Sentences with phrase «significantly higher electricity»
Mr. Bush said today that a recent Energy Department study had concluded that regulating carbon dioxide emissions would have led to «significantly higher electricity prices.»
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While ensuring cloth diapers are appropriately sanitized can at times be challenging with high - efficiency washers, these machines can significantly reduce detergent, water, and electricity usage, and save more energy with shorter drying times.
A report commissioned by NYC and circulating around Albany warns of significantly dirtier air and higher electricity bills if Cuomo goes forward with effort to shutter Indian Point.
Maximizing the use of the electric motor and feeding renewably generated electricity into the high - voltage battery significantly improves the CO2 rating of the plug - in hybrid sports car.
The study finds that electricity from fossil fuels, hydro and bioenergy has «significantly higher» embodied energy, compared to nuclear, wind and solar power.
If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.
When dipped into a beaker of water, instead of producing electricity, the leaf harnessed the electrons to break the chemical bonds of water and release hydrogen gas — a fuel that can store energy at a significantly higher density and lower cost than electricity.
Let's start with the assumption that those US states which get significantly more than 50 % of their electricity from coal, and / or states which export, or plan to export, large amounts of coal - fired electricity to neighboring states, are at highest risk of becoming economic «losers.»
Yet the total capital investment required to achieve the plan's target of 15 gigawatts of installed renewable electricity by 2012 are likely to be significantly higher.