Sentences with phrase «efficient than electricity»

Propane is far more efficient than electricity for any heating element and in most cases leads a better cooking experience.

Not exact matches

For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

Super energy efficient — keep it running day and night as it consumes less than 1 % of the electricity of traditional white noise machines

Therefore, it would actually be more energetically efficient to shut down a wind turbine than to store the surplus electricity it generates.»

Some electricity companies in the US have been installing transformers that are more efficient than older ones, but also more vulnerable to solar storms.

It is more efficient to transmit electricity over long distances in the form of DC, rather than alternating current.

The new synapse would be used in neuromorphic computers made of superconducting components, which can transmit electricity without resistance, and therefore, would be more efficient than other designs based on semiconductors or software.

And new electricity generation from wind could be more economically efficient than natural gas.

LEDs are also more efficient than fluorescent light bulbs, which require less electricity than Edison's invention to excite gases to emit light.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

By automating the process of designing optical interconnects, they feel that they have set the stage for the next generation of even faster and far more energy - efficient computers that use light rather than electricity for internal data transport.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Dr Peter Bagot, Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, said: «Digital broadcasting is more energy efficient than analogue broadcasting, and following digital switch over, digital broadcast towers now use less electricity than their analogue equivalents.

Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells ¬ ¬ - they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop size.

08.09.14 - Optical circuits use light instead of electricity, making them faster and more energy - efficient than electrical systems.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells --- they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

Plug - in hybrids benefit from the more efficient use of fossil fuels in electricity generation even now and so have lower emissions than internal combustion engine cars, and if they get their juice from renewables, emissions would be very low indeed.

It is not expensive, you can find great sources on ebay, and even if it was expensive, I'd rather spend whatever is necessary to keep the functionality of my Body Temple highly efficient with the best fuel I can give it, than to spend it on, let's say petrol at the gas station, or the electricity to power the utilities in my house.

The purpose of the HV battery is to use electricity when the gas engine is not efficient — when power demand is very low (less than 15hp).

The EPS system is more efficient than a traditional hydraulic system, and it operates consistently whether the vehicle is using electricity, gasoline, or both.

Directly coupling the wheels to the gas engine makes the Volt more efficient than having the gas engine turn a generator to supply electricity to the battery, which would then power the electric motor.

Replace an old refrigerator with an energy - efficient one (this can save enough electricity to light the average home for more than four and a half months)

Please try harder to understand what I am trying to say: An electric vehicle is 5 x as efficient in converting electricity into kinetic energy than a petrol car is in converting the thermal energy in petrol.

Making Hydrogen in these ways, and using it to run an automobile has to be less efficient than the direct use of hydrocarbon fuels and electricity to run a car, and can't reduce the total amount of CO2 emissions.

Presently a electric car plugged into the grid is only around 40 % efficient overall due to the generation of grid electricity from coal, nuclear and gas mainly (here in the UK) and that makes them a lot less efficient than you say.

From what I've heard from people who convert them & read in books, even if the source of electricity is coal or oil, EVs are still 1/4 to 1/3 more efficient (even figuring in batteries & their manufacture) than ICE vehicles.

Spacing heating uses much less electricity than whole house heating in general, unless you already have a very efficient system installed.

Flapping wind turbines were inspired by the wing beats of bees, which are potentially more efficient in converting wind to electricity than the more traditional turbine blades.

Power plants that burn natural gas are also usually more efficient at converting fuel into electricity (i.e., they have a lower heat rate) than coal - fired power plants.

In regions with the «cleanest» electricity grids, EVs produce lower global warming emissions than even the most fuel - efficient hybrids.

• The ascent of the ladder is associated with rising income, and the fuels which are higher up in the ladder tend to be more efficient (for lighting for example, electricity is more than one hundred times more efficient than candles or kerosene lamps).

I heard rumours of studies during the Californian electricity crisis that showed it was cheaper per watt to subsidise or give away energy efficient appliances to homeowners and businesses, than to build new generation capacity, I apologise for having nothing more concrete on this, but perhaps another commenter is aware of this or similar research.

Even with today's power plants emitting greenhouse gases, the overall levels would be reduced because the entire process of moving a car one mile is more efficient using electricity than producing gasoline and burning it in a car's engine.

An analysis by the American Solar Energy Society indicates that burning cellulosic crops to directly generate electricity is much more efficient than converting them to ethanol.

Using plants to create electricity to power electric vehicles wins out because electric engines are much more efficient than internal combustion engines.

Each dollar spent on a new reactor buys about two to ten times less carbon savings and is 20 to 40 times slower, than spending that dollar on the cheaper, faster, safer solutions that make nuclear power unnecessary and uneconomic: efficient use of electricity, making heat and power together in factories or buildings («cogeneration»), and renewable energy.

This is justified not by using full - fuel - cycle analysis but merely by finding electricity to be more energy efficient than gas in terms of on - site energy usage.

While storage actually consumes a little electricity rather than producing any, it makes the electricity business more economically efficient.

While a worldwide phase out of the inefficient incandescents would reduce world electricity use by more than 3 percent, shifting to more - efficient street lighting and replacing older fluorescent tubes with newer, more - efficient ones might double this reduction in power use.

Shifting to the highly efficient bulbs sharply reduces monthly electricity bills and cuts carbon emissions, since each standard (13 watt) compact fluorescent over its lifetime reduces coal use by more than 210 pounds.

A windmill that drives ground thermal mechanically into a system built to store capacity at high times to release from its reservoir when the windmill is stilled is many times more efficient than one that generates electricity and stores power in batteries.

Rather than encouraging the building of more efficient power plants, the California regulatory scheme prevented building new efficient power plants by forcing utilities to rely on the unreliable availability and predatory prices for imported electricity.

Even including electrical losses from transmission, distribution, and battery charging, running a car on electricity from a natural gas power plant is more than twice as efficient.

Heating would be more efficient than producing electricity.

It deals with pipelines within the state that would connect customers who currently don't have access to natural gas for heating and cooking (a more efficient use of energy than burning gas for electricity to perform the same functions).

With today's energy mix, PHEVs running on electricity from the grid are nearly three times more efficient than NGVs on a «well - to - wheel» basis — that is, when considering the full life cycle of the energy source, from fuel extraction to combustion to vehicle propulsion.

It seems a lot more efficient to heat up water directly from the sun and use that than trying to generate electricity.

ENERGY STAR certified dryers use 20 percent less electricity than a conventional model, which will save you $ 210 in electric bills over your energy - efficient dryer's lifetime.