Sentences with phrase «huge amounts of electricity»

The original goal of Ripple was to develop a platform that didn't consume huge amounts of electricity like the process of mining bitcoin.

One big problem is that indoor farming requires huge amounts of electricity, which is not only costly but also offsets much of the good done by preserving water because of the large carbon footprint it creates.

These massive machines, which can stretch to more than 200,000 square feet, use huge amounts of electricity to extract aluminum from molten aluminum oxide through electrolysis.

It stands to benefit greatly from the next phase in the Energiewende, which involves building an «Electricity Autobahn» — a trio of high - voltage direct current transmission lines (HVDC) spanning 2,000 miles to carry huge amounts of electricity from offshore wind farms in the North Sea down to the heart of Germany's manufacturing region.

It can absorb and release huge amounts of electricity at the drop of a hat and do so over and over, making it ideal for smoothing out the flow from wind turbines and solar cells.

LED lighting has evolved to where they can tune the lighting to the exact colours that the plants need for photosynthesis, saving huge amounts of electricity and excess heat over the broad fluorescents and metal halide lights of a decade ago.

It would be an authentic accomplishment if Mr. Modi got that back on track, because nuclear reactors produce huge amounts of electricity for near - zero carbon dioxide emissions.

Burning huge amounts of electricity isn't incidental to bitcoin: instead, it's embedded into the innermost core of the currency, as the operation known as «mining».

They'll be working on an alternative to Bitcoin's proofs of work, which require CPUs and GPUs that drain huge amounts of electricity in order to verify the blockchain.

For the longest time now, receiving and sending money via the Bitcoin network has not only been expensive, but has also required the use of huge amounts of electricity.

Cryptocurrency mining consumes huge amounts of electricity to power servers which solve complex math equations, recently raising environmental concerns.

That's because producing the online currency requires intense computational processing power, which in turn demands a huge amount of electricity.

Marc Bevand, an investor and entrepreneur, was skeptical of de Vries» tally of Bitcoin's energy use and argued that the real global energy footprint of mining was likely closer to 15 terawatt - hours, which is still a huge amount of electricity, but half of the estimate on Digiconomist.

The procedure requires a «mining rig» — a motherboard and numerous graphics processing chips — and consumes huge amounts of electricity.

The New York State Public Service Commission today ruled that upstate municipal power authorities could charge higher electricity rates to cryptocurrency companies that require huge amounts of electricity to conduct business.

«That would be an important step towards informing the development of robust approaches in terms of cutting costs and reducing carbon emissions associated with generating the huge amounts of electricity that the sector uses.

A type of bacteria accidentally discovered during research supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) could fundamentally re-shape efforts to cut the huge amount of electricity consumed during wastewater clean - up.

Still, these systems, when paired with traditional lighting systems can consume a huge amount of electricity.

(I have owned an incinerating toilet and they are anything but eco-friendly, using a huge amount of electricity, creating noise and a pall of burned poop smell when the wind isn't blowing.

In order to hash transactions on the blockchain ledger, a huge amount of electricity is used in a concept called Proof of Work making the network truly secure.

However, the mining activity will require huge amounts of electricity and to sustain the bills, Bladetec says it will be getting into a considerable deal with a wind farm.