Sentences with phrase «many conventional power»

I recently spoke with an M.I.T. nuclear physicist, Andrew Kadak, who said the engineering challenges were so great and the costs so high that it would be more practical to pursue conventional power sources.

You need to build long - distance transmission lines and a lot more than you would need for conventional power plants.

Paired with Tesla's Powerwall 2 unit, the Solar Roof has the potential to give customers true independence from conventional power grids.

Regulators are now looking for alternatives to the conventional power grid, like microgrids, and are hoping that backing them up with renewable solar and wind power would reduce the bottlenecks in the power system and get the lights back on more quickly after a future disaster.

The cost of producing solar power has fallen sharply in the past five years — so much that in some cases it can be half the price, or even less, of conventional power.

Yet instead of enhancing the Fed's conventional powers of monetary control, the ballooning of the Fed's balance sheet has sapped those powers by making it unnecessary for banks to routinely borrow from one another in the federal funds market to meet their legal reserve requirements.

«Storage effectively provides a low - cost source of power, eliminating the need for the highest cost, least efficient conventional power plant,» says the report.

The first, to which the Bush administration seems largely committed, is to encourage oil and gas production and the building of conventional power plants.

Because he opened out an everlasting communion with the Father that made the Romans, the conventional powers and authorities, all the destructive and craven impulses of the world, even death itself, seem paltry and pitiful.

I find that Boff has gone the furthest in repudiating all vestiges of conventional power in lifting up the liberating work of God.

The term «constitutional monarchy» means that the king is stripped from the conventional powers - though he retains very limited power - an absolute king would have.

The state would instead subsidize the plants using proceeds from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a market - based program that requires conventional power plants to purchase credits as a mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, «in recognition of their zero carbon emitting attributes,» according to the bill memo.

Indeed, four conventional power plants burning fossil fuels are due to come online in the Hudson Valley, at least two of which are possibly being lured by the promise of higher profits due to the Zone configuration.

Microchips made from tiny magnets rather than conventional power - hungry transistors may enable intensive number - crunching tasks like codebreaking or image - processing using a fraction of the power.

City of Dallas Texas Government 334 million green kWh, 40 % of total power used After hosting an eye - opening climate conference, the city government decided to help lower statewide ozone levels by decreasing its conventional power use, says Jill Jordan, an assistant city manager.

Forecasts of wind farm output are increasingly accurate, and drops in output can be predicted and compensated for using conventional power stations.

The trouble is that on calm and cloudy days, grid operators still need to call on conventional power stations to meet expected demand.

Case in point, Gallagher says, is «smart grid» technology that's designed to integrate renewable power coming from wind turbines and solar cells with the nation's 9000 conventional power plants and 300,000 miles of transmission lines.

That would be in line with conventional power generation costs of today and might make it more economically attractive.

The EPSRC Energy Programme will build on the large amount of research already being conducted through a number of consortia and research programs at various institutions working in areas such as biomass and bioenergy, marine energy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen programme.

It also entails the advantage of eliminating the need to connect it to a conventional power source.

Coming off a Westside program; I needed a change from the conventional power lifting routine and this worked well for me as a 55 year old.

Stand for Children exists to challenge the conventional power arrangements of the K - 12 public education system, organizing parents at the grassroots level to advance a school reform agenda.

Unlike the hydraulic pumps of conventional power steering systems, the electric motor of the electromechanical arrangement uses energy only when the steering wheel is actually turned.

In line with the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider's ultra-lightweight design and desire for maximum agility and road feel, the conventional power steering system is removed altogether.

Every engine churns out power and torque, but the beauty if you observe a conventional power - torque curve (see the image below) is that power is obtained only at high speeds and that too at a small band while torque is generated at relatively lower speeds over a larger spread.

The Jeep Switchback receives conventional power from Jeep's standard 3.6 - litre Pentastar V - 6 routed through the Wrangler's factory five - speed automatic.

Featuring a 50 km pure - electric range, the downside of the plug - in powertrain is it takes two hours and 45 minutes for a full charge using a 32 - amp charger (if you can find one Down Under), or 7.5 hours from a conventional power socket.

This leads to fuel savings of approximately 0.4 liters per 100 kilometers in the NEDC driving cycle (New European Driving Cycle) and up to 0.8 liters per 100 kilometers in city traffic compared with conventional power steering systems.

The Cybrid system also uses hydraulic fluid that is incompatible with conventional power steering fluid (which is usually automatic transmission fluid).

This is approximately twice the fuel efficiency of a similarly equipped four - door sedan with a conventional power train.

The motor's lithium - ion battery can be recharged at any conventional power socket using an on - board charging cable.

It enhances efficiency because it removes the conventional power steering pump from the engine's driven accessories

Designers and engineers of the Fiat 500e worked to minimize drag while keeping the iconic styling of the conventional powered Fiat 500.

Its primary advantage is that, unlike conventional power steering systems, it only consumes energy when actually steering.

That's why it's important that your vehicle has conventional power outlets.

With their high levels of torque and instantaneous responses to every movement of the accelerator, electric motors already make significantly higher demands on driving stability systems than conventional power units.

The image of «one hand clapping» also suggests connotations of solitude and the ability of artists to put forth a singular perspective and to challenge prevailing beliefs, stereotypes, and conventional power structures.»

Two California companies said Thursday that they would each build solar power plants that were 10 times bigger than the largest now in service, creating the first true utility - scale use of a technology now mostly confined to rooftop supplements to conventional power supplies.

The two billion people on the planet who lack a light bulb or scrabble for firewood for cooking or heat (sometimes getting into knife fights in the process) need affordable, convenient energy sources now — whether from a solar panel or biogas, or from a conventional power plant or propane tank.

In addition, Moody's expects the growth of energy storage will be credit negative for conventional power generation plants, because it will allow renewable generation to compete on an equal footing with conventional plants.

The capacity factor of wind farms in Australia averages around 35 % higher than many conventional power stations.

The utilities are demanding that, as the economics of renewable generation are increasingly coming into line with conventional power, subsidies should be reined in so the two can compete.

Meanwhile, distribution grids, which connect smaller renewables installations and conventional power stations, will also require considerable expansion and modernization, the scale of which will depend on specific tasks assigned to the nation's 800 - plus distribution grid operators when developing smart grids.

When these backup sources are conventional power plants, it's expensive and inefficient to keep these plants idling.

«How great this need for conventional power plant capacity actually is depends on a number of variables,» says the Economics Ministry, adding that «it is... very difficult to put a figure on the power plant capacity needed.»

A common complaint from industry stakeholders is that a regulatory framework for the conventional power plant market has to be redesigned.

The current system resulted in conventional power plants, particularly gas - fired generators, that were increasingly unprofitable, the BDI asserted.

Over the projected 20 year lifespan of these monstrous machines, this will certainly happen, along with breakdowns that can't be fixed, rusting structures that will have to be pulled down, the amount of conventional power used to keep them running..., and so on, and so on, and so on.

«Tidal generation provides a consistent, regular supply of energy, ideal for coupling with our industrial energy storage machines to supply 24 hour base load energy, a service which is difficult to provide with conventional power - centric batteries.