Sentences with phrase «much electricity also»

Remember, though, that much electricity also has a carbon cost, and that electric cars don't cut down on traffic congestion.

Not exact matches

While the town has maintained much of its rustic charm (electricity in the city's «hotel zone» remains limited), it has also begun to attract a new wave of nomad — models, photographers and Wall Street brokers who gather for bikini boot camps, expensive dinners and far niente — to the delight of foreign investors, who have brandished the area's boho vibe as a persuasive marketing spiel.

We can also use much less electricity, partly by reducing unnecessary lighting, but chiefly by using far more efficient fixtures and appliances.

Electricity is expensive, but they prorate the fees according to how much you use — the higher the use, the higher the cost per unit — and also what month it is.

He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.

A switch to electricity from gas would also require homeowners to replace boilers, pipes and radiators with compatible systems, costing as much as # 12,000 per household — a move that would be both unaffordable and disruptive for tens of millions of people.

Suarez also questioned how much synergy would be at work: The canal is largely a tourism resource, while NYPA is in the electricity business, he noted.

LED TVs offer brighter and more vibrant picture quality, have a much better higher dynamic range, and also consume less electricity.

If Wilms and his colleagues are right, there is not just a hole but also an electromagnetic generator at the heart of MCG -6-30-15, one that takes the rotational energy of swirling space - time and converts it into light, much as an alternator spinning atop an auto engine spits out electricity.

That is in part because you waste less making the electricity and also because electric engines convert as much as 75 percent of available energy into forward motion, compared with the 20 percent energy conversion rate of gasoline engines.

«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.

Although solar thermal collectors are better than photovoltaic panels or wind turbines at generating reliable power around the clock, solar thermal power is also expensive; at present energy costs, it would require government subsidies to compete with coal and natural gas, which can generate electricity much more cheaply.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

These proposals have also been welcomed by the Government, but again no details of how much Hitachi will get for the electricity have been agreed.

Focus on everything going well in your life even if it's just appreciating your electricity, a warm bed to sleep in, food in your fridge because if you make this a standard practice each night you'll also sleep much better too and sleep will fix what's going on in your body.

Also, by our math, the car costs more to run on electricity, so it didn't break out hearts to be driving in hybrid mode for much of the week.

And what also matters is the fact that Visionect's platform is less demanding expense-wise, since it can be mounted without cables, and consumes much less electricity than traditional LCD - based signage.

New filter will provide much clean air and you will also get a reduction in your electricity bill.

Gunvolt will jump, sprint, and dodge his way around counter-attacks while he keeps his electricity field pumping damage into the baddies around him, also keeping an eye on how much energy he has left.

We are really approaching the point where it will be entirely «mainstream» for US suburbanites to live in solar - powered homes that will not only be «net zero energy» in the sense of generating as much or more energy than the house itself consumes, but will also generate all the electricity to operate an EV, which will be integrated with the house so its batteries can provide power to the house at night and during grid outages.

Along with hydrating 5.5 million acres of land, it also helps power much of the electricity that comes from hydro - power plants.

The addition of the silver and gold layers widens that bandgap meaning that the new solar cells can absorb and convert more of that UV and infrared radiation into electricity, which not only makes the technology more efficient, but also makes it much stronger and resilient.

And that's great for keeping our gadgets charged, but considering that our daily personal power needs are much higher than just that of our gizmos, and that if the electricity goes out, we have no way to keep essential appliances running, so while we'll be able to have a fully charged phone, we'll also have our own little global warming event in our freezer.

The world is also much wealthier today and the service provided by light from electricity is very different than candlelight.

Much, much energy can be generated NOW, with fairly simple technology, from sunlight, especially for peaking purposes and also for large volumes of electricity demand that correspond, in timing, to the daytMuch, much energy can be generated NOW, with fairly simple technology, from sunlight, especially for peaking purposes and also for large volumes of electricity demand that correspond, in timing, to the daytmuch energy can be generated NOW, with fairly simple technology, from sunlight, especially for peaking purposes and also for large volumes of electricity demand that correspond, in timing, to the daytime.

He also said that he felt commercial and industrial customers in energy intensive industries would be likely interested in the heat storage as much as the electricity storage properties of the molten silicon tech.

However, you don't want to argue for a rational solution — i.e. cheap nuclear power (which also happens to be 10 to 100 times safer than our currently accepted main source of electricity generation, fossil fuel) and also happens to be a near zero emission technology (in fact much lower than renewables given they need fossil fuel backup, and given solar needs about 10 times as much material per TWh on an LCA basis).

You'd also know that weather - dependent renewables can not supply much of global electricity, let alone global energy and they are far more expensive than nuclear to provide reliable power (which is an essential requirement).

You could also use solar tubes that heat the pool much like you would normally heat the water, but through solar power instead of gas or electricity.

These higher costs eventually transfer to other products that most of us consider essential: food because it uses much oil in growing and transport; electricity because it is associated with pollution controls; and metals for basic manufacturing, because they also use oil in extraction and transport.

Electricity demand also varies throughout the day and the seasons, but these changes are more predictable and much less extreme.

Interestingly, a similar thing we don't give much attention to is that the fuel we use to create electricity and to power our vehicles also essentially comes from the same source.

We also want to get a sense of how much they are spending on electricity in order to ballpark how big a system they would need.

We already know we are putting too much heat - trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air when we burn fossil fuels to generate electricity, fuel our cars, and heat our homes — but by cutting down and burning trees, we are also releasing an astounding amount of the same heat - trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Also, since the average residential electricity cost is 8.5 cents / kwh (and in many areas, off - peak nighttime cost is 2 - 4 cents / kwh) this means that, after taking account of the differential efficiencies of electric and gasoline power, much of a plug - in hybrid's travel would be on electricity that is the equivalent of $ 1 / gallon gasoline (or, off - peak, 25 - 50 cents / gallon) as contrasted with the same vehicle's use of today's approximately $ 2.50 / gallon gasoline.

I think 90 % of the public do realise that climate change is a real issue and not some kind of hoax and I also think that 90 % of the public correctly see that the kind of catastrophe implied is seriously removed from a complete wipe - out of humanity, and does not require really serious measures (tripling electricity rates, banning much car use etc.).

The reason for the second question is because cheap electricity will much more quickly displace fossil fuels, not just for electicity generation but also for heat and transport.

The reason for the second question is because cheap electricity will much more quickly displace fossil fuels, not just for electricity generation but also for heat and transport.

It's also much cheaper to drive a mile on electricity than on gas.

Beyond being adequate to meet Japan's current electricity needs many times over, geothermal and wind energy could also displace much of the expensive imported oil now used in transportation.

In a country that on average receives about as much sunlight as cloudy Seattle, this premium payment for solar electricity has not only spurred Germany to preeminence in installed PV capacity, it has also helped grow a domestic solar industry with more than 10 billion euros ($ 13 billion) in annual sales.

Your location and how much sunshine you get is also important in figuring out how much electricity your solar energy system will produce.

These will usually pay better than solar projects, and will also make your solar heat or electricity go much further.

You also have to know when the customer was using electricity, and how much electricity they were using.

Old refrigerators, made prior to 1990, also use three times as much electricity as new ones, the utilities say.

And electricity retailers are also accused of picking up more profits from exports of excess electricity back to the grid from rooftop solar systems — for which they pay 6c / kWh (and in some cases nothing at all) and then sell it to the houses in the same street for up to five times as much.

Although much of the attention on electric mobility tends to focus on electric cars, powering buses, trucks, and delivery vehicles with electricity could also have a big impact on reducing local air pollution.

Geography also factors in, not so much because of sunshine («If you put your hand out and see a shadow, there is enough sunlight to produce electricity,» says George Sterzinger, executive director of the Renewable Energy Policy Project in Washington, D.C.) but because of electricity rates.

It could also be a good choice for a clean «generator» for job sites and remote areas, where it would be a much simpler and quieter way of accessing electricity where there isn't an outlet in sight.

As solar cells only generate electricity when exposed to sunlight, a battery (or «accumulator» as the research paper calls it) would still be required for round - the - clock operation of a medical implant, but because regular charging would happen via ambient sunlight, the battery for a solar - powered pacemaker could be much smaller than current options, which also means that the pacemaker itself could be much smaller in size.