Sentences with phrase «generating electricity»

«We must... move toward running new vehicles on electricity and to generating that electricity from clean, renewable sources like solar and wind power.»

The company plans to recover some of this energy by fitting a turbine inside the tailpipe: the fast - moving exhaust gases coming straight from the engine drive the turbine, generating electricity.

But when the temperature dropped back down to 160 F (70 C), the polyethylene shrunk, the particles came back into contact, and the battery started generating electricity again.

The ships would sail to a suitable location, drop anchor and start generating electricity from wave energy.

Different wavelengths of light interact with solar cells in very different ways — with visible light being the most efficient at generating electricity while infrared is more efficient at carrying heat.

Fly Ash Bricks In the process of generating electricity, U.S. coal plants spew more than 70 million tons a year of a radioactive waste called fly ash.

He wanted to find out just what happened in the process of generating electricity from chemical reactions.

Perhaps by the time electric cars are ubiquitous, pollution from generating electricity will be zero.

In practice, fuel cells and batteries are combined, with the fuel cell generating electricity and the batteries storing it until demanded by the motors that drive the vehicle.

«Globally, twice as many emissions come from generating electricity than from all forms of transportation — planes, trains, cars and others,» says Carol Battershell, vice president for strategy and policy at the company's subsidiary, BP Alternative Energy.

This may be seen as especially positive since it is then that electricity use peaks and the cost of generating electricity is highest.

The hydrogen passes through a membrane and combines with oxygen in the fuel cell, generating electricity and waste water.

In this scenario, Indiana farm businesses and homes would have about an 84 percent chance of saving money by generating electricity from solar rather than coal power.

The aim was to test the prospects of generating electricity by dragging the cable through the Earth's magnetic field.

Environmental problems of generating electricity could be tackled by switching to bio-fuels such as elephant grass, straw and wood from poplar trees, claims the Dutch energy and environment organisation Novem.

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

Propane fuel was burned inside a chamber, and the pressure from the resulting combustion products distorted a dielectric elastomer diaphragm, generating electricity.

The change, if implemented, could make natural gas a less attractive option for generating electricity in power plants.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

The patented process involves capturing and recycling the exhaust gas that's produced from generating electricity with landfill methane.

In the U.S. generating electricity or putting the natural gas into a pipeline often makes sense because of existing infrastructure.

At high tide, when the piston has reached the top of the tank again, the outlet valve is closed, and the system is ready to resume generating electricity as the tide falls.

When energy is needed, the water is released to flow through turbines, generating electricity.

On arrival, the equipment unfurls around the container with minimal assembly, and starts generating electricity.

The equalized cost of generating electricity on a rooftop, the report said, may lead many people to «defect» from the power grid.

It has developed a low - cost process that can be adapted for a range of industrial needs while generating electricity for rural communities at the same time.

Membranes do have their virtues, of course: They protect the inner workings of gazillions of living cells that are already out there generating electricity.

Also on display will be EAPs capable of generating electricity by a reverse process, creating a current when physically pumped, as well as robots that can harvest their own power and muscles that provide sensory feedback.

At the moment Dr Khan and his team of three PhD students are testing the system for generating electricity in warmer climates.

It seems to me the trick to making it an attractive proposition is to view it as a means of generating electricity, rather than as a means of generating money.

Designed by Harvard researcher Zachary Manchester, about half the wafer consists of a solar cell for generating electricity, and the rest includes a small microprocessor, a radio transceiver and magnetometer, and a gyroscope for navigation and orientation.

The heated liquid is used to generate steam, which turns a turbine, generating electricity.

Finding the right mix of green energy technologies for generating electricity will be crucial in reducing the global impact of pollution for the next generation, according to a United Nations report co-written by a Yale professor.

But the power plants generating the electricity that makes life in early 21st century America so convenient spew a steady stream of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in the process.

At the same time, nuclear reactors are still the only option for generating electricity on a large scale with no carbon emissions.

Magnets are the key to generating electricity, of course, and electricity is the key to the use of cleaner sources of energy — whether wind turbines or electric vehicles.

Even if we find a way of generating the electricity, you've got to transport that energy from the deserts, where people don't live, to other places on the continents where they do live, and you've got to shift the time when the energy is available.

By 2004, reactor performance had improved to the point of generating electricity over 90 percent of the time.

Comprehending and reducing turbulence will facilitate the development of fusion as a safe, clean and abundant source of energy for generating electricity from power plants around the world.

Researchers are proposing a new «hydricity» concept aimed at creating a sustainable economy by not only generating electricity with solar energy but also producing and storing hydrogen from superheated water for round - the - clock power production.

In 1980, American nuclear power plants were generating electricity only 56 percent of the time because they frequently needed special maintenance or repair.

By the end of this year, the nation's first offshore wind farm should begin generating electricity

Stick - on solar cells about to flop off the production line could revolutionise the business of generating electricity from sunlight

But once it's produced, gas is a far cleaner fuel than coal for generating electricity.

Hein said construction of the solar array is expected to be completed by year's end and that it should begin generating electricity for the county by March 2018.

A large part of the electricity gap should be met by energy saving measures: the National Audit Office recently found that efficiency schemes cost 1.8 pence to save a kilowatt hour of electricity, cheaper than all known means of generating electricity.

What is listed is in the ground, generating electricity and selling it.

They also give competitive advantage to certain businesses against others - so, certain «green» businesses get preferential tax treatment compared to, say, traditional energy companies, thus making it more profitable to engage in, say, wind energy than in building other means of generating electricity.

You can also demonstrate flow, pouring, measuring and the turning of water wheels (which later at GCSE then can lead onto generating electricity).

Global costs of generating electricity from alternative energy technologies continue to decline.