Sentences with phrase «much electricity with»

In comparison, storing that much electricity with today's cheapest batteries would likely cost more than a trillion dollars, although prices are falling.

Not exact matches

A small lakeside town in upstate New York is fed up with Bitcoin miners using up so much of its low - cost electricity.

These provide a much less rosy picture, with rail freight volumes down 11 % on a year ago and electricity production flat.

Aluminum smelters are electricity guzzlers, with power accounting for as much as half the cost of producing refined metal.

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.

In 2008 we covered our largest wholesale bakery in Berkeley with photovoltaic panels in order to generate much of our own electricity.

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.

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY — As many as 45,000 customers in Westchester County woke up on Thursday without power, and a few thousand of them had spent much of the last week with no electricity in the wake of last week's nor'easter.

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.

Challenges with FPSO Kwame Nkrumah and in Nigeria have combined to unduly deny Ghanaians our much needed gas and light crude oil, for electricity generation.

He then measured the total direct emissions associated with the making of a product; for example, the amount of coal burned to generate a kilowatt of electricity and how much carbon dioxide was released in the process.

This coating converts much more light into electricity than previous trials conducted with a single layer of the same material.

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.

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.

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.

Generators and distributors of electricity depend on it to communicate and to prevent leaving customers with too much or too little power.

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.

That is in part because you waste less making the electricity and also because electric engines convert as much as 75 percent of available energy into forward motion, compared with the 20 percent energy conversion rate of gasoline engines.

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.

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.

With plants, such as DemoSNG, excessive green electricity can be used much better.

«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.

Since its western neighbors this year failed to send as much electricity as usual, the manufacturing hub, with a capacity to produce more than half of the world's desktops and toys, is forced to conserve electricity.

Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

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

The Market - Power Renewables Act and the Renewable Energy Credit Act: ALEC and other Koch - funded State Policy Network groups like the Heartland Institute haven't had much success with their attempts to repeal state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC / Heartland Electricity Freedom Act.

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.

It «s hard to summon much wonder when Superman goes mano - a-mano with Nuclear Man, a Lex Luthor creation with a static electricity problem.

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.

The interior continues the electricity - equals - white treatment of the current Volt, but with lines that are much simpler and more flowing lines.

The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away... Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In partnership with Turismo Chile there is much that the LATA Foundation feels it can do to connect the school to the main electricity grid, replace water pipes with an insulated system that won't freeze or burst, and install a working hot water system.

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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.

Infrastructure is the best example; for a hefty sum you can upgrade a district with things like electricity and a water pipe and telephone lines, which in turn unlock stuff like electric street lights, sewer systems and eventually so 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.

Sunslice is a small folding solar charger that can fit into a pocket, while still producing enough electricity to compete with much larger offerings.

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

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?

Denmark's system is described in the second of your (Anne's) references, where it is notable that they have what they call «district heating» where much of the heat produced for residential heating is coproduced with electricity, that is cogeneration.

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.

But with the very real prospect of electricity replacing oil for much of our transportation fuel, and efficiency and renewables squeezing the traditional utility model hard, it doesn't take divine insight to start seeing that forward - thinking investors would be wise to factor in climate exposure to every investment they make.

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.

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.

I would add that feeding «11 billion humans on half as much topsoil» has pretty much ZERO to do with generating electricity, which is all that nuclear power (or wind turbines or solar panels) are good for, so that is a complete non sequitur.

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).