Sentences with phrase «fuel generator because»

Such a system is also called an artificial leaf or solar - fuel generator because in many ways it mimics the process which plants use to convert sunlight and CO2 into oxygen and fuel (sugars, carbohydrates).

Not exact matches

We have to figure out everything, ranging from simple stuff, like where to buy a generator and an air conditioner — because you have to have an air conditioner if you want to have any Canadian or European geologists on site — to where to find a backhoe, a backhoe operator and fuel for the backhoe, not to mention a diamond drill.»

Recently generators at seven health centres in the besieged Gaza Strip stopped working due to a fuel shortage and Gaza's largest hospital cancelled all medical procedures because hospital cleaning staff went on strike.

For one, it does not completely eliminate the need for fossil fuels, because the associated electric generators use natural gas to supplement the energy from the stored compressed air.

Because hydrogen fuel cells operate more efficiently at less - than - maximum power, their advantage relative to diesel generators rises, he said.

Wind generators can offer their electricity for bid into the Texas wholesale market at a zero price because they pay no fuel costs.

Be kind to your energy generator, because you can not operate at peak performance if your fuel tank is empty.

The middle of the day was when the fossil fuel generators used to generate most revenue, because demand was highest.

Because by pushing power generators to ditch fossil fuels for cleaner alternatives, the plan aimed to not only protect our planet, but accelerate the renewable energy revolution already underway across the country and grow jobs in the green - tech sector that already employs over 3 million Americans.

This is because power prices often reflect the operating costs of marginal natural gas generators, and natural gas fuel prices are keenly sensitive to winter weather (colder temperatures mean more gas burned for space heating).

For example, if wind supplied 15 % of the electricity, it would save less than 15 % of fuel because other generators backing up the wind must often run at idle even when the wind is blowing and because their fuel economy suffers when they have to ramp up and slow down to compensate for variability in wind.

This means a duplication of capacity and more than doubling of the costs (because the renewable energy generators are much higher cost than the fossil fuel generators which are essential back up and could do the job on their own).

Tate and her husband rely on two electric fans to cope with the oven - like heat and rarely turn on the small air conditioner in their bedroom because of the high cost of fuel to run their generator.

But because backup generators must repeatedly surge to full power and back to standby, as wind speed rises and falls, they operate inefficiently, use more fuel and emit more — much like cars forced to stop repeatedly on freeways.

(Typically, storage is not needed, because wind generators are only part of the power plants on a utility system, and other fuel sources are used when the wind is not blowing.