Sentences with phrase «largest use of electricity»

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In the U.S. commercial sector, the EIA estimates that refrigeration was «the largest single end use» of electricity.

The late winter and early spring are periods of low demand for electricity, because air conditioners aren't in heavy use, making it easy for solar to get larger market share.

Instead of requiring a large volume of water, Xeros employs small polymer beads to clean clothes and linens, minimizing water, detergent and electricity use.

While such a significant amount of electricity usage might go unnoticed in large metropolitan areas, the sheer amount of electricity being used is leading to higher costs for customers in small communities because of a limited supply of low - cost hydropower.

Not all virtual currencies use this electricity intensive method of validating transactions, but bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Cash do, among the largest virtual currencies by market cap.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

That equates to more than half the 38 terawatt hours of electricity used annually by the world's largest miner (as in literal, pull materials out of the ground, mining), BHP Billiton Ltd..

We could blanket large parts of the Pacific rather than use up valuable land, but every building, heck even every road could be equiped to generate electricity.

Many institutions in the region, including the University of Tokyo and some RIKEN institutes, have been forced to drastically reduce electricity use and shut down large facilities such as supercomputers.

On the other hand, the money Samsø spends on electricity — about $ 5 million a year — now stays at home instead of being used to import energy from the larger neighboring islands.

Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

All use of biomass — whether for ethanol or electricity — runs the risk of displacing food crops, however, as well as the need for large amounts of water.

Products that use large amounts of electricity, such as aluminium, would be more expensive.

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.

Cloth diapers use up large amounts of electricity and water for washing and drying.

The gas / electric drivetrain allows for roughly 35 miles of driving range using electricity stored in a large lithium - ion battery before firing up a small, four - cylinder gas engine for another 300 miles of range.

Another unparalleled feature for a large sedan worldwide is an all - new multi drive platform, which is suited for electric drives with fuel cells (enabling ranges of almost 600 kilometers) as well as the use of Plug - in Hybrids that can drive for up to 30 kilometers solely on electricity.

Mazda's brake energy regeneration system is unique because it uses a capacitor, which is an electrical component that temporarily stores large volumes of electricity.

If bitcoin were used for a large portion of the world's commerce (which won't happen), it would consume a very large portion of the world's electricity, diverting scarce power from useful purposes.

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.

Other far - flung locations in this Talent in Texas show reflect art - making's increasingly migratory character, such as rural Maine — see Keliy Anderson - Staley's fascinating Off the Grid series depicting the homes of families living without plumbing or electricity — and Venezuela, where Miguel Amat shot his hauntingly ambiguous large - format photographs of dams used not just to generate electricity to «contain» the leisure activities of low - and middle - income local tourists who lack international travel options.

Garaizabal's sculptures are influenced by his conceptual work, as a large part of his preparatory and final work is done by hand, using techniques such as forging, carpentry, electricity, plasticity, and masonry — all skills acquired over time and through experimentation.

I think it's entirely possible that within a much shorter time frame than most people imagine possible, the overwhelming majority of the electricity consumed in the USA will be generated at the point of use, and large, centralized power plants will be a much less important part of the mix than they are today»

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

Here's the chart of existing and projected shifts in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity — which is pretty reliable given the slow rate of change in large - scale technologies:

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being

Among other issues, doubling the state's electricity supply by 2050 while cutting emissions is only possible if there is some way to compensate for the inevitable large fluctuations in solar or wind supplies using some large source of electricity — but one that produces no emissions.

I remember quite clearly that when American President Jimmy Carter launched his massive multi-pronged programs of research in the use of renewable energy (chopped off by incoming president Ronald Reagan just when it was beginning to show results), there was a project to create a very large offshore electricity generating structure using the vertical energy differential of the ocean's waters off Hawaii as the energy source.

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.

I played back some of the discussion with the visitors from China, Australia, Japan and Indonesia, which focused in part on the benefits coming from the explosive expansion of global information networks that feel so virtual during use --- but rely on vastly complex arrays of satellites, circuitry, data banks and large flows of electricity.

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AC use is expected to be the second - largest source of global electricity demand growth after the industry sector, and the strongest driver for buildings by 2050.

The responsibilities of local governments give them large influence over energy use in their communities through land use and zoning, building requirements, property taxes and transfers, transportation investment decisions, economic and workforce development, and, in many cases, the provision of services such as water and electricity.

Today's solar systems are generating more electricity and a larger percentage of total household energy use.

Saudi Arabia is the second largest country subsidizing end - use fossil fuel prices, providing 69 percent of its $ 71.3 billion in fossil fuel consumption subsidies to oil, 19 percent to electricity, and 12 percent to natural gas in 2014.

Electricity subsidy became the largest at $ 107 billion and cover 16 % of global electElectricity subsidy became the largest at $ 107 billion and cover 16 % of global electricityelectricity use.

We used to place large and extremely reliable generation facilities near to the places where the electricity was consumed in order to «save the planet» from thousands of unnecessary miles of these expensive and destructive transmission lines and towers.

If we start using electric cars in large numbers (and I hope we do soon), then solar towers and various other forms of large scale clean electricity generation may supply a substantial fraction of our transport energy, especially for short local runs less than 100 klms a day.

Factories churning out solar panels use large amounts of electricity, often sourced from coal - fired power stations in China.

«The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), package the light gas by compression or liquefaction, transfer the energy carrier to the user, plus the energy lost when it is converted to useful electricity with fuel cells, leaves around 25 % for practical use.»

Solar power is used to generate large amounts of power on a utility scale and to supply individual residences and businesses with electricity.

It will also be able to store electricity for use whenever required after sunset and will be the largest solar power plant in Israel, capable of providing power to more than 69,000 households.

By installing a large PV solar nameplate capacity, using the need to pay off this (subsidized) investment as the rationale for approved rate increases, and then selling us (mostly) the cheaper electricity they make from coal and uranium, they actually increase the profitability of coal and uranium more than PV solar.

The fact is that even while production has significantly increased, total criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen simultaneously, in large part due to industry's commitment to environmental protection and the expanded use of abundant, affordable natural gas in electricity generation.

Renewable technology has greatly expanded across the continent, with wind power overtaking coal as Europe's second - largest form of power capacity in 2016 — though coal is still used to meet more of the continent's electricity demand.

Whereas battery storage is a relatively recent technology for large - scale applications, ways of storing thermal energy — such as using cheap off - peak electricity to freeze ice for daytime air conditioning — have been around for decades.

In winter the relatively low priced electricity (at times of abundant electricity generation) could be used to heat large tanks of water.

This is due largely to greater use of natural gas — now our nation's largest fuel source for electricity.

Combined heat and power systems (CHPs) are a highly efficient means of producing heat and electricity at the same time for large - scale industrial and residential use.