Sentences with phrase «like electricity generated»

And you should be paying more for a number of other goods and services as well, like electricity generated from coal - fired power plants.

And you should be paying more for a number of other goods and services as well, like electricity generated

Not exact matches

Technically, if you have some sort of transformer - like thing that will pop out of the trunk like a hardtop convertible that ratchets solar panels over the car... and provided you are in the sun, that would be enough to generate 20 to 30 miles a day of electricity.

Whereas traditional solar panels are usually mounted on top of existing shingles, the basic goal of Steel Pulse was to make the roof itself solar powered, so it looked like a normal roof, yet generated electricity through embedded solar cells.

Like the hydro - electric turbine we installed in the nearby River Test, which generates electricity to help light the Visitor's Centre.

Sounds like you want rolling black - outs and expensive utilities because there's really NO plan to replace the electricity that Indian Point generates.

And Griffo, like members of the Business Council of New York State and other upstate lawmakers, expressed fear that taking on the money - losing Canal Corp. could hinder the Power Authority's ability to keep generating low - cost electricity.

Initial attempts to generate electricity from tides did so with big, dam - like structures called...

A plume also carries static electricity — the separation of positive and negative charges — so «these large ash clouds from eruptions like Puyehue - Cordón Caulle can generate their own lightning,» says Erik Klemetti, assistant professor of geosciences at Denison University.

Fischetti: Right, if you think about a long trough that reflects sunlight, it concentrates the sunlight along a pipe that runs parallel to the long trough and concentrate [s] the sunlight like a magnifying glass, [which] heats the fluid inside this pipe really hot, so the hot fluid circulates out to a somewhat traditional power plant where it's allowed to expand into high pressure gas that turns a turbine which generates electricity.

«In the future I see an at - home, disaggregated system, with the home like a brain, with supply and demand of electricity being generated in that home.»

In other words, the types of solar farms previously dominated by traditional silicon photovoltaics now used to generate electricity from sunshine in states like Arizona and California.

The salt is stored in Thermos - like reservoirs and then is used to create steam to generate electricity hours after sundown, making it a leader in the budding field of renewable energy storage, industry analysts say.

Perovskite solar cells generate electricity just as well when they're made like their simple, silicon counterparts.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

«We must... move toward running new vehicles on electricity and to generating that electricity from clean, renewable sources like solar and wind power.»

Imagine a future in which human beings have become immune to all viruses, in which bacteria can custom - produce everyday items, like a drinking cup, or generate enough electricity to end oil dependency.

It wasn't until mankind learned to generate electricity (and EMFs) that we hit technological breakthroughs like lightbulbs and radio communications.

MGU - K (where the «K» stands for kinetic) works like an uprated version of the previous KERS, converting kinetic energy generated under braking into electricity (rather than it escaping as heat).

For electric vehicles like the IONIQ Electric, it took into account the carbon dioxide emissions produced to generate the electricity used during recharging.

As a completely electric vehicle, with no gasoline engine as a range extender (as is found in cars like the Chevrolet Volt), there are no direct emissions, although its overall carbon imprint will depend on how the electricity's generated at its source.

Like the Toyota system, the Mercury Milan Hybrid has a nickel metal hydride battery pack that stores electricity generated by the brakes and the gas engine, a 2.5 - liter four - cylinder in this case.

It works like this: The energy generated during braking, which normally would be lost as heat, is captured by a regenerative braking device that converts it into electricity and then uses it to recharge the car's battery.

Like the Honda FCX Clarity, the Hyundai uses a hydrogen fuel cell to generate electricity to feed its electric motor.

But energy stocks also include green energy: power from renewable resources like solar power, wind power, geothermal power, generating electricity from ocean waves, plus nuclear power.

There's steel, aluminum, cement, plastic, paper — all of which are big processes we're dependent on, some of which directly generate CO2, like cement production, and a lot of which are big industrial users of electricity or energy.

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

The draft promotes renewable energy by requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet a certain percentage of their load with electricity generated from renewable resources, like wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal... [They] begin at 6 % in 2012 and gradually rises to 25 % in 2025.

Like the Volt, it can run on electricity alone until its battery get depleted, and when that happens a gasoline engine kicks in to generate power (unlike, say, a Prius hybrid, the gasoline engine doesn't turn the wheels directly, it all goes through electric motors).

Paying 70 cents per kilowatt / hour for diesel - generated electricity — not at all uncommon on islands like Matinicus and Monhegan — is none of those things,» he said.

The cell also overcomes some of the major problems with current solar tech like wear out or damage from high heat that comes from the absorption of great amounts of ultraviolet and infrared radiation that can't actually be turned into electricity due to a narrow band gap (the wavelength of light that can effectively be used to generate electricity).

This ability to generate electricity from such small movements means this device could be embedded in wearable electronics that would be powered from everyday motions like walking and swinging your arm.

OhmConnect is a free service that acts somewhat like a virtual power plant, except that instead of generating energy, it works with the user's devices to reduce demand at times when electricity consumption is at a peak, which can help utilities to avoid having to bring a «peaker plant» online to cover the extra demand.

These devices have been used to generate electricity for charging gadgets, capturing energy from doors and sidewalks for powering lighting in stores and buildings and more, but MIT researchers say these devices have limits and aren't suitable for capturing energy from smaller scale human movements like walking or exercising, so they developed something new.

Coal is usually figured to generate electricity at 5 cents a kilowatt hour, though if you took into account the environmental damage it does that would be more like 45 cents a kilowatt hour.

There is currently no cogent evidence to support the contention that the globe is warming due to the influence of CO2, control knobs, mental telepathy, or any other reason apart from localised heating due to the oxidation of carbon, conversion losses from things like wind or solar generated electricity, or heat from nuclear decay processes, and so on.

The EPA has identified at least 645 regulated landfills that have waste - to - energy projects and another 440 that aren't currently generating electricity — but could — and no one really knows how many small, unregulated projects like Gailliot's are out there.

Tobin claims that NGS will increase reliability and «secure the grid,» but does not recognize the potential of high capacity factor concentrated solar thermal projects, like Arizona's Solana concentrated solar plant, or the innovative potential of batteries, wind - solar combinations and other means to generate electricity after the sun sets.

Last October Gov. Jerry Brown signed a climate change bill that requires the state to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar by 2030.

This is important context for the thorny question of whether, and how, carbon emissions from burning bioenergy — renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources (a category that includes both biofuels like ethanol and biomass like wood used to generate electricity)-- should be included in prospective carbon taxes.

REV is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and generating 50 percent of the state's electricity needs from renewable energy by 2030.

Solar energy is generated offsite and distributed to your home much like traditional electricity.

Therefore, these projects are not only reducing the volume of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, but they are also displacing electricity that would otherwise be generated by power plants running on fossil fuels like coal.

REV is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and requiring 50 percent of the state's electricity needs to be generated from renewable energy by 2030.

It uses technologies that improve efficiency — like energy efficient lighting and heat pumps — and technologies that generate clean electricity — like local solar and wind farms.

I appreciate your sentiments and would also like to see each household generating at least some of their own electricity.

But after 13 years of the AEPS, Pennsylvania generates less than 4 percent of its electricity from renewables like wind and solar, even though 14.2 percent of the retail electricity sold in the Commonwealth is generated by AEPS - sanctioned «alternative» sources.

(And don't forget that until some unforeseen breakthrough in battery technology occurs, natural gas must remain on call as a backup for intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar for generating electricity.)

Wind power supplies over 5 percent of U.S. electricity today, with states like Kansas generating 30 percent of its electricity from wind power each year.

Biomass are plants (like hemp, corn, sugarcane) grown to generate electricity or produce biofuel, plus plant or animal matter used for production of fibers, chemicals, or heat.