Sentences with phrase «fueled electricity did»

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This summer, it's piloting a fuel - cell unit that stores energy chemically but can convert it back into electricity on demand without wearing out, like batteries do.

At a press conference, Perry said it was immoral to withhold fossil fuel - powered electricity from the many people around the world who do not have access to power.

«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.»

How does President Obama think we can protect the environment without hurting the poor by, for example, making electricity, fuel, and food more expensive?

«Let's do what we can to make sure we have the energy available for people right now but invest in forward thinking: in renewable technologies, in wind turbines, in solar panels, in geothermal, to help us transition off so we have the ability to use energy and electricity in future years to come not with fossil fuels.»

Not only does this system reduce their electricity bought from the grid by 70 %, but it helps Bates Troy serve their customers even during power outages and shifts away from standard fossil fuels.

Cuomo's plan, released a couple of years ago, would cut the use of fossil fuels for electricity in the state in half by 2030, but does not apply those same goals to other carbon emmissions.

«The Ghanaian used to pay less for electricity and fuel under the NDC than they do today.

Our job is to enable that,» says Ramamoorthy Ramesh, director of DoE's SunShot Initiative, a bid to make solar power as cheap as electricity from burning fossil fuels.

Uranium 238 is much more common in nature than uranium 235 but does not fission well, so fuel manufacturers boost the uranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electricity.

In a future hydrogen economy, he imagines, a house would function much like a leaf does, using the sun to power household electricity and to break down water into fuel — a sort of artificial photosynthesis.

There is always going to be some local need for fossil - based fuels, you know, in industrial processing or some things you just can't do with electricity, but by and large, right, if you wanted to try to replace those sorts of applications with biofuels and things like that, then you could be off oil altogether.

«This means that the mere existence of storage technology, which benefits both renewable and fossil fuel power generation, doesn't necessarily lead to lower carbon emissions from electricity generation.»

These fuel cells do not harvest electricity as an output.

It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.

And the power grid could be modernized to use cheaper, greener fuels such as sunlight or wind even on days when the sun doesn't shine bright enough or the wind doesn't blow hard enough to meet electricity demand.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

The company is doing enough business in such fuel cells for backup electricity, for example, that it makes sense, according to spokesman Daniel Pepitone.

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 Stanford scientists suggested roofs covered in photovoltaic panels would do a better job, by producing electricity that then obviates the need for more fossil fuel — burning power plants.

The only way to do that, as studies have shown, is to have an extremely clean electricity system and to significantly increase the use of that electricity to offset the use of fossil fuels in other sectors.

Unlike fossil fuels, nuclear energy does not create greenhouse gases when generating clean, reliable baseload electricity.

I think all of this components runs on electricity, and since (I think) the battery is always being recharged every time the engine is running, I don't believe they have an effect on fuel consumption, but I wanted to be sure anyway.

The lack of an electrical ignition system also reduces the parasitic load on the engine, as the engine does not have to produce the necessary electricity to ignite the fuel.

As do many high - performance hybrids, the 911 would use electricity as a power - adder rather than a fuel - saver, with Blume adding the car will have «a special button for the electric punch.»

Not only does it deliver a big power boost, it can also serve up superior fuel economy, as its plug - in hybrid drive system can go for about 30 miles on electricity alone.

This electric version doesn't use batteries to store electricity, but is instead refueled with hydrogen to power the fuel cells.

Plus don't assume dual fuel (getting gas & electricity from one supplier) is cheapest.

Doing this with our organic wastes - biofuel crop, some energy is generated and we could greatly expand windmill generated electricity that has no GHG emissions and actually recycles some of the energy excess created by fossil fuels.

The only real reason seems to be financial — fossil fuel interests and global fossil - fueled transportation & electricity interests don't want to face lawsuits over the costs of these extreme weather events, and they also don't want to see their markets for fossil fuels shrink.

They don't give the details of their system, so it is hard to analyze, but my guess is that one could drive 8 times farther on the electricity they use compared to the liquid fuel they produce.

However, the NYT, to their credit, did cover the current efforts by the BLM to sabotage the expansion of solar thermal electricity generation in the U.S.: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/us/27solar.html — that would be the same BLM that has been working overtime to transfer public lands to fossil fuel interests for the past 8 years or so.

«And it was only a few weeks ago when I pointed out that your single - minded reliance on comparing capital costs misses the fact that nukes need fuel and solar and wind don't, and that goes into electricity costs as well.»

How do you deal with the fact that wind electricity is competitive with fossil fuel and nuclear electricity NOW and is still coming down?

Just like the Europeans have managed to use 50 % less fossil fuels than we do to create their equally good lifestyles, Californians have lead the nation in living the good life on less electricity.

But with the very real prospect of electricity replacing oil for much of our transportation fuel, and efficiency and renewables squeezing the traditional utility model hard, it doesn't take divine insight to start seeing that forward - thinking investors would be wise to factor in climate exposure to every investment they make.

Provided investment in solar increases ($ 26 - 33 billion per year is required) the US could be generating 10 % of its electricity from solar power by 2025, and doing it at a lower cost than from conventional fuel sources.

Trains can run on diesel as well as electricity (or coal if the dark ages do indeed return) and provide greater hauling capacity per unit fuel (or unit CO2 if you prefer).

I don't personally care much about the glaciers but I want fuel for my car and electricity to come out of the wall socket.

However, you don't want to argue for a rational solution — i.e. cheap nuclear power (which also happens to be 10 to 100 times safer than our currently accepted main source of electricity generation, fossil fuel) and also happens to be a near zero emission technology (in fact much lower than renewables given they need fossil fuel backup, and given solar needs about 10 times as much material per TWh on an LCA basis).

The United States faces a vexing challenge in switching from conventional to clean sources to generate electricity: How do we replace fossil fuel when natural gas costs $ 4 per million BTU and demand for electricity is expected to increase by over 20 % by 2035?

Many also believe that electricity rates will rise substantially — since the current power grid needs maintained alongside the wind farms for when the wind doesn't blow, the maintenance costs could outweigh the benefit of free fuel from the wind.

In the processing industry, Statistics Canada does not separate the amount of energy consumed into these energy forms and reports only the dollar value of the costs of electricity and fuels.

It was spurred by Microsoft's quest to combat climate change by using electricity that does not generate the carbon emissions released by fossil - fuel combustion.

Fourth, the most cost - effective and significant avenue for emissions reductions is through fuel switching in the electricity grid, but state and local governments do not control the grid.

Project type: Farm Power What they do: An anaerobic digester turns manure into fuel for electricity or heat, as well as cow bedding for use on the farm and in the community.

Progressively phasing out fossil fuels in favor of clean electricity is what USA should have been doing for the last 30 + years.

He notes they don't compete much with oil, used mostly as a transportation fuel, but they do compete with natural gas, often used to power plants that produce electricity.

Interestingly, a similar thing we don't give much attention to is that the fuel we use to create electricity and to power our vehicles also essentially comes from the same source.

Binary metrics such as whether a household has an electricity connection, and whether a household cooks with non-solid fuels, do not help us understand the phenomenon of expanding energy access and how it impacts socioeconomic development.