Sentences with phrase «electricity system into»

Researchers categorized the electricity system into three principal components: consumers; generation technologies; and the wires, poles, storage and other hardware required to connect end users and generators.

Just days before that, the Government of Alberta legislated its new carbon tax as the centerpiece of a climate plan that will also transform the province's coal - reliant electricity system into that will also eliminate coal from the province's electricity system in the next 14 years.

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When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.

There is no running water, no sewage system, no electricity except what is illegally tapped into off the grid.

The Remo - Frit RAPTOR ™ system inaugurated this year converts nearly all of the potentially environmentally harmful organic content of the solid wastes into green electricity and valuable fertilizer products.

He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.

And low prices are also putting a dent into the budget of the New York Power Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plants.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

«There's a recognition that it's not easy; this is a technology that is not currently cheap or easy to move into the marketplace, but it's very much worth focusing on because the rewards for our electricity system, for our environment and for jobs would be so good.»

The findings, to be published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, could lead to a wide range of applications, such as thermoelectric systems that convert waste heat from engines and appliances into electricity.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

Radioisotope power systems convert heat from the natural radioactive decay of the isotope plutonium - 238 into electricity.

Hot power box A SOFC converts a fuel's chemical energy into electricity, says Bob Stokes, a longtime fuel - cell researcher and CEO of Versa Power Systems in Littleton, Colo., one of the up - and - coming developers of SOFCs.

By employing devices such as biogas storage domes, biofilters or combined heat and power co-generation systems, for instance, methane can be collected, cleaned and converted into heat or electricity that can then be substituted for most fossil fuels.

That second step makes a dramatic difference in how efficiently the system converts electricity into light.

Existing technologies allow oil producers who can not pump the natural gas into a pipeline to simply reinject it back underground, use it to generate electricity or, by installing a so - called Fischer — Tropsch conversion system, change the former nuisance gas into liquid fuel, among other options.

Excess electricity from the wind farms can be stored in the batteries and fed into the system later, when wind is low and demand is high.

The spores have a static electricity — based ejection system designed to launch them into the air with ease.

The companies know nearly precisely when and how much electricity consumers need over the course of the day — but they know only approximately how much photovoltaic systems and wind farms will feed into the grid.

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.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE together with the company EV Group (EVG) have developed a new silicon - based multi-junction solar cell, which can convert exactly one - third of the incident sunlight into useful electricity.

Our nervous system and our heart run on electricity, which explains why we can shock a dead heart into life using an electric shock machine called a defibrillator.

At the dawning of the 20th century, Benedict Lust brought together European nature cure, homeopathy, massage, spinal manipulation, therapeutic electricity and other natural therapies into a new medical system he called «naturopathy».

This Toyota system uses a special electromagnetic coil set into the ground that is able to transmit electricity through magnetic resonance.

This one model will use an advanced system that turns the element into electricity to power a motor.

[15] The Delhi Metro reduced the amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2) released into the atmosphere by around 90,000 tons by regenerating 112,500 megawatt hours of electricity through the use of regenerative braking systems between 2004 and 2007.

Electricity generated by regenerative braking may be fed back into the traction power supply; either offset against other electrical demand on the network at that instant, used for head end power loads, or stored in lineside storage systems for later use.

In addition, it uses an electronic brake system that enables it to convert all its energy into electricity and recover them while braking.

The batteries are additionally charged via a regenerative braking system, which uses generators mounted in each wheel to convert rotational energy into electricity.

The systems belt alternator starter recovers up to 12 kW of power during braking and feeds the electricity into a separate lithium - ion battery.

This package includes Mazda's i - Eloop, an energy regeneration system that converts kinetic braking energy into electricity, feeding a battery that powers the vehicle's accessories, boosting fuel - efficiency in the process.

The e-tron SUV will ship as standard with an onboard 11 kW charger but, as of 2019, Audi will offer a second onboard charger for a total of 22 kW charging on an Audi connect charging system tapped into a smart home electricity supply.

Both engines are fitted with a mild hybrid system, which includes a belt alternator starter that recovers up to 12 kW with the 48V system during braking and feeds the electricity into a separate lithium - ion battery.

The belt alternator starter, the heart of the MHEV system, recovers up to 12 kW with the 48 V system during braking and feeds the electricity into a separate lithium - ion battery.

The BAS system also features regenerative braking that turns the electric motor into a generator to capture kinetic energy from braking and convert it into electricity to recharge the battery.

For the first time, the model will also be equipped with a regenerative braking system which converts kinetic energy into electricity during braking and stores it in capacitors for use later in powering electrical equipment such as air conditioning, lighting, and the audio system.

«i - ELOOP» efficiently converts the vehicle's kinetic energy into electricity as it decelerates, and uses the electricity to power the climate control, audio system and numerous other electrical components.

Cost is probably under $ 250, it avoids arguments over load on the system for the rest of the house, you could plug it into a Kill - a-Watt and measure exactly how much electricity it's using and pay her for that if you want to make sure you've completely covered the costs... and it would leave her with a backup option if / when the main unit does fail.

And speaking of safety, since most automated nutrition delivery systems have mechanical parts that run on some form of electricity, whether it's DC or AC, it is crucial to look at how the power assembly has been integrated into the design.

It uses independent septic system that recycles water into the irrigation of our gardens and uses energy saving light bulbs for the electricity.

The underground tunnel system is what actually brings the water into New York City while the electricity is supplied by a distant hydroelectric plant in a Canadian forest.

In a vehicle, the device could be placed directly in the exhaust system with hot air going in one end and out the other all while it converts the waste heat into electricity that is fed back into the vehicle, bumping up the mileage by 5 percent.

In the early 2000s, 50 miles from the MO I was helping my good mate (rip) install his self - sufficient solar power system w a battery pack unit which then was big as a car on a trailer, and helped out planting out his small plantation of Olive Trees into the ex-cow paddocks... he and his wife bought a 120 acre ex-cattle farm to regenerate that along the lines of New Age Healing Greenie Principles of Self - Sufficency and Self - Responsibility... they disconnected from the electricity grid as well.

Included in the concept of long underground pedestrian and cyclie paths is Pavegen, a kinetic energy system that turns footsteps into electricity.

In explaining the value of BrightSource Energy's concentrating solar power (CSP) plants with thermal energy storage (TES) capability, the company's Vice President for Government Affairs and Communications Joe Desmond described a 2006 California «heat storm» during which «the California ISO reached its all - time maximum demand» and had «about 3,000 megawatts of wind available,» but «the amount of wind delivering electricity into the system when it hit its peak demand was 1 percent.»

The future expansion of renewable energy plants, the possibility of using an interregional system to balance fluctuating supply and demand in the electricity market, and the continued development of storage technologies are just some of the factors that come into play, it adds.

A feed - in tariff typically guarantees generators of renewable electricity a long - term purchase price for each kilowatt - hour they produce and «feed into» the grid, providing a powerful incentive for installing such systems.

Market 4RES is a project that focuses on electricity market design to support a more efficient integration of renewable energy (RES - E) into the pan-European electricity system, in line with the 2020 objectives and the 2030 targets.

These higher proportions of renewables in electricity generation will make integration of these variable renewables into electricity system critical, the IEA says.

But if millions of electric cars were plugged into the grid, they could act as mini-batteries, storing renewable electricity as it's generated — and eventually even channeling electricity back into grid during cloudy or windless days, a system called vehicle - to - grid.