Sentences with phrase «electricity source people»

In a September 2007 national poll by the Opinion Research Corporation about which electricity source people would prefer, only 3 percent chose coal.

In a national poll that asked which electricity source people would prefer, only 3 percent chose coal.

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Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

Just how do we go about making our power grids smart and flexible enough to handle people generating their own electricity from renewable sources?

The technology could offer a reliable source of electricity for some of the 1.5 billion people around the world without access to a supply grid.

If successful, this program would provide a sustainable energy source for millions of people, many of whom do not have access to electricity today.

Instead of dying like a normal person, he mutates into Electro becoming a human energy source with enough electricity flowing through his body to take out all of Times Square.

So, it's a difference between being aversive and being painful, and most of the devices that have come up over the years - because you can't have a huge amount of electricity being used (either because you need a very large power source, or because you would shock the person wearing the system)- you need to come up with something that's aversive, not painful, and nobody has been able to find that for sharks.

Are people are willing to pay more for electricity generated from clean sources?

One fifth of humanity, 1.2 billion people worldwide, either don't have electricity or rely on dirty power sources like kerosene and diesel that create health hazards and spew greenhouse emissions.

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.

Harry Lehmann lists things that need to happen in the US if the US wants to get where Germany is today, generating about 30 percent of its electricity from renewable sources: You need to educate the people — regular citizens, managers, bankers — about renewable energy.

Even though people without electricity access often pay a lot for their energy sources, such as kerosene and candles — sometimes more than they would pay for the same service if they had electricity access — the upfront costs for off - grid systems may still be higher than most consumers are willing or able to pay.

As wind energy has expanded to become a mainstream source of electricity in advanced economies like Canada's, the benefits of clean power and clean growth have become more ingrained in people's thinking.

Noting that in the developing countries some 1.6 billion people still lack access to electricity and about 2.4 billion continue to rely on traditional biomass like fuelwood for cooking and heating, Annan calls for intensified efforts to promote renewable energy sources for the poor.

As many people in the United States question whether renewable energy is a viable alternative to fossil fuels, Germany now derives 20.8 percent of its electricity from renewable sources — a 15...

Providing electricity to 1.2 billion people who don't have access to reliable sources of energy is a key component to ending extreme poverty worldwide by 2030, according to a World Bank Group report.

This case has been made by people critical of modern California's neglect of its Water Project and California's fascination with electricity from renewable sources.

If the four most populous countries located on the Pacific «ring of fire» — the United States, Japan, China, and Indonesia, with nearly 2 billion people — were to seriously invest in developing their geothermal resources, they could easily make geothermal energy one of the world's leading sources of electricity.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

Recharge News reports that the German state of Bavaria — the biggest in area and second most populous with 12 million people — last year sourced 10 per cent of its electricity from solar energy.

Some people seem concerned that they're either not directly benefitting from a clean, competitively - priced source of electricity, or that the electricity is somehow shipped away to consume elsewhere.

Incidently, they are building windmills and solar farms here as well, presumably to make electricity more expensive and force people to consider other sources of energy, which will come from fossil fuels.

Israel's small population of seven million people only need 40,000 MW from all sources to supply their electricity, but it does appear that the wind potential comes close to being able to meet the modest percentage allotted to wind in Israel's renewable policy (800 MW all told).

Source energy: (1) Change from per square foot basis to per person; (2) Change the source energy factor to the US average of 3.16; (3) Base the lighting and miscellaneous electrical loads on American numbers (from RESNET); (4) «Set the source energy limit to 6,200 kWh / person / year and tighten it to 4,200 kWh / person / year within a few years;» and (5) Account for photovoltaic (PV) inputs or other on - site renewable electricity the same way solar hot watSource energy: (1) Change from per square foot basis to per person; (2) Change the source energy factor to the US average of 3.16; (3) Base the lighting and miscellaneous electrical loads on American numbers (from RESNET); (4) «Set the source energy limit to 6,200 kWh / person / year and tighten it to 4,200 kWh / person / year within a few years;» and (5) Account for photovoltaic (PV) inputs or other on - site renewable electricity the same way solar hot watsource energy factor to the US average of 3.16; (3) Base the lighting and miscellaneous electrical loads on American numbers (from RESNET); (4) «Set the source energy limit to 6,200 kWh / person / year and tighten it to 4,200 kWh / person / year within a few years;» and (5) Account for photovoltaic (PV) inputs or other on - site renewable electricity the same way solar hot watsource energy limit to 6,200 kWh / person / year and tighten it to 4,200 kWh / person / year within a few years;» and (5) Account for photovoltaic (PV) inputs or other on - site renewable electricity the same way solar hot water is.

In India, it is estimated that more than 230 million people do not have access to electricity, so rely on dangerous, fossil - fuel based energy sources such as kerosene lamps.

Three years after having left town, Merchand went on a trip to bring the idea and improve the day to day life of people who live isolated from electricity sources.

Leading the world green electricity race are 1) Iceland and 1) Norway, both generating a full 100 % of their electricity from green sources — Norway gets 99 % from hydro and 1 % from other renewable sources of energy; Iceland has, as many people know, a good deal of geothermal power (27 %), with hydro making up the remaining 73 %.

Interior daylighting isn't simply a way to reduce lighting electricity consumption, although that's certainly one application, but could be a method of addressing and mitigating the «winter blues» or seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in some people, as well as serving as a full - spectrum light source for artists, photographers, plant lovers, and anyone else who needs or prefers the natural warmth of sunlight.

All countries must work to expand newly cheap solar and other clean energy sources to the 1.5 billion people around the world who lack electricity, and billions more for whom access is unreliable.

Now Bloomberg reported the People's Bank of China is quietly outlining plans to limit the cheap electricity sources bitcoin miners rely on, all without outlawing cryptocurrency itself.