Sentences with phrase «much electricity now»

Today's air conditioners use only about half as much electricity now as in 1990, and continued advances in energy efficiency could reduce the energy consumption impacts substantially.

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And while our study found that the work will cost around $ 42 billion, it will save as much as $ 2 billion a year in electricity bills the military now pays to civilian suppliers.

The popular cryptocurrency now consumes as much electricity in a year as a large - sized country.

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.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

«Right now our electricity system is very much a command - and - control centralized system,» says David Crane, CEO of Princeton, N.J. — headquartered national energy company NRG, which is attempting to reinvent itself for the less centralized future Crane foresees.

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.»

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In Hong Kong, as in much of the rest of the world right now, a debate is raging about how best to generate the additional electricity that is needed to power economic growth and development.

Re 273 — not that I am prone to agreeing with Edward Greisch, but those numbers are presumably before profit, or... Well, the number for coal seems about right, so far as I know, though it is much less than what anyone pays for retail electricity now.

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.

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.

Coal now generates less than 2 % of New England electricity, and it is increasingly being replaced by much cleaner natural gas.

But these remarks are about how government intervention has destroyed the electricity market in Australia and throughout much of the western world, and what it means for personal and economic liberty, now and in the future.

That pretty much leaves coal to meet the increase in electricity demand now.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

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.

Solar and wind now provide less than 5 % of Canada's electricity generation, and much less of total delivered energy.

California is now generating so much renewable electricity at certain times during the day that the state can't use it all.

And they are projecting that you look out 10 years from now and it's basically going to be about the same electricity demand in the state that we have right now, but with a much higher percentage of solar, bit higher percentage of wind.

Grid operators predict that in ten years, we'll have «about the same electricity demand in the state that we have right now, but with a much higher percentage of solar, bit higher percentage of wind.

- In the US (but not elsewhere), where tracking has produced so much cheap natural gas, coal is not the cheapest form of producing electricity right now.

And because they are now 100 meters tall, instead of less than 40 meters, they harvest a far larger, stronger, and more reliable wind regime, generating 20 times as much electricity as the turbines installed in the early 1980s when modern wind power development began.

But if existing combustion power plants could be adapted to use metal powder instead of coal or other fossil fuels, then much of the existing power generating infrastructure could be used, and power generation could continue to be in the same places it is now, using the same grid as is currently supplying electricity.

By then, electricity from solar will be much more competitive against electricity from conventional sources, and biofuel will be a non-negligible fraction of the fuel used by the international airline industry (maybe), Iowa and Texas will have perhaps 3 times as many wind turbines as now — who knows, maybe there will be new watershed control projects completed or under construction in Thailand, the Mekong River, Queensland and upper.

With the advancing technologies for harnessing wind and powering motor vehicles with hydrogen, we can now see a future where farmers and ranchers can supply not only much of the country's electricity, but much of the hydrogen to fuel its fleet of automobiles as well.

The increased investments in renewable energy to reduce natural gas risks could raise average household electricity bills above business as usual by about $ 3.00 per month in 2030 — a much smaller increase than the year - on - year swings in average monthly electricity bills that Massachusetts households now regularly experience.

Still, it is now clear that deep decarbonization will involve pushing as much energy usage as possible to electricity grids.

Germany, which has much lower sunlight potential that the continental U.S., nevertheless leads the world in the deployment of solar power and now is meeting 4 percent of its overall annual electricity needs from the sun.

«The potential demand for electricity is maybe twice as much as we are producing now,» Chowdhury said in an interview in Dhaka yesterday.

The 1,034 big turbines now running in Britain produce about 700MW of electricity — about as much as one conventional power station — but in the next seven years more than 7,000 MW of generating power will be installed on 73 new farms.

Photovoltaic cells on the roofs of the homes — now being designed in much more efficient and attractive models — will run electricity through an electrolizer — a scientific bucket of water — which easily separates the oxygen from the hydrogen.

I've always been «thrifty» and now find I was doing many «green» things before it became popular but never realized how much electricity is consumed by things that are plugged in but not turned on.