Sentences with phrase «while generating energy»

So CO2 is moved from the air to the earth, while generating energy — essentially the reverse of burning fossil fuels.

We've been seeing a lot of transparent or even white solar panels lately that act as windows and parts of a building's facade while they generate energy.

Not exact matches

But while the upstream has traditionally been the most profitable business segment for the large energy companies, it isn't the only part that generates cash.

Jigar Shah, co-founder of Generate Capital, estimates 6,600 GWh annually, while clean energy consultant Adam Siegel places the wall's capacity at 8,431 GWh annually.

The lithium - ion battery - powered handheld hair dryer contains an infrared bulb to generate maximal heat from minimal energy — only one - third of the power that regular hair dryers consume — while minimizing hair damage.

Working together enables us to deliver predictably priced clean energy to our customers while generating construction jobs in the communities that will benefit from the energy generated by the projects.»

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

While only 13 percent of electricity in the U.S. is generated from renewable energy sources, it's one of the most critical ways to fight climate change.

While it's true that, unlike other types of power plants, nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide (C02), the life cycle of generating nuclear power — from mining to refining to transportation to storage — requires an enormous amount of energy.

Proponents argue it would boost New York's natural gas supply to help keep energy costs down while creating jobs and generating tax revenue, while opponents, who rallied this month ahead of the decision, say it would increase fossil - fuel use, harm sensitive ecosystems and put the state at inordinate risk of dangerous methane leaks.

Supporters maintain the new plant would make Long Island's energy supply more reliable for ratepayers, while also creating hundreds of jobs, and generating significant tax revenue for local schools, police and fire districts, and other community services.

Currently based in Massachusetts, the company has developed an ultra-compact energy harvesting technology to generate electricity from the motion of vehicles.It will move to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Center's Innovations Center and create 14 new jobs while investing $ 157,000.

Examining a major Michigan weatherization program, the study found that while upgrades reduced consumption by about 10 to 20 percent, the total energy savings generated over a 16 - year window amounted to less than half of the initial weatherization costs.

While most fat cells in the human body store energy, everyone has a small subset of brown fat cells that do the opposite — burn energy and generate heat.

While the LHC would generate only a third of the energies of the SSC, that could be energetic enough to detect the Higgs boson, depending on the putative particle's mass.

Hydraulic fracturing has boosted U.S. energy production while coming under scrutiny for its potential environmental impacts, mostly related to the wastewater the method generates.

While the analysis did not examine secondary effects of subsidies, Gaspar said the results are «qualitatively robust» and allow experts to «safely conclude that energy subsidies are very large and their reform will generate substantial benefits» for both governments and the people they represent.

The falling «diamond rain» also could be an additional source of energy, generating heat while sinking towards the core.

Still, the payoff could be huge: While mainstream fusion research programs are still decades from fruition, Lerner claims he requires just $ 750,000 in funding and two years of work to prove his process generates more energy than it consumes.

While observing a beam of muon neutrinos generated by one of Fermilab's particle accelerators, the MiniBooNE researchers found that an unexpectedly high number of the particles in the low - energy range (below 475 million electron volts) had transformed into electron neutrinos.

They enable major power generators to profitably generate electricity in a manner that reduces the overall cost of compliance with mandatory greenhouse gas («GHG») emissions limits and renewable energy targets while also allowing countries to diversify their sources of electricity supply.

The research could help South Carolina continue its explosive growth in generating solar energy while minimizing conflicts that could arise over land use.

All the millions of lifeforms on Earth seek energy and food while generating waste heat and materials.

«Manchester is a growing center of expertise for the civil nuclear energy sector, so we're delighted to work with them on PRISM, which we believe is the best way to manage the U.K.'s plutonium stockpile efficiently, securely and safely while generating low - carbon electricity at the same time.»

Nuclear is an established energy alternative that generates no carbon dioxide, so there is interest at the federal level to further study nuclear energy while also exploring new options such as hydrogen, solar, and other alternatives.

«For more than 50 years GE has been at the forefront of energy innovation and nuclear technology and GE Hitachi's PRISM reactor offers an attractive solution to tackling the UK's plutonium management challenges while generating clean electricity,» said Mark Elborne, President and CEO of GE UK & Ireland.

Razdan said the new ultrasound therapy is an entirely «novel approach» that uses ultrasonic energy to cut and remove damaged, pain - generating tissue while sparing healthy foot tissue.

In Phase 3, we focus on teaching your body how to properly generate the energy you need to get you through the day while doing it in a manner that protects your thyroid and promotes healthy energy production.

Well - fed muscles produce more energy, generate motivation and help us to feel good while moving!

The pancreas produces insulin to help get your cells the glucose they need to give you a boost of energy when under stress, while the liver clears away excess metabolites generated as a result of metabolism.

VO2 and VO2max are important in the context of exercise, because they are a measure of your body's ability to generate ATP, and ATP is the energy source that allows your muscles to continue working while you are exercising.

This method of ATP generation is called the alactic (this word means «without lactic acid») anaerobic (this word means «without oxygen») energy system, and it is one of three Exercise Energy Systems that your body can recruit to generate ATP while you exeenergy system, and it is one of three Exercise Energy Systems that your body can recruit to generate ATP while you exeEnergy Systems that your body can recruit to generate ATP while you exercise.

It functions as an enzyme co-factor that helps to generate metabolic energy, while protecting proteins, fats and DNA from oxidation and preventing harm to tissues and cells.

Their ideas ranged from the Power Nap, a mattress pad - like device that captures thermal and kinetic energy while a person is sleeping, to a dome that removes methane gas generated by cows.

Thirty - eight universities buy green electricity from the grid (of which eight buy 100 per cent green energy), while 37 generate some of their electricity on - site, and the number with CHP installed is also 37.

Supporters of such a plan estimate (PDF) that each $ 1 billion in school - construction work would generate up to 10,000 jobs while helping to replace or refurbish aging school facilities and protect students and school staff from poor air quality, mold, energy inefficiencies, and more.

In practical use, this advanced hybrid technology impresses with low consumption and emission figures, but high performance: the electric motor is able to replace or support the combustion engine and makes use of energy generated while braking by converting it into electric energy, storing it and reusing it.

It captures the kinetic energy generated while braking, stores it in a compact battery pack, and feeds it to a small motor attached to the side of the internal combustion engine.

As projects start generating revenue the company is able to «ride» on its past investments (Permian Basin, Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Western Australia, and Gulf of Thailand) and invest less in capital improvements while energy prices are depressed.

The long - term goal is to reduce the world's reliance on energy generate from fossil fuels while creating regional networks of home batteries that could be controlled as if they were a power plant.

While outdoor pets will require more calories in the winter to generate enough body heat and energy to stay warm, a pet's body condition must be monitored.

While outdoor pets will require more calories in the winter to generate enough body heat and energy to stay warm, pay attention to your pet's body condition.

Any sewage treatment assembly would therefore have to be low maintenance, low energy consumption, light - weight and sturdy while preferably generating no activated sludge and meeting extraordinarily high environmental standards whilst performing without a sewage field.

While Energy Shield is active, you generate a stack of Trauma Regulators each time you receive direct damage.

Extending the idea of playfulness, Brătescu is fascinated by the disruptive potential of magnets, as illustrated in her landmark piece, «Magnets in the City» (1974), a photomontage with an accompanying text describing the ways in which magnets of various sizes, placed outside and within the city limits, unleash their hazardous energies, generating chaos while simultaneously reminding people of their own volition and power to act.

Again, like nuclear power, we are simply shifting the problems until after we are dead while enjoying the fruits of the energy generated now.

While commercial implementation may still be years ahead in the future, this technology offers a significant increase in carrier efficiency (i.e. how many electrons are generated on average by an incident photon) and, to me, this is very promising in terms of getting the price of solar energy way down and making it attractive even to the most conservative investors.

The energy - generating roof tiles could make an entire roof a power station while also looking beautiful at the same time.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

Put another way, while technologies can generate or utilize energy, technologies don't develop and invest in themselves.