Sentences with phrase «far more electricity»

«In many cases, they are using far more electricity than necessary.»

We have far more electricity flowing into our grids from installed wind turbines and solar panels than we use in a year to manufacturer and install wind turbines and solar panels.

Companies such as Canada's Finavera Renewables and Scotland's Pelamis Wave Power also apparently see the allure of wave power, which scientists say could potentially generate far more electricity than wind and solar power.

While the era of consumer - driven growth may be ebbing, the sheer size of the mushrooming global middle class, even if it becomes an energy - thrifty culture, guarantees the need for far more electricity.

OLEDs convert far more electricity into light than incandescent light bulbs, which turn most incoming electricity into heat.

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These aren't the kind of hacks that mean tech - savvy folks need to change their login credentials, but precursors to something far more serious: potentially devastating and life - threatening infrastructure disruptions that could leave thousands or millions of people without electricity or other utilities.

«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.

We can also use much less electricity, partly by reducing unnecessary lighting, but chiefly by using far more efficient fixtures and appliances.

And it has only grown more hostile to business under Cuomo, with far - higher minimum wages, mandates on sick leave, a ban on fracking and surcharges on 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.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

A much tidier solution is a nuclear power source, which is far more compact and delivers a steady flow of electricity, regardless of its distance from the sun.

Starting with the natural pigments that help plants harvest solar rays, Velev and his team have crafted a flexible, nontoxic photovoltaic device that he hopes could eventually generate clean electricity far more cheaply than today's silicon - based solar panels.

It's far more efficient to burn the biomass for electricity and then use the electricity in cars.»

Li said the study's findings should further spur countries like China and India to cut aerosol emissions so they reduce pollution and thereby increase their solar electricity generation more rapidly, in addition to the already known health benefits.

Despite a few setbacks — the river's powerful flow damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades — the company has managed to keep two of the turbines operational, supply electricity to a nearby supermarket and, more recently, attract $ 8.5 million in funding from sources including the U.S. Department of Energy and the Canadian government to further develop and test its technology.

This would send more solar electricity into the grid — which, in turn, should further cut the need for fossil fuels.

The calculation leaves out major costs, such as expanding and strengthening the power grid to handle far more complex flows of electricity from millions of solar installations, and creating breakthroughs in energy storage technology to lengthen solar power's impact beyond the daylight hours and to deal with sudden drops in output when clouds arrive.

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.

Americans would also have to become far more efficient in their use of electricity.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Now the stunning cost reductions for solar electricity, wind electricity, batteries, electric vehicles and hundreds of impressive efficiency improvements are all dramatically improving our ability to reduce emissions and become far more efficient.

A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar far more economical and reliable.

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.

With a more normal hybrid, also brilliantly because it uses less fuel, goes further and more speedily on electricity alone, is more fun to drive and somehow «purer» in concept.

«In the same time, the pricing of electricity has increased from 6.6 cents to 9.9 cents, a change of only 50 %, making electricity a far more attractive commodity from a pricing standpoint.»

If used hard, the Tesla will use much more electricity than commonly advertised, and eat range, but since mid-2012 it's had by far more takers.

It's been widely assumed that this is due to the lack of a battery packs ability to hold larger amounts of electricity which would result in more energy to deliver to your electric motor — thus allowing you to travel farther.

The advantage of the Honda Clarity Plug - in Hybrid is that, once you have traveled those 47 miles, the 1.5 - liter Atkinson - cycle four - cylinder engine kicks in to generate more electricity and take you as far as 340 miles on a single tank of gas.

Generating electricity locally is also far more efficient as it cuts out the substantial power line losses that are experienced when electricity is used a great distance from where it is generated.

The latter two can't go nearly as far on electricity alone as the Volt, but they are otherwise similar in powertrain concept, not to mention more practical due to their roomier passenger and cargo compartments.

In any case, the Home Energy Controller is a far cry and a lot more sci - fi in comparison to the current practice of monitoring electricity usage by sensing the rotation of a thin disc inside a meter placed on the exterior of the house and rotates as per the power consumption that is taking place in the house.

What's more, as governments pursue policies to decarbonise electricity supplies, the emissions from high - speed rail journeys will only further reduce.

And again, my position is that (1) nuclear power is not needed, since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables; (2) nuclear can not possibly be expanded enough, quickly enough to have any significant impact on reducing GHG emissions in the time frame that's needed, while renewables can be (and already are); and (3) resources invested in expanding nuclear power would be far more effectively invested in renewables and / or efficiency, and the opportunity costs of nuclear therefore mean that putting resources into nuclear power hinders rather than helps the effort to quickly reduce CO2 emissions from generating electricity.

The USA has vast commercially exploitable wind, solar and geothermal energy resources, far more than enough to generate all the electricity we need to sustain a comfortable, technologically advanced civilization.

Ramping up a massive effort to replace electricity generation with solar and nuclear, for example, will take decades and cost far more than most people realize.

At the same time, utilities are feeling the squeeze from distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, which further threatens to erode their ability to sell more kilowatt - hours of electricity to their customers and build more power plants.

They've caused electricity to be far more expensive than it could and should be, caused global GHG emissions to be 10 - 20 % higher than it could have been and caused the rate of emissions reductions over the coming decades to be very much slower than it would be of not for their irrational, ideologically driven scare mongering.

When asked for the evidence that nuclear is more dangerous than other ways to make electricity, Beauchamp said, «We're not too far from Fukushima.»

You'd also know that weather - dependent renewables can not supply much of global electricity, let alone global energy and they are far more expensive than nuclear to provide reliable power (which is an essential requirement).

Far more could be achieved toward increasing Australia's renewable energy generation and reducing emissions by spending the same amount of money on upgrading the country's electricity grid to permit private investors to build wind and solar projects.

One reason is that Arizona utilities make far more money running old, polluting coal plants that generate electricity for around 3 cents / kWh, than risking a loss of sales to solar energy.

Propane is far more efficient than electricity for any heating element and in most cases leads a better cooking experience.

The net result of all these tactics is that ratepayers and tax payers are more likely to pay dearly in terms of increasing rates for electricity and decreasing electric reliability since each month will bring further EPA efforts to force states to build «renewable» sources of electric power.

Such a change would allow utilities to purchase electricity from wind energy projects in other states, such as Iowa, where wind energy is more efficient, cheaper, and turbines can be erected further away from the residences.

It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war on coal» on raising electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay on the so - called Clean Power Plan.

South Australia has more wind power than any other Australian state, but consumes far less electricity than the more populous states.

It would be a major long term hit to our economy for the US to generate more electricity from natural gas while the alternatives of energy efficiency and renewable energy are far more economically and environmentally affordable.

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Electricity tax rates, more direct, government - sponsored conservation initiatives, and development of alternative energies can have far - reaching impacts on home electricity consumption and itsElectricity tax rates, more direct, government - sponsored conservation initiatives, and development of alternative energies can have far - reaching impacts on home electricity consumption and itselectricity consumption and its emissions.