Sentences with phrase «less wind power»

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But by raising the cost of one all - important ingredient, the tariffs could make solar power less competitive with other sources of energy, like gas and wind, resulting in the construction of fewer solar projects.

In fact, after 30 years of government subsidies, wind power and solar power contribute less than 1 % of the earth's total energy output.

In the middle third of the U.S., wind farms have an all - in cost that is less than a third that of a new natural gas - fired plant, and wind power is also well below the cost of power from large - scale solar farms.»

Cambodia joins a lengthening list of nations around the world that are reassessing big hydropower dams in an era when wind and solar power are less expensive, much easier to build, less damaging, and far less vulnerable to droughts and floods.

In a speech later Mr Huhne told his party's conference that evidence of climate change was becoming «more alarming, not less» and said he wanted to see a huge expansion in the number of offshore wind farms but that this would go hand in hand with nuclear power.

Business leaders called today for the government to invest more in nuclear and clean coal technology and put less emphasis on wind power.

Wind power is just as intermittent as the sun, and in the less balmy climes across the Atlantic it is the go - to renewable power source.

The most famous wind nebula, powered by a pulsar less than a thousand years old, lies at the heart of the Crab Nebula supernova remnant in the constellation Taurus.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Technological innovations have dropped the price of wind and solar in some markets to be not only competitive with traditional fossil fuel power generation, but sometimes less expensive, said Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president of policy and government affairs for Advanced Energy Economy.

And even the most optimistic projections have wind power accounting for less than 3 percent of total electricity production by 2020 — more than the current U.S. share of 0.4 percent but far less than world leader, Denmark, which gets roughly 20 percent of its power from the wind.

«If economics is the sole focus, then less expensive technologies that require significant amounts of energy for their manufacture, maintenance and replacement might win out — even if they ultimately increase greenhouse gas emissions and negate the long - term benefits of implementing wind and solar power.»

But in November and December 2005, wind power in Colorado cost less than electricity from fossil fuel, and the average household that switched to wind saved $ 4 a month on its electric bill.

Modelling by Jacobson's team suggests that extracting 11.5 TW of this wind power would reduce the kinetic energy of wind at 100 metres by less than 1 per cent.

He says that the cost of water - flow power production is less than that of solar or wind and that current - based generators can be arranged in large networks to power thousands of homes.

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

In their defence of wind power, Jérôme Guillet and John Evans state: «You end up paying less for your electricity when wind power is part of the mix» (24 July, p 24).

In their defence of wind power, Jérôme Guillet and John Evans state: «You end up paying less for your electricity...

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

Yet increased energy efficiency and a focus on wind and solar power, which require less water, or the switch to more water efficient cooling technologies could help avoid this problem, the study shows.

Along with lower - specced base models with less power, manual transmission, torsion beam suspension, smaller LCD screen (5 - and 3.5 - inch), plastic steering, wind down rear windows, solid paint, halogen lights with no DRLs, no fog lamps, less airbags, no parking sensors and even 15 - inch steel rims with wheel caps instead of alloys.

Compared with the 2.0 - litre petrol engine, the direct - injected, common - rail 1.5 - litre turbo - diesel winds out less power (77kW) but more torque.

While this would not be a covered loss if wind is excluded, $ 300 of food in your fridge spoiled because the hurricane took out the power grid is a far smaller risk than the flooding or destruction that can come from a hurricane in less well constructed dwellings.

Because I ride a bicycle and limit my car trips, and I've curtailed my airplane travel, and wear sweaters (I know when I've set the thermostat too low when I can see the dog's breath in the living room), and because I've opted into our electric utility's «Pure Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per year.

Nuclear power produces less greenhouse gas [CO2] than any other source, including coal, natural gas, hydro, solar and wind.

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Resources spent building new nuclear power plants means resources diverted from other efforts — conservation, efficiency, wind, PV, biofuels, geothermal, mass transit, less car - oriented communities — that would produce more results faster.

I read an analysis of the well reputed Fraunhofer institute and they said that worst case for wind is: It will never be less than 11 % (if I remember right) of the installed power when averaged all over germany.

However — even including the cost of carbon capture and storage — the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2012 Annual Energy Outlook predicts that five years from now gas - fired power will be less expensive than wind, and about half the cost of state - of - the - art solar power.

So thinking back over the last couple of years as the Long Island Power Authority has struggled along with local environmental groups in New York to educate the public about the clear environmental benefits of clean energy and what could be the first offshore wind farm in the US, it seems apparent to me that if area schools had access to a program such as KidWind 15 - 20 years ago the resistance they've encountered today might well be less intense and better informed.

Well you have to consider that the wind energy is directly related to solar energy and given the average 1/2 acre required for solar power you need a little more ground space for your 10KW Wind Motor (BTW, less then 10 % of the US population is located where there is a possibility of a 12 MPH wind every day for at least 6 hours from which you would need to extract about 36KW per howind energy is directly related to solar energy and given the average 1/2 acre required for solar power you need a little more ground space for your 10KW Wind Motor (BTW, less then 10 % of the US population is located where there is a possibility of a 12 MPH wind every day for at least 6 hours from which you would need to extract about 36KW per hoWind Motor (BTW, less then 10 % of the US population is located where there is a possibility of a 12 MPH wind every day for at least 6 hours from which you would need to extract about 36KW per howind every day for at least 6 hours from which you would need to extract about 36KW per hour.)

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,»

If the capacity of the links was greatly increased mainland Australia could feed large amounts of solar power into the Tasmania when it was plentiful, and Tasmania's hydro power could be conserved for the times when wind and solar were less plentiful on the mainland.

Developing just one gigawatt of wind energy capacity (1,000 MW) in Mississippi (less than 2 % of Mississippi's onshore potential) could power more than 255,500 homes a year!

«The wind turbines, which can produce 100 per cent of energy on one day and zero on another, were not blowing when needed most, providing less than 5 per cent of power and Jay Weatherill's big battery less than 1 per cent.»

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,» PolitiFact found.

If you want to get polluting sources of electricity out of your generating portfolio, it helps to have a lot of hydroelectric power: It's cheap and it's less intermittent than the wind and the sun.

Thanks to the ludicrous subsidies filched from all Australian power consumers — and pocketed by wind power outfits under the LRET — thousands of REAL jobs are under threat (see our posts here and here)-- and Aluminium smelters are as good as finished (see our posts here and here)-- but Labor couldn't care less.

In order to weigh the expected costs and benefits in a world where we have limited resources and must make trade - offs (e.g. lots of intermittent wind power at the cost of less health care, transport or communications infrastructure, or even simple holidays and bottle sof beer on a hot day).

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

If a wind turbine costs $ 1,254 / kW and has a 30 % capacity factor, it will generate power for about 2.4 cents / kWh — not counting future generation as less valuable.

For more than a decade the wind industry and its political enablers have trotted out mythical figures, all based on fanciful modelling, claiming that the total cost of renewable power to consumers is less than -LSB-...]

The reason is that the fossil fuels are less efficient when backing up for wind power.

Wind power accounts for only 4 percent, and solar about 1 percent, making the two renewable energy resources responsible for less than one - half of one percent of the nation's power supply.

Translation: a gram of thorium (or uranium) packs an enormously greater energy wallop than does a gram of coal or anything else, and a nuclear power plant takes up less space than a field of wind turbines.

South Australia has more wind power than any other Australian state, but consumes far less electricity than the more populous states.

And a February report by Midwest grid operators estimated it would cost as much as to $ 80 billion to build transmission lines to carry wind power generated in the Midwest — which could help boost the country's wind power share from less than 1 percent today to 20 percent by 2030 — to where it's needed (see Wind Growth Could Cost Eastern U.S. $ 80B in Transmission Linwind power generated in the Midwest — which could help boost the country's wind power share from less than 1 percent today to 20 percent by 2030 — to where it's needed (see Wind Growth Could Cost Eastern U.S. $ 80B in Transmission Linwind power share from less than 1 percent today to 20 percent by 2030 — to where it's needed (see Wind Growth Could Cost Eastern U.S. $ 80B in Transmission LinWind Growth Could Cost Eastern U.S. $ 80B in Transmission Lines).

The more wind power you have, the less CO2 you save.

Renewables Now Feb 9 (Renewables Now)-- The government of Argentina should award wind power contracts for no less than 1 GW of capacity during upcoming tenders in 2017, the Global Wind Energy Council's Latin America Committee chairman, Ramon Fiestas, told Renewables wind power contracts for no less than 1 GW of capacity during upcoming tenders in 2017, the Global Wind Energy Council's Latin America Committee chairman, Ramon Fiestas, told Renewables Wind Energy Council's Latin America Committee chairman, Ramon Fiestas, told Renewables Now.