Sentences with phrase «since electricity use»

And since electricity use can contribute up to 30 % of a household's carbon footprint, consumer choices have a real impact.

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Electricity production was up just 2.8 % y / y during July (using the 12 - month average), the slowest since October 2009.

Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.

However, figuring out exactly how much electricity Bitcoin mines use is tricky, since computing hardware is becoming more efficient all the time.

They can no longer administer it at home since they don't have electricity but drive to her father's house to use his generator, powered by gasoline, which is now in short supply on the island.

A stormy weekend led to free electricity in Germany as wind generation reached a record, forcing power producers to pay customers the most since Christmas 2012 to use electricity.

Factors impacting natural gas value include seasonal variations (since natural gas is used to generate electricity and heat / cool homes), severe weather disruptions (such as hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, a key natural gas - producing region in the world), and alternative energy developments.

Since the rise of the peer - to - peer decentralized digital currency bitcoin's value, miners have come up with very clever ways of extracting bitcoins: security video cameras, tapping into others» electricity and using the computers of video game players.

Cool mist uses less electricity since water doesn't have to be heated and are cheaper to buy.

Since they're small, doesn't have many parts and doesn't require any source of electricity, they're best for occasional uses or for travel purpose.

I was told that it costs much more to use disposable diapers compared to using washable cloth diapers; but since the computation I got was from using a branded diaper and I used generic diapers plus the cost of laundry (water + detergent + electricity), I guess the costs are just about the same.

Since it needs no electricity, it's the best option for use while you are traveling.

Since these portable ice makers don't also feature refrigeration abilities, you can use the timer setting to be more efficient and avoid wasting electricity.

Next, Tour's group will try to link the coat of fullerenes together to form polymers, which might be used as molecular wires, since fullerenes can conduct electricity.

Cars that either partially or entirely use electricity to function make up slightly more than 3 percent of the U.S. auto market, the lowest share since 2011 and a sharp contraction from 3.5 percent last year, according to EDTA.

This may be seen as especially positive since it is then that electricity use peaks and the cost of generating electricity is highest.

Electricity generated using coal in the U.S. has fallen 38 percent since it peaked in 2007, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

Using the power grid to charge automobiles strikes many as bad public policy, since coal, the dirtiest fuel, generates about 60 % of America's electricity.

«Since 2008, coal use has decreased, in part due to the recession but also in part due to replacement of coal with shale gas to produce electricity,» Howarth said.

If used hard, the Tesla will use much more electricity than commonly advertised, and eat range, but since mid-2012 it's had by far more takers.

In addition, since the all - electric range of plug - in hybrids depends on the size of the battery pack, the analysis introduced a utility factor as a projection, on average, of the percentage of miles that will be driven using electricity (in electric only and blended modes) by an average driver.

While driving on electricity - only in stop - and - go traffic is the most satisfying, it may not always be the most economical: since you don't get in a lot of regenerative braking, the engine will start when the battery depletes, and you'll be almost exclusively using gasoline to power the battery back up.

They really might want to reconsider their branding and naming since not all pads women use require electricity.

Denzer notes that «the only power used by the system was the electricity to run the twelve fans, since no fluids were moved there were no pumps.»

Lighting residential and commercial buildings accounts for about 1/4 of all electricity used in the U.S. according to the Department of Energy, and since most of that light is produced very inefficiently (incandescent and halogen light bulbs could be

Energy use in buildings in the United States and Canada, including the use of natural gas, wood, and other fuels as well as electricity, has increased by 30 percent since 1990, corresponding to an annual growth rate of 2.1 percent.

In another sign that things are changing fast back in Blightey, the National Grid just announced that it had its first 100 % coal - free day since coal use for electricity began:

Using data from the province's electricity market operator, this joint study by Energy Probe and Consumer Policy Institute1 estimates that at least $ 1.7 billion in wind subsidies have been given to wind farm operators in Ontario since 2006, the earliest date for data.

Using the power grid to charge automobiles strikes many as bad public policy, since coal, the dirtiest fuel, generates about 60 % of America's electricity.

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.

Of course, the cost and complexity of the thermoelectric unit also demonstrates why a lot of waste heat goes uncaptured, since it is cheaper to use more electricity or fuel than to improve system efficiency.

Part of the farm my parents once worked is now under the pondage used by the Hazlewood turbines and I know for a fact that many people in the area have looked forward to clean energy alternatives and a move away from coal - fired electricity since at least the 70s.

4 Apr: BBC: Cornwall Wave Hub uses more electricity than it produces A # 42m wave energy facility has used more electricity than it has produced since it was launched eight years ago.

The lake authority doesn't own the 18 + acre / feet of rain which falls on my land and since I don't use but a tiny fraction of that and they use the excess instead to generate electricity and sell to downstream customers when they sent me a bill for 1 acre / foot I sent them a bill in return for 17 acre / feet.

It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war on coal» on raising electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay on the so - called Clean Power Plan.

Also, since the average residential electricity cost is 8.5 cents / kwh (and in many areas, off - peak nighttime cost is 2 - 4 cents / kwh) this means that, after taking account of the differential efficiencies of electric and gasoline power, much of a plug - in hybrid's travel would be on electricity that is the equivalent of $ 1 / gallon gasoline (or, off - peak, 25 - 50 cents / gallon) as contrasted with the same vehicle's use of today's approximately $ 2.50 / gallon gasoline.

Since CO2 from coal - generated electricity used for air conditioning would be tiny compared to ocean CO2 flux, the temperature influences CO2 as only a Natural mechanism and will affect both sources and sinks of carbon.

CSP can be piggybacked on to a fossil fueled traditional plant, since — though while one harvests the sun, the other burns oil — both use that heat to turn the same turbines to make electricity.

As generation from gas and to a lesser extent renewables has increased electricity consumption in the US has remained flat since 2005, due to the American economy becoming more efficient in its energy use.

Shifting to the highly efficient bulbs sharply reduces monthly electricity bills and cuts carbon emissions, since each standard (13 watt) compact fluorescent over its lifetime reduces coal use by more than 210 pounds.

For example, using conservative estimates the group has achieved a financial saving of $ 904m (US$ 1,199 m) through reduced fuel and electricity use since the start of the programme in 2008.»

Since the 90S to 30N is where most of those 1.8 billion people live and giving them electricity would increase their land use productivity and quality of life, global temperatures would go off the charts as Mike Mann has clearly known all along.

Ever since Thomas Edison used a steam generator in his Pearl Street Station to supply parts of lower Manhattan with electricity in 1892, people have been trying to improve the design.

Using electricity to substitute for other fuels in end ‐ use sectors plays an important role in deep emission cuts, since the cost of decarbonizing power generation is expected to be lower than that in other parts of the energy supply sector.

Third - quarter CO2 emissions have generally declined since 2010 — helped by the decline in the carbon intensity of fuels used to generate electricity.

It's a specious assertion since consumers will still pay higher rates for the electricity they use.

IF hemp were legalized, since hemp is SUPERIOR to other available natural resources, a few petrochemical monopolies would no longer be feasible... including monsanto's GMO cotton business that consumes HALF of the petrochemical pesticides sprayed in the USA, Hearst's deforestation business would no longer profit from destroying our forests, and we would no longer need Rockefeller's fossil fuels - because we can replace coal (electricity) with hemp pyrolysis, and we can replace gasoline with vegetable oil methanol, and dupont's toxic plastic business would be replaced with non-toxic, biodegradable, stronger, lighter, hemp plastics like they're already using to make Mercedes car parts.

By 2027, ISO New England forecasts that the six New England states will use less electricity (on an annual basis) than at any point since 1996.

The EIA has previously reported that nearly two - thirds of energy related CO2 emissions since 2005 can be attributed to natural gas use for electricity generation, as the following 2017 chart shows.

Natural gas use in the electricity market has grown by 86 percent since 2000, driven by these forces.