Sentences with phrase «per cent efficiency»

The biggest remaining problem is that most such systems require rare and expensive catalysts, such as the silver phosphate required by a new Japanese system with an astonishing 90 per cent efficiency.

Running costs are strong too with Mercedes claiming an average 20 per cent efficiency improvement across the range at launch in 2014.

Another benefit of the new transmission is the efficient torque converter, that operates at 92 per cent efficiency.

Preuss says that an internal combustion engine typically achieves 15 per cent efficiency in converting fuel to power.

«Ours does it to nearly 100 per cent efficiency in less than 3 minutes,» says team leader Scott Grendahl.

While incandescent light bulbs convert only 5 per cent of the energy passing through them into light and compact fluorescent bulbs manage 20 per cent efficiency, LEDs routinely achieve 30 per cent or more.

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«We found that eumelanin converts harmful UV radiation into heat with almost 100 per cent efficiency.

Not exact matches

Mid-tier nickel miner has posted a strong half - year with a 782 per cent surge in profit to $ 23.6 million thanks to lower costs, along with productivity and efficiency improvements.

For example, Sinosteel had to sell a mining project in Cameroon in which it had a 97.5 per cent stake in 2008 because of poor government efficiency, the report said.

Since then, he's improved the railway's operating ratio (an important measurement of efficiency)-- and shareholders have been rewarded in the process: CP's stock closed on Tuesday 153 per cent above where it was trading when Harrison was appointed.

Natural Resources Canada used to have a program called the Canadian Building Incentive Program, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 per cent.

A new Melbourne hotel will set new design standards in energy efficiency to help cut as much as 25 per cent of its energy consumption, drawing on a $ 39 million investment commitment from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC).

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

The Institute claims that subsidies to Crown corporations have increased by 50 per cent since 2006 - 07 and propose, that to improve efficiencies, these subsidies should be reduced by 10 per cent from current levels.

Canada's GDP will see a 1 per cent boost between now and 2030 thanks to energy efficiency measures.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

As Hannah Arendt points out in The Origins of Totalitarianism, efficiency is so subordinated to control that the totalitarian society can afford to spend 50 to 75 per cent of its energies enforcing control of one sort or another on its citizens.

Between 1973 and 1984 energy efficiency in the United States rose by 23 per cent despite economic growth.

Western Europe, starting with substantially more efficient economies, realized a 16 per cent increase in energy efficiency.

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That, combined with the company slashing its capital expenditure, its focus on efficiencies and a 10 per cent reduction in staff, was enough for S&P to maintain Orica's investment rating.

In this environment, Lion reported a revenue decline of 6 per cent to $ 631.8 million in its dairy and drinks business, saying that it «remains a long way from achieving an acceptable return on invested capital, with revenue pressure offsetting efficiency gains».

He said perceptions from some quarters that Elders» resurgence had mainly been driven by strong cattle prices benefiting the whole industry was incorrect, as 75 per cent of the improvements over the 2014 - 2017 rebuild period stemmed from a strategy rethink and efficiency gains.

«It features a low volume circular flotation cell, coupled with a high efficiency air - dissolving reactor, to achieve 95 per cent air saturation.

Many of these projects have attained outstanding waste water processing efficiencies of up to and exceeding 99 per cent organic load removal by further steps in the anaerobic process.

«On average the removal efficiency of GWE's anaerobic wastewater treatment installations is as high as 90 - 95 per cent, easily bringing the organic load down to regulatory discharge standards for most types of wastewater.

«The established standard for grit removal has been 95 per cent removal at 250 microns, so achieving the same removal efficiency at 105 microns (140 mesh) sets an entirely new benchmark,» said Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions.

DairyNZ estimates milk production will fall by at least 2 - 3 per cent this season, as farmers focus on improving efficiency.

In fact, the correct answers to the survey question are: Council leaders believe the top challenges to local government today are: increasing efficiency (58 per cent), recession (52 per cent), public perception (52 per cent), frontline services (50 per cent), financial independence (37 per cent).

• Mined copper production was five per cent higher than the second quarter of 2011, primarily driven by processing efficiencies and higher copper grades at Escondida.

«From January to October 2015, the three refineries produced 682,901 MT (5,007,030.13 bbls) of finished petroleum products out of 955,537 MT (7,005,997.28 bbls) of crude processed at an average capacity utilisation of 5.18 per cent and yield efficiency of 78.93 per cent.»

The watchdog's annual report into progress towards the Gershon efficiency savings today finds only # 3.5 billion, or 26 per cent, of the # 13.3 billion the government claimed to have saved last year can actually be confirmed.

These semiconductors can be used as an optical absorber material in solar cells, but so far have only achieved a maximum efficiency of 12.6 per cent, while solar cells made of copper - indium - gallium - selenide (CIGS) already attain efficiencies of over 20 percent.

Besides the low efficiency of cloning — just 1.7 per cent of embryos came to term — another challenge to creating transgenic dogs is controlling where in the nuclear DNA a foreign gene lands.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

We only need another 10 years of costs reducing by 5 to 7 per cent a year, and efficiencies increasing by 2 to 3 per cent a year for solar power to compete with all energy sources.

A technique that peppers the cells» surface with nanoscale domes could curb this tendency and improve efficiency by as much as 25 per cent.

Even a 10 per cent loss in overall efficiency could make electric cars the less environmentally attractive option.

The only drawback is that its efficiency is just 1.2 per cent, a small fraction of what silicon is capable of.

Using a signal generator to produce precisely measured sounds similar to ambient noise they saw a 50 per cent increase in efficiency, rising from 1.2 per cent without sound to 1.8 per cent with sound (Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002 / adma.201303304).

Simple induction motors in industry and the home consume 43 per cent of the electricity used in Britain, so small gains in efficiency promise substantial cuts in the country's electricity bill.

British business could save nearly # 200 million in the next decade with just a 3 per cent increase in the efficiency of the country's electric motors.

Instead of using titanium oxide or iron oxide, researchers need to explore advances in photovoltaic devices, where the best today achieve an efficiency of 27 per cent, he says.

To produce a commercially viable device, Sun is exploring the use of carbon and cobalt - based cathodes, with which he hopes to ultimately reach a solar - to - hydrogen efficiency of around 10 per cent.

The early metal - organic perovskites exhibited efficiency levels of only a few per cent (2.2 per cent in 2006).

In a paper recently published in Science, Tan and his colleagues report the efficiency of solar cells made using the new method at 20.1 per cent.

«If a hybrid perovskite - silicon cell can push the efficiency up to 30 per cent or higher, it makes solar power a much better economic proposition.»

The new perovskite solar cells have achieved an efficiency of 20.1 per cent and can be manufactured at low temperatures, which reduces the cost and expands the number of possible applications.