Sentences with phrase «drive electricity use»

The findings, they say, point to how human activities drive electricity use.

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True, more RAM means less hard drive access, and the hard drive uses a lot of electricity.

They can no longer administer it at home since they don't have electricity but drive to her father's house to use his generator, powered by gasoline, which is now in short supply on the island.

These include warm summer weather, which drives up use of air conditioners and electricity, the increased popularity of natural gas (versus coal) among power producers (partly reflecting the low price of the former), and cutbacks in production by some players in the natural - gas industry.

Surplus renewable electricity is used to drive a compressor that pressurizes atmospheric air to the pressure found at the sea floor offshore.

Well if you don't like science, why are you using a machine that science enabled you to have or why use electricity or drive a car or get medical attention?

In 1950 the committee ruled that driving on the Sabbath to synagogue was permissible, as was the use of electricity to enhance Sabbath observance.

Do not drive, or use electricity - in fact, you should probably see if you can join an Amish community so that you can avoid these evil things.

Electromagnetic pest control uses existing wiring in the wall to send out small pulses of electricity to drive out pests.

«Using the average U.S. electricity rate of nine cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh), 30 miles of electric driving will cost 81 cents,» the group maintains.

In the 1950s, nuclear power began to be used for commercial electricity generation as well as to drive submarines, navy ships and icebreakers, and people spoke glowingly of future nuclear - powered trains and aircraft.

For example, they compared the cost of driving one mile using electric car batteries plus electricity, with the cost using fuel tanks plus petrol.

Two other companies, Energy Matter Conversion Corp. (EMC2) and Tri Alpha Energy, are developing reactors that use proton - boron fuel, which requires even higher temperatures than deuterium does but allows almost direct conversion of fusion into electricity, without boiling water to drive a generator.

Often these sites generate electricity as a byproduct of other industrial processes such as using gas from landfills to drive turbines.

Through Catalyst, communities of innovators use software, data, algorithms, and automation to drive down non-hardware solar soft costs — like permitting, financing, and customer acquisition — that today make up more than half of the cost of a solar electricity system.

Cities are not just where 3.5 billion of us live — they are where more than half of humanity uses electricity, drives cars, and throws out garbage, among myriad other activities that emit greenhouse gases.

Also, steps you can take to improve local air quality — driving less, using less electricity, turning the thermostat down, etc. — will have the positive side effect of helping mitigate global warming.

Soon continues with an aggressive rant claiming that the student isn't qualified to question his fossil fuel payments until she stops driving, using electricity, and wearing nylon.

The Morocco Noor Ouarzazate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) project is based on technology that uses heat from the sun to drive steam turbines or engines to produce electricity, even at night, through a heat storage mechanism.

When electricity was used at all, it was to either illuminate projection through arc or incandescent lighting or to drive the mechanism using electric motors.

We all contribute to carbon dioxide emissions by driving, flying, and using electricity to heat and light our homes, run our appliances, and more.

For green conscious schools who invest a lot of time and effort into teaching students to use less electricity, walk to school instead of driving, and take shorter showers (all great initiatives), this information may come as a surprise.

Adapting tactics that have helped drive more people to the polls, or persuade homeowners to use less electricity, schools are now trying to boost student attendance with «nudge» letters that compare students» attendance rates with averages for their school and district.

They then design, test, and evaluate wind turbines that can be used to generate electricity to answer the driving question: How can we design a wind turbine that effectively converts one form of energy into another form of energy?

The gas / electric drivetrain allows for roughly 35 miles of driving range using electricity stored in a large lithium - ion battery before firing up a small, four - cylinder gas engine for another 300 miles of range.

Using electricity alone, the BMW i8 can drive for about 22 miles at up to 75 mph.

The Prius Prime drives first on electricity from the 8.8 - kWh battery pack and then, using a 1.8 - liter four - cylinder engine, it operates like a traditional hybrid.

With a more normal hybrid, also brilliantly because it uses less fuel, goes further and more speedily on electricity alone, is more fun to drive and somehow «purer» in concept.

EV Drive Mode is an all - electric function in which the front and rear motors drive the vehicle using only electricity from the drive batDrive Mode is an all - electric function in which the front and rear motors drive the vehicle using only electricity from the drive batdrive the vehicle using only electricity from the drive batdrive battery.

Most drivers chose to use electricity in city traffic at lower speeds, but switched to diesel for highway driving.

Just delivered at your quality chevrolet dealer of escondido three 2011 volt's crystal red metallic, cyber grey metallic, silver ice metallicVolt is a front - wheel - drive, four - passenger Extended - Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) 2011 Chevrolet Volt Propulsion System that uses electricity as its primary power source and gasoline as its secondary power source to propel the vehicle.

If tomorrow cars are cleaner and use cheap electricity instead of expensive oil then we will be able to drive them even more so we will be, human race, definitively a world of obeses once for all, so thanks but no thanks

Another unparalleled feature for a large sedan worldwide is an all - new multi drive platform, which is suited for electric drives with fuel cells (enabling ranges of almost 600 kilometers) as well as the use of Plug - in Hybrids that can drive for up to 30 kilometers solely on electricity.

The 2018 Accord Hybrid uses two new - generation electric motors, a propulsion motor that drives the wheels and a generator motor that produces electricity, both of which have been upgraded from the previous generation i - MMD.

In addition, since the all - electric range of plug - in hybrids depends on the size of the battery pack, the analysis introduced a utility factor as a projection, on average, of the percentage of miles that will be driven using electricity (in electric only and blended modes) by an average driver.

Capable of driving up to 40 miles on battery - only power — using zero gasoline and producing zero tailpipe emissions — the 200C EV uses a small gasoline engine and integrated electric generator that produces electricity to extend the driving range to 400 miles.

The 2015 edition of the EPA's annual report «Light - Duty Automotive Technology, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and Fuel Economy Trends» estimates the following utility factors for 2015 model year plug - in hybrids to represent the percentage of miles that will be driven using electricity by an average driver, whether in electric only or blended modes: 83 % for the BMW i3 REx, 66 % for the Chevrolet Volt, 45 % for the Ford Energi models, 43 % for the McLaren P1, 37 % for the BMW i8, and 29 % for the Toyota Prius PHV.

Rather than reuse that electricity as drive energy, though, the Mazda3 uses it to power all of the car's auxiliary systems, taking some of the generator load off the engine.

Based on average driving distances, the EPA estimates annual fuel cost for the Pacifica Hybrid to be about $ 900 — both gas and electricity costs were used in the calculation.

This power is used to create electricity for the battery via the electric motor, which can later be used for electric driving or efficiently supporting the combustion engine.

When driving at medium - to low - speeds, the Mitsubishi Plug - in Hybrid EV System stays in EV Mode, driving the vehicle through its electric motors using electricity from the drive battery.

While driving on electricity - only in stop - and - go traffic is the most satisfying, it may not always be the most economical: since you don't get in a lot of regenerative braking, the engine will start when the battery depletes, and you'll be almost exclusively using gasoline to power the battery back up.

«EV Drive» for driving by the electric motor only, using electricity from the battery and regeneration during deceleration.

The two - motor system offers three driving modes: an «EV driving mode» for urban environments; a «hybrid driving mode» using electricity generated by the motor; and a «engine - connected driving mode» where the engine and tires are mechanically connected during high - speed cruising.

«Hybrid Drive» for urban driving and powerful acceleration using the motor with electricity generated by the engine.

As we've come to expect from plug - in hybrid models, you can tailor how the system operates, with an E-mode for all - electric driving, a hybrid driving mode and options to save battery charge or generate more electricity using the petrol engine.

The go pedal is easy to modulate allowing minimum electricity use during in - town driving yet, providing instant get up and go when necessary.

Most of the time we let the X5 decide how much gas and electricity to use, but like other BMWs, it has the Driving Experience Control switch that moves from comfort and eco to sport when necessary.

So far, we're not using up quite as much of our extra electricity as I'd planned to, but I'm happily driving to work every day for free!

With an adequate charge, a plug - in hybrid will leave the engine off, using electricity to drive the car.