Sentences with phrase «fuel their electricity while»

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As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

While the cost of electricity from coal and gas will go up and down given the volatility of the markets for those fuels, we can enter into a 20 year contract for renewable energy where we know what we'll be paying for the electricity today and in 2033.»

Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.

«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

While many schemes supported through these levies make a valuable contribution to meeting Government targets to save energy, reduce emissions, and tackle fuel poverty and climate change the latest Government estimate indicated that they currently account for 4 % of a typical gas bill and up to 10 % of a typical electricity bill.

Biodigesters won't quite generate «1.21 jigawatts» of power (as Doc's Mr. Fusion device seemed to), but they can create fuel for heating, cooking, and electricity while reducing waste and water contamination.

This week in Science Advances, he offers one answer: a fuel cell that generates electricity while converting carbon dioxide into a commodity chemical.

While humankind has been digging fuel from the ground and burning it for power, living plants and the soil they grow in have been hiding some serious potential as electricity generators.

If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, it would virtually eliminate concerns about their range and lower their cost, perhaps making electricity the standard fuel for vehicles.

While turkeys at Thanksgiving are an age - old custom, a new study shows that turkey excrement may have a future as a fuel for heat and electricity.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

The fuel supplied 10 % of U.S. electricity needs for two decades while permanently eliminating 20,000 warheads worth of weapons - grade material by the time the last shipment of fuel was received at the end of 2013.

While algae - powered fuel cells are unlikely to generate enough electricity to power a grid system, they may be particularly useful in areas such as rural Africa, where sunlight is in abundance but there is no existing electric grid system.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electricity.

Under the hood, the Lexus LC - FC luxury sedan will make use of a fuel - cell powertrain, with the electricity being sent to the front - wheel motors, while another electric motor would send additional power to the front axle.

Some use their hybrid systems to improve performance, while others take the more traditional route of using electricity to supplement their internal combustion engines specifically for better fuel economy.

Based on the just released Low Carbon Fuel Standard prepared by the University of California for the Governor, «regular» gasoline as a value of 85 — 92 g CO2 eq / MJ, while natural gas has a value of ~ 80 g CO2 eq / MJ, electricity in California has an average value of 27 g CO2 eq / MJ (when used to drive an electric vehicle), and cellulosic ethanol derived from municipal solid waste is ~ 5 g CO2 eq / MJ.

But the price of oil never rose as was predicted, so the solar plant never became competitive with fossil fuel - based energy production (Carrizo sold its electricity to the local utility for between three and four cents a kilowatt - hour, while a minimum price of eight to ten cents a kilowatt - hour would be necessary in order for Carrizo to make a profit).»

Analyzing the Chevy Volt, the new sedan that is supposed to go 40 miles on batteries and then use a gasoline engine, he calculated that because of inefficiencies in electricity generation, its fuel economy was no better than a Toyota Prius hybrid running on gasoline, while its price was roughly double that of the Prius.

While these recent advancements are welcome, I think the fuel cell for conversion back to electricity is still too expensive for the whole system to be practical.

Continued efforts to diversify China's electricity fuel sources by ramping up natural gas contributions continue, with a supply deal with Myanmar while a major gas find was reported in Xinjiang.

Oil subsidies make up over half of the total fossil fuel consumption subsidies, while electricity makes up 24 percent, natural gas 22 percent and coal 0.4 percent.

Friedman... would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests... While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions — like electricity, fuel and steel — there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public.

DC's proposed carbon price would thus be an incentive to switch to cleaner fuels and reduce emissions from non-electricity sources like heating and transportation, while Boulder's carbon tax is non-bypassable charge on electricity that applies even if one switches to cleaner energy.

Biochar advocates and agrofuel associates claim that the already depleted land base and terrestrial ecosystems will provide enough biomass to become a major source of the world's heating fuel, electricity, road transport and aviation fuels — while providing enough charcoal to bury to appreciably mitigate climate change.

While coal is also New Zealand's most abundant fossil fuel, the island nation generated 73 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in 2009.

IEA Executive Director discusses opportunities and challenges in Thailand's energy sector with Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand New Agency report, Thailand Electricity Security Assessment, supports fuel diversification and efficiency measures while urging increase in renewables 7 April 2016

While the ideal in regard to energy and the environment would be greatly reduced energy generation and consumption, replacement of fossil - fuelled electricity by renewables like wind is next best.

The International Energy Agency's Africa Energy Outlook - a Special Report in the 2014 World Energy Outlook series - indicates that some 625 million people in Africa do not have access to electricity, while another estimated 730 million Africans on the continent use dirty and potentially hazardous fuels to cook.

Because while it's true that electric cars don't run on gasoline, they do run on electricity, which, in the U.S. is often produced by another fossil fuel — coal.

CSP can be piggybacked on to a fossil fueled traditional plant, since — though while one harvests the sun, the other burns oil — both use that heat to turn the same turbines to make electricity.

In Oregon, biomass waste from urban, agricultural, and forestry sources could generate hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel every year, while electricity could cleanly and affordably power increasing numbers of new advanced vehicles.

While the CEI doesn't reveal its funding sources, the Washington Post looked at a sample of donors at CEI's annual dinner which included energy companies Marathon Petroleum, Koch Industries, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM).

We certainly don't need any new coal mines or gas wells to have sufficient fossil fuel supply to keep existing power generators running while we transition to renewable electricity generation.

As to the intermittency of fossil fueled plants, an interesting event happened in Texas a few years ago in which a hard frost caused a bunch of coal and gas - fired plants to fail simultaneously while the wind turbines continued to generate electricity.

While total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant; fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity production at scale.

The other component needed to make the system complete is an equally micron sized and equally accurate factory acting as a fuel cell, consuming sugar & atmospheric oxygen and producing electricity on demand while releasing carbon dioxide & water to the environment.

From 2005 to 2016, fossil - fuel electricity generation declined by about 9 %, while non-fossil (non-carbon) electricity generation rose by 25 %.

Electricity generation CO2 savings from changes in the fuel mix since 2005: This figure shows the emissions savings from two factors that have allowed emissions to decrease from 2005 to 2016, while generation has risen slightly.

While the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) doesn't reveal the sources behind its $ 7 million annual budget, the Washington Post was able to glimpse a snapshot of CEI's funding in a list of donors to CEI's annual dinner, which included energy companies Marathon Petroleum, Koch Industries, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM).

The use of different liquid fuels, in blends with gasoline and diesel or as «neat fuels» require minimal or no changes to the vehicle, while a variety of gaseous fuels and electricity would require major changes.

The CO2 from fossil fuels used to produce most of the electricity in Virginia contributes to global warming, while the soaring cost of energy undermines the global economy and contributes to hunger around the world.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

The reality is that, while renewable fuels are an important part of our nation's energy equation, the high - growth renewables remain intermittent and therefore unable to provide a consistent and reliable base for electricity generation.

Coal is the fuel of choice for 44 % of electricity generation, while natural gas accounts for a quarter.

(While sustainably generated electricity is sold at a higher price than fossil fuel generated electricity — and this is a form of subsidy — it does not receive the numerous hidden subsidies that fossil fuel power gets.)

In 2001, the government increased taxes on diesel fuel, heating oil, and electricity while lowering income taxes and social security contributions.

Ohio's renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are vital and effective tools to diversify Ohio's electricity portfolio and wean the state from its overreliance on fossil fuels while meeting the state's energy demands in a cleaner, safer and more sustainable manner.

Fred Palmer's Claim # 1: «Using coal for electricity enables people to live longer and better and drives the lowest U.S. electricity costs for any major fuel,» while EPA's proposed power plan «would endanger human health and welfare by making electricity — one of life's necessities — scarce and expensive.»

SELF - CARBURETED EMBODIMENTS are truly stand - alone: they burn fuel in GT's own gas turbines, generating the heat and electricity needed to capture their own emissions while also capturing CO2 from the atmosphere, remaining carbon negative.