Sentences with phrase «more electricity keeping»

In fact, apparently we use more electricity keeping stuff cool than we did back then.

Not exact matches

A lot of electric clocks, such as those on many radios and ovens, still keep time by synchronizing themselves to the frequency of the mains electricity supply, rather than an inbuilt quartz crystal (which is more expensive) or by connected to a «time server» on the Internet (more expensive still).

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.

With the coming of heat waves and high electricity bills keeping it out of my 3rd floor apartment, recipes that require short cook times become more and more appealing.

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.

Kept at minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature at which niobium conducts electricity without losses, these cavities will power a highly energetic electron beam that will create up to 1 million X-ray flashes per second — more than any other current or planned X-ray laser.

More than 620 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to electricity, a situation that can keep people in poverty.

They argue that there is something wrong with a world in which carbon - dioxide levels are kept to 450 parts per million (a trajectory widely deemed compatible with a 2 degree cap on warming) but at the same time more than a billion of the poorest people are left without electricity, as in one much discussed scenario from the International Energy Agency.

Unless the reliability of renewable energy sources can be improved, as these sources contribute more and more electricity to the grid, engineers will have an increasingly difficult time keeping the system balanced.

Despite a few setbacks — the river's powerful flow damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades — the company has managed to keep two of the turbines operational, supply electricity to a nearby supermarket and, more recently, attract $ 8.5 million in funding from sources including the U.S. Department of Energy and the Canadian government to further develop and test its technology.

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

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).

Everyone knows that it's electricity that keeps our lights burning, laptops glowing, and televisions buzzing, but knowing exactly what electricity is, how it's produced, and how it ends up in your home may be more difficult.

The market offers numerous sprays that make brushing more effective, reduce static electricity and keep dogs smelling sweet.

The free solar energy that hits the Earth each day can keep us warm, light our homes, grow our food, and generate clean renewable electricity, so we often invite it into our lives, but when the weather heats up in the summer, the sun can actually cause us to use more energy, because we then need to run air conditioners to cool us back down.

Tennessee uses hydroelectric power with coal and nuclear power to keep the lights on for its residents, who use more electricity per capita than any other state, according to the NRDC.

2007/04/25: CanWest: Keep an eye on the green tax Going green is going to start costing all British Columbians a bit more money, thanks to a tiny tax the government is slapping on electricity, natural gas, grid propane and fuel oil used for heating.

With NMBI legislation in place and carefull planning, taking into account likely closure dates of aging coal - fired power stations and potential depletion dates of current coal and gas sources, NSW can have more renewable electricity generation and grid - level storage in place in plenty of time to «keep the lights on».

The United States is increasing its reliance on electric power and will have to generate 40 % more electricity by 2030 if demand keeps growing as it has during the past 35 years.

The Volt can travel up to 50 miles in battery - only mode before a small gas engine comes into play to power a generator to create electricity to keep the car going 300 more miles.

With NMBI legislation in place and carefull planning, taking into account likely closure dates of aging coal - fired power stations and potential depletion dates of current coal and gas sources, Victoria can have more renewable electricity generation and grid - level storage in place in plenty of time to «keep the lights on».

If it closes the plants, it will import even more electricity — and keep coal plants on - line longer, notes Julian Spector of Greentech Media:

Generation and Consumption Net electricity generation in Turkey has more than doubled over the past decade, but is not sufficient to keep up with expected demand.

As variable renewable power such as wind and solar play a larger role on the grid, the ability to time - shift power consumption will become more important — not just for customers to keep their bills low in the face of time - of - use rates, but also to match the load to the supply of carbon - free electricity.

Emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants have more than doubled since 1980 as the world's demand for electricity keeps rising.»

A more resilient energy infrastructure: Because CHP systems produce power on site, they eliminate the need for transmission lines to get that electricity from the power plant to the customer and can keep the lights, heating and cooling on during a storm.

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.

More efficient use of both servers as well as ways to keep them running coolly drastically cuts how much money is spent on electricity.

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NG would seem to be the best feed - stock for ammonia, keep wind power electricity for re-charging EVs and heat pumps where it can replace a lot more oil, coal and NG.

Substituting in natural gas, wind, and solar for coal is a (relatively) manageable task, and the transition is aided by the fact that 1) renewables keep getting cheaper, 2) new technologies and policies are facilitating more flexible grids, and 3) electricity demand in the United States has stagnated for years, thanks to improvements in energy efficiency.

Still considering giving a billion dollars of taxpayers» money to Adani to open a new coal mine, pushing for keeping the Liddell coal - fired power station open five years more than its owner, AGL, intended, and criticising the SA Government's achievment of 52 % renewable electricity as «idiocy».

This has the added benefit of keeping costs low and making it easier to integrate more renewables into the electricity grid.

Researchers from British energy price comparison platform Power Compare have discovered that the total volume of electricity required for mining Bitcoin — the computational process that keeps transactions on the blockchain moving — now amounts to more consumption than 159 individual countries.