Sentences with phrase «economy than the electricity»

There's more to trans - oceanic traffic than passengers, and there is more to the American energy economy than electricity, and all analogies break down in multiple ways.

In fact, coal is so economically disastrous that the mainstream journal American Economics Review found that the electricity generated from coal actually does more damage to the economy than the electricity is worth.

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Despite a rapidly developing economy in Kenya, widespread use of cell phones, and the home to one of the most successful mobile payment systems in the world, more than three quarters of Kenyans don't have regular access to electricity.

Critics say the electricity sector must do more to meet Australia's economy - wide emissions reduction target because emissions cuts are easier and cheaper to achieve in electricity than in agriculture, transport or industry.

Due to economies of scale, less water and electricity is used than cloth diapers laundered at home and no impact to landfill in comparison to disposable diapers;

The hybrid system means official economy is higher than a conventionally powered Cayenne and enables you to drive on pure electricity in slow traffic or for short distances.

Throughout the first term, the Administration took strong actions to cut carbon pollution, including investing more than $ 80 billion in clean energy technologies under the recovery program, establishing historic fuel economy standards, doubling solar and wind electricity, and implementing ambitious energy efficiency measures.

Analyzing the Chevy Volt, the new sedan that is supposed to go 40 miles on batteries and then use a gasoline engine, he calculated that because of inefficiencies in electricity generation, its fuel economy was no better than a Toyota Prius hybrid running on gasoline, while its price was roughly double that of the Prius.

I know of none that show non-hydro renewables can provide even 50 % of electricity in industrial economies cheaper than with a large proportion of nuclear power.

«They need to make sure that if it's going to contract the economy, it's going to raise electricity rates — as is already happening, by the way, if you compare our price per kilowatt versus Europe largely or Germany particularly; I think we're at seven or so cents per kilowatt, far better than those in Europe and Germany particularly,» he noted.

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.

But offshore wind power is so expensive that it will receive at least three times the traded cost of regular electricity in subsidies — more than even solar power, which was never at an advantage in the U.K.. For minimal CO2 reduction, the U.K. economy will pay dearly.

It added $ 1.3 billion to the economy, created more than 14,000 new jobs and saved $ 460 million in electricity and heating costs between 2012 and 2014, according to a recent report from the economic - consulting firm Analysis Group.

As the last major economy to submit a target for a global climate pact, India is pledging to reduce the intensity of its carbon emissions and boost the share of electricity produced from sources other than fossil fuels to...

Typically, a geothermal project can not produce electricity economically at a scale less than 5 MW and there is a very large economy of scale for projects above 30 MW in size.

In countries such as Kenya, whose economies are growing faster than either conventional, centralized electricity generation or power grids, the potential of microgrids to electrify powerless communities is huge.

There are countries in Europe that already generate more than half their electricity from renewable sources, such as Sweden, and other that are getting there, such as Austria, and the continent's biggest economy is trying hard to catch up.

Among the positive trends: the primary energy intensity of the global economy improved at a faster 2.8 % pace in 2015; for the first time in all regions of the world, electricity access grew faster than population growth; in Bangladesh and Mongolia, energy access gains were nearly 10 percent.

In this second edition of the International Energy Efficiency Scorecard, we analyze the world's 16 largest economies, comprising more than 81 % of global gross domestic product and about 71 % of global electricity consumption.

Hillary Clinton, courting young voters and the broader Democratic base, has promised to one - up President Obama on climate change, vowing to produce a third of the nation's electricity from renewable sources by 2027, three years faster than Mr. Obama, while spending billions of dollars to transform the energy economy....

Service - based economies tend to use less electricity than economies with high levels of industrial activity, as commercial services are generally less energy - intensive compared with manufacturing.

The 1.2 billion people who live in India use far less electricity than do Americans, but the nation's growing economy and its dependance upon coal pose major global warming threats.

For example, if wind supplied 15 % of the electricity, it would save less than 15 % of fuel because other generators backing up the wind must often run at idle even when the wind is blowing and because their fuel economy suffers when they have to ramp up and slow down to compensate for variability in wind.

The hydrogen economy can be got off the ground and running just fine with reformed natural gas, which is no more carbon intensive than electricity for battery cars is at the moment.

For business and the public, this translates to higher costs for transportation fuels and electricity derived from fossil fuels, with the downstream costs filtering to a wider segment of the province's economy than in Australia.

Since the program launched, electricity prices in the region have fallen even as customers in non-RGGI states have seen higher prices, and the RGGI states» economies have grown faster than the rest of the country.

In 2010, coal plants accounted for 25 % of Japan's electricity, but the powerful Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) planned to reduce that share by more than half over 20 years.

But since no one can explain exactly how 80 - 50 could actually be achieved other than pushing energy use and the economy back to the years just following the Civil War (so no motor vehicles, air conditioning, or electricity, let alone airplanes), no exact estimate is possible.

In the 66 % 2 °C Scenario, aggressive efficiency measures would be needed to lower the energy intensity of the global economy by 2.5 % per year on average between 2014 and 2050 (three - and - a-half times greater than the rate of improvement seen over the past 15 years); wind and solar combined would become the largest source of electricity by 2030.

Of course, these figures include reductions in areas other than electricity, as well as higher energy prices» total cost to the economy.

But as this study shows, no matter how you mine it, coal costs more in damages to other segments of the economy than all of the electricity it generates is worth.

Australia still produces more than 80 % of its electricity from coal, and its economy depends significantly on coal exports, which is a huge problem in a new green economic era.

And ``... you can use hydrogen burning turbines to generate electricity so the hydrogen economy is closer than you might think!»

Note also the intention to build hydrogen based power plant - you can use hydrogen burning turbines to generate electricity so the hydrogen economy is closer than you might think!.

One US study calculated the health costs of coal - powered electricity to be 0.8 - 5.6 times greater than the value added to the US economy.