Sentences with phrase «much electricity over»

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The agreement is expected to save Ontario's electricity system about $ 70 million in costs over the seven years, but the two government's cited «commercial sensitivities» for refusing to say how much Ontario will pay for the electricity.

President Donald Trump on Sunday strenuously defended US efforts to bring relief to storm - battered Puerto Rico, even as one island official said Trump was trying to gloss over «things that are not going well,» two weeks after devastating Hurricane Maria left much of the island without electricity, fresh water or sufficient food.

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.

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.

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.

But it doesn't add much to the cost of the resulting electricity because it allows the turbines to be generating for longer periods and those costs can be spread out over more hours of electricity production.

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.

Some brain scientists believe that our fear systems are prepared to learn about threats — snakes, spiders, or heights — that have been major obstacles to survival over the millions of years it has taken the modern brain to evolve, which explains why it is easier to develop phobias about snakes than about threats that are statistically much more likely to kill you, such as electricity.

«Per capita use of electricity is pretty much the same over several decades in California, even though there are more electrical appliances and gadgets around the house,» Kelly notes.

The partners develop mathematical models that produce improved forecasts accurate for each quarter - hour, which show how much electricity Germany's installed photovoltaic and wind - farm facilities will generate over the next few hours and days.

The companies know nearly precisely when and how much electricity consumers need over the course of the day — but they know only approximately how much photovoltaic systems and wind farms will feed into the grid.

The battle over rival electricity systems fought out between Edison and fellow inventor George Westinghouse is illuminating — but perhaps not quite as much as it could have been

Cost is probably under $ 250, it avoids arguments over load on the system for the rest of the house, you could plug it into a Kill - a-Watt and measure exactly how much electricity it's using and pay her for that if you want to make sure you've completely covered the costs... and it would leave her with a backup option if / when the main unit does fail.

With such a large commitment hanging over our heads each month our other monthly expenses like cable, electricity, cellphones, heating oil and insurance weren't given much thought.

Instead of charging you based on how much electricity you actually used for the month, some electricity companies will charge you based on your average usage over the past 12 months.

Much of the discourse over climate has been focused on gigatons of gases, megawatt hours of electricity, miles per gallon or details of diplomatic accords or legislation.

They've caused electricity to be far more expensive than it could and should be, caused global GHG emissions to be 10 - 20 % higher than it could have been and caused the rate of emissions reductions over the coming decades to be very much slower than it would be of not for their irrational, ideologically driven scare mongering.

The council would phase out much of the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory authority over greenhouse gases and would outright repeal President Obama's Clean Power Plan to cut emissions from electricity generation.

Over the next decade as much as 20 GW of electricity supply will be removed from the system, representing close to half of all supply in the province.

Electricity is everywhere and it won't cost much (in comparison) to install charging stations all over.

The deal nets sellers a few cents over the retail price of electricity, but costs the Green Power Program almost three times as much.

It has been over two weeks since Hurricane Maria made landfall there, yet much of the aid received is still trapped in shipping containers; its electricity grid is months from becoming functional, and more than half of Puerto Rico is still without drinking water.

But over its full life cycle — from chicken feed to poop to energy — it produces electricity with much less global warming pollution, so it's better for the climate.

Miles of transmission networks that transport electricity over long distances are needed in a much lower scale.

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.

These requirements can be placed in context by considering how much we would need if we were to rapidly transition to 100 % wind electricity over a 20 year period.

So it makes sense to move as much energy use as possible over to electricity, particularly vehicles, home heating and cooling, and lower - temperature industrial applications.

They worked 40 hours a week, and, over the course of three months they installed the siding, windows, roof, door, trim, insulation, plumbing, electricity and much more!

«Wind energy will stabilize and reduce electricity prices over time relative to alternative forms of generation and a steady stream of new wind energy helps provide Ontario with much - needed flexibility to align electricity supply needs with changing economic and environmental circumstances,» he added.

Very few people know much about how electricity rates work, where their rates have been, or where they likely to go over a period of decades.

In terms of carbon emissions from electricity, this means that Germany emitted almost exactly ten times as much as France — over 300 million metric tonnes.

Even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet of new buildings to our building stock (a 23.3 % increase) over the next two decades, and renovate as much or more, Building Sector operational energy consumption — which accounts for 75.7 % of electricity use — will be low enough to prevent the need for any new power plant capacity in the U.S.

In each location, the capacity factor is 30 %, that is, over a year, windmills produce 30 % as much electricity as they would if they ran 24/7 at full tilt.

If over the course of 40 years the world switched all the coal power plants over to natural gas, generating half as much greenhouse gas per watt - hour of electricity, then the warming would slow — but only by a small fraction.

Just as much of the world languishes in uncertainty over the future of a low carbon transition, the Globe and Mail reports that Canada steps up and announces an almost complete phase out of coal for electricity by 2030 at the latest.

Energy Source Another Large Factor Part of the other issue with train travel that the report points out is similar to an ongoing issue with switching over to all - electric cars: They may be more efficient than other forms of transit, but unless the electricity that powers them is from non-carbon emitting sources then much of the environmental benefit is lost.

It's mind boggling how much electricity this show uses over the course of CES.

Surely if the company X over produced and used their cells to generate electricity they would be able to lower the cost of production and become more competitive or at the very least have a marketing ploy and say «we like the product so much we use them».

Sure enough, over time sulfur - dioxide emissions from power plants were cut almost in half, at a much lower cost than even optimists expected; electricity prices fell instead of rising.

Natural gas may have lower greenhouse gas emissions when burned than coal, but widespread switching over to natural gas for electricity won't have much of an impact on reducing global warming, a new study from the National