Sentences with phrase «not much electricity»

For example, the Azura - Edo natural gas project in Nigeria will add plenty of air pollution, but not much electricity for local communities.

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What about those individuals living in the developing world without electricity — the 1.5 billion people who can't turn on a light switch much less charge a device?

If cell phone service is available, it won't be much use of employees» cell phones have died and the electricity is out, she said.

Still, the analysts did not find any correlation between the Bitcoin price and electricity costs — suggesting that cryptocurrency investors who buy Bitcoin are not factoring in how much it actually takes to produce it.

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.

But when so many turn down leasing one and one - half acre for one Wind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financing!

The author has not touched on how much solar and wind electricity was produced in the Huston area during these days.

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.

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.

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.

However, I am a practical person and I don't have a slow cooker because it just uses too much electricity for cooking a dish (2 hour - 4 hour cooking?

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 vast majority of people living in Kakuma don't have electricity, much less personal televisions, so men often gather in television halls to watch English Premier League games.

Without electricity, we would not have access to the technology that makes life so much easier.

The risk of artificial infant feeding is considered much higher for babies in developing countries or disadvantaged communities, where clean water and electricity are not always available.

It claimed geothermal would use too much electricity, and that existing heating and cooling infrastructure would have to be replaced at an «extensive cost,» but the authority did not offer specific financial figures.

Cuomo says Trump administration officials showed what he called «disrespect» toward the people of Puerto Rico for not helping out more after Hurricane Maria, which left much of the island without electricity.

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.

At the time, what Sladek knew about electricity didn't go much beyond changing a light bulb.

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.

If Wilms and his colleagues are right, there is not just a hole but also an electromagnetic generator at the heart of MCG -6-30-15, one that takes the rotational energy of swirling space - time and converts it into light, much as an alternator spinning atop an auto engine spits out electricity.

Uranium 238 is much more common in nature than uranium 235 but does not fission well, so fuel manufacturers boost the uranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electricity.

«There's a recognition that it's not easy; this is a technology that is not currently cheap or easy to move into the marketplace, but it's very much worth focusing on because the rewards for our electricity system, for our environment and for jobs would be so good.»

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.

Each is a key component in electricity generation, but perhaps not for much longer.

Another roadblock hindering solar cells is that much of the light they collect is wasted as heat and not converted to electricity.

Much of the recent research into eye development has focused on the cascade of genes that turn on at different times to coordinate the process, but researchers thought electricity didn't play a role.

«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.

Although capacitors can not store as much energy as batteries, they are far better at releasing rapid pulses of electricity (for fast acceleration) and collecting electricity (recovered during braking, for instance).

«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.

And unlike incandescents, which generate a lot of waste heat, LEDs don't get especially hot and use a much higher percentage of electricity for directly generating light.

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.

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.

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.

Don't feel guilty for using so much electricity — cranking up the AC to a healthy level is good for you.

You ride the bike for electricity, you have limited water (not much showering, the future must smell something awful), you get food rations.

«As a director, it's really exciting to see two people who haven't spent much time together come into a room to do a scene and find this connection and electricity between them.

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

When the circuit transmits too much electricity, the fuse heats up, then «pops», not allowing anymore electricity to flow.

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.

Accounting for losses in generating and transmitting electricity would be equally relevant for BEVs or FCV so including them does not change the fact that FCVs need to spend four times as much energy to drive a mile than BEVs.

So far, we're not using up quite as much of our extra electricity as I'd planned to, but I'm happily driving to work every day for free!

The same can't be said for the motor - assist bar gauge, which shows how much boost the electric motor is contributing, as well as how much electricity is being used.

So, rather than trying to beat plug - in cars in ways it can not — like run on electricity more than a mile or so at 25 mph — Toyota is broadening its appeal while giving as much more mpg as is possible within the laws of physics — or its engineers» capabilities.

EV mode drives the car under electricity only for as long as the battery can hold out, but even on a full charge that won't be much more than a mile.

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.

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.

Hopefully the apocalypse doesn't knock out the electricity too much.

They do have to look at cost / benefit analyses, but if they decide that the CO2 impact could conceivably destroy a majority of the planet's population within a few decades, they are not going to give me and others much consideration for the electricity we'll have to forego.

The task of simply substituting for fossil fuels on a 1:1 energy replacement basis will be much too difficult, e.g. not enough roof area for solar panels at current electricity demand, but delivering a set of services that require lower energy makes a solar building practical.