Sentences with phrase «more electricity into»

Where locally produced sustainable energy might not be available, the power required for the drying of coal could be taken from the grid when electricity is abundant - that is, when sustainable electricity generation methods are puting more electricity into the grid than is being consumed.

Meanwhile, he said, the add - on sends a price signal for either the addition of generation or improvements to the grid to import more electricity into the zone.

This arrangement gives owners a clear conscience when it comes to the environmental impact of their electricity sources, as Tesla claims the photovoltaic panels will feed more electricity into the grid than the Superchargers will to cars.

OLEDs convert far more electricity into light than incandescent light bulbs, which turn most incoming electricity into heat.

Not exact matches

SunPower has argued that its premium - priced panels, which are among the most efficient in the industry at transforming sunlight into electricity, should receive an exemption from the tariffs because their unique technology can not be compared with that of more conventional models, including those made by the companies that sought the tariffs, Suniva and SolarWorld.

The darker the shade of red dot, the more electricity the ground will generate and conduct voltage into the power grid.

And with clean energy investment globally hitting a record - breaking US$ 367 billion last year — nearly 50 per cent more than was invested in fossil - fuelled electricity — it's a great time to buy into this particular market.

Storage means solar could feed a steady stream of electrons into the grid, making it ever more valuable to the people whose job it is to maintain a reliable electricity supply.

Perhaps even better, the investment he made into an electricity company is paying his electricity bill, and more besides!

Better electrical engineers create more efficient power lines or light bulbs or heating elements etc, which reduce energy consumption across the board, which takes unnecessary electricity money and diverts it into more pure research, which gives bio and biotech more money to work with, which produces more bio and biotech work.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

For the first time in more than 75 years, the electricity and oil sectors are opening up to private investors, introducing competition to its energy - producing stalwarts, putting billions of dollars of profits and tax revenue into play.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

These include lithium - ion batteries that can store more electricity, powerful brushless electric motors with rare - Earth magnets, miniaturized sensors built into semiconductor chips, particularly accelerometers and gyroscopes, and low - power computer chips.

In effect, the college will be making more electricity from the sun than it needs and can send clean electricity back into California's grid.

The interfaces between the two different phases within the composite film play a crucial role in converting more sunlight into electricity.

This coating converts much more light into electricity than previous trials conducted with a single layer of the same material.

Some solar cells convert sunlight into electricity more efficiently when loud music is played to them — as long as it is pop rather than classical.

And because the sunlight is also transformed into heat, that energy can be stored more easily than the direct electricity that photovoltaic cells produce, Wang says.

The best such cells can convert more than 10 % of the energy in photons into electricity, an impressive rate.

«If we can demonstrate this superconducting - wire technology in a wind turbine, we think it's more likely that it will make its way into the power cables of the electricity grid,» says Selvamanickam.

If the UK government caves into pressure and lowers its ambitions for onshore wind, it will make more expensive forms of low - carbon generation a necessity to hit the UK's target of producing 30 per cent of its electricity from renewables by 2020.

«Using different microscopy methods, we were able to gain a better understanding of the phases, compositions and crystalline structures that allow these materials to convert light into electricity more efficiently,» said Poplawsky, adding that the availability of data is limited.

This would send more solar electricity into the grid — which, in turn, should further cut the need for fossil fuels.

The goal is to provide the materials that will allow organic photovoltaic cells to turn more than 10 % of the solar energy that hits them into electricity, compared with about 9 % for the best materials today.

«It is more cost effective to consume the self - generated solar electricity than to feed it into the public electricity grid,» says Noeren.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

Their invention shunts away the heat generated by a solar cell under sunlight and cools it in a way that allows it to convert more photons into electricity.

«For example, we know that some metallic glasses have demonstrated enormous potential for use in electric motors, reducing waste heat and converting more power from electromagnetic fields into electricity.»

The easier that electrons can move around in a solar cell material, the more efficient that material will be at converting photons, particles of light, into electricity.

That means less electricity is required to spin the rotor, which translates into more efficient propulsion.

Graphene could lead to greener more fuel efficient cars in the future by converting heat into electricity.

Cells can be made more cheaply using noncrystalline, amorphous semiconductors, but they are much less efficient at turning sunlight into electricity.

Antireflective coatings, similar to those used on reading glasses, can help to get more light into solar cells and boost their electricity output.

Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop size.

Power is loaded into one large coil a couple of feet in diameter, causing electricity to surge back and forth more than a million times a second.

«This new material is better than the traditional material, Bismuth telluride, and can be used for waste heat conversion into electricity much more efficiently,» said Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Anderson Chair professor of physics at UH and the lead author of a paper describing the discovery, published online by Nano Energy.

Argonne researchers are working to create new, more powerful technology for long - distance transmission of renewable electricity, to balance rural supply and urban demand, and to integrate wind - and solar - generated electricity into the grid.

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 catalyst runs on electricity — after all, it needs those electrons to stuff into the chemical bonds — but it requires more electricity than practical, a characteristic called the overpotential.

It's been great to judge the Generation Green Energy Performance, using new technology like a dance floor that turns movement into electricity makes energy easier to understand, and much more exciting to learn about.»

It really helps if you can get into a regime of winding down power usage after 4 pm as after this time electricity prices shoot up — typically it costs 14 times more to get the electricity to you between 4 pm and 7 pm than it does for the rest of the day.

The electric motor is also more efficient, now converting 96 percent (versus 94.6 percent efficiency of the 2005 Civic Hybrid IMA motor) of the available electricity into motive energy in assist mode.

Technically this can be addressed in many ways; but fundamentally the machine, engine, transmission and operation must all become more efficient or there must be a change in technology away from current fuels into areas such as hydrogen and non-combustion generated electricity.

The e-NV200 test mule converts ethanol or ethanol / water into electricity to charge a 24kWh battery, offering a driving range of more than 600 km.

Because nine of every 10 tons of the nation's coal vanishes into power plants, many Americans hold the illusion that coal is no longer a major energy player, but here's the reality: Coal produces at least half of the nation's electricity, and we're burning more of...

A simple potassium solution could boost the efficiency of next - generation solar cells, by enabling them to convert more sunlight into electricity.

Leading zoos in Detroit, Vancouver, and Oregon have begun to launch commendable programs that turn organic animal waste into electricity and use alternative energy sources to power their facilities, and more are following suit.

Like Bullies, they push Mario into something more dangerous, like freezing water, electricity or lava.

The right way is to promote more emission - free nuclear power and encourage the investments necessary to produce electricity from coal without releasing carbon into the air.