Sentences with phrase «even more electricity»

Given that many countries have mandated an end to diesel and gasoline powered automobiles within 25 years, one would also think that we will need even more electricity to charge up all those electric cars and trucks.

If it closes the plants, it will import even more electricity — and keep coal plants on - line longer, notes Julian Spector of Greentech Media:

The Fidget would come in different shapes for boys and girls, and would spin and bounce to encourage even more electricity generation.

It is hoped that even more electricity will be produced from this source in the future.

Dutch scientists have a use for all the carbon dioxide that pours from the chimneys of fossil fuel - burning power stations: Harvest it for even more electricity

«So each transaction where there's an exchange of goods or services happening is really representing even more electricity.»

Not exact matches

Even in states that wish to favor coal - fired power, it will be difficult to convince ratepayers that they ought to pay more for electricity from coal than they could pay for electricity from alternative sources.

And analysts predict wind costs could come down even more, thanks in part to software and computing that make converting wind to electricity more efficient.

A Powerpack system enables StubHub to store electricity during off - peak times, when the grid is more capable and favors delivering excess electricity, then discharge to the stadium during peak evening hours when the grid is under its heaviest load.

In the first four months of this year, electricity use increased even more slowly, at 6 percent, against a year - earlier gain of 11.2 percent.

Perhaps even better, the investment he made into an electricity company is paying his electricity bill, and more besides!

It was the guilt that, more than all the coal or electricity or even atomic power, turned the huge and countless wheels of American industry.

The state of our kitchen being completely without electricity, which is made even more frustrating by the fact we're not even in the middle of a renovation, despite it very much needing one!

Things are looking a lot more rosy than they did last week... I even quite like the fluorescent accents on the new third kit... Just hope Arsene isn't test running it, in order to save on electricity at the Emirates....

We will trust ourselves more to build our own cars, transform our subsistence farming to profitable and industrial agriculture, and even build nuclear power plants to generate electricity.

According to the governor's office, coal accounts for 4 % of electricity generation in New York, a number sure to drop even more absent Dunkirk and Huntley.

MoveOn also responded to electrical blackouts and skyrocketing energy costs in California by calling for cost controls on electricity utility companies, organizing a nationwide «roll your own energy blackout» - a voluntary, three - hour electricity - free evening on June 21, in which more than 10,000 participants turned out lights and unplugged TVs and other appliances to protest Bush's energy plan.

That certainly becomes true when we look beyond electric cars to an even more pressing energy problem: how to store electricity on the grid.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

And even the most optimistic projections have wind power accounting for less than 3 percent of total electricity production by 2020 — more than the current U.S. share of 0.4 percent but far less than world leader, Denmark, which gets roughly 20 percent of its power from the wind.

But storing surplus wind - generated electricity in batteries results in even greater reductions — from about 20 percent for lithium - ion batteries to more than 50 percent for lead - acid.

But small server rooms, or even closets, employed by smaller companies the world over, typically do not have computers with the most efficient cooling and use up to twice as much electricity per computation as the more effective computers employed by many large computing companies.

The city and the university are talking about a second round of Fort Zed tests, bringing in more solar and wind power and cutting the city's vulnerability to an electricity outage even lower.

Twenty percent of the energy used to stage the games came from renewable energy sources, even though Beijing still relies on coal for more than 40 percent of its electricity consumption.

Researchers last week delivered a petition with more than 82,000 signatures to congressional leaders in Brasília, demanding the reversal of deep budget cuts that have left research institutions struggling to pay even basic water and electricity bills.

We have demonstrated that in winter Helsinki, black cells generate considerably more electricity than traditional cells even though both cells have identical efficiency values,» she adds.

For the more than two - thirds of Africa's sub-Saharan population that lacks access to electricity, even the most mundane tasks can be difficult or even deadly.

Crunching the numbers, they concluded that a global network of land - based turbines could make 40 times more electricity than the world currently consumes — even if they only operated at 20 percent of their capacity.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

Such wrecked peaks are unknown to most Americans, even though more than 50 percent of our homes are supplied with electricity produced by coal - fired power plants.

Therefore, even if uranium prices doubled or more, the impact on electricity prices would be minimal.

By automating the process of designing optical interconnects, they feel that they have set the stage for the next generation of even faster and far more energy - efficient computers that use light rather than electricity for internal data transport.

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.

The M.I.T. report predicts that even if the world's fleet of more than 400 nuclear power plants grew to be 4,000 such plants that then operated for a century, the cost of the electricity from those facilities would rise by a mere 1 percent as a result of the increased demand for uranium.

«Per capita use of electricity is pretty much the same over several decades in California, even though there are more electrical appliances and gadgets around the house,» Kelly notes.

Plug - in hybrids benefit from the more efficient use of fossil fuels in electricity generation even now and so have lower emissions than internal combustion engine cars, and if they get their juice from renewables, emissions would be very low indeed.

The government says that completely banning fossil fuels from local industry will be a «titanic and beautiful task,» even though the country already generates more than 99 percent of its electricity using renewable energy sources.

Even more important, however, in fueling the drama are the ever - evolving relationships between those familiar characters, the most fascinating continuing to be that between Don and Roma, whose tense and still - intense erotic electricity ignites further complications, manipulations, and uneasy yet undeniable truths.

In addition to Ms. Lawrence and Mr. Sutherland, returning to the fold are Josh Hutcherson as Peeta (still lacking even an ounce of screen presence), Woody Harrelson as Haymitch (giving a bit more effort this time around), Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Paula Malcomson as Katniss» mother (seen recently as Abby in «Ray Donovan «-RRB-, Willow Shields as Prim, Liam Hemsworth as Gale (his most exciting scene is washing his hands), and of course the instant electricity and energy provided by Elizabeth Banks as Effie and Stanley Tucci as Caesar — two of the most colorful characters this side of 1970's era Elton John.

You can also set a charging timer so it begins charging in off - peak hours while you're asleep to save even more money if you get better electricity rates at 2 a.m..

If tomorrow cars are cleaner and use cheap electricity instead of expensive oil then we will be able to drive them even more so we will be, human race, definitively a world of obeses once for all, so thanks but no thanks

Unlike other hybrids, like the Toyota Prius and even the Honda Civic Hybrid, the ILX is unable to operate on electricity alone; however it does employ a regenerative braking system that traps the kinetic energy created during braking and converts it to electricity in order to give the lithium - ion battery a little more zap.

There is no electronic seat adjustment and there won't be, even as an option, because BMW says it didn't want to use electricity that could be used for more range.

EV mode drives the car under electricity only for as long as the battery can hold out, but even on a full charge that won't be much more than a mile.

Mütter's story is even more remarkable given that the surgeons of the time worked without access to electricity or anesthesia.

At present, even the top holdings — electricity utility Energias de Portugal and Russian integrated natural gas titan Gazprom — command small weights of just more than 2 %.

It would likely take you a long time to even mine a single Bitcoin, by which time you probably would have spent more on electricity.

You might be able to fix a dog guarding his food with a jolt of electricity, but you run the risk of his becoming even more agitated or worse: If he happens to be looking at your child when he receives a shock, he could become fearful of and aggressive towards children.

Solar power is more costly than wind, watt for watt, experts say, but delivers the energy at a time of day when electricity prices are higher and is more valuable even if it is more costly.