Sentences with phrase «of more electricity»
Scientific American's David Biello hosts a new episode of the TV series Beyond the Light Switch, focusing on the means to and effects of a more electricity - powered country.
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The first six months of 2017 saw turbines send more than 6.6 million megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid, enough to supply a little over 3 million Scottish homes.
The offer follows a string of power outages in the state of South Australia, including a blackout that left industry crippled for up to two weeks, and stoked fears of more outages across the national electricity market due to tight supplies.
A similar electricity trade applies to all of Canada, where more than 60 % of power produced still comes from hydro.
It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.
«We can actually put computation in the infrastructure of the city so that we can make the city not only greener but more efficient,» he says, referencing innovations that could prevent the waste of electricity and water from cracks in building architecture.
More than one third of Danish electricity production comes from turbines, according to the Danish Energy Agency.
It can clean more than 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour and uses no more electricity than a water boiler, according to Roosegaarde.
Plattsburgh residents had seen their electric bills surge as rising total demand forced the purchase of more expensive, non-hydropower electricity.
Researchers at the frontier of science are making possible technologies likely to change civilization more than anything since electricity.
SunPower has argued that its premium - priced panels, which are among the most efficient in the industry at transforming sunlight into electricity, should receive an exemption from the tariffs because their unique technology can not be compared with that of more conventional models, including those made by the companies that sought the tariffs, Suniva and SolarWorld.
The mountainous «spine» of central California, as Ms. Eggman likes to call it, is very different from the coast: there are more low - income households, higher electricity bills, and more expensive estimates for solar panel installation.
True, more RAM means less hard drive access, and the hard drive uses a lot of electricity.
Horizon Power will trial a new method of charging residents and businesses in Port Hedland for electricity, with the aim of giving customers more control over their power usage.
Power consumption for all cryptocurrencies is on track to use more electricity in 2018 than the whole of Argentina, according to Bloomberg.
The darker the shade of red dot, the more electricity the ground will generate and conduct voltage into the power grid.
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And there has been no more fundamental, epoch - making modern innovation than the large - scale commercial generation, transmission, distribution and conversion of electricity.
Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.
It's kind of crazy if you think about it: There's no information sent to consumers about when it's expensive to supply more electricity and when it's not.
Gradually, the state's 12,000 rivers have allowed Alaska to turn more to hydropower, which in 2016 accounted for about 30 percent of its total electricity production.
Despite a rapidly developing economy in Kenya, widespread use of cell phones, and the home to one of the most successful mobile payment systems in the world, more than three quarters of Kenyans don't have regular access to electricity.
«The Haliade - X shows GE's commitment to the offshore wind segment and will set a new benchmark for cost of electricity, thus driving more offshore growth,» Jerome Pecresse, GE Renewable Energy's president and CEO, said.
Small - scale solar panels generate electricity more cheaply than buying from the grid in certain parts of the United States.
A lot of electric clocks, such as those on many radios and ovens, still keep time by synchronizing themselves to the frequency of the mains electricity supply, rather than an inbuilt quartz crystal (which is more expensive) or by connected to a «time server» on the Internet (more expensive still).
Onshore wind turbines in Scotland sent more than 5 million megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid in the first quarter of 2018, analysis has shown.
The bank's analysts forecast that Bitcoin mining could use up more than 125 terawatt hours of electricity this year, a level electric vehicles globally won't reach until 2025.
The IEA said demand for cooling will add more to global electricity demand than the spread of electric vehicles.
Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.
These aren't the kind of hacks that mean tech - savvy folks need to change their login credentials, but precursors to something far more serious: potentially devastating and life - threatening infrastructure disruptions that could leave thousands or millions of people without electricity or other utilities.
The new Sidewalk project would make way for self - driving cars on its streets, more efficient electricity and water delivery systems, and high - tech housing units for tens of thousands of people and workers.
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.
NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns welcomed the import of more clean power from Quebec, but said the impact on consumers» electricity bills and the actual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the agreement will be minuscule.
Through greater integration of their grids, these provinces could cut more carbon pollution faster and gain access to lower - cost electricity.
Literally the fuel of America's Industrial Revolution and growth, coal has fallen from providing more than half of the nation's electricity as recently as 2000 to 30 percent in 2017.
The truth environmentalists refuse to admit is that the mass consumption of electricity due to EVs is rapidly becoming more dangerous to the environment than current refined oil emissions produced by ICEs.
The PSC offered a truly staggering look at the electricity demand that cryptocurrency has created in the region, saying that in some communities cryptocurrency mining requires «thousands of times more electricity than an average residential customer would use» (emphasis PSC).
A more powerful heater should run less, for an equal amount of electricity used to hold an equal temperature under equal conditions over time.
Of course, cryptocurrency mining is hardly the first industry to arbitrage electricity prices to make some good's production more profitable.
Additionally, with the new products that we have shown, we expect that solar's share of the nation's $ 400 billion in annual retail electricity sales will increase more than anyone currently expects.
(Reuters)- Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.
More than six months after Hurricane Maria, daily life in Castañer, Puerto Rico, is nowhere close to normal as residents try to deal with the effects of trauma, chronic stress and the continued lack of electricity.
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!
That equates to more than half the 38 terawatt - hours of electricity used annually by the world's biggest miner (as in literal, pull materials out of the ground mining), BHP Billiton Ltd..
For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.
Most of the deaths occurred as people slept in houses that collapsed overnight
Severe dust storms across northern India have killed more than 100 people, destroyed homes and left hundreds without electricity.
Ontario has been switching more and more of it's electricity to none fossil based generation for years now.
The project has a long - term Power Purchase Agreement with Duke Energy Progress, and is capable of producing enough clean electricity to power more than 11,000 homes.
The total number of people without electricity in Puerto Rico is more than 120,000, and there remain municipalities where 45 percent of residents don't have power.
Power had been restored to more than three - quarters of Puerto Ricans Thursday morning after a massive blackout knocked out electricity to the whole island Wednesday.