New Scientist, Science, 4 January 1992).

Not exact matches

Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary ATS Inc has made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based oil producer Energy Partners Ltd, after failing to reach the minimum acquisition level of 50 per cent.

Today the price of panels has stabilized at about 70 cents a watt, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

At dispute is an alleged deficit that amounts to less than two per cent of $ 630 billion (U.S.) in annual Canada-U.S. trade, and the final result can be made or broken by a small shift in energy prices and currency values.

The TSX Composite Index followed a similar course, gaining 2.4 per cent in Q1 2017 yet down from 4.5 per cent in Q1 2016, primarily due to weakness in the energy sector at the beginning of the year.

The U.S. Department of Energy puts the drop at 64 per cent for utility - scale solar power and 41 per cent for land - based wind since 2008.

Speaking after Beach completed the $ 1.585 billion takeover of Origin Energy's Lattice Energy division, the owner of 50 per cent of Waitsia, Mr Kay said Beach is «watching closely» developments at AWE, which has attracted three takeover offers and looks set to agree to a $ 602 million cash bid from Japan's Mitsui.

Consumer price inflation in the euro area increased to 2.1 per cent over the year to October, primarily due to higher food and energy prices; the core measure of inflation is lower at 1.7 per cent (Graph 9).

At its peak in the 1970s oil and natural gas accounted for nearly 70 per cent of the world's use of commercial energy.

At least 20 per cent of energy should come from renewable sources by 2020, the commission further states.

Energy experts have questioned government's decision to cap electricity price, in terms of power purchases negotiation, at 10 cents per kilowatt hour, stressing that it will not attract investors into the power sector.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

And whereas many traditional motorcycles can achieve a respectable 50 miles per gallon at a driving cost of about seven cents per mile, an electric bike uses the energy equivalent of about 420 mpg at an operating cost of two to three cents per mile.

The scientists estimate that cold technology could cut the energy consumption and cost of CO2 capture by as much as 30 per cent in one of the «green» coal - fired power stations that the world is currently sniffing at.

Manoj Thota and Kon - Well Wang at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have designed a noise barrier that can reduce acoustic energy by 90 per cent, so traffic noise previously audible at 1.6 kilometres away only travels half a kilometre.

«All the political parties have said we will have 100 per cent renewable energy in the long term — it's just a question of the pace of change,» says Volker Quaschning, a renewable energy systems researcher at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.

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He claims that preliminary measurements of how muscle groups work in people using his shovel instead of a conventional one show that his design saves a lot of energy: it can, he says, reduce the effort of shifting a truckload of mulch by at least 30 per cent.

Modelling by Jacobson's team suggests that extracting 11.5 TW of this wind power would reduce the kinetic energy of wind at 100 metres by less than 1 per cent.

«A part of a mission that flies is a lot better than 100 per cent of a mission that gets cancelled,» says Harvey Tananbaum, who heads the high - energy astrophysics division at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Based on theoretical calculations, this provides a potential reduction in energy consumption of between 12 and 16 per cent at constant speeds of 50 km / h in built - up areas, and between four and six per cent at 80 km / h.

«But in one test — ploughing loam soil with a moisture content of 12 to 17 per cent, at a speed of 9 kilometres per hour — we achieved 32 per cent energy savings.

The price at which «everything becomes possible» If solar units could be installed for $ 1 per watt, the cost of solar energy would fall to 5 to 6 cents per kilowatt - hour, less than half the current average retail price in much of the country, according to DOE.

Indeed many analysts argue that cuts of 20 per cent or more could be made at «negative cost», by simply taking cost - effective measures to improve energy efficiency.

Xi Zhang at the University of California at Santa Cruz and his team calculated that the particles can absorb about 1 to 5 per cent of incoming solar energy, with the rest reflected back by Pluto's surface (Nature, doi.org/cgbz).

At one point the Atomic Energy Corporation (AEC) spent 70 per cent of the Department of Energy's budget to enrich uranium and develop nuclear weapons.

Dan W. Reicher, a former assistant secretary of energy for conservation and renewables, has complained repeatedly that companies will invest in solar plants that produce electricity at 20 or 30 cents per kilowatt - hour, while ignoring fixes that would save comparable energy at a cost of four cents per kilowatt - hour.

The team, which includes Associate Professor Vincent Tan from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor Anand Sarma from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

A study led by Assistant Professor Darren Chian Siau Chen from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

In a recent study, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering found that sand can absorb more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it, and its ability to resist the impact increases with the speed of the projectile, even at high velocities.

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

Bernard Ses - trienka, head of energy for the Slovak Ministry of Economics, has told the German press that with Mochovce, Slovakia could export electricity at only 60 per cent of its price in the West.

That means the fuel gain at NIF represents less than 1 per cent of the total energy entering the system.

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For example, eating a breakfast supplemented with 29 g of sugar beet fiber resulted in 14 per - cent less energy consumption at the subsequent lunch (Burley et al., 1993).

Even those young people who did not purchase a sugary - sweetened drink at lunchtime still exceeded the WHO recommendations that sugar consumption be halved to no more than 5 per cent of daily energy intake.

Watching a two - hour HD movie on both devices reduced 10 per cent more of the third - gen's battery, while overnight energy seepage clocked in at six per cent, compared to zero from iPad 2.

The TSX energy sector fell 6.5 per cent Monday in addition to a five per cent plunge last week as the price of crude settled at a five - year low.

The Annual Fuel UtilizationEfficiency rating tells you how much heat a furnace produces compared to the energy it uses to produce it.If an older furnace operates at 50 % AFUE, 50 cents of every dollar spent is, well, going up in smoke.

«This act is further intended to contribute to the increase in the percentage of renewable energy sources in power supply to at least 12.5 per cent by 2010 and to at least 20 per cent by 2020.»

The NREL research, according to Dr. Helman, breaks those values into four categories: 1) The energy shifting value is ~ 0.5 cents to 1.0 cents per kilowatt - hour; 2) The increased capacity factor value is ~ 0.7 cents to 2.0 cents per kilowatt - hour; 3) if PV is 6 cents per kilowatt - hour, the value of reduction in curtailment is estimated at ~ 0.3 cents per kilowatt - hour; and 4) the reserve and integration value is 0.1 cents to 0.7 cents per kilowatt - hour.

The federal production tax credit (PTC), which offers wind energy developers 2.2 cents for every kilowatt - hour of electricity produced from grid - tied projects, was a key case in point at the conference.

If a reader has the $ / kW (stated), discount rate (assume 8 %), capacity factor (missing) and projected years of operation (stated) one can use my worksheet «A Financial Worksheet for Computing the Cost (US cents / kWh) of Solar Electricity Generated at Grid Connected Photovoltaic (PV) Generating Plants» that was published in the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, August, 2002, Vol.

So while energy emissions will continue to grow at around 2 per cent per annum for years to come, in a couple of years time the fall in emissions from land use change will stop.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reported that the solar industry has realized the 2020 utility - scale solar cost target set by the SunShot Initiative of having an average price of utility - scale solar at 6 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh).

Research was key to the low price record of 6 cents for dispatchable solar thermal energy at Port Augusta: SolarReserve According to Kevin Smith, the CEO of California - based SolarReserve; the company that is first to sell CSP at 6 cents / kWh, the record - low CSP price was largely due to their receiver and heliostat research.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Fukushima presented an opportunity for AGL Energy because it meant that Tepco, the plant's operator, was no longer in a position to invest in Loy Yang A and was a distressed seller of its one third stake in Loy Yang A. AGL Energy, which already had a 32.5 per cent stake in the plant, says Loy Yang A will remain one of the lowest cost generators in the NEM because of cheap coal at the doorstep — it pays just $ 6 / t for brown coal, which would give it a massive advantage over black coal generators in NSW, which are facing costs of $ 45 / t and will go higher in future years.