Sentences with phrase «without electricity and gas»

The fact that people remain without electricity and gas in the face of imminent cold weather has left help hotlines and emergency services encumbered and unable to move into the clean up and recovery phase of response.

Not exact matches

The cost of electricity from large - scale solar installations now is comparable to and sometimes cheaper than natural gas - fired power, even without incentives aimed at promoting environmentally friendly power, according to industry players and outside cost studies.

KARPOWER barges will as a result, continue to produce electricity for Ghanaians, without consequence to the availability of light crude oil and gas in Ghana.

«Without a membrane, the photoanode and photocathode are close enough to each other to conduct electricity, and if you also have bubbles of highly reactive hydrogen and oxygen gases being produced in the same place at the same time, that is a recipe for disaster,» Lewis says.

«Our process can go into oil fields and operate without the need for electricity or water to convert what otherwise would be flared gas into gasoline or it can be mixed with crude [oil] to increase quality and quantity,» says Synfuels president Tom Rolfe.

The report, «Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Assessment of Regional Supply and Demand Conditions Affecting the Future of Renewable Energy in the West,» compares the cost of renewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers it serves.

«Without a membrane, the photoanode and photocathode are close enough to each other to conduct electricity, and if you also have bubbles of highly reactive hydrogen and oxygen gases being produced in the same place at the same time, that is a recipe for disaster,» Lewis says regarding his findings published in PNAS.

Utilities are the second most important household bill since without water, electricity and gas a house is just four walls and a roof.

Or maybe you miscalculated the amount of money that you had coming in and a utility bill must be paid immediately or you will be without electricity, gas, or water.

How many people in the population will live inside their houses without electricity, gas and water?

If China decides to make coal do double duty, propelling cars and providing electricity, the chances of curbing greenhouse gases (without broad deployment of systems for capturing carbon dioxide) will be nil.

The U.S. experience suggests that a more efficient gas market, marked by flexible pricing and fueled by indigenous unconventional resources that are produced sustainably, can reduce coal use, CO2 emissions and consumers» electricity bills, without harming energy security.

I'm not surprised that the clean and peaceful technology, which today provides about 13.5 percent of world electricity without air pollution or greenhouse gases, was tarred with the same brush as the Bomb.

The team used detailed process simulations, lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions analyses, and cost analyses in a comprehensive analytical framework to assess 16 alternative system configurations that involve gasification - based coproduction of Fischer - Tropsch liquid (FTL) fuels and electricity from coal and / or biomass, with and without capture and storage of byproduct CO2.

Without the recent extensions, the electricity market would have faced a severe shortage of supply that would have been «nothing short of catastrophic» and resulted in more coal - or gas - fired power plants being built and increased greenhouse gas emissions, Was said.

Electricity is useless until it is used to power machinery, and you cant make machinery without the input of oil coal or gas.

Hydrogen is not so much a fuel as a form of storage, holding energy generated by electricity and then releasing it without producing carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for half of global warming.

Furthermore, «many studies show that the total share of renewable energies in the electricity mix can not go beyond 30 - 40 % without leading to an exorbitant cost of electricity and increasing emissions of greenhouse gases.»

While China and the U.S. get most of the attention, India - where 300 million people still live without electricity - is the globe's third greatest emitter of greenhouse gases, and one of the globe's fastest - growing coal consumers.

Millions of people in Nicaragua and Nepal live without electricity and rely on harmful, polluting alternatives like diesel and gas generators, kerosene lamps, and candles to see at night.

But (hydro - electricity excepted) the technologies to replace oil, gas, and coal are stunningly immature and it seems to me that the difficulties in deploying them without major dislocations are not really appreciated.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

That report predicted that without new carbon regulations, the U.S. would still have an electricity system in 2040 based largely on coal and natural gas:

But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.

in a variety of ways to handle the energy, electricity, heating, and sanitation needs of the community self - sufficiently, without the use of gas or fossil fuels.

The homes will also utilize «gray water,» and «black water» in a variety of ways to handle the energy, electricity, heating, and sanitation needs of the community self - sufficiently, without the use of gas or fossil fuels.

**** Promoting Parasitic Power Producers carbon-sense.com Viv Forbes 17 July 2014 Wind and solar are parasitic power producers, unable to survive in a modern electricity grid without the back - up of stand - alone electricity generators such as hydro, coal, gas or nuclear.

Proper use of gas and clean coal generation will be essential until renewables and other forms of generation are economical, but South Australia's ideological crusade (which has turned the state into the world's electricity crash test dummy, as I read somewhere) has meant that the lights will continue to go out during periods of high demand, with or without Elon Musk's Duracell.

Birol said he and others are having trouble getting the message across, encountering some criticism that having 1.5 billion without electricity is a good thing as this prevents the further release of heat - trapping gases to the atmosphere.

However, although once predicted to be «too cheap to meter,» nuclear power is still not viable without subsidies and is not competitive with gas - fired electricity.

I'm not surprised that the clean and peaceful technology, which today provides about 13.5 percent of world electricity without air pollution or greenhouse gases, was tarred with the same brush as the [Atomic] Bomb.