Sentences with phrase «little more electricity»
And they said that daylight savings time is pretty much a wash, and, if anything, it might use a little more electricity than it saves.
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The first six months of 2017 saw turbines send more than 6.6 million megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid, enough to supply a little over 3 million Scottish homes.
The only thing that has kept servers from sucking up ever more energy has been a little known corollary of Moore's law: over the past 65 years, the number of computations that can be done per kilowatt - hour of electricity used has doubled every 1.6 years, according to Koomey's research.
«Electricity provides them with an extra bit of information that makes them a little bit more clever.»
True, it had the potential to clean up California's air, although that may be of little consolation to people living near coal - fired power plants, which supply more than 50 percent of America's electricity.
They will taste good, but refined foods have very little vitamins and minerals, making you consume more just to have enough electricity to get through the day.
But with a little more perseverance, electricity was born.
Unlike other hybrids, like the Toyota Prius and even the Honda Civic Hybrid, the ILX is unable to operate on electricity alone; however it does employ a regenerative braking system that traps the kinetic energy created during braking and converts it to electricity in order to give the lithium - ion battery a little more zap.
More importantly, the model consumes as little as 2.1 L / 100 km (134.5 mpg UK) and can travel up to 40 km (25 miles) on electricity alone at speeds up to 120 km / h (75 mph).
They can be purchased in packages of 10 or more for as little as $ 40, and installation is as simple as sticking them in the ground: they generate their own electricity and come on automatically at night.
Electricity companies will always have demand for their products, where as telecommunications companies have a little more elastic demand.
Until we are willing to talk to utilities companies and pay a little more for clean electricity, I think that these internet sites will just remain useful knowledge, not a potential tool for change.
Although some are more traditional in design, such as the Organic Transit ELF, and feature a rather conventional pedal and gear and chain system, others, such as the Hybrid Module Mobility concept, disconnect the pedals from the drivetrain altogether, and instead use the pedaling motion to «drive» the vehicle while generating a little bit of electricity.
But it kind of shows up as, «Okay, I'm paying a little more for electricity,» which is a very complex, opaque thing.
When you compare current electricity and natural gas prices, the same unit of energy will cost you about three times more for electricity so you can expect to pay a little bit more on your utility bill, even with a sizable energy efficiency improvement.
Here's something that makes Palo Alto just a little more fabulous, smug, and high - level - of - being: The town of 65,000 boasts that, since last year, it is officially the first city in America whose electricity supply is 100 percent carbon - neutral.
Stack said Palo Alto's utilities divisions, which had revenues of about $ 100 million last year, spent a little more than $ 400,000 on RECs to offset its purchase of electricity derived from fossil fuels.
Despite billions of pounds in investment and subsidies, Britain's wind - turbine fleet was producing a feeble 2.43 per cent of its own capacity — and little more than 0.2 per cent of the nation's electricity in the coldest month since records began.
In a little more than a decade, South Korea could have offshore wind capacity of 13 GW if ambitious plans laid out in its latest plan for electricity supply and demand come to fruition.
In 2016, coal - fired and nuclear power each contributed a bit over a third of the electricity, followed by natural gas generation, which provided a little more than a quarter of the load.
UK electricity demand varies between lows of around 30 gigawatts (GW) and highs of a little more than 50GW.
Measuring the size of a ceiling fan and priced a little more than the latest Apple iPhone, this wind turbine can generate three to five kilowatt hours of electricity daily — enough...
While storage actually consumes a little electricity rather than producing any, it makes the electricity business more economically efficient.
Looking at just emissions from the electric power sector, emissions in Minnesota dropped by slightly more than the U.S.. However, since 2009, the state has made little to no progress on emissions even as electricity generation by wind increased by 92 percent.
We had better hope that this (or more) comes about or else it will be even more coal as India is inevitably going to rapidly expand electricity supply from the current situation of per capita supply little more than 25 % of the world average.
The demand for financial resources to finance solutions is huge - $ 2,100 billion for power generation in developing countries alone in the next 30 years, and that to do little more than keep pace with population growth, leaving far too many still without electricity.
Replacing aging water - hungry coal plants with technologies that require little or no water, like renewables and energy - efficient technologies that reduce overall electricity demand, would lead to significant water savings across the country and a cleaner, more resilient energy future.
Poland depends on domestically available coal far more than other EU countries (solid fuels, coal and lignite, constitute 57 % of gross inland energy consumption for heat and electricity) with very little renewable energy production and no nuclear power.
The Clean Power Plan makes electricity more expensive, hurts consumers, is likely unconstitutional, and does little to improve the environment.
Not only will you get exercise and a more pleasant city to boot, but the electricity you save will go back into the grid and help someone else live a little cleaner too.
According to the Energy Information Administration, half of our countries» electricity is generated by coal, about 20 % by nuclear, and a little more than 18 % by natural gas.
A little more than half of Mexico's installed electricity capacity comes from fossil fuels.
I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).
If there's too little or too much electricity in the system at a given moment, customers are more likely to experience blackouts.
The exchanges can be set up anywhere and although China has around 70 % of the world's bitcoin mining power, this can always be transferred elsewhere, assuming that the server farms are willing to pay a little more for their electricity.