Sentences with phrase «greater than electricity»

Rule # 1 of living off the grid: the electricity you produce must be greater than the electricity you consume, so being smart and thorough about energy conservation is the key to doing so without really breaking the bank.

Google's total purchase of energy from renewable sources in 2017 was greater than the electricity used by its global operations, the tech giant has said.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

And with clean energy investment globally hitting a record - breaking US$ 367 billion last year — nearly 50 per cent more than was invested in fossil - fuelled electricity — it's a great time to buy into this particular market.

That dam, if it gets built, will supply surplus electricity this province has no need for, other than to power the LNG liquidation plants, to which it will be sold at great discount, since it can not be stored.

While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per cent increase from the projected 2017 price of $ 83 per megawatt hour.

But storing surplus wind - generated electricity in batteries results in even greater reductions — from about 20 percent for lithium - ion batteries to more than 50 percent for lead - acid.

Despite widespread concern about potential human health impacts from hydraulic fracturing, the lifetime toxic chemical releases associated with coal - generated electricity are 10 to 100 times greater than those from electricity generated with natural gas obtained via fracking, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Electrolysis requires a great deal of electricity, and the amount of energy you get out from the hydrogen is (according to the laws of physics) less than the amount you consume in electricity.

The doped material produces a significantly greater amount of electricity than the undoped material, given the same amount of heat input.

Ingersoll Rand engaged with Western Cooling Efficiency Center at University of California, Davis, on research that shows thermal energystorage can provide significantly greater benefits to utilities and electricity grid operators than previously thought.

It is not expensive, you can find great sources on ebay, and even if it was expensive, I'd rather spend whatever is necessary to keep the functionality of my Body Temple highly efficient with the best fuel I can give it, than to spend it on, let's say petrol at the gas station, or the electricity to power the utilities in my house.

''... Under the average U.S. electricity grid mix, we found that producing a midsize, midrange (84 miles per charge) BEV typically adds a little over 1 ton of emissions to the total manufacturing emissions, resulting in 15 percent greater emissions than in manufacturing a similar gasoline vehicle.

These cars typically have larger battery packs than standard hybrids, and can drive greater distances on pure electricity.

To recieve the quattro designation reserved for Audi's all - wheel drive cars, the R18 e-tron recovers kinetic energy on the front axle under braking and is fed as electricity into a flywheel accumulator which is then put down to the front wheels under acceleration when the R18 e-tron is at speeds greater than 120 km / h.

The abstemious Nikola Tesla may have had a greater impact on modern uses of electricity than Thomas Edison.

The electricity has the effect of encouraging the coral to grow 5 times faster than usual and so far has been a great success.

Telecom may indeed increase the amount of teaching and learning in the world, and that is great, but this conclusion is very different from (and most likely empirically on firmer ground than) conclusions about associated energy use (and Mr. Revkin is only talking about gas, not the electricity it would take to run the computers et cetera).

There was also a program from my former electric company that gave a sweet year - round discount on your electric rate for using less than a certain amount of electricity in the summer — more programs like this would be great.

When used to generate electricity, the shale - gas footprint is still significantly greater than that of coal at decadal time scales but is less at the century scale.

In the lower 48 states, the potential from wind power is 16 times more than total electricity demand in the United States, the researchers suggested — significantly greater than a 2008 Department of Energy study that projected wind could supply a fifth of all electricity in the country by 2030.

So I call on the world to join us as we mobilize billions of dollars in new trade and investment and development in Africa — and that includes Power Africa, our initiative to bring electricity and greater opportunity to more than 60 million African homes and businesses.

They seem like nothing other than an overpriced way of giving people the privacy of their car and the ability to avoid sharing transit with other people who might make us nervous at great public expense and simply converting the fuel from gas to coal via electricity.

And that's great for keeping our gadgets charged, but considering that our daily personal power needs are much higher than just that of our gizmos, and that if the electricity goes out, we have no way to keep essential appliances running, so while we'll be able to have a fully charged phone, we'll also have our own little global warming event in our freezer.

The estimated increase in the global use of electricity between 2000 and 2030 under the IPCCâ $ ™ s B1 scenario is more than twice as great as under the IEA Reference Scenario, and the increase under the IPCCâ $ ™ s A1FI scenario is nearly three times as great.

Those costs alone are now greater than the cost of solar - generated electricity.

Outcomes The cumulative savings for direct emission reductions from electricity use are greater than the combined annual electricity consumption of Disneyland Resort in California, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.

If you were only relying on population as a threshold for urbanness, you would probably assume Barrow was unaffected.Similarly, the per capita electricity usage in some countries is much greater than in others.

The cost of solar generated electricity is around a factor of five greater than coal on a properly comparable basis.

It introduced about 37 megawatts of solar PV generation spread over 265 locations across the city (enough to power more than 9 000 Japanese households) has deployed over 2,000 electric vehicles, and has seen great success in using incentives to limit electricity use.

Remember that after the typical 5 - 7 year payback period consumers receive pure electricity savings over what will be a 25 year useful life of their solar panels - the investment return is greater than the other alternatives.

That's over ten times greater than the capacity of Australia's electricity grid 8.

Because so little energy is required to cultivate crops such as switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol production, and because electricity can be co-produced using the residues of such cellulosic fuel production, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for celluslosic ethanol when compared to gasoline are greater than 100 per cent.

CSP concepts and technology solutions supported by the latest funding opportunity will be aimed at enabling the solar industry to reach DOE's 2030 levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) targets for CSP, including $ 0.05 per kilowatt - hour for systems with greater than 12 hours of onsite storage.

Customers can roll over excess credits for some period of time, often one year, at which point any remaining excess power will be reimbursed at a rate equal to or greater than the average wholesale rate of electricity.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

«(B) limit the electricity emissions intensity factor, calculated under paragraph (3)(B) and resulting from a change in electricity supply, for any entity to an amount that is not greater than it was during any previous year; and

It is worth noting that while the «installed capacity» of solar installed in 2011 was greater than the installed capacity of wind in the same year, the amount of electricity generated from the wind turbines will be greater than that generated from the solar because the capacity factor of wind is about twice that of solar PV.

A levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) calculation for Crescent Dunes will therefore be greater than 13.5 cents, but any LCOE calculation at this time is not meaningful, because there is insufficient information about operation and maintenance costs.

The proposed rule will increase the cost of electricity in the United States by a much greater percentage than it will have an impact on the amount of CO2 that is emitted into the atmosphere.

Clearly solar panels are receiving 168 plus 324 W / m ^ 2 of radiation for the generation of electricity or hot water, that is, a factor of three times greater than the industry claim.

Natural gas vehicles have great potential, but even if consumption doubled that total market would be less than 1 % of the gas used for electricity.

The great irony is that the US has been reducing CO2 emissions more than other countries with earlier government - mandated CO2 reductions through the ordinary working of market forces, which increasingly favor natural gas for electricity generation in the US because of its low price.

You reply, «The great news is that the people of this valley are about to get electricity that produces no CO2 and costs even less than they are currently paying!»

Given that upwelling LWIR from the earth's surface is greater than downwellng LWIR if you wanted to generate electricity the upwelling LWIR is what you'd use for the hot side of your device.

The company aims to buy enough wind power annually to account for every unit of electricity it consumes in the US, with the total amount greater than the global electricity consumption of many RE100 members.

In the 66 % 2 °C Scenario, aggressive efficiency measures would be needed to lower the energy intensity of the global economy by 2.5 % per year on average between 2014 and 2050 (three - and - a-half times greater than the rate of improvement seen over the past 15 years); wind and solar combined would become the largest source of electricity by 2030.

The great attraction of this technology is that it can provide both heating and cooling and do so with 25 — 50 percent less electricity than would be needed with conventional systems.

An IFR generates electricity, so even at a cost a bit greater than PWR, it's deployment could well be justified economically.

When the cost of required backup production and subsidies is calculated, industrial wind energy ends up costing consumers a great deal more than conventional electricity production.