Sentences with phrase «diesel power station»

Once almost completely powered by a centralized, expensive and extremely polluting diesel power station, the island now boasts over 700 interconnected energy generators.

(v) The cost of generation is lesser than that of the diesel power station.

The mine's processing plant is currently operating at reduced capacity, supported by an existing on - site diesel power station, as well as portable generators.

Not exact matches

In a sense, stationing diesel - fueled generators outside key buildings to provide emergency power is a start down this path.

To construct the estimates, the researchers used data on locomotive diesel consumption, pipeline pumping station electricity consumption, locomotive and power plant emission factors and the AP2 integrated assessment model, which maps county level emissions to costs for counties affected by the emissions.

The country also needs widely available energy to power alternative vehicles — such as clean diesel, electric charging stations.

If it's not a diesel - powered, rear - wheel - drive station wagon with a manual transmission, it's not worth considering, let alone buying.

Mechanically, it's a 110 station wagon, which means it is powered by a 2.2 - litre turbo - diesel engine, has a six - speed manual transmission and a heavy - duty four - wheel drive system.

For buyers as adverse to diesel power as they are to gas station trips will find plenty to like in the 2.0 - liter turbocharged four - cylinder gasoline engine.

At the same time, the well - known sizes remain the same: while the entry - level diesel with 122 bhp is rather trimmed to congeniality, the 408 hp enhanced AMG power station is exceptionally well placed in the upper echelon of the compact segment.

They also worked with Ericsson to use waste cooking oil blended with diesel to power over 350 base stations throughout India, as well as using biofuel to power stations in Africa.

If their goal of getting renewable power to 118,000 stations is reached, they will save as much as 6.6 million gallons of diesel fuel per year, and avoid as much as 6.3 million tons of CO2.

With contacts in Curacao's utilities and government, including former Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte, Garvin is encouraging retrofits of the country's diesel - fueled vehicles and power stations to boost efficiency and cut pollution, using «hydrogen hybrid» technology from Canadian firm dynaCERT.

It is looking at increasing its wind generation on Thursday island, where two turbines supplement diesel, and it is still looking at options to replace its ageing geothermal power station at Birdsville.

Finally, the refrigerator uses electricity which is probably either generated in a coal fired power station (and coal mining uses huge amounts of diesel powered machinery) or from an oil or gas fired power station.

Mr Graeme Marshall, Program Director with Power and Water said the Daly River Power Station was chosen because it had already been the focus of a feasibility study as part of the Daly River solar / diesel optimisation research project.

You keep comparing apples and oranges; the peak thermodynamic cycle efficiency of a state of the art diesel with the overall fuel efficiency of an antiquated power station.

A new super-efficient diesel, operating at its optimum load, will be about as efficient as an old inefficient power station.

A modern diesel is nearly as efficient as a power station, when run on a motorway, and so the electric vehicle is bound to be less efficient than a diesel on the open road (but not so in town).

Some field stations still start up a diesel generator when they need enough power for a big piece of scientific equipment, but operate with wind machines, and sometimes small solar panels, the rest of the time.

SO, climate theory obsessed politicians blow up and decommission baseload «dirty» fossil - fuel power stations, to stop bad weather, and replace them with «dirty» fossil - fuel diesel generators to stop blackouts!

TARDEC (the army's vehicle research agency) is developing a Tactical Hybrid Electric Power Station that can switch between diesel, sun, wind, and battery storage, so it's also possible that LS3 - like combat robots may eventually draw more on renewable energy than on fossil fuels.