Sentences with phrase «use making electricity»

In fact, Searchinger says that the biomass currently tapped for biofuels would be put to better use making electricity.

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The late winter and early spring are periods of low demand for electricity, because air conditioners aren't in heavy use, making it easy for solar to get larger market share.

The ritual mandates the absence of work, entertainment and travel, which makes for a 24 - hour period during which no flights are allowed in or out, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.

The strategy looks something like: Make electricity nearly zero - carbon, and then electrify as many end uses as possible.

«We used to make candles out of olive oil and gauze because we didn't have electricity.»

Liska agrees that using some of the residue to make electricity, or planting cover crops, would reduce carbon emissions.

With 1,100 MW of rooftop panels on 350,000 buildings across Queensland, solar «is producing electricity just at the time that coal generators used to make hay.»

Coal supplies a third of all energy used worldwide and makes up 40 % of electricity generation, as well as playing a crucial role in industries such as iron and steel.

At one point this year, global prices for metallurgical coal (used to make steel) tripled, while prices for thermal coal (used to generate electricity) doubled.

According to the Bureau of Land Management, one out of every five homes and business in the US use electricity made from Wyoming coal.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

And yet you're typing your message on a computer made of plastc, linked by satellites running on electricity using written language — all the plans of men who are now dead.

Now the area has electricity and standpipe plumbing; auto and scooter repair shops using power tools; small factories making cardboard and sheet - metal containers; and cheap restaurants and phone booths.

Nuclear energy may be used to make bombs or to generate electricity.

But the Lovins have shown electric utility companies that they can make a better profit if their customers use less electricity.

At the end of the day, being a sustainable company by using less electricity, gas, water and recycling makes good business sense.

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Did you know play dough conducts electricity and can be used to make play dough circuits.

The basic circuit below has a switch made using a small piece of paper and 2 paper clips to break the flow of electricity which allows the bulb to be turned on and off.

I thought it would be fun to make Halloween shapes out of the tissue paper and use static electricity to move the shapes around.

-LSB-...] Static Electricity Dancing Ghosts and Bats Great for all age groups, this experiment uses the magic of a balloon to make mini characters dance.

The well — designed thermal flask is made of stainless steel with a plastic lid, portable and convenient for its lightweight - ness and no use of electricity or other external sources of energy.

Halloween Science: Dancing Ghosts and Bats — Use static electricity to make Halloween creatures dance.

The Tommee Tipee Travel Warmer is made using high - quality plastic and stainless steel for durability, and is designed to work without electricity with a thermal flask which does not require any electrical source from the outside.

«Let's do what we can to make sure we have the energy available for people right now but invest in forward thinking: in renewable technologies, in wind turbines, in solar panels, in geothermal, to help us transition off so we have the ability to use energy and electricity in future years to come not with fossil fuels.»

The projects are part of the state's Clean Energy Standard, which hopes to make 50 percent of the electricity used in New York come from renewable resources by 2030.

The county made reductions by boosting the use of natural gas vehicles, installing LED lighting around county facilities, but mostly by purchasing more electricity from cleaner sources.

It uses standard household electricity, making it simple to plug up and go.

You won't have to use up extra electricity making the water comfortable.

He used the same approach — a brief, painless burst of electricity makes the cockroach reflexively change directions.

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

Some of this is used to make electricity or heat human - built structures, but eventually all of that energy escapes into the environment and warms the planet.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

But the cost of producing it by using electricity to split water is high, because the most efficient catalysts developed so far are often made with precious metals, like platinum, ruthenium and iridium.

To make a wearable device that can cope with the jostling of everyday life, the team used a water - rich, polyacrylamide hydrogel and added lithium chloride to make it conduct electricity.

Using electricity to affect the brain makes tms sound similar to electroconvulsive therapy, alias electroshock therapy.

In other words, for every kilowatt - hour of electricity used the microbes could scrub 130 grams of CO2 out of 230,000 liters of air to make 60 grams of isopropanol fuel.

«Using the battery of mobile phones in small solar home systems becomes obvious in order to make access to electricity easier to those who live without.»

Demanding plans for power cuts: In the US, electricity companies make money helping their customers to use less power.

Add them to solar panels and the sun's heat, not just its light, could be used to make electricity.

Light - emitting diodes (LEDs) made from semiconductor materials are already used in traffic lights because they last for years and use a fifth of the electricity of normal light bulbs, but they tend to emit blue light that must be converted to white, an inefficient process.

From delivering electricity without wires to using fir trees to produce rocket fuel, science is making ingenious breakthroughs in energy alternatives

So Banhart used a kind of substitute soldercreated on the spotto link two crossed nanotubes: he focused a narrow beam of electrons from a scanning electron microscope at the point where the tubes met, thereby converting contaminants on their surfaces into bridges made from graphite - like carbon that can conduct electricity.

The new Portland — Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project line will feature supercapacitors to make use of the electricity from regenerative braking.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

Cars that either partially or entirely use electricity to function make up slightly more than 3 percent of the U.S. auto market, the lowest share since 2011 and a sharp contraction from 3.5 percent last year, according to EDTA.

Using a massive battery to store electricity generated by wind may make it more reliable — and cheaper

The team realized that if they used solar cells made from titanium dioxide dyes, which were first created by Michael Graetzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, such cells could coat steel and generate electricity.

India has connected an estimated 650 million people to the grid in the past 30 years, and Pachauri analysed government data on electricity use to find out what difference it made.

If you turn the sun's energy into electricity and use it to boil your kettle, it won't make the planet any warmer than if that same energy had instead gone into heating up the tiles on your roof.