Sentences with phrase «powered electrical generation»

How could solar technology ever hope to supplant the coal - powered electrical generation network that spews massive amounts of climate - altering carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?
Industrial - scale wind turbines (WT), a common sight in many European countries, are now actively promoted by federal and state governments in the U.S. as a way to reduce coal - powered electrical generation and global warming.
Projected to employ over 400 people in construction phase and provide 845 megawatt wind - powered electrical generation, the Caithness Shepherds Flat wind project will produce enough wind energy to supply 235,000 homes and set a high bar for future wind energy projects.
Industrial - scale wind turbines (WTi), a common sight in many European countries, are now actively promoted by federal and state governments in the U.S. as a way to reduce coal - powered electrical generation and global warming.
This project will allow a certain proportion of fossil - fuel powered electrical generation to be taken offline during the daytime, reducing CO2 emissions and providing more energy independence for the region.

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Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.
In the attempt to put a stop to further reactor construction, the antinuclear movement may be tempted to constipate the system — to plug up the radwaste outlet for the nuclear industry — hoping thereby to force a shutdown of electrical power generation.
The Powership will generate high voltage electrical energy at one of the lowest prices for thermal power generation.
Transmission upgrades and efficiency measures already are in service, Cuomo said, adding that other generation resources ready to come online by 2021 will help generate more than enough electrical power to replace Indian Point's capacity.
Superconducting cables minimize energy loss, and power - to - gas systems store excess electrical generation as hydrogen or methane.
Power engineers are already sketching the outlines of the next - generation electrical grid that will keep our homes and factories humming with clean — but fluctuating — renewable energy.
For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, energy - efficient transistors to power next - generation electronic devices.
More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.
The safety features and power backups built into third - generation reactors should shut them down safely even without electrical power
Smart photovoltaic windows represent a promising green technology featuring tunable transparency and electrical power generation under external stimuli to control the light transmission and manage the solar energy.
The Obama administration and the Interior Department last week decided it will waive penalties for up to three decades to wind energy farms that kill bald eagles in the generation of electrical power.
To date, all the BPVs demonstrated have located charging (light harvesting and electron generation) and power delivery (transfer to the electrical circuit) in a single compartment; the electrons generate current as soon as they have been secreted.
Response: SMR - 160 can be sited at the center of an industrial cluster to provide safe, dependable, carbon - free electrical energy or industrial steam to power a variety of industries such as desalination and hydrogen generation.
Real - time, direct, electrical detection of sequencing, combined with the enormous amount of computing power in both the Ion Proton ™ Sequencer and Ion Proton ™ Torrent Server, enables generation of high quality sequencing results from DNA library to variants in a single day.
The new sports car generation makes its debut in the classic Porsche pairing of Boxster and Boxster S. Both models are powered by flat - six engines with direct petrol injection, the efficiency of which is further enhanced by electrical system recuperation, thermal management and start / stop function.
Powered by the fifth generation of battery and drivetrain technology, from 2021 the BMW Group will be capable of offering all - electric vehicles with a range of up to 700 kilometres and plug - in hybrids with an electrical range of up to 100 kilometres.
By inhibiting surplus power generation, the multistage alternator control along with other electrical system efficiencies contributes to an improvement in fuel efficiency.
Mated to a 2.4 L Ecotec direct injection four - cylinder engine and next - generation six - speed automatic transmission, the eAssist system uses power stored in the battery to provide needed electrical boost in various driving scenarios, optimizing engine and transmission operation.
The gasoline engine of the e-POWER system is strictly for electrical power generation with minimal influence from the opening and closing of the throttle, allowing the engine to always operate in its optimum condition.
But over the next decade, 60 million cars are expected to feature a 48 - volt electrical system, with a 10kw practical power limit, which will introduce the next generation of auto stop - start.
AZZ, Inc. provides galvanizing services, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and engineered services to the power generation, transmission, distribution, refining and industrial markets.
It's wide range of electrical and electronic products find application in power generation, distribution, control, protection and final consumption.
~ 13 times less than land use changes (3.4 gigatons) ~ 11.5 times less than light - duty vehicles (3.0 gigatons) ~ 5.3 times less than concrete production (1.4 gigatons) ~ 2 dozen 1000 MW coal - fired power plants (2 % of the world's coal - fired electrical generation) Or, roughly the same CO2 emissions as Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Poland or South Africa.
As a (now retired) electrical engineer (NYS Professional licensed) knowledgeable about power generation who has watched the challenge of meeting our energy needs over decades I can state with some expertise that the US is in a serious bind as to meeting our nation's energy needs.
Mr. Obama has a plan to build five power plants burning coal but capturing emissions (see below) to help limit the greenhouse impact from electrical generation.
The past year, capital expenses for new power generation is nearly evenly split, between renewable and fossil fuel consuming plants, for new electrical generation.
The corporation is the industry body authorized by the federal government to enforce reliability rules for the interlocking system of electrical power generation and transmission.
In the early 1970s, Energy Probe saw nuclear power as a relatively clean and economic alternative to coal, then a highly polluting form of electrical generation.
«The US forest sector is well set up and managed, meets our sustainability criteria and the supplies of sustainable biomass are plentiful,» says Melanie Wedgbury from Drax Power — the largest British electrical power generation comPower — the largest British electrical power generation compower generation company.
Increasing nuclear power plant efficiency from 1980 to today came from two areas: first, improvements to how operators re-fuel reactors, and keep plants and their workers safe; second, increasing the heat and electrical generation of plants through «up - rates.»
How are we going to counteract, or handle the impact of ever - increasing non-renewable electrical power generation?
And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.
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Thorium reactors could be a game changer here for power generation and heat with serviced buildings; but we'll still a long way off of good electrical storage in transportation — aircraft, trucks, ships, and cars will continue to burn oil products until that eureka moment)
This was apparently the fault of Western environmentalists, who had somehow obliged the clinic to use solar power, which is «at least 3 times more expensive than conventional forms of electrical generation
For the first third of this year, renewables and nuclear power have been running neck - in - neck with renewables providing 20.20 percent of U.S. net electrical generation during the four - month period (January to April) compared to 20.75 percent for nuclear power.
Useful thermal output: The thermal energy made available in a combined - heat - and - power system for use in any industrial or commercial process, heating or cooling application, or delivered to other end users, i.e., total thermal energy made available for processes and applications other than electrical generation.
So will electrical power generation.
For a concentrating solar power (CSP) plant, large mirrors are arranged to catch and focus sunlight for power generation, therefore storage tanks, pipes, and generators must be installed before the plant is connected to the electrical grid.
Nuclear power plants occupy a small area relative to their electrical generation output, the smallest physical footprint of any major energy source.
Electrical engineers are responsible for controlling electrical generation and monitoring transmission devices used by electric utilities in powElectrical engineers are responsible for controlling electrical generation and monitoring transmission devices used by electric utilities in powelectrical generation and monitoring transmission devices used by electric utilities in power plants.
It means not only 100 % renewable electrical power generation, but also 100 % renewable energy for transport (cars, buses, trucks, trains and planes!)
This would be delivered to a Waste Processing Facility (PEF manufacturing facility), rather that the landfill, to be processed into cubes or fuel pellets (28) or made ready for fuel utilization in an electrical power generation plant.
it can be combusted directly to be used for electrical power generation
General Electric, one of the world's largest suppliers of electrical power plant equipment, is all fired up about large markets for new coal - fired generation in India and China as America's shut down.
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