Sentences with phrase «much electricity by»

An Energy Department review of geothermal sources last year said we might be able to generate as much electricity by 2050 that way as is now produced with nuclear plants.

«This should reduce overall costs for the energy industry because, rather than creating large, expensive solar cells, you can use much smaller cells that produce just as much electricity by absorbing intensified solar energy from concentrating lenses.

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Just consider the electrical costs by calculating how much power your PC uses and how much your electricity company charges.

The reason Bitcoin mining consumes so much electricity is that producing each new Bitcoin requires solving a complex mathematical puzzle, through a cryptographic process performed by high - powered computers.

Under Paris deal, China committed to produce as much clean electricity by 2030 as the US does from all sources today https://t.co/F8Ppr2o7Rl

Mining, a process by which individuals or groups get paid in new Bitcoins to run complex mathematical equations on high - powered computers in order to confirm the validity of transactions, has drawn scrutiny from environmentalists who say it's sucking up too much electricity.

Creating a single token requires as much electricity as two years» worth of consumption by an average American home.

In a recent research, experts argued that bitcoin transactions may consume as much electricity as Denmark by 2020.

On Tuesday, in a tense hearing about the the island's slow recovery, he told lawmakers that the Isla del Sol now wants solar energy to provide as much as a quarter of its electricity, transmitted across microgrids and backed up by batteries.

As a result, Bitcoin's electricity consumption could rise as high as 120 terawatt - hours by the end of the year, about as much as Norway and more than double its current appetite.

Cryptocurrency mining attracted lots of public discussion last year, much of which revolved around environmental concerns over the rising amounts of electricity used by mining farms.

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

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.

The state of our kitchen being completely without electricity, which is made even more frustrating by the fact we're not even in the middle of a renovation, despite it very much needing one!

The most recent reported that 71 % of Australians are worried about how much food and groceries cost, topped only by concerns about electricity, fuel and healthcare costs.

The Passport experience helped to personalize what we're seeking to preserve and reinforced why we put so much emphasis on trying to be good «Earth helpers» by recycling, reducing electricity usage, etc..

According to one estimate, the average desktop computer can use as much as 250 watts of electricity per hour, compared to the 15 - 45 watts required by the average laptop.»

Much has been made of the need for a decarbonisation target, a measure that, if included in the Energy Bill, would drive investment to slash the carbon intensity of UK electricity production by 2030, bringing with it huge jobs and growth benefits to many corners of the UK.

For comparison, a conventional photovoltaic cell made of crystalline silicon turns nearly 20 percent of incoming photons to electricity, and lasts much longer because it is not as susceptible to corrosion by water vapor.

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.

Because the system monitors the current flowing to each light, it can measure how much electricity is saved by switching them down or off, says Bolick.

The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.

«The reduction in demand that has to occur has to be driven by price signals — a much higher cost for electricity,» James said.

But small server rooms, or even closets, employed by smaller companies the world over, typically do not have computers with the most efficient cooling and use up to twice as much electricity per computation as the more effective computers employed by many large computing companies.

The program, which kicked off last year, challenges scientists to construct a petaflop computer by 2018 that consumes no more than 57 kilowatts of electricity — in other words, it must be 40 percent as fast as today's reigning champ, while consuming just 1 percent as much power.

The Westlake — MacArthur Park project was funded by a federal grant of $ 4.46 million, and the hope is that the two - megawatt system will save as much as 400 megawatt - hours per year — the electricity consumption of about 40 average homes.

The study finds that by 2020, the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of electricity generation in certain areas will have improved by as much as 30 percent over 2010 levels.

By ensconcing the lithium inside the membrane's seal, the PolyPlus battery reacts safely with the oxygen dissolved in the water and delivers as much as 1,300 watt - hours per kilogram of electricity.

But in an analysis just published in The Electricity Journal, scientists say that much of this problem could be addressed with enhanced energy storage technology or by developing «hybrid» systems in which, on a broader geographic scale, one form of renewable energy is ramping up even while the other is declining.

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study shows that in the most polluted areas of northern and eastern China, aerosol pollution is reducing the potential for solar electricity generation by as much as one and a half kilowatt - hour per square meter per day, or up to 35 percent.

The ions in the salt water were enough to cause friction and generate electricity in the gel layers, providing 110 volts of electricity — nearly as much as is supplied by wall sockets in the US.

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.

We already know how to build speedier and more efficient rockets powered by electricity instead of chemicals, but they won't do much to get us to nearby stars.

Hydrogen produced by converting coal or by splitting water with electricity costs four times as much as gasoline.

«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.

The new perovskite film, with the formula SrxLa1 - xCrO3, (x up to 0.25), conducts electricity more effectively than the unmodified oxide and yet retains much of the transparency to visible light exhibited by the pure material.

Worldwide, by the end of 2004, these supposedly inadeqaute alternatives had more installed capacity than nuclear, produced 92 percent as much electricity, and were growing 5.9 times faster and accelerating, while nuclear was fading.»

And because the LEDs don't need much juice, they could be powered by small batteries or wearables that generate electricity from movement and friction.

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

If used hard, the Tesla will use much more electricity than commonly advertised, and eat range, but since mid-2012 it's had by far more takers.

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.

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.

Digiconomist says that with much of the network powered by cheap coal electricity in China, each transaction has a footprint of about 122 kilograms of carbon.

Much of Lancaster County's electricity is provided by the nearby Peach Bottom nuclear power station.

I have often imposed on the moderators» patience by noting the rapid growth of solar and wind energy for electricity generation, which for me gives rise to optimism that we can eliminate GHG emissions from that sector much more quickly than many people believe.

Allowing for that falling on the oceans, and further decline due to angle of incidence as distance from equator increases, less the amount required by vegetation for photosynthesis, we are left with how much energy for conversion of solar radiation to heat / electricity / catalytic reaction to other fuels?

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.

How much sunlight is absorbed by the corn plants needed to manufacture one joule's worth of ethanol, for example, compared to the amount of sunlight a solar panel needs to generate one joule of electricity?

By purchasing RECs and other credible carbon offsets AFTER reducing electricity use as much as possible, consumers and corporations can support the additional development of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.

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.