Sentences with phrase «largest power source»

And in China, wind power — despite accounting for less than 3 percent of electricity generation — recently overtook nuclear to become the country's third largest power source after coal and hydropower.

This sounds like a big deal for coal, America's largest power source, and the headlines write themselves — Obama EPA Issues Coal - Killing Rules.

In 2015, wind surpassed nuclear to become the grid operator's third - largest power source.

So, it's a difference between being aversive and being painful, and most of the devices that have come up over the years - because you can't have a huge amount of electricity being used (either because you need a very large power source, or because you would shock the person wearing the system)- you need to come up with something that's aversive, not painful, and nobody has been able to find that for sharks.

First, the OEM packed larger power sources in its new handsets, and it also enhanced the batteries» efficiency on the latest iPhones.

Not exact matches

Saudi Arabia used to be a quiet giant in the Middle East, more than happy to be the world's largest source of oil, minting petrodollars and spreading the wealth, internally, to keep the powers that be in charge and the populace placated.

Foley said that coal will still likely be the majority power source in 25 years in developing economies like China and India, as they have large domestic coal supplies and less domestic competition from natural gas.

If current trends persist, the transportation sector will overtake power sector as the largest source of U.S. emissions.

Ramp Control - Powerpack can act as a buffer while the power output from a large generation source is ramping up or down, delivering power instantly to smoothly transition output to the required levels.

Large price spikes immediately before and after mid-day periods when both utility - scale and distributed solar generation reaches its peak level suggest a need for dispatchable generation sources to help cover ramping periods, when the need for power from the grid to meet load is rapidly changing.

Sources said Kalanick is opposed to giving any CEO that much power, since it puts a large block of directors under sway of management, and that is not good governance.

MOSCOW, Jan 17 Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska is interested in buying Russia's largest coal - fired power station from Enel Russia, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Wednesday.

Wind farming is notoriously finicky when it comes to supply, and large - scale batteries like the one Tesla will be providing in the pilot project at BP's South Dakota Titan 1 wind farm will help solve the volatility of the renewable power source.

With large staffs that know industries extremely well and have negotiating credibility, venture capital firms have power that gives them a competitive edge over the typical funding source.

Anaerobic benefits Anaerobic digestion facilities have been recognized by the United Nations development program as one of the most useful decentralized sources of energy supply because they are less capital - intensive than are large power plants.

As a result of their efficiency, anaerobic digestion facilities have been recognized by the United Nations Development programmer as one of the most useful decentralized sources of energy supply, as they are less capital - intensive than large power plants.

Anaerobic digestion facilities have been recognised by the United Nations Development programme as one of the most useful decentralised sources of energy supply, as they are less capital - intensive than large power plants.

We are a collaborative of some of the largest districts in the country — those who serve 40,000 children or more — that leverages their knowledge and procurement power to make school meals nationwide more healthful, regionally sourced, and sustainably produced.

A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing them to bargain collectively with the employer: when the employer has too much power (e.g., the only job in town), a union can «level the playing field» by controlling a large % of skilled workers and negotiate a better pay or benefits which would otherwise be denied by the employer's access to other labor sources.

But we need this for our state's safety, so that we no longer must rely on a terribly risky power source so near our nation's largest and greatest city.

Labour has become increasingly reliant upon union sources of funding in recent years, and large public sector unions maintain an influential grip on the party's power structure, including having a third of the bloc - votes for the Labour leadership election currently underway.

Sources at Momentum said they believed there was a fundamental misunderstanding of how they had operated: «We believe the Electoral Commission is investigating Momentum because we managed to do so much with so little and because they haven't previously dealt before with a social movement - type organisation that is powered by the energy and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of volunteers rather than large amounts of money.»

However, with mild weather and a weekend starting, the industry agency that manages the power network predicted there would be no strain on the region's energy supply even without one of its largest sources.

Under the Reforming Energy Vision plan, power will come from smaller sources, including solar and wind, not large power plants that burn fossil fuels.

In December 2009, the LIPA Board of Trustees approved power purchase agreements with BP Solar International Inc. and enXco Development Corporation, thereby creating the State's largest source of solar power on Long Island by introducing approximately 50MW of clean renewable energy generated on Long Island onto LIPA's electric grid.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

Mitochondria, specialized organelles found in nearly every cell of the body, use cellular respiration to generate one of the most important sources of chemical energy — adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a versatile nucleotide that powers everything from cell division to cell signaling to transportation of large molecules across the cell membrane.

More and more corporations, government agencies and entire cities are making large, long - term commitments to ensure that the power they do use comes from renewable sources.

The strong tides around these islands have led the European Union - funded European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to use Orkneys» waters as the world's largest testbed for a renewable energy source that has been stalled for years: tidal power.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

About 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from nuclear power plants, making it the third - largest source of electricity in the country after coal (45 percent) and natural gas (23 percent).

If everything goes according to plan, data from the US probe will help researchers track large natural sources and sinks of CO2, such as oceans and forests, and perhaps some manmade sources, such as sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

One New York City neighborhood's efforts to pool local renewable energy sources reflects a larger push toward decentralized power production and consumption

Globally, the largest sources include emissions from small - scale and artisanal gold mining and coal - burning power plants.

Environmentalists who have challenged the world's large Internet technology firms, such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, to work harder to adopt clean power sources for their sprawling data centers praised Google's announcement as a hallmark for converting a long - standing environmental problem into an innovative solution.

They also expect to develop large and inexpensive fuel cells for a power source of next - generation automotive.

An aggregator pools the power into one large source.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

«Power plant emissions verified remotely at Four Corners sites, largest point source pollution in U.S..»

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal - fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team.

And compact fluorescent bulbs actually reduce the mercury pollution from the single largest U.S. source: coal - fired power plants.

The remaining E.U. sources — defined as producers of «industrial emissions,» including power plants — are fewer and larger, and thus easier to control.

A large of proportion of energy research aims to establish and optimize renewable sources such as photovoltaics, hydrogen fuel cells, biomass, and wind power, but energy research can also be about improving old technologies.

Using atmospheric models to trace the acid back to the sources of the pollution such as large power stations, the aim is to pinpoint which emissions should be cleaned up.

Whether or not the NRC approves plans for Yucca Mountain won't resolve the larger debate, of course, but perhaps the greenlighting of other promising alternative energy sources could ultimately make nuclear power unnecessary altogether.

But those smokestacks, many attached to coal - fired power plants, are the single - largest source of greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S., at two billion metric tons of CO2 per year.

Others hope that it will also allow OCO - 2 to go beyond large natural sources and sinks, such as oceans and forests, to detect CO2 emanating from sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

The EPA's endangerment finding kicks off a process to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry, the latest sector to be regulated under the Clean Air Act after cars, trucks and large stationary sources like power plants.