Sentences with phrase «so much electricity»

A chief complaint about incandescent light bulbs is that they waste so much electricity through heat.

For example, only so much natural gas can be pushed through a given sized pipe and only so much electricity can be transmitted thought a given sized transmission line.

Don't feel guilty for using so much electricity — cranking up the AC to a healthy level is good for you.

«It needs so much electricity.

The reason Bitcoin mining consumes so much electricity is that producing each new Bitcoin requires solving a complex mathematical puzzle, through a cryptographic process performed by high - powered computers.

Not exact matches

Electricity is cheap, and so long as consumers have the option of charging at home there is a limit to how much stations can mark up the price of providing eElectricity is cheap, and so long as consumers have the option of charging at home there is a limit to how much stations can mark up the price of providing electricityelectricity.

A small lakeside town in upstate New York is fed up with Bitcoin miners using up so much of its low - cost electricity.

But when so many turn down leasing one and one - half acre for one Wind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financing!

Because it is so compute - intensive, it takes as much electricity to create a single bitcoin — a process called «mining» — as it does to power an average American household for two years.

It's a competitive process, with one miner receiving the award, currently 12.5 bitcoins, roughly every 10 minutes, so there's a strong incentive to throw as much processor power — and thereby electricity — at the mining effort.

no more rockets and satellites, no more computers and cell phones, no more medicine or electricity... instead, let's all stop thinking so much and just obey.

In fact, the mill creates so much energy from the bagasse that they are able to sell some of the electricity back to the state.

The vast majority of people living in Kakuma don't have electricity, much less personal televisions, so men often gather in television halls to watch English Premier League games.

Without electricity, we would not have access to the technology that makes life so much easier.

The Passport experience helped to personalize what we're seeking to preserve and reinforced why we put so much emphasis on trying to be good «Earth helpers» by recycling, reducing electricity usage, etc..

He has done so much; he has given employment to so many, construction of dams, electricity, scholarship, widowhood empowerment and adult literacy through Ikeoha foundation.

Uranium 238 is much more common in nature than uranium 235 but does not fission well, so fuel manufacturers boost the uranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electricity.

«There's a recognition that it's not easy; this is a technology that is not currently cheap or easy to move into the marketplace, but it's very much worth focusing on because the rewards for our electricity system, for our environment and for jobs would be so good.»

Because the supply is so unreliable, few invest in appliances for heating or cooking, using wood - fired stoves instead, which harm the environment much more than the generation and transmission of electricity would.

«The Internet will get so much faster, fiber to every household that has electricity.

«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.

In fact, Iceland has so much cheap and clean electricity, it's encouraging heavy industry to ship raw materials halfway around the world for processing on this island.

Also, by our math, the car costs more to run on electricity, so it didn't break out hearts to be driving in hybrid mode for much of the week.

Accounting for losses in generating and transmitting electricity would be equally relevant for BEVs or FCV so including them does not change the fact that FCVs need to spend four times as much energy to drive a mile than BEVs.

So far, we're not using up quite as much of our extra electricity as I'd planned to, but I'm happily driving to work every day for free!

So, rather than trying to beat plug - in cars in ways it can not — like run on electricity more than a mile or so at 25 mph — Toyota is broadening its appeal while giving as much more mpg as is possible within the laws of physics — or its engineers» capabilitieSo, rather than trying to beat plug - in cars in ways it can not — like run on electricity more than a mile or so at 25 mph — Toyota is broadening its appeal while giving as much more mpg as is possible within the laws of physics — or its engineers» capabilitieso at 25 mph — Toyota is broadening its appeal while giving as much more mpg as is possible within the laws of physics — or its engineers» capabilities.

If you could use a home computer at start of bitcoin and mine 1 bitcoin a day on it, nowadays, you need to use specialized hardware costing thousands of dollars and pay huge sums in electricity costs in order to mine the same 1 bitcoin in a day, because there are so many much more mining operations, trying to mine more.

Because it is so compute - intensive, it takes as much electricity to create a single bitcoin — a process called «mining» — as it does to power an average American household for two years.

Infrastructure is the best example; for a hefty sum you can upgrade a district with things like electricity and a water pipe and telephone lines, which in turn unlock stuff like electric street lights, sewer systems and eventually so much more.

That may sound like asking whether NASA has gone too far into space or installations use too much electricity, but NASA is facing budget cutbacks, and every so often so does a self - aware viewer of art.

The price for electricity that the big industry pays is much lower than the price for normal private households, I think it is about 6c per kWh, so 2c per kWh is a lot for them.

But since most of the time there is so much renewable energy on the grid, the prices for electricity have fallen, especially during the day time.

Re 273 — not that I am prone to agreeing with Edward Greisch, but those numbers are presumably before profit, or... Well, the number for coal seems about right, so far as I know, though it is much less than what anyone pays for retail electricity now.

We are really approaching the point where it will be entirely «mainstream» for US suburbanites to live in solar - powered homes that will not only be «net zero energy» in the sense of generating as much or more energy than the house itself consumes, but will also generate all the electricity to operate an EV, which will be integrated with the house so its batteries can provide power to the house at night and during grid outages.

If on the other hand they don't know much physics, then it's even easier... they know the power and track record of physics (e.g. electricity, nuclear power, gadgets, modern life, etc.) so they have confidence if it is said that «physics» is the reason for the CO2 - climate connection.

I would add that feeding «11 billion humans on half as much topsoil» has pretty much ZERO to do with generating electricity, which is all that nuclear power (or wind turbines or solar panels) are good for, so that is a complete non sequitur.

China's plan to build millions of electric vehicles will have little impact on the country's carbon dioxide emissions, a new analysis concludes, because so much of the country's electricity is produced by burning coal.

And that's great for keeping our gadgets charged, but considering that our daily personal power needs are much higher than just that of our gizmos, and that if the electricity goes out, we have no way to keep essential appliances running, so while we'll be able to have a fully charged phone, we'll also have our own little global warming event in our freezer.

Dams were built to generate electricity specifically for making aluminum (which is sometimes known as solid electricity because it takes so much to make it).

I made other changes to my electricity consumption at the same time, so it's difficult to say exactly how much.

Although in and of itself, as Revkin points out, this won't really reduce greenhouse gas emissions as long as so much of our electricity is generated by burning coal, it is at least a doable step in the right direction that reduces our reliance on oil from antagonistic regimes.

So much for concerns about electricity prices.

So electricity from solar PV in China costs three times as much as electricity produced conventionally.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

California has so much surplus electricity that existing power plants run, on average, at slightly less than one - third of capacity.

Current batteries for these cars can easily store the energy for driving the national average commute — about 33 miles round trip a day, so the study presumes that drivers would charge up overnight when demand for electricity is much lower.

Nowadays, because there is so much renewable energy in the national electricity market, these big peak events where energy would surge to AU$ 10,000 / MWh are almost non-existent.

Much electricity would be produced by intermittent wind / wave generators, or by using energy in a grossly inefficient way so as to capture and store the CO2 generated.

Businesses in the US are levied so - called demand charges, based on their monthly use of power during peak times that can constitute as much as 50 % of total electricity bill costs.

On 14 different days in March, California produced so much solar power that it needed to pay Arizona, Nevada and other states to take the excess electricity to avoid overloading its power lines.