Sentences with phrase «waste heat energy»

Most conventional generators waste heat energy as they create electrical power.

Since anthropogenic emitted CO2 comes out of a power plant stacks / vehicle exhausts at an elevated temperature (due to the trivial manmade waste heat energy), and then cools down to near equilibrium with the rest of the atmosphere, why would this new CO2 then absorb more energy and heatup again?

Although they mentioned regenerative braking and stop / start functionality, you'd also have to think that they may find a way to incorporate their recently announced «turbo steamer» concept, which captures a good portion of the otherwise wasted heat energy.

Dryers typically lose 20 to 25 percent of their heat through the dryer vent, according to figures from the Environmental Protection Agency, but this model includes components that recycle wasted heat energy.

Not exact matches

All that energy is used to heat solid and liquid wastes to temperatures that effectively disinfect it.

As power plants are charged with decreasing their emissions it becomes more profitable for an entrepreneur to innovate a way to turn that wasted heat into useable energy, he says.

The Sidewalk Labs proposal in the competitive bid for the project floated all kinds of technological dreams: a thermal energy grid that would be carbon neutral, sensors that separate waste from recycling, modular buildings that convert from retail to housing, monitors that track noise and pollution, self - driving transit shuttles, shared - ride taxibots, adaptive traffic lights, delivery robots, heated bike paths and sidewalks that melt snow on their own.

These incinerators were able to recover energy through burning waste, using the released heat to boil water, and using the steam produced to power turbines that generate electricity.

Energy throws waste heat into the environment.

Soleri believes that if sufficient energy can be gathered for the industries at the base of the arcologies, the waste heat from these industries can meet the other needs for energy.

We can see faster and better preparation methods, improved temperature control and heating, energy and labour savings, less waste, better sanitation, faster service and flexibility.

Food waste can also be turned into renewable energy through anaerobic digestion, where the methane emissions from broken down food are captured to produce biogas, heat and energy.

The new brewery cuts energy use by 50 % per barrel through thoughtful building design, solar lighting and the recycling of process waste streams like water and heat.

If the coil is compressed for too long or is not strong, energy is wasted as heat and the power release from the spring is compromised.

No need to waste energy with AC and heat.

Poortenga told a Michigan Fox News affiliate that families who want to go green will be happy to know that breastfeeding their child will reduce the need for unnecessary energy use (unless bottled, it does not need to be heated up in a microwave) and packaging (natural sources don't add to air pollution or waste).

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

The loop would run underground, and provide steam to heat downtown buildings from several sources including the city's waste - to - energy plant.

The company's website describes the benefits to brewers, wineries and distillers, stating all three can use the organic - material byproducts of the brewing and distilling process to heat their facilities, thus saving money on both energy and waste disposal.

Today we cover the Bloomberg administration's renewed interest in developing waste - to - energy facilities — or plants that burn or heat garbage to create energy.

«We demonstrated for the first time that ceramics could help advance thermophotovoltaics as well other areas of research, including energy harvesting from waste heat, high - temperature catalysis and electrochemical energy storage.»

There is room for improvement: incandescent bulbs currently waste 90 percent of their energy as heat.

Higher - energy light waves, including most of the visible light spectrum, are wasted as heat, while lower - energy waves simply pass through the solar panel.

There are high hopes that such designer clathrates can be technologically applied in the future, to turn industrial waste heat into valuable electrical energy.

Unlike current silicon - based electronics, which shed most of the energy they consume as waste heat, the future is all about low - power computing.

A lot of energy is wasted when machines turn hot, unnecessarily heating up their environment.

About 70 percent of all the energy generated in the world is wasted as heat, said Dimitris Niarchos of the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos in Athens, Greece.

From your hot car to your warm laptop, every machine and device in your life wastes a lot of energy through the loss of heat.

Dehydration via depressurization is far cheaper in terms of energy consumed than is heating and boiling off the water, particularly because no heat is wasted.

But thermoelectric devices, which convert heat to electricity and vice versa, can harness that wasted heat, and possibly provide the green tech energy efficiency that's needed for a sustainable future.

For example, at the Oserian flower farm on Lake Naivasha, roses are now grown with geothermal waste heat to save energy.

Thermoelectric materials, which convert a temperature difference across their surface into a current, offer yet another way to generate energy from waste heat.

Using waste heat from a coal plant to power the heat pump can mean 80 per cent of the energy put into the slush can be retrieved.

«People are busy, and when you gasp at your energy bill or at the gas pump you don't know what part of that bill is paying for something you want — like heating, cooling and transportation — and what part of it is just wasted,» Dietz says.

The glass energy capture system will recycle waste heat from the smelting process to increase energy efficiency.

The new connections can allow these cells to operate at solar concentrations of 70,000 suns» worth of energy without losing much voltage as «wasted energy» or heat.

But to be effective, solar cell designers need to ensure the connecting junctions between these stacked cells do not absorb any of the solar energy and do not siphon off the voltage the cells produce — effectively wasting that energy as heat.

Whatever you use energy for, it almost all ends up as waste heat.

«Managing and treating food waste is a global challenge, particularly for cold countries like Canada where the temperature often falls below -20 °C and energy demands related to heating are high.»

But these bulbs have always suffered from one major problem: More than 95 percent of the energy that goes into them is wasted, most of it as heat.

He explained that the efficiency of a photovoltaic device is governed by a simple competition: light energy is either converted into waste heat or useful electronic power.

That heat energy is then wasted.

Plants» daily cycle of heat resistance is a strategy that protects plants from the hottest parts of the day, while also potentially preventing energy being wasted producing heat shock proteins at night when it is cooler.

Behind the building, a biodiesel generator and waste vegetable oil boiler, both dormant during the summer months, attest to the aquaponic system's thirst for energy — the pumps, filters and bioreactor run year - round at a sometimes deafening whir, and the winter brings a need to heat the tanks and power overhead lights, as well.

Thermal salt - removing processes require high temperatures so they tend to be expensive (more than $ 1 per cubic meter of freshwater), but the use of rejected «waste» heat from other industrial or power plant operations for co-generation can cut energy expenditure.

Diverting just a portion of the world's food waste to waste - to - energy systems could free up large amounts of landfill space while powering vehicles and heating homes

Helmut Stein, Nokia's head of research and development, says: «Multiply 10 watts by the number of TV sets in a country and you realise how much energy is being wasted as heat.»

Was it your aim to raise awareness of the energy we waste heating our homes?

And, you know, their typical day is 115 degrees and humid, they've got no source of fresh water; so they desalinate volumes of water but that takes a lot of energy and a lot of the waste there is in terms of heat.

«Poultry waste hydrochar generates heat at high temperatures and combusts in a similar manner to coal, an important factor in replacing it as renewable energy source.»