Sentences with phrase «energy than housing»

Since transportation now consumes more energy than housing, that's important.

We are really approaching the point where it will be entirely «mainstream» for US suburbanites to live in solar - powered homes that will not only be «net zero energy» in the sense of generating as much or more energy than the house itself consumes, but will also generate all the electricity to operate an EV, which will be integrated with the house so its batteries can provide power to the house at night and during grid outages.

So if you buy in 1000 kWh of electricity over a month at times when your solar is either not generating (night time), or not generating enough energy to cover all of your needs (say a cloudy day) but you export 500 kWh of energy to the grid in the same month at other times when your solar is producing more energy than your house is using, then you would be billed for only 500 kWh.

Energy modeling shows that a 1,500 - square - foot home with poor insulation can still use less energy than a house twice its size with good insulation.

Now, via Wendy Koch, I see new data that show that our houses are 30 % larger but consume just a bit more energy than houses built a decade ago.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile in February the U.S. - government funded National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, known for housing the world's most powerful laser, reported experiments indicating they were close to achieving «net gain,» where more total energy comes out than was put in — a goal that has eluded scientists for six decades.

While we wound up winning along with two other teams out of a pool of more than 4,000 applicants, none of us had actually produced clean energy, fixed a significant element of the education system or tested a solution to the housing crisis.

The Facebook CEO spent more than five hours yesterday answering the questions of U.S. Senators, and will now testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

High energy and housing costs are the biggest contributors, but the cost to live there is still lower than many other cities on this list.

The Facebook CEO spent more than five hours yesterday answering the questions of U.S. Senators, and will now testify before the House Energy a

«We had anticipated a rebound in activity from earlier this year when the harsher than normal winter weather took hold, but the biggest drop in fixed mortgage rates in almost four years and resulting improvement in affordability also gave the Canadian housing market a boost of extra energy.»

JPMorgan reported a net $ 2.4 billion charge, made up of the impact of repatriation of overseas earnings and adjustments to tax - oriented investments such as affordable housing and energy, but also offset partly by a revaluation of the firm's deferred tax liabilities rather than assets as at other firms.

CPI inflation, which excludes volatile energy and food prices and difficult - to - measure housing, is less than 1 per cent.

Co-sponsoring Eggman's bill was the California Solar Energy Industries Association, which notes the challenge of installing solar panels on any multi-unit apartment building is far greater than on a single - family home, especially for a building housing low - income tenants.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Intense, emotional and tough — during his playing days he endured no fewer than seven knee operations — Schmidt is the perfect man to spark a revival and for good measure adheres to the house style — the agressive and high - energy pressing game popularised there by Wolfgang Frank and Jürgen Klopp.

The state invested more than $ 12.2 million to finance the Doe Fund's development of Webster Green Apartments, including: a $ 1.2 million allocation of Low Income Housing Tax Credits and a $ 4.5 million Medicaid Redesign Team program loan through HCR; $ 6.5 million in Homeless Housing Assistance Program funds through OTDA; and a $ 159,000 New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) energy efficiency Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) energy efficiency energy efficiency grant.

New academy schools use 50 % more energy per pupil than a standard secondary school: how can we expect house builders to deliver zero - carbon homes when government is so wasteful?

Schwartz continued, «Cuomo has no true record in support of affordable housing, has done little to promote green energy or tax equity, and is more at home cavorting with Republican millionaires than with poor people.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Science and technology programs across these bills — which cover the Departments of Energy, Defense, and Veterans Affairs — fare far better than they would have under the White House budget request, but many programs are still lined up for some reduction, even after several floor amendments added some science and technology funding to different corners of the bill.

So far, though, Senate appropriators have allocated greater fiscal 2018 spending levels than their House counterparts for such science programs as the Energy Department's Office of Science, which is the nation's largest provider of funding for basic research in the physical sciences, and the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, which seeks to advance technology for water and geothermal power and boost energy efficiency in manufactEnergy Department's Office of Science, which is the nation's largest provider of funding for basic research in the physical sciences, and the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, which seeks to advance technology for water and geothermal power and boost energy efficiency in manufactEnergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, which seeks to advance technology for water and geothermal power and boost energy efficiency in manufactEnergy program, which seeks to advance technology for water and geothermal power and boost energy efficiency in manufactenergy efficiency in manufacturing.

This week, House Democrats are beginning their push for a cap - and - trade scheme that makes big promises, but amounts to little more than a national energy tax that will destroy countless jobs and raise energy prices on families and small businesses already struggling during this recession.

One of the 32 solar - thermal panels that captured energy on the roof of the White House more than 30 years ago landed this week at a science museum in China

Although the house is still up and running more than a decade later, the net - zero energy trend has yet to hit the mainstream.

A report by six members of the U.K. House of Lords says that the proposed Global Apollo Programme «would commit to spend at least 0.02 % of gross domestic product on energy research so that renewable technologies — principally wind and solar — become cheaper than coal in 10 years.»

More than a year after the proposal of the first Energy Innovation Hubs, he was before the House Appropriations Committee, struggling to communicate his vision for DOE's new research direction.

Romania has a vast stock of badly insulated public housing, constructed by authorities who had lost sight of citizens» needs and mistakenly believed that manufacturing insulation used more energy than it would save.

A bipartisan proposal from two U.S. senators calls for boosting the Department of Energy's (DOE's) science budget by nearly 23 % over the next 2 years to $ 5.4 billion — a more generous raise than either Republicans or Democrats in the House of Representatives have proposed.

Republicans on the House science committee, led by Representative Lamar Smith (R - TX), right, are proposing a funding plan for the Department of Energy's science programs that calls for lower spending than a plan put forwar

In Tucson's historic Armory Park neighborhood, John Wesley Miller is constructing a community of 99 solar - powered Mission - style houses that use up to 80 percent less energy than the surrounding houses yet sell in the low $ 200,000 s. Brian Bombeck, president of the Sacramento Land division of U.S. Home, is overseeing a grand plan to install solar roofs on nearly half the 1,880 houses in a development near the California state capital.

So it would cost less to insulate every home than to burn coal to provide the energy now used to heat and cool uninsulated houses.

Second, a house with fewer inhabitants is less energy efficient and consumes more resources per person than one that is home to a larger brood.

Run jointly by the EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy, the program uses third - party inspectors to ensure that qualifying homes are 20 to 30 percent more efficient than typical houses.

Low - income housing residents who live in «green» buildings that are built with eco-friendly materials and energy - efficient features appear to have fewer «sick building» symptoms (SBS) than residents of traditionally constructed low - income housing, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

«She also serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but again I have not seen clear signs of leadership on energy issues, other than a pattern of consistent votes in favor of fossil fuels and against taking action on climate change,» SquillaceEnergy and Commerce Committee, but again I have not seen clear signs of leadership on energy issues, other than a pattern of consistent votes in favor of fossil fuels and against taking action on climate change,» Squillaceenergy issues, other than a pattern of consistent votes in favor of fossil fuels and against taking action on climate change,» Squillace said.

His grandmother, Mary Beth Staab — «Beth» to her friends — a bright woman with more energy than a Kansas tornado, would hop the few short blocks to her grandson's house to help him practice his numbers and his letters every single day.

I specifically wrote about grams, rather than calories, as converting everything ingested in calories is deceitful; as proteins, fats and carbs are also used as buliding material, and calorie counters completly ignore it treating every piece of food as energy: it's like quantifying a wooden house by using joules, while you don't have an intention to burn it.

Now, she works full - time as a co-owner of online crystal shop My Dream Crystals and as an energy healer — her house contains more than 100 various types of stones.

I continue to feel this way in the beginning half of Luteal and then suddenly, I want to focus my energies more on organizing, taking care of the cleanliness of my house, and sustaining my goals rather than delivering them at a high energy.

Rather than relying on Dan's good business practices to increase sales, Carter concentrates on high - energy pep talks and in - house promotions to inspire «synergy» among his staff.

Rep. George Miller, D - Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, called vouchers «a huge waste of energy» in an interview in late January, and the political climate is even more hostile for vouchers than it was in 2001.

And DOT is working with the White House and 16 other departments and agencies on this plan, which will include more than transportation infrastructure, such as energy, broadband and Veteran's hospitals.

Housed under the rear bench seat, the battery pack weighs less than 80 lb (36 kg) and comprises 60 individual cells with a combined energy capacity of 5 Ah.

Not only will house is in better shape, more attractive curb appeal, increased energy efficiency than when you purchased it, you may have instant equity due to the improvements therefore increased value of your home.

This can provide substantial savings in your house — they use 90 % + less energy than standard lightbulbs.

Find the perfect dog for your family by choosing one that matches the energy level in your house — nothing that needs more exercise than you have time to give, or it will end up back in the shelter.

Senior dogs have reached their maturity levels and have less energy to burn than puppies, so they won't be running around the house as much.

If a dog is well exercised and mentally exhausted, when you leave the apartment or the house, they more than likely won't have any energy to become anxious.

They are also calmer and less energetic than younger pets, which means your dog won't waste its energy shredding up its new bed and your cat won't have the desire to overturn all the potted plants in the house.