Sentences with phrase «electricity and gas turned»

Not exact matches

Its goodness can be measured even in pounds: «If I turn off the lights during afternoon hours, I will save x kilowatts of electricity and z pounds of greenhouse gases, thus contributing y to the common good.»

Ironically, our electricity went out just after I mixed the batter, so I baked them on my gas grill and they turned out perfect!

«It's terrifying to think that each month, one million families turn to high - cost, short - term credit, like payday loans each month and 400,000 are using them for essentials, such as putting food on the table or preventing the gas and electricity from being cut off,» Reed added.

The $ 1.5 billion power plant is expected to produce 275 megawatts of electricity by turning coal into gas, thereby removing impurities including CO2, and burning the resulting pure gas to turn turbines to produce power.

In a recent test by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, simply giving employees wireless control of the three lights closest to their workstation, and allowing them to turn them on or off individually, reduced the electricity used by the building's lights by up to 72 per cent.

The reason: it requires extra energy to turn the coal to gas and then to capture the CO2 as well — in effect requiring the burning of more coal to generate the same amount of electricity.

Fill the cavern with high - pressure gas and then at night release it again to get a high - pressure gas that turns the turbine that creates energy — electricity.

Fischetti: Right, if you think about a long trough that reflects sunlight, it concentrates the sunlight along a pipe that runs parallel to the long trough and concentrate [s] the sunlight like a magnifying glass, [which] heats the fluid inside this pipe really hot, so the hot fluid circulates out to a somewhat traditional power plant where it's allowed to expand into high pressure gas that turns a turbine which generates electricity.

So during the day you compress gas, and then at night, you release the gas and the gas turns the turbines and you produce electricity.

Those gases could be stored and later turned back into electricity in a fuel cell.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

By the turn of the 20th century, inventors had built engines run by steam and electricity as well as gas.

Utility companies that deliver gas, electricity and water are traditionally regarded as defensive investments, because people need to turn on their lights and be happy with its performance.

During a Disaster Event • Confine outside animals inside or in an accessible safe area • Cage all animals • Load stored emergency gear and animals • Turn off electricity, water main, and / or gas • Lock up and get out

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

Four years ago Duffy Connolly, owner of Burrows Hall Farm, approached Santee Cooper with the idea of building an anaerobic digester that could capture methane gas, naturally produced on his hog farm, and turn that methane into a fuel source for electricity.

Converting light into electricity with no moving parts is a profoundly different enterprise than turning a turbine to make power — the technology that is at work in coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydropower plants and, most visibly to the public, at wind farms.

That would put pressure on gas and coal prices, which would in turn make electricity generation more expensive.

Over the next decade the prices electricity generators pay for gas and coal are also predicted to increase, in turn pushing up electricity prices.

This is because HF has unleashed vast supplies of clean, affordable gas, and this in turn has allowed natural gas to produce much more of America's electricity — with natural gas emitting half the carbon emissions as other sources and virtually no hazardous air pollutants.

With natural gas generating a large percentage of our electricity we can just turn off the gas plants and save fuel when the Sun is shining or wind blowing.

Utilities have turned to liquefied natural gas and coal, which surged to provide 31 % of the country's electricity in 2014.

Carbon can be used to turn water into green fuels by making water gas, H2 / CO which in turn makes any HC and electricity by F - T, other processes..

The company is planning to build a power plant in California that turns the methane gas produced by cow manure into water, electricity, and hydrogen.

Proper use of gas and clean coal generation will be essential until renewables and other forms of generation are economical, but South Australia's ideological crusade (which has turned the state into the world's electricity crash test dummy, as I read somewhere) has meant that the lights will continue to go out during periods of high demand, with or without Elon Musk's Duracell.

Urine diversion also makes for richer sludge and produces more methane, which can be turned into gas or electricity, Mr. Wilsenach said.

Water distribution — reducing water leakage or oversupply of regional water, which reduces pumping and pressurization electricity, which, in turn, reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

Avoid the scam: If someone calls you on the phone and says your electricity or gas is being turned off, hang up the phone immediately and alert local authorities of criminal activity.