Sentences with phrase «per cent of energy»

According to Energy Star, nearly 90 per cent of the energy used by a washing machine goes to heating the water.

They use up less than 25 per cent of the energy required to run incandescents and are known to last up to 10 times longer.

A standard tank has an efficiency rating of about 60 to 65 per cent, meaning 35 to 40 per cent of the energy goes up the flue, or radiates out as the water sits in the tank.

I'm not a mechanical engineer but I read somewhere that a car wastes at least 25 per cent of its energy fighting against friction.

Kitchen: Electrical appliances use a whopping 30 per cent of energy in a typical home with refrigeration taking up about eight per cent of that.

China's pledge to get 20 per cent of its energy from renewables and nuclear by 2030 is also not that ambitious, experts say.

• Pledging that at least 20 per cent of energy and 40 per cent of electricity will come from renewable sources by 2020 rising to 100 per cent by 2050

China got 9.8 per cent of its energy from sources not linked to fossil fuels at the end of 2013, and the government intends that to reach 15 per cent by 2020, the New York Times points out.

It has also promised to aim to produce 20 per cent of its energy from low carbon sources by the same date.

Yet, today, after endless climate summits and good intentions, the world gets just 0.4 per cent of its energy from solar and wind power.

2 Call on the government to ban incandescent light bulbs, which turn 90 per cent of the energy they consume into wasted heat.

Dürfeld estimated that Austria House uses about 10 per cent of the energy of a comparable building.

Twenty per cent of its energy needs, it says, will come from such sources, while allowing some flexibility for countries such as France, which is dependent on nuclear power, to count that as part of their contribution to reducing the Continent's carbon footprint.

Scotland also shares the UK's EU obligation to get 15 per cent of energy from renewable sources by 2020.

... Africa is the renewable utopia, getting 50 per cent of its energy from renewables — though nobody wants to emulate it.

Today, China gets a trifling 0.23 per cent of its energy from unreliable wind and solar.

Ensure future energy and transport infrastructure is consistent with a rapid transition to a low - carbon economy by generating at least 15 per cent of energy from renewables by 2020; introducing an immediate ban on new unabated or substantially unabated coal plants and an end to airport expansion.

In 1971, China derived 40 per cent of its energy from renewables.

During that warm period, only 6.5 per cent of our energy was being generated by wind.

But the mainland still gets 70 per cent of its energy by burning dirty coal.»

The UK Government has already committed the country to meeting 15 per cent of all energy and 30 per cent electricity demand via renewable sources by 2020 but at the moment energy crops are responsible for less than 0.1 per cent of UK electricity.

The white paper put a very modest estimate on the deployment of solar by 2050, suggesting that it might at most account for 3 per cent of the nation's energy, and that solar PV would simply not be deployed when the renewable energy target expired in 2030 — at which stage solar would account for a mere 1 per cent of energy production

A package of new renewable energy policies in 2016 - 17 will aim to ensure that the EU's 2030 target to source 27 per cent of its energy from renewables can be met cost - effectively.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

For all the talk of the German Energiewende and its pivot towards renewable energy, Germany was still only getting 10 per cent of its energy from renewables in 2013.

France gets 42 per cent of its energy from nuclear (light green areas in the chart above), following its huge 1980s nuclear building programme.

The previous version said Estonia got 66 per cent of its energy from coal.

«The wind turbines, which can produce 100 per cent of energy on one day and zero on another, were not blowing when needed most, providing less than 5 per cent of power and Jay Weatherill's big battery less than 1 per cent.»

The UK is near the bottom of the league for renewable energy, which accounted for just five per cent of its energy in 2013 (dark green areas).

When energy efficiency wipes out 100 per cent of the energy savings, economists call the rebound a total «backfire.»

This optimised charging strategy saves up to ten per cent of energy so as to extend the amount of travel time during which the vehicle runs on electrical power alone.

This again saves weight, and also ensures that 100 per cent of energy is recovered.

Solar technology meets 80 per cent of the school's electricity needs and geothermal heating covers 30 per cent of the energy for the school's hot water.

The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.

With almost 50 per cent of our energy being used by buildings in the UK, and with around 20 per cent of that being needlessly wasted, building performance can create much - needed savings.

Lighting accounts for 20 per cent of the energy cost of running our schools and yet this can be halved by installing energy efficient LED lighting and reduced even further by the use of intelligent controls.

LEDs save up to 90 per cent of the energy consumed by traditional filament lighting technologies and are now considerably more efficient than fluorescent lamps, but the advantages go further.

In addition to that, a 2006 study reported by the American Diabetes Association showed that replacing healthy fats with trans fats (so that trans fats accounted for eight per cent of energy intake) led to a very significant weight gain (around seven per cent)- despite the fact that the amount of energy was the same.

Physical activity represents 25 per cent of energy usage and the thermic effect of food (see p. 89) takes about 10 per cent.

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

Chris Brockbank of project partner Torotrak, based in Leyland, UK, says over 70 per cent of the energy recovered by the system can be converted into motive force to drive the car.

In a recent study, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering found that sand can absorb more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it, and its ability to resist the impact increases with the speed of the projectile, even at high velocities.

The team calculates that for a bioluminescent tree to compete with a street light, only 0.02 per cent of the energy absorbed for photosynthesis would need to be diverted into light production.

A study led by Assistant Professor Darren Chian Siau Chen from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

The team, which includes Associate Professor Vincent Tan from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor Anand Sarma from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

In Finland, on average, 40 per cent of energy comes from fat, half of which is saturated.

Half received a diet in which no more than 35 per cent of the energy came from fat, and in which saturated fat made up only one - third of the total fat.

Another main - sequence star, HR 4796, has a thicker dust cloud orbiting it, but even that star emits only 0.5 per cent of its energy at far - infrared wavelengths (New Scientist, Science, 4 January 1992).

For instance, a star called Beta Pictoris radiates 0.24 per cent of its energy at far - infrared wavelengths, and is surrounded by a disc of dust which astronomers have actually photographed.

So if extracting methane requires more than 30 per cent of the energy it yields, using coal would be...