Sentences with phrase «good use of electricity»

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Just so long as it covers the cost of the electricity it uses, as well as the extra parts I bought for the experiment.

Scott started putting his work ethic to good use helping doctors in Liberia, the polar opposite of New York City, where there was no running water, no electricity and no sewer system.

So far, the algorithms have been used to defeat the best human player of Chinese board game Go and to help Google slash its enormous electricity bill.

Coal supplies a third of all energy used worldwide and makes up 40 % of electricity generation, as well as playing a crucial role in industries such as iron and steel.

This new appliance, best suited for oil and electrically heated homes, uses Time - of - Day electricity rates to lower heating costs by up to 50 percent.

Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have more control over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.

Granted, the believers are perfectly happy relying on scientists and science to — I don't know — talk to people around the world instantaneously via this comment board, and then get in their cars, and fly in planes, and use electricity, and watch TV — all of those things based on science, and yet, when someone points out that scientists have mapped the human genome and other primates and can show, irrefutably, where the different primate families branched off — well, no, no no!

At the end of the day, being a sustainable company by using less electricity, gas, water and recycling makes good business sense.

Environmental best practices are taken seriously, including use of electricity reduction devices, water conservation policies and drought tolerant landscaping.

The well — designed thermal flask is made of stainless steel with a plastic lid, portable and convenient for its lightweight - ness and no use of electricity or other external sources of energy.

Since they're small, doesn't have many parts and doesn't require any source of electricity, they're best for occasional uses or for travel purpose.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

It occurs in several different forms but one of these is a stable gray metallike form that conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

«The overall sun - to - electricity efficiency of the hydricity process, averaged over a 24 - hour cycle, is shown to approach 35 percent, which is nearly the efficiency attained by using the best photovoltaic cells along with batteries,» Gençer said.

If you take into account the energy used to produce the electricity, and compare it with a well - to - wheel analysis of the most efficient diesel - engine cars available today, the difference is already fairly small, says Kintner - Meyer.

If they were, gaming computers worldwide might well be consuming billions of dollars less in electricity use annually, with no loss in performance, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

All use of biomass — whether for ethanol or electricity — runs the risk of displacing food crops, however, as well as the need for large amounts of water.

«Using different microscopy methods, we were able to gain a better understanding of the phases, compositions and crystalline structures that allow these materials to convert light into electricity more efficiently,» said Poplawsky, adding that the availability of data is limited.

In the 1950s, nuclear power began to be used for commercial electricity generation as well as to drive submarines, navy ships and icebreakers, and people spoke glowingly of future nuclear - powered trains and aircraft.

Silver - zinc batteries are not technically new; because they are so good at storing electricity, they were used in NASA's Apollo spacecraft of the 1960s and 1970s.

Of course, copper is the primary metal used around the world to move electricity and that's a route Hochschild followed as well, moving into energy products and, then, in 2003, starting to trade renewable energy credits — another government run market in chits that show a given electric utility has produced or bought a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandatOf course, copper is the primary metal used around the world to move electricity and that's a route Hochschild followed as well, moving into energy products and, then, in 2003, starting to trade renewable energy credits — another government run market in chits that show a given electric utility has produced or bought a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandatof electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandate.

That strategy worked reasonably well until recently, when 28 state governments set «renewable portfolio standards» requiring their utilities to supply a certain portion of their electricity using renewables, such as 20 percent by 2020 or even sooner.

The Army used a number of methods to curb energy use, but made a great deal of efficiency progress partnering with energy providers using ESPCs and utility energy service contracts (UESCs) to pay for renewable power generation as well as heat -, water - and electricity - saving upgrades.

The challenge with these devices is to use a material that is a good conductor of electricity but also dissipates heat well.

The good news: the U.S. is making a tectonic shift from burning coal to produce the majority of its electricity to using cleaner natural gas.

Results of the investigation have numerous uses in the field of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as well as the chemical industry, as this new method is capable of generating hydrogen from methane gas and electricity in just one step and with near - zero energy loss.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Natural gas from oil wells is one of the cheapest and cleanest fossil fuels today, used widely to heat homes as well as in manufacturing and to produce electricity.

Ngong Hills Wind Farm in Nairobi, Kenya, sited close to where there is significant demand for electricity (Nairobi) and near existing infrastructure, is a good example of multiple land uses for recreation (a popular hiking area for locals), energy generation, and livestock grazing.

But if people were better at using less electricity, which accounts for 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the potential for reducing emissions would be huge.

«This new material is better than the traditional material, Bismuth telluride, and can be used for waste heat conversion into electricity much more efficiently,» said Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Anderson Chair professor of physics at UH and the lead author of a paper describing the discovery, published online by Nano Energy.

Transforming the light from the Sun into electricity is a good means of generating energy when we are close to it; however, the further away, the less light there is to use.

No, those things aren't good for the amount of electricity these use.

However, I keep thinking about the alternate and would like your thoughts on the disadvantage of using cloth diapers: extra water usage; detergent (which has chemicals); detergent bottles plastic built; electricity of running the washer, as well as drier.

Each of the modules uses two animated models, Zoe and Jasper as well as video clips to help visitors understand the key elements of such concepts as mechanics and relativity, electricity and magnetism, special relativity, time dilation and E = mc2.

Last year's event was the company's first, with many schools attending local solar farms, seeing the dual usage of agricultural farming as well as generating electricity, discovering the biodiversity measures that many farms use to attract insects and birds through use of wildflower meadows as well as learning how solar is a home - grown solution to the UK's energy crisis.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

For example, maths was used to find the best possible parameters of the turbine's design, while transforming mechanical energy into electricity included physics as well.

A set of resources to use for teaching experiments and the scientific method, as well as electricity.

Kindergarten: Five senses, Promoting Good Health, Weather / Seasons, Animals, Sunshine and Shadows, Plants, Water play First: Seasons / Earth, Sky and Moon, Properties of Matter, Force and Motion, Embryology Second: Chemical and Physical Interactions, Measurement, Plant Adaptations & Life Cycles, Solar System Third: Water, Matter, Energy and Life Cycles (using the butterfly) Fourth: Earth's Landforms, Properties of Matter, Electricity & Magnetism, Simple Machines, Plants & Animals Fifth: Pond Life, Sound and Light, Looking at Liquids, Minerals

You will hear them discussing their ideas with passion, and you will feel the electricity of students using their minds well.

Similar to that found on the 918 Spyder, it provides detailed data on available energy, including the amount of electricity being used in real time as well as that recovered through brake recuperation.

There are two primary categories of HEVs: parallel hybrids use both the electric motor and the engine to move the vehicle, while series hybrids» engines can generate electricity for the motor as well to move the vehicle.

Slow starts and feathering the accelerator pedal can keep the car running off electricity up to 30 mph, but I found there's a better strategy: use the gasoline motor to accelerate up to 25 mph (this reduces the amount of road rage you'll witness), lift - off the gas pedal to shut the engine off, and gingerly accelerate.

Another unparalleled feature for a large sedan worldwide is an all - new multi drive platform, which is suited for electric drives with fuel cells (enabling ranges of almost 600 kilometers) as well as the use of Plug - in Hybrids that can drive for up to 30 kilometers solely on electricity.

This is because plug - in hybrid vehicles normally have a range of well over 20 kilometres when run on electricity and can therefore be used efficiently for both short and long trips as well as in mixed mode.

The new plug - in version of the Kia Niro hybrid adds a new dimension to that profile with an excellent range using only stored electricity as well as for distance traveled total overall with the gas and electric systems working together.

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.

Similarly, I thought, well, a computer that used light instead of electricity would be a wonderful idea.