Sentences with phrase «into electricity»

The energy would be sent to the surface in microwave or laser form, where it would be converted into electricity for commercial power grids or stored in the form of hydrogen.

Traditional silicon - based solar cells convert sunlight into electricity efficiently, but they can be awkward to work with and expensive to produce.

Solar cells convert the sun's energy into electricity by converting photons into electrons.

In fuel - cell conversion, the hydrogen is turned into electricity through fuel cells which then powers electric motors.

The technology and economics of converting energy from the sun directly into electricity have improved rapidly.

The same researchers who pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electricity have figured out how to make their technique work in a form more suitable to industry.

This has the added benefit of keeping costs low and making it easier to integrate more renewables into the electricity grid.

The solar roof turns light into electricity for the owner's home and electric car.

Under braking, the electric motor converts kinetic energy into electricity for storage in the battery pack.

It would then be turned back into electricity in fuel cells and drive electric motors, which is what batteries do.

The hydrogen is then stored ready to be converted back into electricity in a fuel cell when it is needed.

But instead of turning wind power into electricity, decided to use it in its original form.

A fuel cell converts chemical energy into electricity by reacting hydrogen and oxygen at two different electrodes.

This research may help scientists harness the bacteria to make microbial fuel cells, batteries, or to turn waste into electricity.

That collision creates heat that the spacecraft transforms into electricity.

Fuel cells are highly efficient devices for converting chemical energy from fuel into electricity.

Solar panels convert energy from the sun into electricity, so less energy is required from the network overall.

Advances in wind turbine design since then enable turbines to operate at lower wind speeds, to convert wind into electricity more efficiently, and to harness a much larger wind regime.

Still others power an electric motor by converting hydrogen gas into electricity («hydrogen fuel cell» vehicles).

The actual cost of the fuel cell stack, which is the important bit that actually turns hydrogen into electricity.

Not only that, but storage of thermal energy (for later conversion into electricity) or electricity itself for grid purposes comes in a number of flavors.

New fuel cell design can convert any biomass into electricity with a little help from sunlight or waste heat.

Perhaps even better, the investment he made into an electricity company is paying his electricity bill, and more besides!

But the more renewable energy is integrated into the electricity mix today, the greater the need for solutions, so - called grid services, for this new form of electricity production.

The best such cells can convert more than 10 % of the energy in photons into electricity, an impressive rate.

These electric trucks are powered by fuel cells, which convert hydrogen and air into electricity while emitting only water vapor.

The hydrogen could easily be converted into the electricity required by a home unit or local units for factories and other uses.

Before real change could come, researchers would need to develop new technologies to improve renewable energy's integration into the electricity mix.

However, they are not hard - wired into my electricity, so I still have to check and change the batteries.

These tiny power plants can convert about 60 % of the mechanical energy that they encounter into electricity.

Men build dams and huge turbines to turn the energy of waterfalls and tides into electricity.

To convert the rotation of wind turbines into electricity efficiently, however, generators require a single turning speed.

For example, maths was used to find the best possible parameters of the turbine's design, while transforming mechanical energy into electricity included physics as well.

A second electric motor functions as a generator to convert power from a 2.0 - liter four - cylinder into electricity for range far beyond the battery's 10 to 15 miles.

This one model will use an advanced system that turns the element into electricity to power a motor.

Solar energy (light and heat from the sun) is collected by solar panels and converted into electricity which can be used in the home.

Aside from lowering the cost of the electricity produced, these improvements in performance also ease the challenge of integrating offshore output into electricity grids.

These bets are 100,000 times smaller, and it brings millions of competitors into the electricity game.

Wouldn't it be reasonable to ask if there was a way to convert your home's reliable natural gas service into electricity for your household?

Currently, commercially available solar cells can convert about 25 percent of sunlight into electricity, and scientists have been trying to create better solar cells for years.

69 Though it is still costly, this technology can be used almost anywhere to convert geothermal heat into electricity.

This «thin - film» solar technology, however, is not as good as silicon at turning light into electricity.

Others — called microbial fuel cells — convert waste into electricity.

Also, both materials have very similar efficiency of converting solar energy into electricity.

It turns out unusual atomic vibrations help prevent «heat leaks,» maximizing the conversion into electricity.

Also, it is inefficient to use electricity to generate hydrogen, transport the hydrogen, and turn it back into electricity in vehicles powered by fuel cells.

Solar panels convert the energy of photons, or light particles, from the sun into electricity.

They also purchased carbon offsets to compensate for the carbon pollution they did emit; the funds supported a project that converts landfill gases into electricity.