Sentences with phrase «increased use of electricity»

Most EMF exposures come from increased use of electricity and new technologies.

The only way to do that, as studies have shown, is to have an extremely clean electricity system and to significantly increase the use of that electricity to offset the use of fossil fuels in other sectors.

Not exact matches

Increasing numbers of utility customers are using net metering to generate electricity on their property.

Switching even a small part of a typical household's financial transactions to Bitcoins must therefore entail a massive increase in electricity use.

Increases in electricity use, regarded in China as a key indicator of the economy's true condition, has been lagging GDP expansion in recent months, and economists can't say definitely why.

In the first four months of this year, electricity use increased even more slowly, at 6 percent, against a year - earlier gain of 11.2 percent.

These include warm summer weather, which drives up use of air conditioners and electricity, the increased popularity of natural gas (versus coal) among power producers (partly reflecting the low price of the former), and cutbacks in production by some players in the natural - gas industry.

Alberta, which relies on coal to generate about half its power, would see electricity rates rise more slowly in coming decades if use of renewable energy increased, according to a study published today.

Retrofitting produce cases to use less electricity, increase airflow and increase the life of produce;

Harvest Market retrofitted its produce cases to use less electricity, increase airflow and extend the life of produce.

One way is by increasing our use of renewable electricity.

Tetra Pak has joined RE100, committing to increase its use of renewable electricity from 20 % today to 100 % across all global operations by 2030.

Close Indian Point power plant by 2021 - Unit 2 Reactor to close April 2020 and Unit 3 Reactor April 2021 - End use of a plant with numerous safety violations - «Current Indian Point Employees will be Offered relocation and opportunities with other plants and utilities within the state; training in renewable technologies» - «Entergy will provide $ 15 million in funding for environmental and community benefits» - Cuomo is working on replacement resources so that there can be no cost increases in electricity after Indian Point closes More

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.

With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight into electricity using CIGS thin film solar cells on flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.

When they integrate multiple pairs of fibers between two electrodes, the ability to store electricity, called capacitance, increased linearly according to the number of fibers used.

While some of today's solar cells use a blend of cadmium and tellurium to convert light into electricity, adding the optimum amount of selenium in the right places could help increase efficiency from the current mark of about 22 percent to levels approaching the theoretical limit of 30 - 33 percent.

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).

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased due to the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, transportation, industrial processes, and space and water heating.

As a result one long - standing criticism of renewable energy may no longer apply, namely that mandating increased use of renewable energy for electricity generation will be more costly in the long run than sticking with fossil fuel energy.

Energy use in schools is escalating due to the use of ITC equipment which, in turn, increases electricity demand.

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

The hybrid Golf's aptitude at transitioning between electricity and petrol almost makes you reluctant to engage its sportier mode, but press the «GTE» button alongside the gearlever and the car uses both of its motors to increase performance rather than improve efficiency.

To increase brake regeneration, there is a «B» setting on the gear selector, which can be used to slow the car while also increasing the harvesting of electricity back into the battery pack.

Artificial reef construction by means of mineral accretion, also known as «third generation» artificial reef systems, is a novel technology which uses electricity to «grow» limestone rock on artificial frames and increase growth rates of corals and other reef organisms.

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).

I Guess the Bush Administration Doesn't Think Highly of Pickens» or Gore's Proposals The fact that this proposal is announced just days after Al Gore calls for all U.S. electricity be generated renewably within 10 years, and two weeks after T. Boone Pickens unveiled his plan to radically increase U.S. wind power and use natural gas to offset petroleum in transportation, shows how mired in business - as - usual thinking regarding energy and environmental policy the current administration is.

Energy use in buildings in the United States and Canada, including the use of natural gas, wood, and other fuels as well as electricity, has increased by 30 percent since 1990, corresponding to an annual growth rate of 2.1 percent.

Even with the massive increase in wind energy production over the past ten years, we have only just now reached the point where wind energy is providing 1 % of the electricity used in the US.

(1) increased demand for heating fuels and electricity due to cooler winter and warmer summer conditions in 2007 than in 2006; (2) increased consumption of fossil fuels to generate electricity; and (3) a significant decrease (14.2 percent) in hydropower generation used to meet this demand.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

The reason for the drop in U.S. CO2 emissions is the increased use of natural gas to generate electricity.

For example, increasing water scarcity in some regions will force hard choices about the allocation of water for growing food, producing electricity, providing for urban uses, and protecting ecosystems.

In addition, the increased use of fossil fuels to provide extra electricity for air conditioners also increases emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

Using long - distance, high - voltage electricity transmission to deliver electricity from renewable resources to highly populated and polluted regions could increase the use of green energy, reduce carbon emissions, and maximize air quality and health benefits.

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.

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.

By using a wind turbine to produce most of, or all of the electricity they need, consumers can protect themselves from future increases in the cost of utility - provided electricity.

SONY Sony is instrumental in prompting an increase in a wider range of renewable electricity use by numerous leading Japanese companies through its Green Power Certification System, making it a renewable energy leader.

According to Pentland, increasing demand is unlikely to be the cause of rising electricity rates, due to the simple fact that «many if not most utilities are selling less — not more — electricity than they used to sell.»

The installations have also been a catalyst for increasing awareness of opportunities available to the Food Bank to lower its utility bills through changes to its electricity - use habits.

So they have decided on a public relations strategy to blame «evil» power companies and «other polluters» for rate increases rather than their own actions in trying to force states to use expensive and unreliable «renewable» sources of electricity.

This is despite an increase in emissions from several other sources, including an increase in the use of specialty research gases, increases in the carbon - intensity of purchased grid electricity, more severe weather, and new campus buildings added to the academic building portfolio.

Increasing the use of this solution from approximately 0.25 percent in 2014 to 1.85 percent of world electricity generation by 2050 would require an estimated US$ 719.24 billion in cumulative first costs.

U.S. output (and use for electricity generation) has been increasing rapidly, bringing down CO2 emissions, whereas Chinese exploitation and output have been constrained by available infrastructure (that is, lack of pipelines, but that will change).

The ad's message is as clear as America's air: Thanks to increasing use of clean, affordable natural gas, U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide from electricity generation — a major source of the greenhouse gas — are at their lowest level in 25 years.

Western Power have said the downturn in electricity use from increased awareness of energy efficiency and increased use of solar power.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up -LSB-...]