Sentences with phrase «much electricity at»

We did a little bit of experimenting to find out, but spoiler alert: it's really not that much electricity at all, depending on which smart bulbs you use.

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«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

The plan includes the installation of a charging station at the buyer's home and as much electricity as needed, based on a tiered service that depends on how much you want to drive.

Under the agreement, Ontario will store some of its surplus electricity — much of which comes from wind power generation — at Hydro Quebec facilities.

Wynne declined to say how much the $ 70 million in reduced costs would impact electricity bills in Ontario, if at all.

Electricity is cheap, and so long as consumers have the option of charging at home there is a limit to how much stations can mark up the price of providing eElectricity is cheap, and so long as consumers have the option of charging at home there is a limit to how much stations can mark up the price of providing electricityelectricity.

It's a competitive process, with one miner receiving the award, currently 12.5 bitcoins, roughly every 10 minutes, so there's a strong incentive to throw as much processor power — and thereby electricity — at the mining effort.

He had felt it, for example, in the darkness of the paleolithic age when for the first time he ventured to put fire to his own use, or accidentally discovered how to produce it; in neolithic times when he found that by cultivating thin ears of grass he could turn them into rice and millet and corn; and much later, at the dawn of our industrial era, when he found that he could tame and harness not only animals but the tireless energies of steam and electricity.

I assume that after you've finished insulting other posters, you will agree to be TAXED at a much HIGHER RATE in order to give all these poor people a dignified living, which I assume from your comments means free housing, free electricity, free hot water, a free bus pass or maybe even a car if public transporation is not available.

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.

People could be given meters in their homes to show exactly how much electricity they use, in new proposals aimed at tackling climate change.

It claimed geothermal would use too much electricity, and that existing heating and cooling infrastructure would have to be replaced at an «extensive cost,» but the authority did not offer specific financial figures.

Among the items he said needs to be finalized are protections for programs like Recharge NY, which gives upstate industries low - cost electricity, and potential guidelines or controls about how much money the Power Authority can spare to subsidize the canal, which runs at a cost of $ 87 million each year.

In the lab, such combinations turned as much as 20 percent of sunlight into electricity, although panels produced in a factory under less than ideal lab conditions only managed 13 percent at best — and Solyndra's averaged around 10 percent.

But Paul Mitcheson, an electrical engineer at Imperial College London, says there is a limit to how much electricity could be saved in this way, as reducing lighting by more than 10 per cent would make it noticeably darker.

At the time, what Sladek knew about electricity didn't go much beyond changing a light bulb.

Severin Borenstein, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Energy Institute, was skeptical about how much impact the Tesla batteries would have on the renewable electricity market.

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.

This inherent barrier is known as the Shockley - Queisser limit, and for silicon tops out at 33.7 percent efficiency in converting sunlight to electricity in theory, though the limit is much lower in an actual device.

This plant covers 74 acres and sucks up at least 300 megawatts of electricity most of the time, peaking at as much as 2,000 megawatts (much of it from a coal - fired power plant nearby), to heat uranium hexafluoride until it gasifies and then force it through 1,760 porous membranes that gradually concentrate the level of the fissile isotope — a method invented during World War II.

Much of the recent research into eye development has focused on the cascade of genes that turn on at different times to coordinate the process, but researchers thought electricity didn't play a role.

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.

But the benefits of increasingly powerful data centers come at a steep cost in energy usage: as much as 61 billion kilowatt - hours in the U.S. alone — 1.5 percent of the country's entire electricity consumption.

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.

Although capacitors can not store as much energy as batteries, they are far better at releasing rapid pulses of electricity (for fast acceleration) and collecting electricity (recovered during braking, for instance).

At the same time, Vermont Yankee provides as much as one third of that state's electricity at a cost of 5 cents per kilowatt - hour, well below any other generating source, and it provides 220 jobs to the regioAt the same time, Vermont Yankee provides as much as one third of that state's electricity at a cost of 5 cents per kilowatt - hour, well below any other generating source, and it provides 220 jobs to the regioat a cost of 5 cents per kilowatt - hour, well below any other generating source, and it provides 220 jobs to the region.

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

«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.

Other examples of service learning at MHS have included the physics class doing a feasibility study on how much energy the solar panels on the greenhouse are producing, and whether it's enough to sustain that space in terms of electricity.

Charge control by mobile phone shows the user just how much electricity the battery has already stored at any given time and predicts how much more time the charging process will take.

So, rather than trying to beat plug - in cars in ways it can not — like run on electricity more than a mile or so at 25 mph — Toyota is broadening its appeal while giving as much more mpg as is possible within the laws of physics — or its engineers» capabilities.

If you could use a home computer at start of bitcoin and mine 1 bitcoin a day on it, nowadays, you need to use specialized hardware costing thousands of dollars and pay huge sums in electricity costs in order to mine the same 1 bitcoin in a day, because there are so many much more mining operations, trying to mine more.

If you're looking for ways to reduce how much water, electricity or gas your household uses, you might be surprised at the difference just a few small changes can make.

If you're looking for ways to reduce how much water or electricity your household uses, you might be surprised at the difference just a few small changes can make.

Much of Puerto Rico remained without electricity Friday morning after a fire at the Aguirre power plant in Salinas knocked...

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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»

They do have to look at cost / benefit analyses, but if they decide that the CO2 impact could conceivably destroy a majority of the planet's population within a few decades, they are not going to give me and others much consideration for the electricity we'll have to forego.

The task of simply substituting for fossil fuels on a 1:1 energy replacement basis will be much too difficult, e.g. not enough roof area for solar panels at current electricity demand, but delivering a set of services that require lower energy makes a solar building practical.

Not much compared to all the other costs which you pay for electricity delivered through the grid to your home (at least in the UK).

If we should have luck here in Germany, and the EEG does not fail, it would mean that in 20 years we'd have a grid mostly powered by renewable energy, paid by the private households alone, that will produce cheap electricity for the industry at a time when oil, gas and coal will be much more expansive than today.

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.

The way to decrease emission from oil is to increase miles - per - gallon standards for light vehicles and eventually to electrify light vehicle transportation while at the same time shifting away from coal to produce electricity to sources with much lower emissions (gas, wind, nuclear).

Replacing Indian Point with this clean energy and energy efficiency efforts, will cost consumers however, though not very much at all: $ 1 - 5 per month additional on electricity bills.

I made other changes to my electricity consumption at the same time, so it's difficult to say exactly how much.

They can build more coal plants, driving up their prices by competing with themselves; or they can flood their electricity markets with the maximum possible volume of non-coal power, enabling their existing fleet to operate at much lower costs and weakening the price power of coal exporters.

Although in and of itself, as Revkin points out, this won't really reduce greenhouse gas emissions as long as so much of our electricity is generated by burning coal, it is at least a doable step in the right direction that reduces our reliance on oil from antagonistic regimes.

Much of the decline was a result of the US switching from its own coal supplies to shale gas for generating electricity at power stations.

Because: at night CO2 absorbs much more COLDNESS than O+N can + CO2 is a good electricity absorber / conductor (reason graphite rods are used in batteries) humidity is highly electricity charged.

If Taiwan goes forward with its planned phase - out of nuclear energy by 2025, electricity prices will rise at least 10 percent percent and more likely much higher.