Sentences with phrase «think about electricity»

Many more people do not think about electricity at all, exc...

A lot of times, I use a «water in a pipe» analogy when I think about electricity.

Dear Mr High Commissioner, it won't probably occur to you that what you call corruption or SOLI is just a way to survive in a country where the media is not financed by Government or by a Stock Exchange floating shares, but by individuals trying to balance poor revenues from advertising in a Country declared HIPC until some few months ago and with a very high operating cost (think about the electricity for example).

«I thought about electricity because you can optimise the magnitude and exposure time of the current,» says Cuello, adding that the current he and colleagues used wouldn't be enough to electrocute a human and doesn't burn the plant's cells.

This resource pack will get your learners thinking about electricity and electric circuits.

This shift, combined with the other transformations in the energy ecosystem require new ways of thinking about the electricity system and power generation that can be supported by the existing grid infrastructure.

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It's kind of crazy if you think about it: There's no information sent to consumers about when it's expensive to supply more electricity and when it's not.

Once you get people thinking about wasting electricity, they will stop.

«I think it's pretty exciting because you don't have to worry about the gas price anymore and the electricity price is always stable,» he said.

They won't help hurricane victims who don't have electricity (and therefore no access to the Internet), but it might get some of you all thinking about how to be prepared should disaster strike in your area.

While I was making this soup, I thought about my friends / family in Jamaica who went several days without electricity — and some without water.

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

Fischetti: Right, if you think about a long trough that reflects sunlight, it concentrates the sunlight along a pipe that runs parallel to the long trough and concentrate [s] the sunlight like a magnifying glass, [which] heats the fluid inside this pipe really hot, so the hot fluid circulates out to a somewhat traditional power plant where it's allowed to expand into high pressure gas that turns a turbine which generates electricity.

Friedman: Just think about in the old days; what happened was, you know, first of all when your electricity went out, your power company didn't even know that.

However, I keep thinking about the alternate and would like your thoughts on the disadvantage of using cloth diapers: extra water usage; detergent (which has chemicals); detergent bottles plastic built; electricity of running the washer, as well as drier.

At different points the headmistress states that «electricity is a kind of magic» and «potions are nothing but chemistry,» proclamations that seem written to elicit an mind - blown reaction GIF but kind of fall apart as soon as you start thinking about them.

I'm about to go over and see the stunt guys, I've been trying all of these harnesses on and I think I'm going to be doing lots of flying around and firing electricity out of my hands...»

Session 1 involved the children thinking about various objects that use electricity around them, how can we describe them and what will they be replaced with in 1000 years (focusing on renewable energy).

With 67 % of our electricity today coming form carbon, we need to think about efficiency being a more important metric as we move forward.

If you're thinking about getting a payday loan because you're having trouble paying your electricity, gas, water, or phone bill, contact your utility provider.

Before you leave home, think about the one - off costs of moving: removalist fees or costs of hiring a moving truck, rental bond, connection fees for phone, internet, gas and electricity, parking permits, furniture and furnishings, linen and kitchenware, just to name a few.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

And when we think about climate, we have to think about more than electricity.

So, while I'm skeptical about the strict definition of Jevons and electric cars — namely efficiency — I do think there's something there in the idea that costs get masked within overall electricity consumption.

But mark my words, right - wingers will start screaming about compensation when all those shiny new gas - fired power plants they're building are threatened with closure when we start thinking seriously about building a modern grid that can shuttle electricity instead of curtailing renewable generation in one area while simultaneously turning on fossils in another.

> I think that your comments have a bit of «begging the question» about them, in suggesting that the necessity of expanding nuclear power to reduce GHG emissions from electricity generation is an established fact, upon which any «debate» about addressing AGW must be based — rather than an unproven assertion to be argued.

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.

Even my gas furnace adds to the electricity bill: This probably comes as obvious to practical people who really think about how their house works.

«Most people know how much gas costs - if you drive a car, you drive by gas stations, you see the costs - but a lot of people don't think about how electricity is priced.»

At very least, it's helpful to stop and take a moment to think about where our electricity comes from.

If you're thinking about installing solar panels on your home or business, it's helpful to think in terms of three broad categories: sunlight, electricity prices and incentives, like solar rebates and tax credits.

You might recall, not so many years ago, nobody was asking for 100 per cent renewable electricity, or even thinking about it or imagining it might be possible.

«We sat down with the sustainability officers at the vendors that we've worked with and we're considering working with, so MGM, Mandalay Bay, Sands and had a conversation with them about how do you reduce the footprints of these events in Vegas — everything from electricity to recycling to meat and food waste which people don't think of as a climate issue but food waste is really significant.

Just think about our agricultural system and our roadways or how we heat our homes or consume electricity.

A standard way of thinking about the cost of electricity is «total system levelized cost» — basically, how much a power producer would have to charge for electricity to earn back the money spent building a new generating facility.

By Margaret Hender You might recall, not so many years ago, nobody was asking for 100 per cent renewable electricity, or even thinking about it or imagining it might be possible.

Given this constraint, we need to think about how to maximise the amount of electricity we get from this limited amount of gas, and what new technologies can help us do it.

At the next Future PV Roundtable event, solar industry experts ranging from EPCs, cell and module manufacturers, and component suppliers will present their snappy elevator pitches about the technologies they think will accelerate solar's march towards reducing levelized cost of electricity (LCOE).

As I was reading this I couldn't help but think about my state's Minnesota Renewable Energy Standard which requires that 25 % of our electricity be generated by renewable sources by 2025.

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But where people have no food, sanitation, clean water, jobs, electricity or real hope for the future, do you really think they will worry incessantly about plastics?»

It does tell us a couple things about what, where PG&E and also the people who manage the state's electricity grid think things are going to be 10, 15 years down the road.

MW: Well, I don't know about intimidate, but I think we have to recognise that what's on the checklist of a mayor in a city where a third of the population don't yet have access to electricity, or at least a form of electricity, and maybe 10 - 20 % are living in slum housing, trying to save the world for the benefit of future generations isn't top of mind.

Strides are being made: some of the huge wind farm complexes under construction in China will each produce as much electricity as several nuclear power plants, and an electrified transport system supplemented by the use of bicycles could reshape the way we think about mobility.

If you're thinking about installing solar panels on your building's rooftop allowing you to generate your own clean and renewable electricity from the sun, you're not alone.

At the same time, new energy storage devices like Tesla's Powerwall and Powerpack batteries — which can be used to store electricity when solar panels aren't generating energy — are starting to change the way we think about the timing of electricity production altogether.

However, when you think about specific sources of emission such as power generation and transport emissions there are far more effective ways of reducing these emissions that avoid the need for increasing the price of fuels and / or driving up the average price of electricity to the point where investment in clean electricity is justified.

c) home owner will maintain themselves, which consists of annual wash to get any dust / droppings off d) doesn't require a discount rate because homeowners generally don't think about «payback» periods for renovations, new kitchens / bathrooms, holidays, new TVs, etc. and in this case they are hedging against future electricity prices by locking in their prices for 20 - 30 years.

* The process of decarbonizing electricity supply is well under way and, I think, just about unstoppable.

Does thinking about the future cost of electricity have you worried?