Sentences with phrase «only about the electricity»

Not exact matches

For utilities like Florida Power & Light, the electricity utility that serves about half of the state's 20 million residents along the southern coasts and has 90 percent of its customers within 20 miles of the coast, putting power lines underground increases risks of flood damage, so the move would only trade one hazard for another.

The SolarCoin Foundation also seems rather optimistic about the adoption of solar power, having only set a forty year window for users to claim SLR for generating electricity.

«Given that it's only about $ 1.50 a day in electricity, and I essentially break even, it's similar to getting a vote in the fork, and also purchasing Bitcoin on an exchange.»

It is only in recent times that you here about so many of these things because we have electricity.

Only a deep confusion about what is necessary in our response to the Good News could make electricity seem so urgent.

The most recent reported that 71 % of Australians are worried about how much food and groceries cost, topped only by concerns about electricity, fuel and healthcare costs.

He also boasted that when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) took over the administration of the country, access to electricity was about 50 %, but «today as I speak to you, access to electricity is 83.5 % second to only South Africa.»

Hawkins said Cuomo's goal of 50 % clean electricity by 2030 only address about 25 % of the state's greenhouse emissions.

New York should be able to easily comply with the regulations because it generates only about 3.5 percent of its electricity from coal, said Judith Enck, the EPA's regional administrator.

For example, current silicon - based solar cells convert realistically only about 25 percent of sunlight into electricity, so efficiency is an issue, says Calley Eads, a fifth - year doctoral student in the UA's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry who studies some of the properties of these new materials.

Taking into account that wind turbines produce electricity only about a third of the time, that's roughly the equivalent of building one standard one - gigawatt nuclear power plant a year.

But geothermal accounts for only about 16 terawatt - hours a year in the United States, less than half of 1 percent of total electricity consumption.

The downside to these one - or two - micron - thick films is that they can only convert about 5 % to 10 % of incoming sunlight into electricity, versus up to 25 % for thicker silicon wafers.

The bot also uses only 7 microwatts of electricity when perching — it goes through about 2700 times that when it flies, according to a study today in Science.

Right now, only about 2 percent of the electricity that can be generated can be stored on the grid.

About 45 per cent of the population can not read a newspaper, and television reaches only a fifth of the population because so many households lack electricity.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

In rural India, about 134 million families earn less than $ 2.50 a day, and only half have access to electricity.

This approach results in only about 1 percent of the energy content of the uranium being converted to electricity.

«Americans discard about 33.6 million tons of plastic each year, but only 6.5 percent of it is recycled and 7.7 percent is combusted in waste - to - energy facilities, which create electricity or heat from garbage.

Interestingly, the range extender makes no physical connection with the drive wheels; it only generates electricity and even then only enough to maintain about a 5 percent charge for the battery pack.

Not only does it deliver a big power boost, it can also serve up superior fuel economy, as its plug - in hybrid drive system can go for about 30 miles on electricity alone.

And, about digging up, you know that instead of electricity in a battery you have hydrogen in a tank, that's the only diference.

The two - cylinder acts only as a generator to produce electricity, extending the i3 range to about 186 miles.

A solar cell a few inches in size that's only exposed to indoor lighting doesn't generate a lot of electricity, so these electronic sticky notes utilize low - res e-Ink displays that can only be updated and refreshed about once every minute in ideal conditions.

But then, the Cisco Home Energy Controller is not only about saving electricity, for the tablet can also playback videos via Mediafly.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Telecom may indeed increase the amount of teaching and learning in the world, and that is great, but this conclusion is very different from (and most likely empirically on firmer ground than) conclusions about associated energy use (and Mr. Revkin is only talking about gas, not the electricity it would take to run the computers et cetera).

The typical family's carbon footprint is only about 1/4 to 1/3 due to it's direct use of electricity, natural gas and petroleum — the rest comes from all the stuff we buy (including that which is bought for us, like roads and airports).

In the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC, I buy 100 % wind - generated electricity through PEPCO Energy Services, and it is only slightly more expensive than PEPCO's «standard service» which is about 57 % coal, 35 % nuclear, 5 % natural gas, and 1 % oil.

Because this is only for 75 flights, the total impact will be rather small - the equivalent of taking 26 cars off the road for a year - but if the airline powered all of its flights with a 20 % biofuel blend for one year, the annual emissions reductions would equal taking about 64,000 cars off the road or providing electricity to 28,000 homes.

Interestingly, only days before, the IESO (Independent Electricity System Operator) posted their 2016 - 2020 nine - page Strategic Plan which said the opposite of the CanWEA / GE study and its claim about not «compromising grid reliability.»

After nearly 60 years of nuclear power, 15,000 reactor - years of operational experience and only one accident that caused fatalities, it is clearly demonstrated, by virtually all authoritative studies, that nuclear is about the safest way of generating electricity.

IIRC, coal supplies about 50 % of our electricity and no new refineries have been built in decades — only existing ones have been expanded.

Then in France, there are 59 reactors producing about 80 % of its electricity, and the country (according to IEA) has per capita CO2 emissions of only 6.3 tonnes, or one - third of the US average.

We only have the capacity to produce about 30 % of our electricity from non-carbon emitting fuel sources (primarily nuclear and hydroelectric).

So far, I've only been talking about electricity.

None of these ads mentioned that only about 1 % of our electricity is generated from oil.

According to the Queensland Renewable Energy Plan, last year only about 150 MW of the state's 12,500 MW of installed electricity generation was coming from solar.

The principle advantage of a heat pump is they only use about half the electricity for the same amount of heating vs. resistive heating elements.

Solar power provides about 0.2 % of world electricity, and that is only because of very high subsidies.

Illinois produces only about one - third of the energy it consumes, including petroleum, coal, natural gas and electricity.

Of course, that being said, even with this kind of growth, solar still only represents about one percent of our electricity production in this country.

But going from heat to electrical or mechanical energy involves considerable losses; typical steam turbine generators run at about 33 % conversion efficiency — i.e. only 1/3 of the thermal energy gets converted to electricity.

Metric bias results in more stringent gas water - heater standards despite the fact that life - cycle energy losses for natural gas are only about 10 percent of its usable energy (from the point of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility meter) versus 70 percent for electricity.

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.

But since today only about two per cent of our electricity is oil - generated, a shift in the way we produce electricity would have almost no effect on the transportation or oil market.

Right now, the price of electricity generated from PV solar is about 12.2 cents per kilowatt - hour in the U.S., only slightly higher than the average cost of retail electricity at 12 cents per kWh across the country.

Others claim that AEPS say compliance is expensive — but both the LBNL analysis and the Pennsylvania's Public Utilities Commission confirm that compliance costs are minimal, only about 1 percent of electricity bills in Pennsylvania.

Despite this undeniable progress, the UK's 63 million inhabitants (0.9 per cent of the world's population) use only about 1.5 per cent of the world's electricity.