Sentences with phrase «like high electricity»

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The mountainous «spine» of central California, as Ms. Eggman likes to call it, is very different from the coast: there are more low - income households, higher electricity bills, and more expensive estimates for solar panel installation.

Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

In scripture this dimension of the Trinity is reflected in manifestations of God as wind, fire or a kind of raw, dangerous power, like high - voltage electricity.

She would explain all the things that went along with it, like when you leave the refrigerator door open too long it uses more electricity so the bill is higher, and so on.

«It's terrifying to think that each month, one million families turn to high - cost, short - term credit, like payday loans each month and 400,000 are using them for essentials, such as putting food on the table or preventing the gas and electricity from being cut off,» Reed added.

But the cost of producing it by using electricity to split water is high, because the most efficient catalysts developed so far are often made with precious metals, like platinum, ruthenium and iridium.

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.

«The high electron density within this plasma makes it an excellent conductor of electricity, just like metal,» Anderson says.

That high energy density makes OTEC a more attractive option than wave or tidal power, Cable says, especially for distant outposts like those on Guam, where a cost analysis suggests that OTEC could provide electricity slightly more cheaply than existing oil - fired plants.

High - temperature superconductors are exotic mixes of materials like yttrium or bismuth that, when chilled to around 180 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero -LRB--280 ºF), lose all resistance to electricity, whereas low - temperature superconductors must be chilled to several degrees above absolute zero.

Results: High capacity, safe batteries are needed for efficient hybrid or electrical vehicles and for storing and releasing electricity from intermittent power sources like wind turbines and solar panels.

When you assemble the likes of Kate Mara (House of Cards), Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones), Anya Taylor - Joy (The Witch), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight) and Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) you'd expect all the girl power onboard to make for some exceptionally high voltage x-chromosome electricity.

The question is not whether we want to take money away from the poor in Africa, it is more like: are we willing to accept an electricity bill that is $ 15 higher per month per household, in exchange for a stable climate?

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

Chances are much higher for countries to agree to cooperate on a menu of climate - friendly initiatives, say, within particular sectors like electricity generation or manufacturing aluminum.

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light - duty vehicles — cars and small trucks — via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels like biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

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).

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.

In that case, the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of the cost to complete, not counting sunk costs, would be $ 78 per MWh — higher than the cost of power from natural gas, but similar to what wind power in places like South Carolina is expected to cost in the future.

In its place, the work of innovation to decrease energy consumption is taken up by researchers and startups with many promising solutions like biofuel paved future roads that are cheaper than petroleum, sustainable and environmental friendly, or the creation of high speed system of transportation that runs on air and electricity, made by a company called HyperLoop.

While this may seem unfair from the buyer's perspective — no one likes higher property taxes, after all — but remember that the property's cost of ownership is lower because the solar PV system reduces monthly electricity costs.

The electric vehicle market is one of the most rapidly changing and fastest - growing high - tech sectors in the global economy, representing the beginnings of a demand - side opportunity like no other: intelligent, interactive electricity demand.

As we shift to plug - in hybrid cars, light rail transit systems in cities, and high - speed electric intercity rail systems like those in Japan and Europe, our transport system will also be powered largely by electricity.

Through the process of integrating landfill methane with other solutions, the total addressable market for electricity generation technologies was adjusted to account for reduced demand resulting from the growth of more energy - efficient technologies, [8] as well as increased electrification from other solutions like electric vehicles and high - speed rail.

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.

Economy - wide impact studies (Sathaye et al., 2005; Phadke et al., 2005) show that in developing countries, like India, adoption of efficient electricity technology can lead to higher employment and income generation.

Further, even some utilities have found that when all the benefits provided by solar energy to the grid are tallied up — like avoided fuel costs, emissions - free energy and lower transmission and distribution costs — they are actually higher than the retail costs of electricity.

Most utilities do NOT like wind energy because they do not like: a. Paying the higher costs of electricity from «renewable» sources.

Hawaii, California, North Carolina and Arizona and New Jersey boast higher than average portions of solar in their electricity mixes, however despite recent progress many states are still behind, including large energy users like Texas, Florida and Illinois.

«Large electricity users like T - Mobile US forecasting significant costs savings shows there's every reason to take the highest level of action on renewables,» said Constant Alarcon, RE100 Campaign Manager, The Climate Group.

Like the proposed U.S. national grid, the Europe - wide grid would use high - voltage direct - current lines that transmit electricity far more efficiently than existing lines do.

Finally, while high - visibility technologies like solar and wind and electric cars dominate the headlines, we're seeing a continued explosion of the cheapest and cleanest source of electricity — using energy more efficiently, such as by replacing traditional lighting with LED bulbs.

... The inability of RES - I [intermittent renewable energy sources like wind and solar] to satisfy high fluctuations in electricity consumption on its own constitutes one of the main obstacles to the deployment of renewables.

Nuclear ramps up and down well in countries with high levels of nuclear, like France, which gets over three - quarters of its electricity from splitting atoms.

A plant may retire if higher coal prices, lower wholesale electricity prices (often tied to natural gas prices), or reduced utilization make investment in equipment like scrubbers uneconomical.

«Australia, like Japan, has high retail electricity prices which, combined with continuously reducing technology costs, are the main reasons for the small - scale PV adoption rate,» it writes.

This is the case in places like Denmark, too, where there's more equality and publicly tolerated higher electricity costs, so perhaps it's telling that the FIT is less popular in England, which has a steeper income inequality curve.

Studies show that providing electricity is a main element in poverty alleviation, but many rapidly developing nations are highly dependent on coal and other high - emitting and dirty sources like kerosene or diesel generators.

It was thoroughly enjoyable, despite a few minor obstacles, such as surviving a 14 - hour flight and a 24 - hour travel day, driving on the left, evading roos on the road at twilight, confronting electricity outlets that all looked like miniature cartoons of The Scream, and doing without my smartphone because of the insanely high cost of data roaming.

Bitcoin miners face this critical task of higher electricity consumption and hence many miners have been chosing places like Canada which has cheaper electricity cost.

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