Sentences with phrase «while electricity use»

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I used a power meter that plugs into an outlet to figure out how much electricity my rigs were using while mining, and I checked my bill to see how much my electricity company charges per month.

It's often said that cheap oil will not hurt the rise of renewables like solar because oil is used mainly to power things like automobiles, while renewables are mostly used for electricity generation.

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

While we do pay to access the electricity grid and for metered usage of it, just like the Internet, we don't pay yet again for individual uses of it.

While such a significant amount of electricity usage might go unnoticed in large metropolitan areas, the sheer amount of electricity being used is leading to higher costs for customers in small communities because of a limited supply of low - cost hydropower.

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

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.

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...?

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.

About 3000 tones went to food charities, while the rest was used for things like commercial composting, fertiliser, electricity production and animal feed for farmers and even at zoos.

Sub-monitoring of electricity using CT (Current Transducer) devices connected to data - loggers provides accurate data on all electricity usage, while water meters log every litre of water at 30 second intervals, providing highly precise readings.

Since it needs no electricity, it's the best option for use while you are traveling.

Some are electricity run only, while others are capable of being used both ways.

Wilber produced an energy analysis purportedly showing that total energy costs for the first winter of operation of the new garage increased by 67 percent over the previous winter, although the new facility was three times the size of its 5,000 - square - foot predecessor, which used oil for heating while also consuming electricity.

This kit is an incredibly powerful, easy to use music synthesizer that helps your teen unleash her or his inner rockstar while learning about physics and electricity.

The Electrostatic Levitator suspends a metal droplet using static electricity while the sample is heated to melting in a vacuum.

But it is a technology that has proven problematic in developed and developing countries — witness the ecological problems brought on by the Three Gorges — and most of the undeveloped locations for hydropower are located in the west of the country while the majority of electricity use is in the east.

Recent studies conclude that while some tech - savvy consumers will line up for smart grid applications for the home, most residential customers are not eager to manage their daily energy use, particularly with electricity prices at relatively low levels.

In 2005, in the US, divorcees occupied 38 million extra rooms, and used about 50 % more electricity and water per person than they did while married.

That electricity must be used or stored in batteries, which degrade, while hydrogen gas is easily stored and transported.

On a sunny day, a hybrid fixture puts out the equivalent of two fluorescents while using no electricity at all.

While some of today's solar cells use a blend of cadmium and tellurium to convert light into electricity, adding the optimum amount of selenium in the right places could help increase efficiency from the current mark of about 22 percent to levels approaching the theoretical limit of 30 - 33 percent.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

If all those pig feces were collected in lined ponds to let anaerobic bacteria thrive, they could become a renewable source of 1600 tons of biogas, which can be used to generate heat and electricity on site while simultaneously reducing Israel's greenhouse - gas emissions.

In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCs.

Ensuque says the plasma torch uses 400 kilowatts - hours of electricity per tonne of waste, while conventional incineration does not use any electricity.

Monster GreenPower Surge Protector MDP 900 In the average home 75 percent of the electricity used to power electronics is consumed while they are turned off, says the U.S. Department of Energy.

Power generation cost using solar panels depends on getting as much electricity out of the panels as possible while keeping the manufacturing costs low.

Due to its brain - inspired design, it can look for the complex patterns that indicate specific «bad apples,» all while using less electricity than a standard 60 - watt light bulb.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells ¬ ¬ - they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells --- they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

PRISM could also be used as an efficient, clean, cost - effective way to disposition plutonium stockpiles, while also generating low - carbon electricity.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electricity.

While some hotels will be open, Balinese do not work, travel, or use electricity and it is closely observed.

In the early»80s, while Tim Burton was working in Walt Disney's animation department, he directed the live - action short «Frankenweenie,» about an odd little boy who uses electricity to reanimate his dead dog.

For example, maths was used to find the best possible parameters of the turbine's design, while transforming mechanical energy into electricity included physics as well.

This means that LEDs produce a spectrum of colours easily and brightly while using very little electricity to do so.

The electricity generated by panels while the school is operating can be used for free, cutting the electricity bill.

There are two primary categories of HEVs: parallel hybrids use both the electric motor and the engine to move the vehicle, while series hybrids» engines can generate electricity for the motor as well to move the vehicle.

It gets up to 84 MPGe using both gas and electricity, so you can save on gas while being kind to the environment.

Some plug - in hybrids such as the Chevrolet Volt won't charge the battery while under way because it's inefficient compared to recharging using electricity.

In addition, it uses an electronic brake system that enables it to convert all its energy into electricity and recover them while braking.

That's the difference between regular hybrids and plug - in hybrids, one has a hybrid drivetrain while the other has an all - electric drivetrain and only the source of energy alternates between fully electric, using energy that has been taken from the grid, and hybrid, after this stored electricity has been exhausted.

It uses only an electric motor to move the car, while a petrol engine is used as a generator producing electricity that goes directly into propelling the electric motor or, when electricity is in excess, to charge the batteries (similar to BMW's REX).

While driving on electricity - only in stop - and - go traffic is the most satisfying, it may not always be the most economical: since you don't get in a lot of regenerative braking, the engine will start when the battery depletes, and you'll be almost exclusively using gasoline to power the battery back up.

A full hybrid is capable of running on electricity alone, while a mild hybrid can't, and its electric motor is used to supplement the gasoline engine when more power is needed.

Hybrid is the standard mode, making use of both gasoline and electric motors as needed, while E-mode keeps the GLE550e running on electricity as long as it has battery range.

To increase brake regeneration, there is a «B» setting on the gear selector, which can be used to slow the car while also increasing the harvesting of electricity back into the battery pack.