Sentences with phrase «more electricity and water»

Traditionally one of the worst energy wasters in the home, washer dryers tended to use more electricity and water than standard washing machines and significantly more than standalone dryers.

In 2005, in the US, divorcees occupied 38 million extra rooms, and used about 50 % more electricity and water per person than they did while married.

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«We can actually put computation in the infrastructure of the city so that we can make the city not only greener but more efficient,» he says, referencing innovations that could prevent the waste of electricity and water from cracks in building architecture.

It can clean more than 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour and uses no more electricity than a water boiler, according to Roosegaarde.

Keep this in mind: More than 100 billion people have lived and died on this planet — the vast majority without electricity, running water, or antibiotics.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

The new Sidewalk project would make way for self - driving cars on its streets, more efficient electricity and water delivery systems, and high - tech housing units for tens of thousands of people and workers.

More than half the island is still without electricity or potable water, and aid workers are struggling to deliver food and medical supplies to people living outside major population centers.

The lack of electricity and water, the drive - by shootings, the explosions that more than rattled our windows — they shook our souls.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

It is less than two months since Maria hit Puerto Rico, destroying nearly everything in its path and leaving the island's more than three million residents without electricity, water, or channels of communication.

The more time you can stretch between diaper washes, the more money you'll save in water and electricity.

While ensuring cloth diapers are appropriately sanitized can at times be challenging with high - efficiency washers, these machines can significantly reduce detergent, water, and electricity usage, and save more energy with shorter drying times.

I was told that it costs much more to use disposable diapers compared to using washable cloth diapers; but since the computation I got was from using a branded diaper and I used generic diapers plus the cost of laundry (water + detergent + electricity), I guess the costs are just about the same.

Warm mist humidifiers work by boiling the water beforehand, and so they tend to use more electricity.

And having kids usually leads to consuming more resources like water, electricity, and gasoliAnd having kids usually leads to consuming more resources like water, electricity, and gasoliand gasoline.

He said more than 1,000 under - served communities in the Region had been connected to the national electricity grid and 300,000 people had also been supplied with potable drinking water under the Small Town Water sywater under the Small Town Water syWater system.

The various Utility companies including the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Volta River Authority (VRA), Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) are looking for a more than 200 % increment on tariffs.

«Staff and prisoners told us that some prisoners had been locked in cells with no running water or electricity for more than two days.»

The John Mahama - led NDC Government has, through the PURC, presented the long - suffering people of Ghana with yet another wicked and insensitive present just when Ghanaians are bracing themselves for probably the worst Christmas in a generation: a more than 60 % increase in the price of electricity and water.

She also informed us that more will follow as the progress continues to restore water, electricity and other vital services for the people of Puerto Rico.

In 1989 he was paying attention when Pons and Fleischmann described how a set of palladium rods, connected to an electric current and immersed in lithium - enriched water, churned out more energy in the form of heat than it received in electricity.

The latest figures show that on some days of the year the electricity being generated from sun, wind, biomass, water and geothermal production already accounts for more than half of the load required in the country.

Thermal power plants — those that consume coal, oil, natural gas or uranium — generate more than 90 percent of U.S. electricity, and they are water hogs.

Researchers last week delivered a petition with more than 82,000 signatures to congressional leaders in Brasília, demanding the reversal of deep budget cuts that have left research institutions struggling to pay even basic water and electricity bills.

So there's this idea of peak demand for water, like we are familiar with peak demand for electricity at certain times and lower demand at certain times where we can level those things out to make the whole system more efficient.

Power plants could, they argue, pump the carbon dioxide through water or other liquids and produce a flow of electrons — and therefore more electricity.

As the West warms, residents will need more energy to cool living spaces and make desert cities like Tucson and Scottsdale inhabitable - and will likely have less water to make enough electricity to do that.

Lake Mead now supplies water to more than 22 million people, and it produces more than four billion kilowatts of electricity per year.

The global warming challenge is also intimately connected to the global challenges of feeding more than seven billion people, providing drinkable water as supplies dwindle and supplying electricity to billions of people who still do not have it.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

«At first, the goal was not going zero - waste — it was decluttering and being more careful with our water and electricity consumption,» Bea told mbg.

You'll be doing more laundry, too — probably two to three extra loads per week — and that means higher water and electricity bills.

So while the children in Carinto may not have access to running water and electricity at home, ConTextos has been able to provide them with access to a library and trained teachers who can help foster more than just literacy.

The improvement in living standards also reflects the provision of more than three million state houses and greatly enhanced access to mobile phones, electricity, water and sanitation services.

With recovery efforts on the island painfully slow — he still had no potable water or electricity when he left home in Caguas — Ortiz wanted more stability for his daughter, elderly mother, and mother - in - law.

Ask yourself where large chunks for your school budget are currently being spent — electricity, heating, rubbish collections, water, resources that are wasted in school — and you'll already start to see how more sustainable options could save you money.

With nothing more than a fistful of cornmeal in his stomach, a small pile of once - forgotten science textbooks, and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to bring his family a set of luxuries that only two percent of Malawians could afford and what the West considers a necessity — electricity and running water.

Certainly, it does have to get local regulatory approval for price hikes, however, a 10 % increase in water rates is much more digestible (and therefore much less protested) than a similar increase in electricity and gas rates.

Like gas and electricity bills, water bills can sometimes be based on estimated usage, so you can be charged more than you're using.

If you can't agree on a new repayment arrangement with your credit provider, or want more information about speaking to household utility providers (for gas, phone, water and electricity), read about hardship variations on trouble with debt.

Additional costs for electricity, water, and waste disposal will be more than an indoor breeder.

A more energy - efficient option is a pet fountainthat circulates water and uses minimal amounts of electricity.

As your colony grows you'll need to expand in order to grab more of the slowly depleting resources, and while it's tempting to simply extend the pipes and cables that carry electricity, oxygen and water it's a foolish errand as the longer the network the higher the chances of failures within those cables and pipes.

Infrastructure is the best example; for a hefty sum you can upgrade a district with things like electricity and a water pipe and telephone lines, which in turn unlock stuff like electric street lights, sewer systems and eventually so much more.

Imbue copy abilities with different elements, such as wind, water, fire and electricity, by borrowing or giving them to helpers to add more attack power, unleash powerful attacks, or solve puzzles

Solar water (and air) heaters fall under this category, as they are generally a lot more affordable than a home solar electricity system, and can produce plenty of heat for years - for free - with minimal maintenance or repairs.

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The first 7 meter high Smog Free Tower cleans 30.000 m3 of air per hour of ultra-fine smog, uses no more electricity than a water boiler, and runs on green energy.

Many of the examples used in the Earthship model can be reproduced in houses throughout the community to provide natural heating without electricity and a more reliable water supply through rainwater catchment and storage for cooking and for growing crops.