Sentences with phrase «makes use of electricity»

Mickey retains his catchy magical paint and thinner combo whereas Oswald opts for a remote control that makes use of electricity.

The new Portland — Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project line will feature supercapacitors to make use of the electricity from regenerative braking.

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The late winter and early spring are periods of low demand for electricity, because air conditioners aren't in heavy use, making it easy for solar to get larger market share.

The ritual mandates the absence of work, entertainment and travel, which makes for a 24 - hour period during which no flights are allowed in or out, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.

«We used to make candles out of olive oil and gauze because we didn't have electricity.»

Liska agrees that using some of the residue to make electricity, or planting cover crops, would reduce carbon emissions.

With 1,100 MW of rooftop panels on 350,000 buildings across Queensland, solar «is producing electricity just at the time that coal generators used to make hay.»

Coal supplies a third of all energy used worldwide and makes up 40 % of electricity generation, as well as playing a crucial role in industries such as iron and steel.

According to the Bureau of Land Management, one out of every five homes and business in the US use electricity made from Wyoming coal.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

And yet you're typing your message on a computer made of plastc, linked by satellites running on electricity using written language — all the plans of men who are now dead.

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

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The basic circuit below has a switch made using a small piece of paper and 2 paper clips to break the flow of electricity which allows the bulb to be turned on and off.

I thought it would be fun to make Halloween shapes out of the tissue paper and use static electricity to move the shapes around.

-LSB-...] Static Electricity Dancing Ghosts and Bats Great for all age groups, this experiment uses the magic of a balloon to make mini characters dance.

The well — designed thermal flask is made of stainless steel with a plastic lid, portable and convenient for its lightweight - ness and no use of electricity or other external sources of energy.

The projects are part of the state's Clean Energy Standard, which hopes to make 50 percent of the electricity used in New York come from renewable resources by 2030.

The county made reductions by boosting the use of natural gas vehicles, installing LED lighting around county facilities, but mostly by purchasing more electricity from cleaner sources.

He used the same approach — a brief, painless burst of electricity makes the cockroach reflexively change directions.

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

Some of this is used to make electricity or heat human - built structures, but eventually all of that energy escapes into the environment and warms the planet.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

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.

To make a wearable device that can cope with the jostling of everyday life, the team used a water - rich, polyacrylamide hydrogel and added lithium chloride to make it conduct electricity.

In other words, for every kilowatt - hour of electricity used the microbes could scrub 130 grams of CO2 out of 230,000 liters of air to make 60 grams of isopropanol fuel.

«Using the battery of mobile phones in small solar home systems becomes obvious in order to make access to electricity easier to those who live without.»

Light - emitting diodes (LEDs) made from semiconductor materials are already used in traffic lights because they last for years and use a fifth of the electricity of normal light bulbs, but they tend to emit blue light that must be converted to white, an inefficient process.

So Banhart used a kind of substitute soldercreated on the spotto link two crossed nanotubes: he focused a narrow beam of electrons from a scanning electron microscope at the point where the tubes met, thereby converting contaminants on their surfaces into bridges made from graphite - like carbon that can conduct electricity.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

Cars that either partially or entirely use electricity to function make up slightly more than 3 percent of the U.S. auto market, the lowest share since 2011 and a sharp contraction from 3.5 percent last year, according to EDTA.

The team realized that if they used solar cells made from titanium dioxide dyes, which were first created by Michael Graetzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, such cells could coat steel and generate electricity.

The new synapse would be used in neuromorphic computers made of superconducting components, which can transmit electricity without resistance, and therefore, would be more efficient than other designs based on semiconductors or software.

They made comparisons within the five sectors they studied — power plants, furnaces, exports for electricity generation overseas, buses and cars — and across sectors to see which use of natural gas pays the greatest dividend for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Army used a number of methods to curb energy use, but made a great deal of efficiency progress partnering with energy providers using ESPCs and utility energy service contracts (UESCs) to pay for renewable power generation as well as heat -, water - and electricity - saving upgrades.

Made from cheap, abundant components, these cells use a titanium dioxide dye to turn 11 percent of incoming light into electricity — close to the efficiency of standard solar cells used by homeowners today as shown in the photo.

That's because the gas can be used to make several of the layers in a silicon photovoltaic — from the top of the cell where it is used to deposit a layer of silicon nitride that ensures that all sunlight is absorbed, to the bottom where it can be used to deposit another layer that helps reflect back any missed photons of sunlight, boosting the efficiency of the cell at converting light into electricity.

In a Nature Photonics article whose lead author is Stanford graduate student Alexander Piggott, Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering, and her team explain a process that could revolutionize computing by making it practical to use light instead of electricity to carry data inside computers.

Through Catalyst, communities of innovators use software, data, algorithms, and automation to drive down non-hardware solar soft costs — like permitting, financing, and customer acquisition — that today make up more than half of the cost of a solar electricity system.

The fact that the glass is highly hazy and exhibits high transmittance could also make it useful for LEDs, which work in a way that is essentially the opposite of a solar cell, by using electricity that enters a semiconductor to produce light that is then emitted from the device.

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.

The good news: the U.S. is making a tectonic shift from burning coal to produce the majority of its electricity to using cleaner natural gas.

Vast acres of solar farms using photovoltaics made from semiconductors to convert sunlight to electricity now span southern Spain: Celebrated ground - mounted photovoltaic (PV) plants include La Magascona and Jumilla with their array of 120,000 modules on 120 single - axis «follow - the - sun» trackers.

A plant uses just 1 percent of the energy it receives from the sun to make glucose, whereas the artificial system achieved roughly 10 percent efficiency in converting carbon dioxide to fuel, the equivalent of pulling 180 grams of carbon dioxide from the air per kilowatt - hour of electricity generated.

08.09.14 - Optical circuits use light instead of electricity, making them faster and more energy - efficient than electrical systems.

electrode A device that conducts electricity and is used to make contact with non-metal part of an electrical circuit, or that contacts something through which an electrical signal moves.

The same researchers who pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electricity have figured out how to make their technique work in a form more suitable to industry.

The teen hopes to use such dyes to make windows that efficiently generate electricity from some of the sunlight hitting them.

Over the past decade, perovskites have rapidly evolved into a promising technology, now with the ability to convert about 23 percent of sunlight into electricity, but work is still needed to make the devices durable enough for long - term use.

«You get this beautiful synergy of using PRISM, a small modular reactor, to fix a [waste] problem and then explore if we could use this to make all this other electricity with the integral fast reactor approach,» he explains.