Sentences with phrase «inefficient power»

When there is too much power and not enough traction, it often results in inefficient power delivery and thus not translating into great performance figures.

As a nation we need to phase out the older, polluting and inefficient power plants by pursuing renewable energy and energy efficiency.

A second possible approach simply rewards all fossil efficient power and penalizes fossil inefficient power.

A new super-efficient diesel, operating at its optimum load, will be about as efficient as an old inefficient power station.

@John Dawson «The wrecking ball is not the cost added to everyones power bills just now, it's the attempt to force the economy off a cheap and efficient power supply onto an expensive and inefficient power supply.»

The forced conversion from cheap and efficient power to expensive and inefficient power is such a colosal waste.

The story of India shining got a rude shock... relying on highly inefficient power grids and dirty and expensive fossil fuels like coal has only lead to greater environmental risks and poor energy access for millions of Indians... Another way is possible... It's time to invest in energy efficiency and decentralized renewable energy for all.

China is taking important steps to close down smaller, inefficient power stations but it is also building large, modern and more efficient (HELE) coal - fired power plants — new regulations effectively ban subcritical (non-HELE) coal technology.

Thus, the IPCC argues the answer lies in a portfolio approach to reducing emissions from the energy supply sector, including replacing inefficient power plants, cutting down on the use of electricity in general and potentially moving from large, centralized power plants to small distributed ones.

If we want to reduce the use of cooling water throughout the EU, says Dr. Behrens, we will need to close old, inefficient power stations, and replace them with renewable sources, such as wind and solar energy.

Not exact matches

The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

In a recent press release, CPUC stated that consumer cooperation would mean CPUC wouldn't have to rely on inefficient, expensive, and often fossil fuel — dependent peakers (or «last resort» power plants) to make up for the imbalance of supply and demand.

The Saudis have a legitimate reason to want nuclear power: Their domestic energy demand is growing rapidly, and burning crude oil is an expensive and inefficient way to generate electricity.

,» he mused, before continuing, «we work on it, we work on it, and nope... The real problem is that it's so power - inefficient it would get about a quarter of a mile per gallon.

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

· Some utility companies penalize customers for using inefficient machinery that requires a surge of power at start - up.

I riffed on the first part of this phony claim by Rep Ryan the other day — «Our plan is to give seniors the power to deny business to inefficient providers» — promising to get to the second part — ``... their plan [Affordable Care Act] is to give government the power to deny care to seniors» — later.

State - directed economies lead not only to oppressive political power, but turn out to be grossly inefficient.

While decreasing the effects of gravity during jumping drills, athletes are able to re-pattern inefficient body mechanics that are slowing them down and dampening their power.

Rely too much on the anaerobic processes (high power output that is very inefficient) then an athlete will undergo larger performance decrements during a game, increasing the amount of fatigue, which will negatively affect performance.

This is a very inefficient system, but it is this system that provides the power which allows athletes to make explosive plays on the court or field of play.

First there are three critical problems with the structure of our economy - the dominance of government spending on recurrent expenses of a public service which employs only a small percentage of Nigerians; the dominance of our oil and gas sector (and until recently power) by an inefficient and corrupt public sector; and the structure of our financial sector which excludes Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises from financing and has been unable to provide mortgages and housing for the middle class.

If fuel duty & car taxes are reduced to counter the road pricing / congestion charges then I'm more likely to drive an inefficient, polluting vehicle because its no more expensive than driving an Prius (forget the power generated pollution).

They repeated many of their familiar talking points about the state's major energy initiatives — that R.E.V. saves billions of dollars a year for ratepayers, that hundreds of megawatts of solar would soon come online, and that the current power grid is inefficient and unnecessarily costly.

China, she said, invested millions of dollars in closing down inefficient coal - fired power plants, a move for which the country was highly lauded.

Using electricity from the central power grid to run an energy - intensive electrolysis machine is expensive and inefficient.

And part of that plan is simply shuttering small, inefficient coal plants and replacing them with larger ones, meaning the abundance of new coal power plants will actually help clear the air somewhat.

Factories have been shifted to industrial parks on the outskirts of town and small, inefficient coal power plants closed in favor of larger, higher heat facilities in an effort to clear the air for visiting athletes and tourists.

And when quasars [extremely bright, compact objects at the centers of some galaxies] were discovered in the early 1960s, it was obvious that the source of power had to be gravitational because even nuclear power, which powers the stars, is too inefficient.

Currently some companies use expensive, inefficient high - powered lasers to scan objects with T - rays, but Padilla's scanner should quickly and cheaply collect images in a device only slightly larger than your digital camera.

Although it would be inefficient to combust hydrocarbons on the moon itself due to the lack of readily available oxygen, future inhabitants of Titan could add hydrogen to acetylene to generate power.

All transformers are inefficient and consume energy when they are connected to the mains, even if they are not delivering any useful power.

«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.

Direct solar - powered water splitting is too inefficient, as water can absorb just a small portion of the light spectrum.

The dilemma with solar power is that silicon - based photovoltaic cells are fairly efficient but also highly expensive, whereas thin - film cells are relatively inexpensive but inefficient.

AUVs such as underwater gliders are valuable research tools limited primarily by their energy budget — every bit of battery power wasted via inefficient trajectories cuts into the time they can spend working.

Less commonly, countries spoke of reducing the use of inefficient coal - fired power plants, lowering methane emissions from oil and gas production, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing, the report says.

You should work to remove the anticompetitive advantages that poorly - controlled, inefficient, incumbent coal - fired power plants presently enjoy over newer, cleaner, and more efficient coal - fired plants.

It is true that protein can be converted into blood glucose in the liver («gluconeogenesis»), but this process is slow and inefficient, so it does not have the power to produce the dramatic surges and crashes in blood sugar and insulin than eating carbohdyrates can.

A true believer in the power of free markets to solve all of humanity's problems, Friedman argued that «government schools» are intrinsically inefficient and unjustified.

The point of calling public schools «government schools» is to conjure the specter of pathologically inefficient, power - mad bureaucrats.

This article lambasts NHA for its inefficient use of funds and the high - powered political connections that have helped keep it afloat.

Tesla's traction control and emulated limited slip functionality is another case of Tesla replacing complex and inefficient hardware with something lighter, simpler and more state of the art — augmenting functionality through software and algorithmic science utilizing today's advanced computing power.

It's not that those numbers make the Veloster inefficient, it's that others beat it while offering the same power and weight (particularly Honda's Civic Si).

The transmission can also be configured as an IVT (Infinitely Variable Transmission) with a geared neutral, that can further improve fuel economy by removing the need for an inefficient vehicle launch device which loses power as it slips.

It's called G - Vectoring Control (GVC) system, and it is continuously adapting the engine's torque in order to deliver the most power without sending the front wheels in an inefficient spin.

Toss out your restrictive and inefficient factory exhaust manifold for the increased exhaust flow and big boosts in torque and horsepower delivered by aFe Power's PFADT headers.

I continue to feel that print (costly and inefficient as it may be) is needed to grow big, though if you're happy without it more power.

Despite being bogged down for the time being by politics, this project will inevitably move ahead, in my opinion, regardless of the outcome of this fall's U.S. election and unless Americans stop driving inefficient, oil - powered vehicles.

The news comes as a large number of ERISA lawsuits are playing out in the district and appellate courts across the U.S., testing whether 403 (b) plan sponsors of major universities have sufficiently exercised their bargaining power or allowed inefficient recordkeeping arrangements to persist over long periods of time.