Sentences with phrase «most electricity generated»

Unless CSP becomes a lot cheaper I see most electricity generated by wind with possibly some nuclear and NG and hydro providing peak demand (as it does now).

These are same implications for having most electricity generated from say 25 nuclear power stations located within 100 km of the 7 major urban centers.

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Unlike most contemporary monasteries, it has no indoor plumbing or electricity (except for solar - generated power for church and refectory lighting).

While only 13 percent of electricity in the U.S. is generated from renewable energy sources, it's one of the most critical ways to fight climate change.

LPG is liquid propane, not natural gas and incineration is the most expensive and dirtiest way to generate what little electricity it will produce.

These include the «renewables obligation», which is effectively a quota mechanism imposing costs on generators who fail to generate a set proportion of their electricity from renewables and more recently, courtesy of the energy bill, a most peculiar mechanism, otherwise known as «contracts for difference».

Hydrogen Energy, a joint venture between BP and Rio Tinto, has proposed a new hydrogen - powered electricity generating facility for the Kern County area that would capture and sequester (store) most of its carbon related emissions.

Most of the funds come from the sale of low - cost electricity generated by the state Power Authority.

Most of that coal is being burned to generate electricity, which replaces oil as the primary carrier of the world's energy by 2050 in the report's low - emissions scenario.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Most nuclear reactors, including those at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi generating station, are essentially high - tech kettles that efficiently boil water to produce electricity.

Despite long - standing public concern about the safety of nuclear energy, more and more people are realizing that it may be the most environmentally friendly way to generate large amounts of electricity.

Unlike most of these earlier attempts, the Los Olivos house and a handful of other prototype «net zero» dwellings remain connected to the grid and sell whatever surplus electricity they generate to local utilities.

The most abundant energy source in the world is sunlight, but engineers have had trouble using it to generate clean electricity because the silicon in solar cells is so costly.

Propeller wind turbines are the most common way of using one of the most abundant energy sources on Earth to generate electricity.

Clean power, already flowing, should be a godsend to a nation that still generates most of its electricity by burning coal.

One - fifth of the electricity in Brazil's most prosperous region could soon be generated from sugar cane, following an agreement signed between the Sao Paulo state government and owners of alcohol distilleries.

Most states require a certain portion of their electricity to be generated from renewables, and some, such as California, are strengthening their renewables goals.

Today, most of that gas is burned, either for heating homes or to drive electricity - generating turbines.

Different wavelengths of light interact with solar cells in very different ways — with visible light being the most efficient at generating electricity while infrared is more efficient at carrying heat.

«Despite that many believe our power is generated using fossil fuels from Alberta, most of Canada's electricity mix comes from hydropower and nuclear facilities,» Kennedy says.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

Our energy - intensive western lifestyle comes with a hefty price: To generate most of our electricity we burn fossil fuels, a process that pumps billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year.

Because most people are unwilling to run the dishwasher or drive the car only when the wind blows, scientists are examining ways of storing electricity generated by wind turbines.

One of the most promising ideas for storing renewable energy is to use the excess electricity generated from renewables to split water into oxygen and hydrogen; the hydrogen can then be fed into fuel - cell vehicles.

Credit: Warren Gretz Most power plants need steam to generate electricity.

Finally, although most people focus on electricity generation solar photovoltaics, there is also an alternative technology in the form of solar thermal hot water panels which generate heat for hot water.

And most agree that the «series» hybrid - one in which the heat engine generates only electricity to supply a traction motor or an energy storage device and is not directly linked to the driveline - appears to be the most practical hybrid arrangement.

Environmentally speaking, the Model S is classed as a zero - emissions vehicle, but as most of the UK's domestic electricity is generated by fossil fuel - burning power stations (as of 2014, about 30 per cent gas and 29 per cent coal), every mile you drive still has a CO2 consequence.

As the most advanced expression of the electric vehicle concept, Honda's hydrogen fuel cell vehicle utilizes electricity generated by combining hydrogen and oxygen in a fuel cell stack, and electricity stored in its lithium - ion battery pack to power the vehicle's electric motor.

I think it's entirely possible that within a much shorter time frame than most people imagine possible, the overwhelming majority of the electricity consumed in the USA will be generated at the point of use, and large, centralized power plants will be a much less important part of the mix than they are today»

The failure in this respect has been most glaring with the treatment of first generation biomass and with electric vehicles in a world of fossil - generated electricity.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

As steam is one of the world's most used industrial fluids, used to generate up to 90 % of electricity, as well as for water purification and food preparation, this breakthrough could make a big difference in many areas of society:

Hot molten salt stores solar energy so that electricity can be generated when needed most.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

For that matter, most of the very tall buildings should have solar panels on their southern faces — that would not only generate electricity but reduce air conditioning costs in the summer.

I expect that in the future, most electricity will be generated locally, near the point of use.

This regenerative braking feature isn't meant to, or able to, fully recharge the vehicle's battery in most cases, but for a big electric vehicle that travels downhill while fully loaded, using the electric motors as brakes and generating electricity, and then travels back up again when empty, it can produce a surprising amount of electricity.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being

From the Pacific Northest National Laboratories: - «If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug - in hybrid

At the time only 12 % of the state's electricity was from renewable sources and most of Victoria's electricity was being generated by burning highly polluting brown coal.

Many consider wind power to be among the most environmentally friendly forms of generating electricity.

To amortize the $ 300 million price of the wind farm, Deepwater Wind negotiated a contract with National Grid, the utility company that provides electricity for most of the state, that will increase the price of electricity generated by the turbines 3.5 percent annually to nearly 50 cents per kWh in 20 years.

The Western Australian Government Office of Energy (no longer existing; its functions have been transferred to the Finance Department) included the following on their Net site: «Most of Western Australia's electricity generated by renewable energy comes from wind.

Most utility companies across the country have net metering programs to credit solar system owners for feeding solar electricity to the power grid, when the system is generating more than the home consumes at the time.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

The production of electricity in the United States generates a significant share of the nation's air pollution, threatening the health and lives of millions of people, including those who are most vulnerable to harm.

Most people are already aware of the lower carbon intensity of natural gas compared to coal when used to generate electricity.

Wind energy is one of the cleanest, most abundant, sustainable — and increasingly cost - effective — ways to generate electricity.