Sentences with phrase «than a diesel generator»

Hyperion CEO John Deal insists that micro nukes will drastically reduce misery, disease, and poverty throughout the developing world by powering water - treatment systems (as well as lights, sewing machines, and everything else electrical) at less cost than a diesel generator.

Many mines also have a shorter lifespan than a typical solar, wind or geothermal operation, which have longer paybacks than diesel generators.

That delivers lighting more cheaply than kerosene, and power more cheaply than a diesel generator.

Not exact matches

Rather than just using gasoline or diesel generators, the program for the first time is installing battery packs and rooftop solar panels on homes that don't have electricity.

«They want them there just as an ultimate level of security, but they'll be roughly 90 percent less polluting than the existing ones... With just the diesel generators you can only power a couple of lights and maybe one elevator but if you actually wanted to use this as a shelter for an extended period of time you would need the cogeneration plant,» he said.

The system enables large - bore, multi-cylinder engines used in trains, pipelines, backup diesel generators and other fields to run efficiently while producing lower levels of harmful emissions than they do currently.

«Order - of - magnitude calculations suggest that implementing a low - amperage backup service appears to be more cost effective than having each homeowner buy a portable generator and storing diesel or gasoline for fueling, especially if a region is expected to suffer more frequent and longer widespread outages,» says Sunhee Baik, lead author and doctoral student in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

Energy from GreenTec's containers is cheaper than that produced by the diesel generators it replaced, though.

Because hydrogen fuel cells operate more efficiently at less - than - maximum power, their advantage relative to diesel generators rises, he said.

Upgraded top of the line Onan Gold quiet diesel generator with less than 100 hours on it.

Even on a military base, the extra effort needed to protect the reactor may well make it less useful than, say, a diesel generator.

The report had predicted a maximum flooding depth of a bit less than six meters, hence the diesel emergency power generators that were located at a platform with six - meter elevation were not relocated.

The company spent more than $ 100,000 to rent a pair of portable diesel generators.

On part loaded condition the marginal cost of electricity from diesel generator could be higher than 20 Rs / kWh (US$ 0.31), but due to the lack of policy certainty and delays in decisionmaking, we are yet to achieve goals set up for «Greening the Islands».

The U.S. Army is testing two prototype generators in Iraq that run on garbage, rather than diesel fuel.

Key Highlight: • Innovatively designed solar infrastructure greater than 27kV in order to develop innovative methods of reducing dependency on use of diesel generator and diminish fuel consumption.