Sentences with phrase «much electricity from»

According to Obama, the United States currently produces as much electricity from solar power as the nation did during all of 2008.

A new study aims to find out how much electricity from wind and sunshine the aging power grid can support

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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

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

TORONTO — Ontario will import enough electricity from Quebec to power a city of more than 200,000 people under a seven - year agreement signed Friday, but the provinces won't say how much Ontario is paying Hydro Quebec.

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.

SS: Much of what we think of as technological progress from the modern era like easy access to electricity required government intervention.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

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.

In fact, the mill creates so much energy from the bagasse that they are able to sell some of the electricity back to the state.

I was told that it costs much more to use disposable diapers compared to using washable cloth diapers; but since the computation I got was from using a branded diaper and I used generic diapers plus the cost of laundry (water + detergent + electricity), I guess the costs are just about the same.

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.

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

«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.

A much tidier solution is a nuclear power source, which is far more compact and delivers a steady flow of electricity, regardless of its distance from the sun.

One suggestion is that Finland, which receives much of its acid rain from the shales, might be willing to help finance new plant if the Estonians pay them back with electricity.

The biggest challenge in selling a house that generates as much electricity as it pulls from the grid is that the cost savings require a buyer to live there a long time.

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.

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.

In a place like Paris or the Pacific Northwest, where much of the region's electricity comes from nuclear or hydropower, respectively, the Model S or Roadster can tout itself as a near — zero - emission vehicle.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

Electricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supElectricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supelectricity, or wind and solar - based power supply.»

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.

Low emissions, much less zero emissions, are only true in certain places where most of the electricity comes from a mix of low - carbon sources such as the sun, wind or nuclear reactors.

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).

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.

What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of coal - fired electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall says will be when the most productive coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the consumption of coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»

Aidan and his family live in a Los Angeles where home - schooling the children is met with as much derision as Amish people using electricity (and Braff's «teaching» is no different from parents who homeschool their kids to believe dinosaurs never existed), and sexual harassment laws are a courtesy rather than something to enforce.

Most of the time we let the X5 decide how much gas and electricity to use, but like other BMWs, it has the Driving Experience Control switch that moves from comfort and eco to sport when necessary.

After painstaking consideration that accounted for a number of factors — from electricity and water consumption to how much time each bath would take — Moorefield settled on a price of $ 13 per bath when he opened shop.

When I come back from a 2 - day hike or an overnight kayaking trip with no phone and no electricity, I often feel like I have been gone for much longer than just the weekend.

Simple bungalows with sporadic, generator - supplied electricity soon sprang up like mushrooms, to cater to a crowd eager to get off the beaten track, and the islands became the best kept secret of a young, adventurous European crowd having way too much fun far away from home.

• Electricity Powers — Players can now utilize the new Electricity Power set and use new types of healing powers and damage attacks in combat, including: â — ¦ Tesla Ball — Creates a floating ball of electricity that zaps nearby enemies â — ¦ The Shockwave — Shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies â — ¦ Ionic Drain — Drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies • New Gear — Players can earn all - new gear sets including the new Zoom - inspired set for villains, and the new Black Lightning - inspired set for heroes • New Characters — Encounter new iconic DC Universe characters, includingLivewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static andElectricity Powers — Players can now utilize the new Electricity Power set and use new types of healing powers and damage attacks in combat, including: â — ¦ Tesla Ball — Creates a floating ball of electricity that zaps nearby enemies â — ¦ The Shockwave — Shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies â — ¦ Ionic Drain — Drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies • New Gear — Players can earn all - new gear sets including the new Zoom - inspired set for villains, and the new Black Lightning - inspired set for heroes • New Characters — Encounter new iconic DC Universe characters, includingLivewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static andElectricity Power set and use new types of healing powers and damage attacks in combat, including: â — ¦ Tesla Ball — Creates a floating ball of electricity that zaps nearby enemies â — ¦ The Shockwave — Shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies â — ¦ Ionic Drain — Drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies • New Gear — Players can earn all - new gear sets including the new Zoom - inspired set for villains, and the new Black Lightning - inspired set for heroes • New Characters — Encounter new iconic DC Universe characters, includingLivewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static andelectricity that zaps nearby enemies â — ¦ The Shockwave — Shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies â — ¦ Ionic Drain — Drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies • New Gear — Players can earn all - new gear sets including the new Zoom - inspired set for villains, and the new Black Lightning - inspired set for heroes • New Characters — Encounter new iconic DC Universe characters, includingLivewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static and much more.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

It needs to be used sparingly, with as much electricity as possible coming from renewable electricity.

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?

The first step in this is to make electricity from coal much more expensive because the utilities will need to generate the money to pay the carbon tax (or offsets or whatever you want to call them).

In the United States, where much electricity is produced from coal, it is even better than a battery - electric car, Honda says.»

The notion of making electricity from the Earth's solar income is pretty much irresistible.

If we deployed offshore wind on the east coast stretching from Maine to Georgia we would have 4 times as much electricity as we currently produce from every source in the USA.

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).

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

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

They are much cheaper to operate than gasoline powered cars, and much of Iceland's electricity is generated from geothermal power.

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.

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A future hydrogen economy could use the gas as an energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with electricity in the national grids carried by ageing cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes used currently for natural methane gas.