Sentences with phrase «electricity system using»

Musk replied to a post on Twitter questioning whether he could rebuild Puerto Rico's electricity system using independent solar and battery systems.

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Despite a rapidly developing economy in Kenya, widespread use of cell phones, and the home to one of the most successful mobile payment systems in the world, more than three quarters of Kenyans don't have regular access to electricity.

Scott started putting his work ethic to good use helping doctors in Liberia, the polar opposite of New York City, where there was no running water, no electricity and no sewer system.

If I do so, I'm pretty sure I'll also get the Tesla Powerwall battery system to store excess solar power - generated electricity for use at night or whenever conditions are suboptimal.

This is the first time a utility has contracted for a system that stores and releases solar energy after sunset, and will help KIUC meet its goal of using renewable resources to generate half of Kaua`i's electricity by the end of 2019.

Of course, it wouldn't be fair to knock Bitcoin's electricity consumption without comparing it to payment systems most people use today.

«As the Alberta Electricity System Operator has noted, coal - fired power with carbon capture and storage is a far more expensive option to reduce carbon pollution compared to using natural gas, wind, solar and hydro power.

In order to support mainstream transaction volumes, the Bitcoin system for validating transactions will likely have to change how it uses electricity, bandwidth, and data storage.

The system uses 10 percent of the electricity of most similar systems.

Investment in energy - efficient practices including insulating wine tanks, installing an on - demand Gylycol system, replacing air compressors with on - demand VFD units, new more efficient pond aerators, and retrofitting high - efficient replacement lights in the winery resulting in electricity use decreasing by about 22 %.

Power Source: Does the system you're getting use electricity or an air compressor?

The system uses ultra-efficient technology to fill the tank quickly, and a permeate pump powered by hydraulic energy requires no electricity to run.

Mertiny and Secanell predict that using a flywheel to capture the electricity generated by a train's deceleration and applying it for acceleration would produce an energy savings of 31 per cent and cost savings of 11 per cent on the Edmonton LRT system.

«Growing use of coal globally is overshadowing progress in renewable energy deployment, and the emissions intensity of the electricity system has not changed in 20 years.

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.

«Using the battery of mobile phones in small solar home systems becomes obvious in order to make access to electricity easier to those who live without.»

The system consumes about 40 per cent less electricity than current compressor - based air - conditioners used in homes and commercial buildings.

The U.S. healthcare system, the most expensive in the world, uses vast amounts of energy in the form of heating, electricity, and energy - intensive goods and services.

Philadelphia's mass transit system used more than 500,000 megawatt - hours (pdf) of electricity in 2011, equivalent to the annual consumption of around 46,000 average U.S. homes.

The use of smart grids delivers electricity more efficiently and at the same time helps reduce the environmental impact of the system.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

The system will also allow them to use simulation interfaces to evaluate potential future operating models featuring, say, dynamic electricity pricing or forecast - based facility management.

The use of renewable energy in the United States could take a significant leap forward with improved storage technologies or more efforts to «match» different forms of alternative energy systems that provide an overall more steady flow of electricity, researchers say in a new report.

Now a Danish team has analysed the various ways in which firms in that country treat pig manure and use it to generate electricity in systems such as anaerobic digesters or incinerators.

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.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

It shows the functioning of an electricity system that fulfils the targets set by the Paris agreement by using only renewable energy sources.

This system uses huge solar panels to generate electricity, which will energize stored xenon gas and expel it at high velocity to generate thrust.

Although the system requires water to operate, the amount of liquid that is spent is lower compared to the environmental damage caused by the refrigerant gas and electricity used by traditional systems.

Through Catalyst, communities of innovators use software, data, algorithms, and automation to drive down non-hardware solar soft costs — like permitting, financing, and customer acquisition — that today make up more than half of the cost of a solar electricity system.

One of the problems with previous methods was that the amount of energy produced in, for example, a system using salty and less salty water to generate electricity, was too small relative to the amount of water used.

By using electricity from renewable sources, our system allows us to generate hydrogen with a very low carbon footprint.

And, unlike Galileo, which used a nuclear power source, Juno's electricity comes from the sun — a first for a spacecraft operating in the outer solar system.

A plant uses just 1 percent of the energy it receives from the sun to make glucose, whereas the artificial system achieved roughly 10 percent efficiency in converting carbon dioxide to fuel, the equivalent of pulling 180 grams of carbon dioxide from the air per kilowatt - hour of electricity generated.

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.

Rayko Toshev's doctoral thesis in Industrial Management «Risks and Prospects of Smart Electric Grids Systems measured with Real Options» analyses electricity price risk levels and evaluates smart grid R&D projects and technology opportunities, using real option pricing method.

In the demonstration project «Agrophotovoltaic — Resource Efficient Land Use» (APV - Resola)» led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, solar modules for electricity production are installed directly above crops covering an area of one third hectare.

Patients with the syndrome can experience rapid abnormal heart rates when electricity bypasses the normal electrical system of the heart and uses the extra pathway.

The only way to do that, as studies have shown, is to have an extremely clean electricity system and to significantly increase the use of that electricity to offset the use of fossil fuels in other sectors.

Greenhouses use electricity to control temperature and power fans, lights, and other monitoring systems.

It provides for the first time a high - fidelity technology demonstration of how you can use radiative sky cooling to passively cool a fluid and, in doing so, connect it with cooling systems to save electricity,» said Raman, who is co-lead author of the paper detailing this research, published in Nature Energy Sept. 4.

The Propur Big gravity water purification systems are economical, convenient and easy to use - Requires no electricity and provides reliable water purification anywhere.

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.

These were used to assess a variety of renewable energy sources — including solar photovoltaic panels that generate electricity and solar hot water systems used to heat water.

The system owner is paid an additional rate, called the export tariff, for electricity that is not used on - site.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

This public - private sector project has come up with a solution based on five components: installing photovoltaic solar systems to provide electricity; offering internet and IT equipment to schools; training teachers; community development; and training community members who use the equipment to ensure future sustainability of the program.

Depending on the size of the system, this exported electricity is either measured or simply assumed (deemed) using an assumption of 50 per cent self ‑ consumption.