Sentences with phrase «energy generation technologies»

While there are plenty of great ideas for energy generation, the true challenge is taking these ideas and building the economies of scale to make them economically competitive with established energy generation technologies.

The luddites who stick to the mantra of «nuclear power» are doing a disservice to future generations by not supporting research into new energy generation technologies.

By siphoning capital out of the area, and often out of the country where they are installed and, by hogging existing grid capacity they preclude the development of other more labour intensive renewable energy generation technologies such as bio-mass and anaerobic digestion fuelled systems.

Using piezoelectric energy generation technology, a team of researchers led by Zhong Lin Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech, has successfully figured out the age - old question: can hamsters on wheels really power up a device?

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

In the case of nuclear power, the only new commercial energy generation technology to emerge and scale up significantly in the 20th century, government insurance, liability limitation, and loan guarantees have allowed private financiers the certainty and stability to invest in nuclear energy projects, which typically have high up - front capital cost and long life spans.

Note: Here and throughout this presentation, unless otherwise indicated, analysis assumes 60 % debt at 8 % interest rate and 40 % equity at 12 % cost for conventional and Alternative Energy generation technologies.

The team assessed recent developments in renewable energy generation technology, based on a range of analyses and reports from international sources and concluded that these technologies are, in fact, less expensive than the figures the energy industry is using.

As the energy industry changes and new energy generation technologies are built, these stocks are...

Game changing breakthroughs over the past decades in solar, battery, or energy generation technologies?