Sentences with phrase «rather than electricity»

Using gas rather than electricity makes sense too, avoiding problems when there's a power outage.

Drastic Reductions Without Big Behavior Changes As the designer, who won the grand prize in last year's IIDA awards with his thermodynamic cooler that relies on evaporating water rather than electricity and his Murakami chair, a rocking chair that powers its own reading lamp, explains:

But in the short history of the pursuit of artificial photosynthesis — the conversion of sunlight into fuel rather than electricity — looks have all too often been deceiving.

The key challenges are to restructure existing energy tax systems to directly target the source of environmental harm (e.g., by taxing emissions or driving on busy roads rather than electricity consumption or vehicle sales), to better align tax levels with the scale of environmental harm, and to overcome practical challenges of higher energy and transportation costs.

(I should note that, in the case of electricity, externalities associated with fuel inputs, such as coal, are tabulated on lines for those fuels rather than electricity.)

And even though the state's residential home electricity consumption ranks among the lowest (due in part to those high prices and generally lower air conditioning needs in summer and the use of gas and oil for heating loads in the winter rather than electricity), the average monthly electric bill in 2016 was just over $ 142 per month, third highest in the nation.

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»

Supercomputers would operate even faster if their chips could communicate by light rather than electricity.

These surrogate atoms could one day be used to build novel materials such as semiconductors that carry light rather than electricity.

By automating the process of designing optical interconnects, they feel that they have set the stage for the next generation of even faster and far more energy - efficient computers that use light rather than electricity for internal data transport.

Before such batteries can become a reality, Strano needs to find a safe, reliable way to ignite the reaction and figure out how to reduce the amount of energy that comes out as heat or light rather than electricity.

That limitation is why Stanford electrical engineering Professor Jelena Vuckovic is looking to quantum computing, which is based on light rather than electricity.

Unlike the silicon chips inside conventional computers, the Bristol team's chip uses light rather than electricity.

Not exact matches

As for the «awesome technologies» that sprang from Jobs's Apple laboratories, would not an impartial observer describe the iPad as just a small laptop computer without a keyboard and a cover rather than an innovation on par with electricity, vaccination or hybrid crops?

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).

«Whole new services we can't even imagine will be enabled by the fact that we will soon be buyers and sellers of electricity, rather than just consumers.

While Sunrun sells itself to customers as a hassle - free way to save on their electricity bills rather than just a do - gooder environmental option, Jurich's interest in solar stems from a deep concern about air quality that crystallized while she was working in smoggy China.

Firms mining bitcoin have also taken to moving to remote locations, not registering a company and engaging in the mildly illegal activity of purchasing electricity directly from power producers rather than grid operators.

Rather than just using gasoline or diesel generators, the program for the first time is installing battery packs and rooftop solar panels on homes that don't have electricity.

Plattsburgh's Mayor Colin Read also detailed back in February that he would rather see high electricity consuming businesses pay real employees, rather than warehouses filled with just machines.

As an energy investor, I'd rather be in a growing renewable energy business that's taking market share in electricity generation than a fossil fuel business that's losing market share every year.

Unless you want to give up your computer, internet, electricity and modern medicine, you should be very happy that scientists search for real knowledge rather than settling on «invisible friends who do magic.»

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

We could blanket large parts of the Pacific rather than use up valuable land, but every building, heck even every road could be equiped to generate electricity.

More than that, the stories seem alien because we'd rather not face the history of violence which underpins our use of electricity.

Or we could give ourselves permission to engage in the violence of electricity production by saying (in the manner of Reinhold Niebuhr) that the kingdom that Christ's life makes visible is an «impossible possibility» which stands at the edge of history as its judge rather than being the truth about history.

«That means the electricity to power every light, refrigerator and check out - lane comes from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels,» it states.

My three older kids are technology inclined but rather than sit behind the computer all day, they like to build inventions with Legos, experiment with electricity by using their Snap Circuits, and draw pictures of things they want to build.

Having the Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski centers join The Climate Reality Project's «I Am Snow 100 %» program is in line with Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which requires that half of all electricity used in New York come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels, by 2030, the governor's office said in a press release.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

While some green efforts in schools set out to change students» behaviors, students conserving electricity by turning off unused lights, for instance, is a positive consequence rather than the driving force of the Green Schools Energy Curriculum.

Rather than generating their own power via water wheels or electric dynamos, companies can now plug into the newly built electric grid and buy electricity directly from power stations.

SOLAR cells have an unfortunate habit of reflecting back much of the light that hits them, rather than converting it into electricity.

The old, incandescent lightbulb turns 90 percent of the electricity it uses into heat rather than light.

In the developing world, the 10 watts it produces can light a room at night by electricity rather than expensive and dangerous kerosene.

The data enabled the researchers to show that turbulent motion increases the fluid's ability to conduct electricity and therefore amplifies the magnetic field, rather than reducing it as earlier experiments had appeared to show.

Some solar cells convert sunlight into electricity more efficiently when loud music is played to them — as long as it is pop rather than classical.

It is more efficient to transmit electricity over long distances in the form of DC, rather than alternating current.

Residential heating by electricity (or co-generated heat) rather than by home boilers will generally yield a net saving, especially when combined with improved insulation.

It seems to me the trick to making it an attractive proposition is to view it as a means of generating electricity, rather than as a means of generating money.

«This should reduce overall costs for the energy industry because, rather than creating large, expensive solar cells, you can use much smaller cells that produce just as much electricity by absorbing intensified solar energy from concentrating lenses.

A new survey of consumer attitudes released today by Accenture indicates that U.S. consumers are more interested in smart grid applications that save them money and automate the management of their electricity use, rather than giving them direct control over heating, cooling and appliances as prices fluctuate during the day.

Rather than heating tungsten to at least 3,100 degrees Fahrenheit (1,700 degrees Celsius) or exciting fluorescent gases, LEDs can produce lumens with less electricity.

Fox aims to turn these diamond films into a new kind of solar cell, one that generates electricity by absorbing heat rather than visible - light wavelengths.

If microbes could be convinced to do the same — to donate their electrons to an electrode rather than to random panhandling molecules — they, too, could supply us with electricity.

Efforts include cutting down on the number of transformations the electricity itself must undergo before achieving the correct operating voltage; rearranging the stacks of servers and the mechanics of their cooling; and using software to create multiple «virtual» computers, rather than having to deploy several real ones.

«Unfortunately, the existing feed - in tariff rules are too simple,» with pricing based only on the energy technology developed rather than accounting for local and regional electricity needs, he said.

CONVERTING sunlight into electricity, rather than using it to heat water directly, could lead to cheaper domestic solar energy, say engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland.

«Moving from transition metal elements to synthesized molecules is a significant advancement because it links battery costs to manufacturing rather than commodity metals pricing» said Imre Gyuk, energy storage program manager for the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), which funded this research.

Two new solar thermal technologies — which focus sunlight to create heat rather than convert it directly to electricity, as photovoltaics do — promise to make solar power practical at vastly different scales.