Sentences with phrase «simply scaling the necessary»

Not exact matches

Reciprocating steam engines simply could not produce enough spinning power to deliver the smooth current necessary to make large - scale electricity grids feasible; by the early 1900s, turbines had made them a reality.

Here are articles describing the kinds of efforts I'm thinking about — all of which are very different than simply catching and compressing CO2 from smokestacks and pumping it into the ground (a process that remains a pipe dream at anything approaching the necessary scale):

Renewable energy advocates always envisioned subsidies simply as a way to kick - start an industry until it reaches the scale necessary to phase out this government welfare.