Sentences with phrase «electricity use of a device»

When we talk about energy consumption, all attention goes to the electricity use of a device or a machine while in operation.

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Going green is also popular with bosses, because the growing arsenal of computers, printers, servers, and other digital devices has sent office electricity use soaring.

Sub-monitoring of electricity using CT (Current Transducer) devices connected to data - loggers provides accurate data on all electricity usage, while water meters log every litre of water at 30 second intervals, providing highly precise readings.

Environmental best practices are taken seriously, including use of electricity reduction devices, water conservation policies and drought tolerant landscaping.

Cuomo appeared with GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt in July 2014 to announce the research and manufacturing program, which aims to use silicon carbide instead of just silicon, for specialty chips that handle electricity in devices like batteries and inverters.

To make a wearable device that can cope with the jostling of everyday life, the team used a water - rich, polyacrylamide hydrogel and added lithium chloride to make it conduct electricity.

At the heart of the STEP process is an electrolysis cell, a device that uses electricity to break down chemical compounds.

Cola believes the rectennas could be useful for powering internet of things devices, especially if they can be used to produce electricity from scavenged thermal energy.

Some of this technology is already in use in hybrids: Regenerative braking converts the car's motion into electricity as the vehicle comes to a stop, and BMW and Honda are designing devices that recover heat from engine exhaust.

Enter thin - film solar cells — devices that use a fine layer of semiconducting material, such as silicon, copper indium gallium selenide or cadmium telluride, to harvest electricity from sunlight at a fraction of the cost.

Devices to harvest ambient mechanical energy to convert to electricity are widely used to power wearable electronics, biomedical devices and the so - called Internet of Things (IoT)-- everyday objects that wirelessly connect to the internet.

Spintronic devices promise to solve major problems in today's electronic computers, in that the computers use massive amounts of electricity and generate heat that requires expending even more energy for cooling.

By contrast, spintronic devices generate little heat and use relatively minuscule amounts of electricity.

The fact that the glass is highly hazy and exhibits high transmittance could also make it useful for LEDs, which work in a way that is essentially the opposite of a solar cell, by using electricity that enters a semiconductor to produce light that is then emitted from the device.

The challenge with these devices is to use a material that is a good conductor of electricity but also dissipates heat well.

electrode A device that conducts electricity and is used to make contact with non-metal part of an electrical circuit, or that contacts something through which an electrical signal moves.

Over the past decade, perovskites have rapidly evolved into a promising technology, now with the ability to convert about 23 percent of sunlight into electricity, but work is still needed to make the devices durable enough for long - term use.

The HSD uses a series of interconnected components, including a gasoline - powered combustion engine, a nickel - metal - hydride battery, a generator, a power - split device, and an electricity inverter.

The low - power screen also only uses electricity when you refresh the page, so it should get up to 5 days of battery life from the device's 400mAh battery.

This also takes into account the electricity used to run the device; the highly efficient eInk display keeps the energy usage of the Kindle to a minimum.

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.

And one of the things I've learned about portable solar devices, both from my own experiences as well as feedback from other users of mobile solar chargers is that if the devices aren't simple to use and easy to carry, they don't get used very often, and are more likely to be sitting in a drawer instead of out in the sun generating electricity.

Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.

This new energy harvesting device uses an electrochemical process similar to that in lithium ion batteries to produce electricity instead of a physical process like the other piezoelectric materials, which will likely make it inexpensive to manufacture.

Although solar - generated electricity certainly has its place, and meets a specific need, it's just one way in which we can use the free energy that streams down on us from the sun, and unfortunately, it also seems way more desirable to our modern gadget - centric society than the simple method of using solar energy directly, through devices such as solar cookers, solar ovens, and solar water heaters.

But new work out of UCLA could help lower the barrier to entry for consumers, with a device that uses sunlight to produce both hydrogen and electricity.

The device then uses that electricity to power a cycle of condensation and evaporation, which produces 2 to 5 liters of water a day.

However financial growth, inflation and a rise in the use of electricity and electrical devices mean that in the long term there is a gradual rise in prices.

If you make an electricity generating device (I built a rowing machine) from scrap materials -LRB-- I got a usable battery from the scrapyard also) then the energy that has been put into making those parts is history you can't change that but by using those parts to make electricity at least you are recouping some of it and balancing things in a positive direction overall

It's generally agreed that most of our energy use in the future will center around electricity - whether for homes and businesses, portable devices or transportation - which is something that nuclear reactors are very good at producing.

By far the most pronounced increase in electricity consumption and thus CO2 emissions from the lower income groups to higher income groups is in the use of small electronic devices that make living more comfortable for those who can afford it.

Instead of charging the internal battery and using the battery to charge the connected devices, by allowing pass - through charging the amount of electricity needed is reduced.

At the same time, new energy storage devices like Tesla's Powerwall and Powerpack batteries — which can be used to store electricity when solar panels aren't generating energy — are starting to change the way we think about the timing of electricity production altogether.

Given that upwelling LWIR from the earth's surface is greater than downwellng LWIR if you wanted to generate electricity the upwelling LWIR is what you'd use for the hot side of your device.

The best way to do this, in my opinion, is using a fuel cell — a device that can electrochemically convert natural gas into a useable fuel by stripping off the hydrogen portion of the methane molecule and combining it with oxygen to generate clean electricity and some waste heat.

But a new study from the Natural Resources Defense Council suggests the powering of so many devices around the clock is using huge amounts of energy — $ 19 billion worth of electricity on an annual basis, equivalent to the output of 50 large power plants.»]

Other than his first illustration of a pedal - powered hydraulic log splitter (a silly idea more simply done by hand), the article shows numerous ways that bike tech can be used to replace fuel or electricity powered machinery, including everything blenders, washing machines, agricultural implements and multi-tool devices that can do just about anything.

Of course, the device is also a perfect way to extend WiFi signals into your garden or to neighbours, without using any electricity.

No electricity is generated or needed, no membranes need to be cleaned or replaced, the device simply sucks water vapor from the seawater, condenses it, and then uses the power of the waves to pump it back to shore via it's tube - like tethers.

The smaller units appear to only have enough solar capacity to run the LED lighting, with shade and rainwater catchment being the primary benefits of the devices, but the tops of the higher capacity units look to be virtually covered in solar panels, which would generate electricity that could be stored for later use.

These always - on devices suck up electricity even when we're not using them and the more wired and connected we make our lives, the greater the amount of vampires we end up with.

Currently, the polymer film system only generates about 5.6 nanowatts, which isn't enough to power most devices, but it could be used to drive these nano - and microelectronic devices through the use of capacitors to store the generated electricity.

For those of you not familiar with what a Kill - A-Watt is, it's a small electronic device that you can plug into a power outlet, and then when you plug an appliance into it, you get a reading of how much electricity is used.

Not too long ago, Mat posted about the Searaser wave power generator — a device that uses the power of sea swells to pump water uphill and generate electricity on land.

In the smaller scale, electronic devices are said to account for 15 percent of home electricity use.

For example, if you still have a cell phone or other portable electronics device from the 90's, its charger might continually use a noticeable amount of power if you leave it plugged in — but even that amount of vampire power probably won't make a noticeable dent in your electricity bill.

Charging ports on battery packs, like charging ports on wall - warts and computers, can provide electricity at two amperage rates: 1A and 2.1 A. All USB devices can use both ports, but if a device can only handle 1A of power then it will automatically limit itself to 1A on a 2.1 A port and if a 2.1 A device is on a 1A port it will also charge (but at a much slower rate).

We slapped a monitoring device on our Apple TV and determined that leaving it running 24/7 for a whole year only used around $ 2.50 worth of electricity.

Interestingly, Honda also showed a concept last year, for something called a «Honda power manager» - this device, a kind of fully connected and integrated charger - would potentially integrate into your smart home and allow vehicle - to - grid power flow, which electricity companies and power grids have great interest in, as if they can occasionally use your car to balance the grid demand, it could negate the need to build new power stations to meet the extra demand electric cars have the potential to create.

«Having an infrastructure for electricity is a key element to Miner Garage's operation and the geographic benefits allow the machines to be cooled without the use of tools or cooling devices,» Miner Garage announced in a press release.