Sentences with phrase «source than wind»

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The death toll of a twin suicide bombing in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Sunday rose to 70, with more than 100 wounded, police, medics and morgue sources said.

The whole thing started in 2015, when Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and some colleagues published a paper arguing that, by mid-century, the United States could be powered entirely by clean energy sources — and by clean, he meant the really clean stuff (wind, solar, hydropower), not the only - somewhat - cleaner - than - coal stuff like natural gas, nuclear energy, and biofuels.

The decision — which involved Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the F.B.I. — was one of the most crucial turning points in a remarkable crowd - sourcing manhunt for the plotters of a bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 170.

Offshore wind energy, traditionally more expensive than onshore, is not too far from being competitive with traditional sources of energy.

In a new collaborative report, «An Underappreciated Disruptor,» Morgan Stanley's Utility and Clean Tech analyst, Stephen Byrd and Shared Mobility & Auto analyst, Adam Jonas, argue that the price of both solar and wind energy, as well as new storage units, have reached a point where renewable energy can finally become a dependable rather than an unpredictable source of energy.

Currently, more than 85 % of the power generated by Brookfield Renewable Partners is hydro, with the rest coming from wind and other renewable sources like solar, biomass, and thermal.

Cuomo has argued that nuclear power is cleaner than fossil fuels and is a needed bridge fuel during a transition to wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.

Under the new rules, ESCOs won't be able to sell new supply to residential and small - business customers unless they are cheaper than the utility or if at least 30 percent of the electricity they sell comes from renewable energy sources like wind, hydro or solar.

Governor Cuomo has argued that nuclear power is cleaner than fossil fuels, and is a needed bridge fuel during a transition to wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources.

Most of that was hydro (20 percent); wind provided 3 percent, solar was less than 1 percent, and 2 percent came from sources such as landfill methane or wood.

Hydrogen is a very good carrier for renewable energy because it is abundant, generates zero emissions, and is much easier to store than other energy sources, like solar or wind energy.

Google will funnel some of its profits into a new effort, dubbed RE < C (for renewable energy cheaper than coal, as Google translates it) to make sources such as solar - thermal, high - altitude wind and geothermal cheaper than coal «within years, not decades,» according to Weihl.

The holes are important to our understanding of space weather, as they are the source of a high - speed wind of solar particles that streams off the sun some three times faster than the slower wind elsewhere.

Biofuels use more land area, generate more greenhouse gas emissions, and have a greater impact on the environment than other alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic solar energy, solar thermal energy, or wind power.

Although all renewable energy sources — sun, water and wind — suffer from peaks and troughs in productivity, «we consider wave energy to be more predictable than wind,» says PWP CEO Phil Metcalf.

Although not all ambient noise comes from human activity, a busy interstate or a new housing development is a more persistent source of noise than intermittent natural phenomena like wind and rain, Horn said.

More Dependable Than Wind or Solar At the moment, the fastest - growing source of clean energy is wWind or Solar At the moment, the fastest - growing source of clean energy is windwind.

Nonetheless, Neptune radiates more energy than it receives from the Sun, [10] and the internal energy source of these winds remains undetermined.

hydro is a major methane source, wind turbines use 100 X more copper than fossils offshore turbines use 1000 X more copper 2010 copper ore grades were 30 lbs / ton of rock 2016 coppor ore grads were 3 lbs / ton of rock solar and wind products last 30 years tops 100 % energy transitions take 70 minimum solar and wind break down 2X faster than we can tranistion Stefan Rahmstorf says our emissions must go down 100 % in 20 years to stay under 2 C.

The question is whether they contain just enough vitamin E to protect the PUFA from oxidation, more than enough so that they wind up being an excellent source of extra vitamin E, or not quite enough so that they actual cause a vitamin E deficit over time.

The vitamin A in broccoli promotes healthy vision, teeth, bones and skin.Truly a super food, this non-starchy vegetable has more vitamin C per 100 grams than an orange and is considered a good source of fiber and the antioxidant beta - carotene, which the body uses to make vitamin A. Vitamin C is essential for healing wounds and is a disease - fighting antioxidant.

From that point assemblage art became the term linked to the specific technique of creating two - and three - dimensional works of art through the fusion of elements derived from natural and manufactured sources, often found objects and fragments of objects, that otherwise were intended to serve a more utilitarian purpose, rather than winding up in a work of art.

Solar and wind are a MUCH «higher quality set» of energy sources than fossil fuels.

Wind energy generation has more than tripled since 2000, making it the world's second fastest growing energy source after solar power.

Nuclear power produces less greenhouse gas [CO2] than any other source, including coal, natural gas, hydro, solar and wind.

As today's Times reports, the House on Wednesday approved a bill to extend more than $ 17 billion in tax credits and other incentives for boosting production of energy from solar, wind and other renewable sources and to promote energy conservation.

Solar power represented more than half of the total investments, while wind was a close second and other renewable sources trailing far behind.

Wood provides more energy than solar, wind, and hydroelectric sources combined.

When your renewable sources like wind and solar are all pumping out more power than you can use, you use the excess to push the train full of rocks up a hill.

The region can expand its use of wood and agricultural waste as a power source, but new bioenergy plants are generally more expensive than wind power.

Once green technology (solar and wind energy, and more efficient and low carbon intensive ways of production) becomes more profitable than the alternative (carbon intensive sources of energy, and industries that use them)....

The Way Forward As China seeks a cleaner, softer path of development, renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are attractive not only because of their lower carbon emissions profiles, but because they use far less water than their fossil fuel counterparts.

If you live on an Indian reservation you are 10 times more likely not to have electricity in your home than anywhere else in the United States, so wind power allows tribal communities to meet their own energy needs on the reservation, providing a source of pride and self - reliance as well as clean energy.

If you want to get polluting sources of electricity out of your generating portfolio, it helps to have a lot of hydroelectric power: It's cheap and it's less intermittent than the wind and the sun.

Even though it is 40 years since the first oil shocks kick - started the modern renewable energy developments (wind, solar, and cultivated biomass), we still get rather less than 1 % of our world energy from these sources.

Weinstein said offshore wind will provide a more consistent power source than solar.

According to Alex Morgan, lead North American wind analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), analysis completed for BNEF's New Energy Outlook 2017 found that wind energy generation will be cheaper than existing coal - fired sources by 2025 and cheaper than existing gas - fired generation by 2027.

The government's response comes days after it was revealed that the more than half of the electricity generated in the UK came from low carbon sources such as wind, solar, and nuclear power for the first time in 2017.

With many renewable sources of power, like wind, now cheaper than fossil fuels, it has become clear that preventing global climate change is green in all definitions of the word.

Showing data from financial firm Lazard and other sources, their presentation said natural gas, coal and even some nuclear power plants were the lowest - cost producers of electricity on the planet, cheaper than wind or solar.

Summing up the lack of forward planning about wind turbines physicists and environmental activist, John Droz, jr, warns, «just because a power source is an alternative, or a renewable, does NOT automatically mean that it is better than any conventional or fossil fuel source.»

For example, with the higher - EROI sources — hydro, wind, and coal — other considerations like generation intermittency and regulatory environments become more important than the amount of energy needed to get a return, Inman tells Carbon Brief.

These latest purchases bring Microsoft's total purchase of wind energy in the U.S. to more than 500MW, which is in addition to the energy Microsoft purchases from the grid that comes from wind, solar and hydropower sources in the markets where we operate.

Because solar and wind tend to be more variable and uncertain than conventional sources, meeting these targets will involve changes to power system planning and operations.

Between 1990 and 2015 these technologies grew much faster than any other power source (Figure 6), with wind power experiencing the most notable growth - from just 0.3 % of renewable electricity in 1990 to 22.9 % in 2015.

Look at the charts starting on page 6, and you will find that for energy sources you might be considering investing in today, wind is always reported to be the cheapest, generally about 10 % less than the next cheapest which is natural gas.

While wind and solar energy are more intermittent than conventional power plants, no power source is available 100 percent of the time, which is why even nuclear, oil, coal and natural gas power plants can be considered intermittent sources.

But after 13 years of the AEPS, Pennsylvania generates less than 4 percent of its electricity from renewables like wind and solar, even though 14.2 percent of the retail electricity sold in the Commonwealth is generated by AEPS - sanctioned «alternative» sources.

Globally, wind energy is one of the fastest growing major sources of new electricity around the world, with installations of more than 55,000 MW of clean, reliable wind power in 2016 alone.

Rather than replacing this energy source with fossil fuels, thus boosting carbon emissions and encouraging runaway climate change, the world can use this opportunity to pursue a much safer electricity sector powered largely by wind, solar, and geothermal energy.