Sentences with phrase «than electricity produced»

To a utility company, electricity produced during the day has a far greater value than electricity produced late at night on a weekend.

Water pumped from a low reservoir to a high reservoir Requires more energy to pump it than electricity produced.

Such electricity is almost always higher in cost (and lower in value) than electricity produced by existing conventional energy sources.

Not exact matches

They point to recent examples, in which Woodside announced a major project to extract oil from mallee trees and produce electricity, in a venture that appears greener than an Irishman's heart.

A similar electricity trade applies to all of Canada, where more than 60 % of power produced still comes from hydro.

In an announcement on Monday, the government said that the cost of new offshore wind projects producing electricity from 2022 - 23 would, at # 57.50 ($ 75.86) per megawatt hour, be 50 percent lower than the first auction in 2015.

As Bitcoin's price has soared, so too has the energy consumption to produce it — to the point that Bitcoin mining now guzzles more electricity than all the electric cars in the world.

The truth environmentalists refuse to admit is that the mass consumption of electricity due to EVs is rapidly becoming more dangerous to the environment than current refined oil emissions produced by ICEs.

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.

The project has a long - term Power Purchase Agreement with Duke Energy Progress, and is capable of producing enough clean electricity to power more than 11,000 homes.

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.

This idea could be used on any sort of vehicle as long as the generator produces more electricity than it uses due to wind resistance.)

Henry Ellard and Willie (Flipper) Anderson may produce more electricity than the Hoover Dam when it comes to catching a football.

In times of continuous clear weather Joppa Flats can produce more electricity than it uses, which means there's no cost in «re-fueling» electric cars.

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

The 1.9 - megawatt array is anticipated to produce nearly 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, avoiding the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to burning 2.4 million pounds of coal or more than 5,000 barrels of oil each year.

FitzPatrick can produce more than 800 megawatts of electricity seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

But once it's produced, gas is a far cleaner fuel than coal for generating electricity.

In the lab, such combinations turned as much as 20 percent of sunlight into electricity, although panels produced in a factory under less than ideal lab conditions only managed 13 percent at best — and Solyndra's averaged around 10 percent.

Praise for a «level of predictability» Market projections from SEIA and partner GTM Research indicate the U.S. solar market will add roughly 72 gigawatts of new capacity between 2016 and 2020, pushing the country's net solar capacity to more than 100 GW, or roughly 3.5 percent of all electricity produced in the United States.

A GEOTHERMAL power plant in California will soon be producing more than just electricity.

For the first time in more than 75 years, the electricity and oil sectors are opening up to private investors, introducing competition to its energy - producing stalwarts, putting billions of dollars of profits and tax revenue into play.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

The VHTR should produce electricity about 40 percent more efficiently than do most reactors in the United States.

If liquefied coal powered the world's vehicles, produced its heating, and generated its electricity, Earth would warm 2º Celsius (3.6 º Fahrenheit) by 2042, three years sooner than if society continued to use oil.

In the developing world, the 10 watts it produces can light a room at night by electricity rather than expensive and dangerous kerosene.

Burning coal produces more than half the country's electricity, despite its immense human and environmental costs.

Fuel cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they produce electricity without burning up the hydrogen (or other fuel) that powers them.

And because the sunlight is also transformed into heat, that energy can be stored more easily than the direct electricity that photovoltaic cells produce, Wang says.

Despite decades of improvements to solar cells, the electricity they produce still costs up to 10 times more than that from fossil fuels.

«Producing electricity with wind offshore is more expensive than onshore, just due to the complexity of it,» Madsen explained.

«This should reduce overall costs for the energy industry because, rather than creating large, expensive solar cells, you can use much smaller cells that produce just as much electricity by absorbing intensified solar energy from concentrating lenses.

«We found that with a given amount of biomass you could produce more transportation and greenhouse gas offsets with electricity than with ethanol.»

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Rather than heating tungsten to at least 3,100 degrees Fahrenheit (1,700 degrees Celsius) or exciting fluorescent gases, LEDs can produce lumens with less electricity.

And those turbines produce more than 90 percent of our electricity.

The roots of garden pea plants were exposed to low - level electric current and subsequently produced 13 times more pisatin, an antifungal chemical, than plants that were not exposed to electricity.

By producing electricity from the organic matter in wastewater, a new microbial battery may more than cover the costs of water purification.

A team of scientists estimates that wind turbines in the continental U.S. could produce 16 times more electricity than we currently use.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

The optimal design configuration at this site produced electricity at a cost 10 percent lower than the average national electricity unit price.

Such wrecked peaks are unknown to most Americans, even though more than 50 percent of our homes are supplied with electricity produced by coal - fired power plants.

When plugged in, the electric vehicles (EVs) at LA AFB produce more than 700 kilowatts of electricity, or enough to power about 140 American households during a hot summer day.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

The Department of Energy estimates that natural gas produces slightly more than one - fifth of all the electricity used in the United States, and that number is steadily rising.

Since its western neighbors this year failed to send as much electricity as usual, the manufacturing hub, with a capacity to produce more than half of the world's desktops and toys, is forced to conserve electricity.

Lake Mead now supplies water to more than 22 million people, and it produces more than four billion kilowatts of electricity per year.

The system produces lower emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide than incinerators designed to burn tyres and produce electricity, say the engineers.