Sentences with phrase «fuel generators used»

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

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This gas, composed mostly of methane, can be used as a fuel for power generation (replacing diesel generators), compressed or sold into the natural gas grid.
It's more or less the internet's favorite portable generator — it's fuel - efficient, it's simple to use, it runs quietly, and, for something as strong as this, it's light, weighing in at less than 50 pounds.
It will not consume any fossil fuels — there is no natural gas piped to the site nor are there permanent diesel generators being used to provide power.
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.
Two other companies, Energy Matter Conversion Corp. (EMC2) and Tri Alpha Energy, are developing reactors that use proton - boron fuel, which requires even higher temperatures than deuterium does but allows almost direct conversion of fusion into electricity, without boiling water to drive a generator.
The real «Mr. Fusion,» or «tactical hybrid refinery» to use Army - speak, processes the waste produced by a typical kitchen — food, plastics, paper — into fuel that runs a standard diesel generator.
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).
But if your body doesn't rely on gluconeogenesis as it's primary fuel generator, how does it create energy from fat and REQUIRE fat (and resort to using body fat if deficient in oral fat load)?
CHP captures the waste heat from fuel - based power generators for local use.
That is, the package uses a 2.4 - liter four - cylinder paired with a small, belt - driven motor / generator to help raise fuel economy.
When you finish using the generator, switch it to off while it's running and run the generator out of fuel (without a load on it).
Finally, Charge mode enables the car to use the hydrogen fuel cell system to act as a generator that charges the battery.
Unlike using low sulfur fuel in diesel engine generators to provide electrical power, the system produces no harmful air emissions.
This Regal joins the 2012 LaCrosse as the second Buick to feature the eAssist technology, which uses a state - of - the - art lithium - ion battery system together with an electric induction motor - generator and regenerative braking to improve fuel economy.
This a modular concept that allows three models with different drive configurations: the BlueZERO E-CELL with battery - electric drive and a range of up to 200 kilometres using electric drive alone, the BlueZERO F - CELL (fuel cell) with a range of 250 miles using electric drive and the BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS with electric drive and additional internal combustion engine as power generator (range extender).
The system uses a state - of - the - art lithium - ion battery system and electric motor - generator to enable regenerative braking capability to improve LaCrosse fuel economy by an estimated 25 percent.
Front Livingroom w / Fireplace, King Size Bed, Residential Refrigerator, Washer and Dryer, 4 Slide - outs w / awnings, Full Body Paint, Rear Patio Deck, 5.5 Onan Generator, 3 Season rear door, Keyless entry door, Fueling station, 3 electric awnings, Dyson cordless vacuum, 2nd Air Conditioner, Additional 32» TV in Garage, used very little.
This is not a conventional hybrid of course and so uses an integrated starter generator, which has an inbuilt motor that supplements the engine's power, and boosts fuel efficiency by 18 % to 24.52 kmpl.
They are equipped with the affordable GM Hybrid system, which reduces fuel consumption using sophisticated controls and a unique electric motor / generator mated to a 2.4 L Ecotec VVT four - cylinder engine and Hydra - Matic four - speed transmission.
This «mild» hybrid setup uses a 15 - hp starter / generator in place of the alternator to assist the 2.4 - liter four - cylinder, boosting fuel economy about 20 percent, to 25/36, with power equal to a small V6 (182 hp).
Writing Prompts is an app with generators that use current events, scene elements, words, sketches, colors, genres and writing types, unleashing endless random bits of fantasy to fuel your muse.
Our buses and generators will be fueled with clean - burning biodiesel, made from used vegetable oil donated by local restaurants.
We primarily operate our resort with diesel generators and continually monitor our loads to minimize our power needs and use of fuel.
For boiling water for coffee or tea or cooking dehydrated meals, a solar kettle from Contemporary Energy, again allowing the team to avoid using their diesel generator, which will save fuel.
With a methane economy we could heat and cool our homes, produce electric power at home using a small gas turbine generator, and fuel our vehicles all from our own home tank at far lower cost than using gasoline.
And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators
ERCs can be used by a fossil fuel - fired generator to demonstrate compliance with its assigned performance rate.
The fuel cell can use natural gas more efficiently than a utility - scale generator, if the waste heat, around 145 degrees, can be used for space heating or for heating domestic hot water.
Additionally, excess heat from the electric generator engine is used to heat the farm buildings, reducing the farm's fossil fuel use.
So standby turbine generators (using fossil fuel) have to be constantly running, and constantly speeding up and slowing to idle to make up for the varying output from windmills and the zero output from panels overnight.
The oil - fired (liquid - fired) generators are only used minimally today, due to a combination of high relative fuel prices, air pollution restrictions, and the low efficiencies of the older steam turbines and newer internal combustion units.
Petroleum - fired generators either burn petroleum liquids (such as distillate or residual fuel oils) or petroleum coke, a refinery waste product that can be used as a fuel much like coal.
Changing the certification fuel to E15 or E30 is at odds with the 22 million motorcycles and all - terrain vehicles currently in use, not to mention the legacy fleet of cars, boats, lawnmowers, generators and hundreds of millions of small engines in commerce today.
The Churchill outlet's owner, Luis Diego Vásquez, recalls how he used to spend up to $ 40 a day on fueling a smelly generator to keep the shop running.
Better still, it can be compressed and purified for use as fuel in generators, garbage trucks, or mixed into natural gas supply.
For instance, using solar panels, battery storage and microgrids instead of using fossil fuels and generators can deliver the power safely to enclosed campuses.
I think you'd be much better off just drying and pelletizing the cellulosic material and using a syngas generator to produce carbon monoxide and then fuel your internal combustion engine directly from the CO which requires very little modification to the engine — about the same as the modifications required to run it from natural gas or propane.
When deployed, it's claimed that the AWT requires minimal maintenance and will displace expensive fuel used to power diesel generators at remote industrial, military, and village sites.
It will not consume any fossil fuels — there is no natural gas piped to the site nor are there permanent diesel generators being used to provide power.
Synapse also modeled the impact that energy efficiency and renewable energy have on fossil fuel consumption by grid - connected electric generators using EPA's AVERT.
Generators» use of petroleum is much more responsive to relative fuel price changes.
Many Indians are installing point of use solar to help cope with an unreliable grid and save fuel costs on diesel generators.
Electricity generators typically use steam turbines to transform energy from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal into electricity that can be used for residential, commercial, industrial, or transportation purposes.
Generators would be required to use the allowances to purchase fossil fuels.
Among the biggest advantages of the electric drive train is diversification of the power source, you can then use the electric grid, a very efficient ICE that only runs at a specific RPM and load to run a generator for additional range, a hydrogen or methanol fuel cell, or a Mr. Fusion, it really doesn't matter.
B. Capacity Factors for Utility Scale Generators Not Primarily Using Fossil Fuels, January 2013 - February 2018
The Climeon system will drastically reduce the need of diesel used in generators leading to lower fuel usage and lower sulfur emissions.
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.
In the past diesel fuel had be used to run generators to power the kitchen.
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