Sentences with phrase «less electricity and water»

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Right now, they live in Ecuador and their utility bills... water, gas, electricity, everything... amounts to less than $ 40 per month.

Let's think worst case — should the currency collapse in your home country... and should a bank run ensue... and should the government mandate that all banks then close for no less than a week... and should subsequent food shortages take place... and should no clean water be available... and should the electricity and heat not work... and should violent protests, riots, and widespread looting erupt...

At the end of the day, being a sustainable company by using less electricity, gas, water and recycling makes good business sense.

The chemical - free system consumes significantly less electricity than traditional wastewater treatment technologies like aeration ponds, which require constant electricity to pump and circulate water.

It is less than two months since Maria hit Puerto Rico, destroying nearly everything in its path and leaving the island's more than three million residents without electricity, water, or channels of communication.

HE washers use less electricity, less water, and less detergent.

Our foremothers ran their households without electricity and running water much less cell phones.

Due to economies of scale, less water and electricity is used than cloth diapers laundered at home and no impact to landfill in comparison to disposable diapers;

Cool mist uses less electricity since water doesn't have to be heated and are cheaper to buy.

Rural women and their infants are at increased risk of disease, and have less access to fuel, clean water, and electricity needed to prepare alternatives to human milk.

The fish's transition from swimming outside the cave to swimming inside the cave, where the water is purer and less conductive of electricity, inhibited the activity of a «heat shock» protein called HSP90.

As the West warms, residents will need more energy to cool living spaces and make desert cities like Tucson and Scottsdale inhabitable - and will likely have less water to make enough electricity to do that.

One of the problems with previous methods was that the amount of energy produced in, for example, a system using salty and less salty water to generate electricity, was too small relative to the amount of water used.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Certainly, it does have to get local regulatory approval for price hikes, however, a 10 % increase in water rates is much more digestible (and therefore much less protested) than a similar increase in electricity and gas rates.

As a general rule, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) says that your entire monthly housing costs (rent as well as utilities such as heat, electricity and water) should be less than 42 % of your household income before taxes.

DO BUY: Front - loading clothes washers use up to 85 % less electricity and 75 % less water than top - loader machines

The smaller the house is, the less you can expect to spend on things like electricity, natural gas and water.

Trading off cotton farming for concentrating solar is a good example of smart planning — take out one of the most water - wasteful subsidized crops we don't grow very well, and replace it with a plant that uses less water and produces electricity.

Providing public transportation, as well as housing, electricity, water and sanitation for a densely settled urban population is typically cheaper and less environmentally damaging than providing a similar level of services to a dispersed rural population.

Annual water requirements of a PHES - supported 100 % renewable electricity grid would be much less than the current fossil fuel system, because wind and PV do not require cooling water.

Under the Aam Aadmi Party's platform, Delhi families will get 20,000 liters of free water a month, and those who use less than 400 kilowatt - hours of electricity per month will get a 50 percent discount on their electric bills.

So, not only does using less electricity save you money and reduce global warming impacts, but it also protects our precious fresh water supplies.

Economic growth provides resources for solving problems — conserving and restoring ecosystems, better sanitation and safer water, better health and education, updating the diesel fleet and other productive assets to emit less black carbon, developing better and cheaper ways of producing electricity, replacing cooking fires with better ways of preparing food thus avoiding millions of deaths annually, etc..

The top layer of the roofing product (pictured) generates electricity in the same way as solar PV modules — although it uses thin film technology for less weight and thickness — while heat is trapped and distributed between the two layers for use in water and space heating.

«While we understand and appreciate the attractiveness for building dams for electricity as green energy, we need to recognize the impact of these «green developments» on local communities; from increasing poverty because of loss of lands, to increased conflicts over less grazing and water,» said Angelei who continues to advocate for dam - affected peoples.

The burning of natural gas instead of coal to generate electricity does offer important and immediate benefits, including reduced air and water pollutants, fewer smokestack carbon emissions, less power plant water use, greater flexibility of the power grid, and an economic boost to some regions of the country.

Supercritical stations burn less coal per megawatt - hour produced and so benefit the environment and the electricity consumer.A modern, highly efficient, supercritical coal - fired station with stack gas cleanup is very clean indeed, essentially emitting only water vapor, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

The building is now eligible for LEED certification thanks to all of the upgrades, which include reducing water consumption by 30 %, using 15 % less electricity and using 20 % recycled content in building materials.

Reinventing the Toilet Challenge Totaling $ 3 million, this grant supports eight universities across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America in the challenge to reinvent the toilet as a stand - alone unit without piped - in water, a sewer connection, or outside electricity — all for less than 5 cents a day.

I can limit flood damage and improve health very simply: But I need lower cost energy (you don't want that), lower cost steel and transportation (you are working very hard to make both more expensive), more proper and safe rules and less excessive regulation (you want more regulation and more fees and more interferences from very propagandized zealots against work), lower costs for electricity, water and fuel (you seek more taxes and rules on all) no government corruption (The carbon taxes you want go ONLY to the corrupt third world dictators and NGO profit - seekers who are selling their ENRON - inspired carbon credits, none do anything for the people of each country forced into squalor and death.)

That is 80x less water, 200x less trash, 600x less fossil fuels, and 1,000 times less electricity than the average American!

The LED bulbs not only require less electricity, but they're far cooler meaning that less water is needed and that plants can be stacked closer to each other.

Yes less water in the first place and so less energy to heat it so much that even in combination with the electricity to run it it still ends up less.