Sentences with phrase «heated by the electricity»

Residential heating by electricity (or co-generated heat) rather than by home boilers will generally yield a net saving, especially when combined with improved insulation.

Residential heating by electricity (or co-generated heat) rather than by home boilers will generally yield a net savings, especially when combined with improved insulation.

Not exact matches

Electricity generated by solar panels and windmills has played a bigger role in the energy mix in recent years as the federal government and states seek to reduce heat - trapping gases through ambitious climate goals.

Output across the mining sector fell 1.6 %, offset by strength in manufacturing and electricity, heat, gas and water output which rose by 7.3 % and 8.4 % respectively.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

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.

It's a powerful liquid - state anaerobic digestion process that consists of enhanced pre-treatment followed by multi-step biological fermentation to optimize conversion of almost any organic residue or energy crop into biogas, valuable electricity or heat.

The moisture that humidifiers add to dry air also help alleviate many common nuisances brought on by winter heating such as static electricity, peeling wallpaper, shrinking wood, and cracks in paint and furniture.

We have cut our use of electricity and of natural gas, propane, and heating oil by:

The UK's reliance on gas for heat, and the seasonal peaks and troughs in demand, mean gas can not be easily replaced by electricity, however this is current Government strategy.

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

Wilber produced an energy analysis purportedly showing that total energy costs for the first winter of operation of the new garage increased by 67 percent over the previous winter, although the new facility was three times the size of its 5,000 - square - foot predecessor, which used oil for heating while also consuming electricity.

Empa's research activities on novel batteries for stationary electricity storage systems are embedded in the Swiss Competence Center for Heat and Electricity Storage (SCCER HaE), which coordinates research for new heat and electricity storage concepts on a national level and is led by the Paul Scherrer Instielectricity storage systems are embedded in the Swiss Competence Center for Heat and Electricity Storage (SCCER HaE), which coordinates research for new heat and electricity storage concepts on a national level and is led by the Paul Scherrer Institute (PHeat and Electricity Storage (SCCER HaE), which coordinates research for new heat and electricity storage concepts on a national level and is led by the Paul Scherrer InstiElectricity Storage (SCCER HaE), which coordinates research for new heat and electricity storage concepts on a national level and is led by the Paul Scherrer Institute (Pheat and electricity storage concepts on a national level and is led by the Paul Scherrer Instielectricity storage concepts on a national level and is led by the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

In incandescent light, the trigger to push electrons into a higher orbit is heat provided by electricity passing through a carbon filament in a vacuum; in bioluminescence, the electrons are pushed up by two chemicals working together.

If liquefied coal powered the world's vehicles, produced its heating, and generated its electricity, Earth would warm 2º Celsius (3.6 º Fahrenheit) by 2042, three years sooner than if society continued to use oil.

This energy can be converted when necessary into heat and electricity by burning the hydrogen, in the same way hydrocarbon fuels are used.

The researchers used Beijing in summer of 2012 to calculate that switching vehicles from gas to electricity could reduce the heat island intensity by nearly 1 degree Celsius.

Turning the sun's heat into electricity — by concentrating it with thousands of mirrors onto a tower

And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].

A fuel - cell electric vehicle works by converting hydrogen to electricity, producing only heat and water in the process.

Heated springs and geysers up to three miles underground can be accessed by special wells that bring the hot water (or steam from it) up to the surface where it can be used directly for heat or indirectly to generate electricity by powering rotating turbines.

Dear EarthTalk: How are heating, cooling and electricity produced by geothermal energy?

By first converting the sunlight to heat and then back into light, the device fine - tunes the energy of photons absorbed by the photovoltaic cell, maximizing the electricity - generating potentiaBy first converting the sunlight to heat and then back into light, the device fine - tunes the energy of photons absorbed by the photovoltaic cell, maximizing the electricity - generating potentiaby the photovoltaic cell, maximizing the electricity - generating potential.

According to a new study led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and at the University of California, Berkeley, electrons in vanadium dioxide can conduct electricity without conducting heat.

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

Notably, the amount of electricity and heat that vanadium dioxide can conduct is tunable by mixing it with other materials.

Electronic devices are ruled by semiconductors such as silicon, but superconductors — metals and ceramics that conduct electricity without building up heat — are poised to make a power grab.

Geothermal stations create electricity by relying on liquid or vapor heated deep within the earth.

These, Warshay notes, are particularly popular outside the U.S., «where energy usage is significantly lower than here,» as the outsize electricity demands by American users would generally overtax the capacities of the first round of home - size heat and power models being marketed in Asia and Europe.

Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

By employing devices such as biogas storage domes, biofilters or combined heat and power co-generation systems, for instance, methane can be collected, cleaned and converted into heat or electricity that can then be substituted for most fossil fuels.

A team of KAIST researchers headed by Byung Jin Cho, a professor of electrical engineering, proposed a solution to this problem by developing a glass fabric - based thermoelectric (TE) generator that is extremely light and flexible and produces electricity from the heat of the human body.

A new survey of consumer attitudes released today by Accenture indicates that U.S. consumers are more interested in smart grid applications that save them money and automate the management of their electricity use, rather than giving them direct control over heating, cooling and appliances as prices fluctuate during the day.

Fox aims to turn these diamond films into a new kind of solar cell, one that generates electricity by absorbing heat rather than visible - light wavelengths.

When the device senses a lower frequency, signaling less available electricity on the grid, it reacts by turning off certain functions of the appliance: a dryer might keep tumbling clothes but switch the heating coil off; a fridge light could stay on while the cooling motor took a break.

In a thermo - photovoltaic device, heat from an external source (chemical, solar, etc.) makes a material glow, causing it to emit light that is converted into electricity by a photovoltaic absorber.

«The electro - chemical stability of the electrolyte we are using here can withstand three volts, whereas many solid electrolytes previously studied are damaged at the same voltage,» says Arndt Remhof, a researcher at Empa and leader of the project, which is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Competence Centre for Energy Research on Heat and Electricity Storage (SCCER - HaE).

Of course, the sun doesn't always shine and, at present, the eSolar design has limited capacity to store energy — either as heat or electricity — nor does it supplement production by burning natural gas as some other existing concentrating solar power plants do.

The majority of modern fuel cells, specifically those used for automotive applications, are proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which functions by exchanging protons across an acidic polymer membrane to produce electricity and heat.

The underlying technologies of high temperature storage and thermophotovoltaic conversion could also be used to produce grid - scale batteries able to rapidly supplement other power sources by storing heat for quick conversion to electricity.

The thermoelectric effect, in which charges are created by temperature differences, provides a way of transferring this heat into electricity — but only some of it.

Gases (such as air, which has an equal number of positive and negative charges) become plasma when energy (such as heat or electricity) causes some of the gas's atoms to lose their negatively charged electrons, creating atoms with a positive charge, or positive ions, surrounded by the newly detached electrons.

The car's momentum, instead of being grabbed by high - friction brake pads and thrown away as useless heat, is mopped up in the form of electricity that replenishes the batteries.

Their invention shunts away the heat generated by a solar cell under sunlight and cools it in a way that allows it to convert more photons into electricity.

By contrast, spintronic devices generate little heat and use relatively minuscule amounts of electricity.

Researchers have converted heat directly to electricity by sandwiching organic molecules [blue ring above] between gold surfaces kept at different temperatures.

They never caught on, however, because they could not compete with those powered by cheap electricity and because their heat source — burning biomass or natural gas — is difficult to manage.

The warmest winter on record — driven by climate change — is also driving down the need for wintertime electricity required for home heating, which drives down the need for more coal, IEEFA analyst Seth Feaster said in the report.

Graphene could lead to greener more fuel efficient cars in the future by converting heat into electricity.