Sentences with phrase «electricity and water from»

We wish to issue a responsible and necessary caution that we would, on behalf of the suffering masses of Ghana, take any legitimate action possible to stop these evil rates of increase in the cost of electricity and water from being visited on the people and businesses in Ghana.
«We can actually put computation in the infrastructure of the city so that we can make the city not only greener but more efficient,» he says, referencing innovations that could prevent the waste of electricity and water from cracks in building architecture.

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Inside the dam, there are turbines, which turn from the water pressure and connect to electricity generators.
Bibra Lake - based ZBB Energy Corporation will receive $ 3.1 million over two years in project funding from the Department of the Environment and Water Resources Advanced Electricity Storage Technologies program, the company has announced.
Frind's parents, German farmers who emigrated just before his fourth birthday, bought a 1,200 - acre plot 10 miles from town and initially lived in a trailer without electricity, phones, or running water.
The device allows business owners to modify their behavior and save on costs of everything from water and electricity to natural gas and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.
The work was low margin, but the profits from it augmented cash flow and covered a significant portion of the plant's overhead (electricity, water, taxes, etc.).
For commercial electricity consumers, sourcing renewable power can lock in future savings from technologies whose fuel — wind, sun, water, biomass and the earth's heat — is free.
In 2010, the United States used 683 trillion cubic meters of natural gas in anything from creating electricity to powering stoves, water heaters, and even vehicles.
Throw in the increasing fiscal burdens from electricity and water subsidies, military funding for a war in Yemen and rampant unemployment.
The area has neither water nor telephones, and electricity is stolen, via occasionally fatal, jerry - rigged splices, from the power lines that pass overhead on their way to the busy commercial seaport.
The whole situation is difficult: no electricity, no water, day and night bombardments, missiles from both sides.
Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.
Results achieved over hundreds of plants globally have achieved removal of organic waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generawater of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generaWater Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generators.
There was electricity and running water; however, the water was not safe to drink, so daily I took one of the servants to the embassy to fill a tin container with water from their deep well.
Just make sure that above all things that you are always keeping your little one safe by placing the baby changing pad far away from water and electricity and of course, always keep an eye on them even when buckled!
A Bon Appetit feature on eating green offered some great, easy tips; from that feature, we now resist the urge to open the oven door to check on baking (lost heat), opt for the knife over the food processor (save electricity, build muscle), and don't let water boil excessively (save energy).
It uses gravity water filtration technology to remove toxic elements, parasites, bacteria and hundreds of other contaminants from water without removing the beneficial minerals, and without the use of any electricity.
I was told that it costs much more to use disposable diapers compared to using washable cloth diapers; but since the computation I got was from using a branded diaper and I used generic diapers plus the cost of laundry (water + detergent + electricity), I guess the costs are just about the same.
When you produce 97 % of your own food, compost all manure (human and animal), make your own clothing, shoes, diapers, wraps, menstrual pads, washable toilet paper, soaps, lanolin, and herbal tinctures, and grow your animals feed, make your house out of a recycled tobacco barn with reclaimed building materials, have no electricity (even solar panels / wind generators leave a huge footprint from manufacture), water coming from your spring / creek, home school your children without fancy curriculum, make your living from your land and being a home birth midwife, etc... then you will see what real life could be.
In late February of 2011, Joey and I drove from Maine to New Hampshire to move into our new house, a tiny log cabin with no running water or electricity.
Passionate about his country and committed to building an enduring legacy, President Mahama who is inspired by such heroes as Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and Prof. John Evans Attah Mills revealed that his vision from inception was to focus on five areas: Electricity, Education, Water, stabilizing the economy as well as restoring social and economic infrastructure.
Periodic shortages of electricity and city water can occur, especially in the dry season from November to March.
(b) It is further in the national interest to ensure that the Nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.
The increase in demand for electricity, reduction in the quantity of water at the Akosombo Dam, irregular gas supply from the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company in Nigeria, irregular maintenance programmes and late procurement of crude oil to power generation plants, have conspired to plunge the country in the current power crisis.
Electricity coverage; we moved it significantly to above 80 %, water coverage, same significantly to above 80 % in terms of water coverage from independence to 2009 both rural and urban were hovering about the 50 % s. we take Inflation; just in January it was hovering around 13 % there about, at the time NPP was leaving office it was 18 %.
From 1996 until 2002, he served as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce (U&C) which held legislative jurisdiction over electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, private water corporations and other issues related to commerce.
So you are feeding CO2 protons and electrons [from the water and the electricity], and you are electrochemically reducing them.
Rather than generating their own power via water wheels or electric dynamos, companies can now plug into the newly built electric grid and buy electricity directly from power stations.
Researchers are proposing a new «hydricity» concept aimed at creating a sustainable economy by not only generating electricity with solar energy but also producing and storing hydrogen from superheated water for round - the - clock power production.
His trick: a hand - cranked device that generates electricity to zap water molecules, splitting them and joining them with chlorine atoms from salt.
The device uses solar electricity from a photovoltaic panel to power the chemistry that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, then adds pre-starved microbes to feed on the hydrogen and convert CO2 in the air into alcohol fuels.
Using a simple membrane extract from spinach leaves, researchers from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed a bio-photo-electro-chemical (BPEC) cell that produces electricity and hydrogen from water using sunlight.
And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 200And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 200and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 200and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].
Hydrogen gas is considered a possible future source of energy and can be produced from water using platinum catalysts and electricity.
Heated springs and geysers up to three miles underground can be accessed by special wells that bring the hot water (or steam from it) up to the surface where it can be used directly for heat or indirectly to generate electricity by powering rotating turbines.
Generating electricity from solar - thermal energy, however, usually requires a large - scale system, with an array of mirrors that reflect and concentrate sunlight onto tanks or pipes filled with water or other liquids.
The latest figures show that on some days of the year the electricity being generated from sun, wind, biomass, water and geothermal production already accounts for more than half of the load required in the country.
Fuel Cells Electricity from any source, such as solar, wind and even coal, can be used to break up water molecules into their hydrogen and oxygen components in a device called an electrolyzer.
Immersed in a small tank of sugar water, the microbes settled on the electrode and got busy, extracting electrons from the sugar and dropping them directly on the electrode, which fed an external circuit: Voilà, electricity.
The fish's transition from swimming outside the cave to swimming inside the cave, where the water is purer and less conductive of electricity, inhibited the activity of a «heat shock» protein called HSP90.
The homes — and the adjacent businesses they supported — would get 50 percent of their power from renewable resources, including solar electricity and solar water heaters.
During the day, when demand for electricity is higher, power will be generated by both the wind turbines and water flowing from the upper reservoir to the lower.
A flood from a broken water pipe on the top floor and an electricity shutoff added to the damage, says developmental biologist Miguel Allende.
After geothermal power plants pump up a hot brine — water and dissolved salts from underground — and use its heat to make steam to spin a turbine and generate electricity, Simbol would borrow the still warm fluid for roughly 90 minutes.
Extracting hydrogen from water using electricity is a fairly straightforward process, but it is inefficient and usually takes a lot of energy.
So they have managed to create centralized power plants to create electricity and the heat waste from that process is used for desalinating water.
He and his team of six developed a flushing toilet that sanitizes the water and produces hydrogen from human waste to create electricity.
In addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and build.
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