Sentences with phrase «global electricity grid»

Dreams of a global electricity grid are close to reality.

In the mid-1970s he predicted that the world would one day have a global electricity grid.

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Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

Similar global expertise is embodied in the GWE anaerobic technologies of which more than 300 have been completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

But Stanford scientists have found that the global wind industry produces enough electricity to easily afford the energetic cost of building grid - scale storage.

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Little Sun is a social business and global project founded by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen to get clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.2 billion people in the world living in off - grid areas without electricity.

Non-hydro renewables have not managed to do so to date in any large electricity grid, (hydro can not help; its capacity growth is limited so it will decrease its share of global electricity generation over future decades).

In regions with the «cleanest» electricity grids, EVs produce lower global warming emissions than even the most fuel - efficient hybrids.

The report evaluates regional electricity grids across the United States based on the global warming emissions produced from electricity generation, and then compares the emissions generated by charging an EV with those produced by gasoline - powered vehicles.

This post is framed around «limitations,» but as I said above, if wind and solar both reach global grid penetrations equal to their capacity factors, that would make VRE cumulatively around half of all global electricity.

This session will showcase global investment trends in the global low - carbon future, and the solutions — in the electricity grid, the built environment, transportation systems, and in homes and communities — that are reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing resilience, and at the same time creating jobs and growing economies.

New research suggests that although global warming will lower demand in some places in winter, in high summer on the hottest days the demand for air conditioning could at times be so great that the electricity supply grid would not cope.

Over the vehicle's lifetime, however, the global warming emissions benefits of driving on electricity far outweigh the emissions costs of vehicle manufacturing; most EVs «pay back» their production emissions within one or two years of driving, a period that will shorten as electricity grids get cleaner.

We need to remember that around 99 % of global electricity is supplied by electricity grids, not off - grid generators.

So the off grid renewable component of electricity will remain a small and decreasing proportion of total global electricity supply.

«There's no question that the electricity grid in Puerto Rico was in very bad shape prior to the two hurricanes,» Enck told Global Citizen.

For example, the global average effect of any change in albedo from using solar power would be rather small in comparison to mitigation of climate change if that solar power is used (to displace fossil fuels) for a sufficient time period (example: if a 10 % efficient PV panel with zero albedo (reflectivity for solar (SW) radiation) covered ground with an albedo of 25 — 30 %, the ratio of total increased heating to electricity generation would be similar to that of many fuel - combusting or fission - powered power plants (setting aside inverter and grid efficiency, etc., but still it would be similar).

There should be a global energy grid that can transport the generated electricity to wherever it is needed.

The total global GHG emissions accrued to lighting electricity consumption was estimated in 2005 by the IEA at 1,889 MtCO2 of which grid based lighting systems contribute to 1,528 MtCO2.

A mix bag today, highlighting the importance of electricity grids in expanding renewable energy, the global expansion of fracking, a wolf in sheep's clothing CCS project, and some massively good news for Indian wind power.