Sentences with phrase «into electricity and water»

Grove had invented a battery which turned hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water.

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«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.
Since then, the Porras family has plowed $ 3 million into the 1,882 - acre farm, planting two million coffee trees and installing electricity and running water.
«Electricity splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, and the same cell can later use the hydrogen to produce electricity and hElectricity splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, and the same cell can later use the hydrogen to produce electricity and helectricity and heat.»
This included allowing organizations to securely disburse bulk cash through the SurePay Service, helping rural residents pay for clean water and electricity, launching the ride - hailing app Little and the music streaming service Songa, besides integrating M - Pesa into the Google Play store.
When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.
If you've got it, flaunt it — and your hair will remain perfect until the excess energy you used powering two hair dryers will hasten the world's expenditure of fossil fuels to the point where we can no longer afford the electricity to power hair dryers, and instead resort into walking into darkened caves full of bats and allowing the collective heat of their tiny nocturnal bodies to hasten the evaporation of our surplus hair water.
Second, the environmental tradeoff between cloth diapers and disposables is so slight, and so hard to discern, that a fair analysis must take into account such relatively minor factors as the water and pesticides used to grow the cotton; the gas burned by the delivery truck; and the electricity and water used by parents who clean the diapers themselves.
Also, we aren't taking into account the amount of money spent on a garbage service and gas for grocery store runs, or on the extra water and electricity used for washing and drying.
In late February of 2011, Joey and I drove from Maine to New Hampshire to move into our new house, a tiny log cabin with no running water or electricity.
A new power plant offshore converts the temperature difference between sea surface and deep waters into electricity
Rather than generating their own power via water wheels or electric dynamos, companies can now plug into the newly built electric grid and buy electricity directly from power stations.
The device uses solar electricity from a photovoltaic panel to power the chemistry that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, then adds pre-starved microbes to feed on the hydrogen and convert CO2 in the air into alcohol fuels.
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 200And 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 200and 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 200and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].
Even in a seemingly implausible accidental - release scenario in which all of a well's hydraulic fracturing fluid and untreated wastewater were discharged directly into surface waters for the lifetime of the well, shale - gas electricity had a lower lifetime human toxicity impact, or HTI, than coal electricity, according to the study.
In a future hydrogen economy, he imagines, a house would function much like a leaf does, using the sun to power household electricity and to break down water into fuel — a sort of artificial photosynthesis.
Currently, electrolyzers (machines that split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen) need a catalyst, namely platinum, to run; ditto fuel cells to recombine that hydrogen with oxygen, which produces electricity.
«Afterwards, the heated fluid is taken upwards to the geothermal station, where it produces electricity, generally via a binary cycle (exchanging heat between the water and an organic liquid), and it is re-injected into the site in a closed cycle.»
Fuel Cells Electricity from any source, such as solar, wind and even coal, can be used to break up water molecules into their hydrogen and oxygen components in a device called an electrolyzer.
An alternative device, called an electrolyzer, uses solar - generated electricity to split water into clean hydrogen and oxygen, but the technique is very energy intensive and expensive.
Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via fuel cells to produce electricity.
Hot rocks at depth boil the water into steam, which rises back to the surface to spin a turbine and generate electricity.
CONVERTING sunlight into electricity, rather than using it to heat water directly, could lead to cheaper domestic solar energy, say engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland.
«Our process can go into oil fields and operate without the need for electricity or water to convert what otherwise would be flared gas into gasoline or it can be mixed with crude [oil] to increase quality and quantity,» says Synfuels president Tom Rolfe.
Two other companies, Energy Matter Conversion Corp. (EMC2) and Tri Alpha Energy, are developing reactors that use proton - boron fuel, which requires even higher temperatures than deuterium does but allows almost direct conversion of fusion into electricity, without boiling water to drive a generator.
The U.S. employs 104 light - water reactors to generate 20 percent of its electricity today; the reactors moderate uranium fission and the heat it produces with water, which is also boiled into steam to turn an electricity - generating turbine.
Here you can crank a handle to generate electricity to electrolyse water into hydrogen and oxygen (and recombine them with a bang), operate a miniature chemical plant or a gas scrubber, measure the pH of various common substances, or discover your personal hot spots by lying against a large sheet of liquid crystals.
Their ultimate goal is to find ways to use solar energy — either directly or via electricity generated by solar cells — to convert the end products of hydrocarbon combustion, water and carbon dioxide, back into a carbon - based fuel.
One of the most promising ideas for storing renewable energy is to use the excess electricity generated from renewables to split water into oxygen and hydrogen; the hydrogen can then be fed into fuel - cell vehicles.
It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.
These three minerals work to maintain the correct balance of water in your blood and cells, to control the passage of molecules into and out of your cells and to transmit the electricity that powers muscle contraction and nerve transmission.
It looks like saran wrap and converts hydrogen and oxygen into water, releasing electricity as it does.
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Additionally, your utilities, an expense you incur as result of electricity, water and sewage usage, may increase when you move into a home that is bigger than your current living situation.
Thus, you'll find geothermal power plants that convert raw steam into electricity and heated water
Desal Pro sells and provides maintenance to electricity & water plants that purify salt water into drinking water via a desalination process.
It uses independent septic system that recycles water into the irrigation of our gardens and uses energy saving light bulbs for the electricity.
The basic energy source is a solar panel that both charges the radio - control unit and provides the electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in a little fueling station.
Some will claim that it will take too much energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, as electricity is required.
These include electrolysis, which uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, and photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells, which use sunlight to do the same thing.
How the greens doom the masses in the third world to no electricity, no clean water, untreated sewage into rivers and dung fires to cook in the huts vs central electricity to provide energy.
In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, unused rooftops have been transformed into multifunctional spaces that improve air quality and biodiversity, produce renewable electricity, retain water to prevent flooding, and provide spaces for people to socialize.
Then San Fran could buy my electricity and I could use the money to process their free sewage and water into water for my vineyards and farms while I process the sewage and biomass into bio-oil which I sell to the local refinery as a drop in oil.
Operators can convert electrical energy into stored chemical energy in hydrogen by using electricity for electrolysis, which splits water into oxygen and hydrogen.
Tiny houses on wheels can go into RV parks (pending park - owner approval), and sometimes into backyards and other properties, if zoning laws let them — it's all about access to water, electricity and sewerage.
It would be foolish to put all the money into destroying fossil - fueled electricity and transportation, and to neglect water control.
If you are one of the millions of people who enjoys an occasional drink, Team Catalyst is making something you definitely want to check out — their technology uses a process that turns air, water, and electricity into drinkable spirits.
This heated fluid is then used to turn water into steam, which drives a turbine and generates electricity [FIGURE 2].
Water is required first to extract natural gas from its underground source and then to transform the fuel's chemical energy into electricity.
Potential and kinetic energy of water converted into electricity in hydroelectric plants.
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