Sentences with phrase «than electricity for»

The hydrogen economy can be got off the ground and running just fine with reformed natural gas, which is no more carbon intensive than electricity for battery cars is at the moment.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new feasibility study published by National Grid (UK), the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) and Centrica.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new... Read more →

Propane is far more efficient than electricity for any heating element and in most cases leads a better cooking experience.

By automating the process of designing optical interconnects, they feel that they have set the stage for the next generation of even faster and far more energy - efficient computers that use light rather than electricity for internal data transport.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

Solar power has grown at a whopping 68 % average rate over the past 10 years, but still accounts for less than 2 % of total U.S. electricity generation.

Even in states that wish to favor coal - fired power, it will be difficult to convince ratepayers that they ought to pay more for electricity from coal than they could pay for electricity from alternative sources.

Power consumption for all cryptocurrencies is on track to use more electricity in 2018 than the whole of Argentina, according to Bloomberg.

As for the «awesome technologies» that sprang from Jobs's Apple laboratories, would not an impartial observer describe the iPad as just a small laptop computer without a keyboard and a cover rather than an innovation on par with electricity, vaccination or hybrid crops?

Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

In 2016 hydroelectric power accounted for 39.9 percent of South Dakota's net electricity generation, allowing residents to enjoy electricity prices significantly lower than the national average.

Coal prices in general were driven even lower in 2016 due to low natural gas prices and warmer - than - usual winter temperatures that cut down demand for coal as an electricity generator, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

By comparison, all the Tesla (tsla) cars on the road (about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company statistics) likely used less than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found.

The IEA said demand for cooling will add more to global electricity demand than the spread of electric vehicles.

On the other hand, he has striven to create something that is more «useful» than it is «exciting» — like electricity, for instance.

«Solar roof is more affordable than conventional roofs because in most cases, it ultimately pays for itself by reducing or eliminating a home's electricity bill,» Tesla said Wednesday.

(Reuters)- Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

And the only reason solar customers» electricity rates are even up for debate is that the installation cap under the old rate was hit last week, six months earlier than the utility estimated.

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!

For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

Municipal power authorities in upstate New York have received permission to charge certain cryptocurrency mining enterprises higher rates for the use of their electricity than they charge other customers.

That dam, if it gets built, will supply surplus electricity this province has no need for, other than to power the LNG liquidation plants, to which it will be sold at great discount, since it can not be stored.

Let's think worst case — should the currency collapse in your home country... and should a bank run ensue... and should the government mandate that all banks then close for no less than a week... and should subsequent food shortages take place... and should no clean water be available... and should the electricity and heat not work... and should violent protests, riots, and widespread looting erupt...

The plant's original plan called for producing enough solar panels to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, although Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer, said this month that improvements to the equipment design and factory layout could allow it to produce more than 1 gigawatt in panels.

The arrangement is made possible by a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the project's developer where the customer pays an electricity rate equal to or less than what other customers pay for their existing power.

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per cent increase from the projected 2017 price of $ 83 per megawatt hour.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

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.

However, we strongly recommend you fund household conversions from gas to electricity if not for any other reason than to demonstrate it can be done.

Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to more wind, solar and hydroelectric power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable energy.

Musk says the new solar roofs will cost less than a traditional roof plus the cost of electricity and last longer than traditional roofs which, according to the National Roofing Contractors Association, «are designed to provide useful service for about 20 years.

In 2013, for the first time, the world added more low - carbon electricity capacity than fossil fuel capacity.

Unless you want to give up your computer, internet, electricity and modern medicine, you should be very happy that scientists search for real knowledge rather than settling on «invisible friends who do magic.»

More than 3,500 churches are ditching fossil fuels for renewable electricity as part of efforts to tackle... More

More than 3,500 churches are ditching fossil fuels for renewable electricity as part of efforts to tackle climate change.

The most biodiverse forests in the country, with more freshwater than any other temperate ecosystem, are being totally and utterly destroyed for an amount of electricity measured in hours.

Between rifles, permits, ammunition, gas (to drive out of the burbs and into hunting territory) tents, camo gear, food / beer for the hunting trip, extra electricity to run the freezer etc, how can all this truly be cheaper than doing what most poor people in the cities do most of the time — fast food and making do with cheap grocery store food like peanut butter sandwiches.

The government's Energy Star program reports that on average, supermarkets use 50 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 50 cubic feet of natural gas per square foot per year for an average annual energy cost of more than $ 4 per square foot.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

Birth centers tend to be cheaper than hospitals not only for the time that mothers spend but because hospitals use more resources, such as IV line, belly monitors, electricity, pain drugs, etc..

The benefits are that no batteries or electricity are needed for you to power the pump and they can often be much quieter than electric pumps.

More than US$ 1.18 billion is needed this year to buy fuel required to fire thermal power plants in order for the country to meet its electricity demands, Ghana's energy outlook report has said.

A recent survey by the African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has revealed more than 80 % of Ghanaians want the Electricity Company of Ghana to be privatised.

Think you're paying a lot more than you should for electricity?

Telling people how much their neighbours pay for electricity only produces a 1 % change in usage less effective than more traditional policies.

The various Utility companies including the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Volta River Authority (VRA), Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) are looking for a more than 200 % increment on tariffs.

Now, after Hurricane Maria, we Puerto Ricans are seeing our brothers and sisters suffering: hospital's without lights, half of the island without electricity for more than five (5) months and the U.S. Congress voting against a budget that includes some aid to the island of Puerto Rico just because that was not D.A.C.A.