| For instance, waste heat will be converted to electricity by a thermoelectric device. |
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| Beltrami also worked on optics, thermodynamics, elasticity, electricity and magnetism. |
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| When complete, the wind farm will produce enough electricity to power 6,500 homes. |
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| A spokesman said it had to wait for the gas leak to be stopped before work could begin on restoring the electricity supply. |
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| We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before. |
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| In this context the survivors in the UK electricity market will continue to scrabble for scale. |
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| The successful lobbying for deregulation of the electricity supply in California has had baleful consequences that hardly merit repeating. |
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| The sleek, three-pronged turbines swivel to face the oncoming tide, generating up to 35 kilowatts of electricity each. |
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| Each month, the City provides six kilolitres of water free to all households and 50 kilowatts of electricity to those supplied by City Power. |
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| The crews also secured live electricity cables as falling trees and branches brought down overhead wires. |
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| The campus generates some 40 kilowatts of electricity from the sun, enough to run its offices and workshops. |
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| Wires were coated with scale-like insulation materials to prevent the electricity from arcing. |
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| It's one thing drawing plans, it is quite another tackling a building without water or electricity and riddled with dry and wet rot. |
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| This much mental electricity should be able to run a small city, but instead I'm more like a cut power line, arcing and sparking spasmodically. |
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| The City provides free each month six kilolitres of water to all households and 50 kilowatts of electricity to those supplied by City Power. |
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| Of the energy consumed, 85.7 percent was in the form of electricity and oil products. |
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| Two Jordanians, for example, used salt from the Dead Sea to store up solar heat during the day and generate electricity at night. |
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| Small arcs of electricity played over its surface as his eyes danced gleefully. |
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| Each household will get six kilolitres of water and 20 kilowatts of electricity free and pay for anything further. |
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| I will campaign for upgraded electricity and fibre-optic telecommunications networks. |
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| Transportation, telecommunications and electricity are all getting dearer and dearer. |
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| You can get burned by heat and fire, radiation, sunlight, electricity or chemicals. |
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| They will also be afforded the 50kWh of free electricity and six kilolitres of free water per household per month. |
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| Kentaro looked up at the pagoda where large arcs of electricity were reaching into the sky like a massive Jacob's Ladder. |
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| Workers carried placards and banners, and raised slogans against privatisation and increases in electricity prices. |
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| The problem is that the water utility company uses lots of electricity to pump the water that's used to keep lawns lush and green all summer. |
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| A hydrogen-powered car painted with the film could potentially convert enough energy into electricity to continually recharge the car's battery. |
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| Some 10,000 Lakota Sioux resided there during the 1970s, many living in tarpaper shacks without electricity or running water. |
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| After you have safely wrapped all disconnected light-fixture wires, you can turn the electricity back on. |
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| The Kershaws have no mains electricity or sewer, they drink untreated spring water and sometimes use candle light. |
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| Io's orbit cuts across Jupiter's powerful magnetic lines of force, turning Io into a giant electricity generator. |
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| When waves cause the coil to move up and down relative to the fixed magnetic shaft, voltage is induced and electricity is generated. |
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| Bending down he took her hand gently, which caused an immediate shock of electricity that jolted her for a moment. |
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| Before the fire started electricity lines leading to the pub had been sparking. |
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| I am considering installing a wind turbine to generate the electricity for my small rural home. |
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| One room under construction will be an Internet cafe, yet there is no mains electricity here to run air conditioning. |
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| Amenities to the main house include oil-fired central heating to most of the rooms, mains electricity and a private water supply. |
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| It ripped up trees and downed electricity lines, but no casualties were reported. |
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| All anglers need be aware of the dangers involved when fishing near electricity lines in order to minimise the risk of accidents. |
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| Here in Australia our main source of electricity is coal, and it's our biggest export earner. |
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| One wind turbine can supply the electricity needs of more than 650 homes and cuts the amount of harmful greenhouse gases in the environment. |
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| I thought of all the electricity that was used to pump the water into overhead tanks so that they could flow from these tapless spouts. |
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| Also, since solar power is not produced at night, a wind turbine can provide the electricity at this time. |
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| The electricity will be a huge boost to metropolitan areas, but most Tanzanians live in rural areas. |
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| A magnetomotive force may be produced by a permanent magnet or by a wire through which a current of electricity is flowing. |
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| What magic might he have worked had he lived into the age of electricity and aviation? |
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| Research into the apparently unrelated field of electricity and magnetism produced a startling confirmation of the wave theory of light. |
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| The Liberals have a comprehensive plan to generate five per cent of Canada's electricity through wind power. |
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| When Faraday worked out electricity and magnetism he set into motion the electric age. |
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| Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, for example, united the previously disjointed phenomena of electricity and magnetism. |
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| There will be no point in building a wind farm in Lewis unless the electricity it produces can be transported to the mainland. |
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| Much of the state's multibillion-dollar agribusiness industry is based upon irrigation, powered by electricity of course. |
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| Most of the breakdowns happened because of power outages caused by salt spray on electricity lines or because of wind damage. |
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| In 1820 the Danish physicist H C Orsted produced experimental results on electricity and magnetism. |
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| In 1821, Hans Oersted demonstrated that electricity and magnetism were interrelated. |
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| Studying the interrelation of electricity and magnetism, Faraday struggled to explain how forces could act at a distance. |
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| Diagnostic radiology and the generation of electricity from nuclear sources are examples of practices. |
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| Motorists watched in amazement as a 30 ft fountain of water caused an explosion on the electricity lines above a railway track. |
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| As expected, the weighted average electricity price increase for households is 20 per cent, while district heating prices went up by 10 per cent. |
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| Plunged into darkness, practically all of Serbia has been dealing with an acute electricity shortage as generation plants under perform. |
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| He said that whatever electricity lines came from the sub-station would be carried on wooden poles. |
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| Homes in south Wiltshire were left without power after electricity lines were brought down in gale-force winds last week. |
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| He liked to play with electricity when he was a youngster, and that grew into an interest in electronics and radio. |
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| The attraction between us was almost tangible, electricity visible to the naked eye. |
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| The enormous power given by electricity has radically transformed all our lives. |
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| That has meant many of the electricity lines are running very close to their limits. |
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| They have electricity only during the day, when sewing machines buzz in the craft centre and Khmer pop songs emanate from radios. |
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| The electricity failure kept the phones and most of the lighting out of action for more than three hours. |
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| Time slowed yet again as his wrist shot out a beam of purple electricity from his hand, creating a lightsabre of sorts out of his psychic energy. |
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| The appointments to the electricity board shows that jobs for the boys is thriving. |
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| But traditional lightning rods can become saturated with electricity and turn into magnets for lightning. |
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| Grassroots activism was often successful when it challenged the utilities seeking to generate more electricity with atomic power. |
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| Would you suggest that we liberalize our markets like the electricity deregulation in California? |
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| But let's remember the same grand claims were made in the past about atomic power enabling electricity so cheap it would be virtually free. |
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| Fuel cells are then stacked to produce enough electricity to power an automobile. |
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| The wholesale cost of electricity has gone up by 23 per cent since November. |
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| Rayleigh developed laboratory courses in heat, electricity and magnetism, properties of matter, optics, and acoustics. |
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| Three days later she was found dead at her home by a visiting electricity meter reader. |
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| For the anoraks, there are also graphs on both companies' homepages which show how much electricity each part of the island is using per day. |
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| The coveralls are designed to reduce the possibility of static electricity and are laundered in flame retardant. |
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| The electricity rates payable by householders was two and a half annas per unit. |
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| How does the cost of electricity generated through wave power compare to coal or other renewables like solar or wind? |
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| Wholesale gas prices leapt fivefold over the past few weeks and wholesale electricity prices have increased 150 per cent as a result. |
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| For electricity he used a deep-cycle lead-acid battery which he charged by a variety of means. |
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| There were other attacks on Tuesday, disrupting the flow of oil and, astoundingly, cutting off electricity to a good deal of the country. |
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| A baying mob of youths hurled abuse at firefighters as they battled a suspicious rubbish fire threatening to engulf an electricity pylon. |
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| The electricity reaches the loudspeaker, which converts it back into sound. |
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| One pump requires 28,000 watts of electricity and the main pool has a capacity of 10,000 cubic meters of water. |
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| The former control tower, which included an officers' mess, has no electricity supply, sewage system or running water. |
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| It is not known whether the premises have a working electricity supply or running water and much of the estate has fallen into disrepair. |
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| Few of us would know what to do if our water or electricity supplies were cut off, or the supermarkets ran out of food. |
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| They in turn are at the mercy of the power companies for electricity to transmitters and relay stations. |
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| Since 1987, the government has subsidized the use of electricity up to 220 watts for each unit in the building. |
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| Why should I worry about how many amperes of electricity it takes to run an appliance? |
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| Back in 1944, the house had no electricity supply, an outside cold water tap and a big vegetable plot. |
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| That margin affects both system reliability and wholesale, and thus long-term retail, electricity rates. |
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| Basically we have to abandon coal-fired electricity and we have to substitute energy efficiency and renewables. |
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| The amount of electricity we could generate from solar power, wind and other renewables is limited largely by our investments. |
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| The scheme requires producers of renewable electricity to be inspected and certified. |
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| Other responsibilities include getting electricity and water supplied to the house. |
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| Thus, some consumers pay their electricity bills and telephone accounts in cash. |
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| The programme is designed to benefit all households or residential units in Johannesburg, provided their electricity accounts are paid in full. |
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| Water constitutes cost-free energy for generating electricity that is perpetually renewable and sustainable. |
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| Removal of subsidies on electricity or gasoline will benefit the environment by inducing conservation. |
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| In May I suddenly started receiving electricity bills out of proportion to the amount I had used. |
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| Due to the poor electricity supply, it is not possible to use either refrigerators or washing machines. |
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| They are on all the time and use a colossal amount of electricity and overheat. |
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| Just as the film began to get interesting, they heard an almighty crash of thunder and the next thing they knew the electricity cut off. |
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| The cleanest energy sources of electricity are solar panels and wind turbines, which are only starting to be used in Canada. |
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| Water power will again turn the mill wheel and drive the turbine to provide electricity to light the building. |
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| Where there are winners, of course, there are losers, and the electricity generator company was among them. |
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| Carpet and rugs can be purchased with special fibers or treatments built into them which will eliminate the static electricity problem. |
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| He had a rough time with the bills piling up, the electricity and water going off sometimes when he least expected it. |
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| He was worried about the availability of toilet facilities and electricity for the gang. |
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| And Ergon Energy stockpiled materials and put crews on alert yesterday in preparation for possible damage to the electricity network. |
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| We saw price reductions and some service quality improvements in our telecommunications sector and Victoria's electricity supply. |
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| It's been so cold that I have had to keep boiling the kettle, so heaven knows how large my next electricity bill is going to be. |
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| The rotor turns an attached generator, creating electricity with a simple elegance, carving energy from the sky. |
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| Water and sewage lines were heavily damaged and electricity in the area was knocked out after the main transformer was hit. |
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| How on earth do the supply companies know how much gas or electricity we've used if they haven't actually read the meter? |
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| The very least they could do is knock a few pounds off our electricity bills, just as a gesture of good faith. |
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| In the UK alone it has been estimated that the recoverable wave energy resource exceeds total UK electricity demand. |
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| Outside the house there is a detached garage with electric shutter and electricity wiring, while a cobbled driveway offers parking for six cars. |
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| Meanwhile all electricity is off there, and I can't reach anyone via phone. |
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| The meeting discussed heating arrangements for the winter months and hope to get the prefab wired up for electricity during the next few weeks. |
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| Even in years when economic growth is flat or negative, electricity consumption nearly always increases. |
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| The armed separatist group placed bombs on two high-tension electricity towers run by grid operator Red Electrica. |
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| All the other rooms were lit by candles and kerosene, seeing as their building had not been wired with electricity yet. |
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| Think of the analogy of an electric wire carrying more electricity than its diameter can safely carry. |
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| With the advent of electricity and better equipment the distillation process became easier. |
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| The nation used 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in February, 1.3 percent less than the same month last year, the bureau said. |
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| German soldiers with fixed bayonets guard the water and electricity works, armament factories, railway stations and post offices. |
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| Candu reactors offer a safe, reliable sources of baseload electricity and are a proven solution to the problem of climate change. |
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| Even so, Tyree says that the overall cost of landfill-gas-generated electricity will be competitive with other baseload options. |
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| The root cellar for maintaining a constant cool temperature for the vegetables in the era prior to electricity and refrigerators was interesting. |
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| He received a jolt of electricity from the deadly third rail which carries 750 volts. |
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| On visiting the Ancestral Perch last weekend, the pending ethics upgrade of our electricity was discussed with the materfamilias. |
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| It takes about 12 kilowatt-hours of electricity to charge the car after a 50-mile trip. |
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| Highly efficient conversion of heat power into electricity can be realized in a thermophotovoltaic system. |
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| The energy charge, measured in kilowatt-hours, is for the actual electricity that is used by the facility. |
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| The new design is an improvement over current thermoelectric devices used for the generation of electricity aboard spacecraft. |
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| We would only need about 30 turbines for the 70 million kilowatts of electricity consumed by the city council. |
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| This work by Thomson in 1856 on electricity and magnetism is important for it was these ideas which led Maxwell to develop his remarkable new theory of electromagnetism. |
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| Unst is precisely the kind of place where locals would pay high electricity bills even if they did not have to contend with severe winter weather and dramatic wind chill. |
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| Computers cause static electricity and so attract dust and bacteria. |
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| Fashion would lose much of its electricity without the head-snapping magnetism of models moving with gumption down a runway. |
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| What we can buy is a compact fluorescent bulb that only uses 20 watts of electricity and produces 1,000 lumens, the same as a 100-watt light bulb. |
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| The electricity is gone, and food and water are running out. |
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| With his rust bucket still sputtering in neutral, he marched up and down the dirt parking lot, hastily stapling surf-film posters on wooden electricity poles. |
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| Reuters reported that all water supplies in Kabul have been bombed out and electricity is only being supplied to select parts of the city for 15 minutes per day. |
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| A gigantic solar storm could fry power grids, knocking out electricity for months. |
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| Any movement shot jolts of electricity to my toes, curling them in pain. |
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| One of Maxwell's most important achievements was his extension and mathematical formulation of Michael Faraday's theories of electricity and magnetic lines of force. |
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| The little flickers of static electricity were turning into small jolts. |
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| With a boat, however, electricity is routed through a gauntlet of adapters and shore power connections that depend on friction to maintain contact. |
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| All the electricity lines had to go underground and streets were widened. |
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| The firms' main products were electricity cables and wheel rims, he said. |
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| It was Murray who taught Alexander Graham Bell the basics of acoustics and electricity and thus was the grandfather, if not the father, of the telephone. |
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| The liberalization of the electricity market has proceeded more slowly. |
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| There have been reports of a city, often suggested to be in Brazil, having its electricity cut off by extortionist hackers. |
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| Meanwhile, he has called on tobacco farmers to use electricity to cure their tobacco and not timber because depletion of trees would cause harm to the environment. |
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| The world's first commercial wave-power plant, on the island of Islay, produces electricity for 400 homes and is already being studied by other EU countries. |
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| A gripping account of the first year after an electromagnetic pulse attack has eliminated all electricity in America. |
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| Some of Stone's neighbors, who live between Dotts and 4th Streets in Pennsburg, said their electricity and water had been cut off. |
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| When he discovered electricity it took him less than a decade to discover the electric chair. |
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| Work has just been completed on replacing toilets and showers, re-roofing the blocks, providing electricity and generally cleaning up the six-bay compact site. |
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| As soon as Xander's hand made contact with Pheobe's, Pheobe felt as if a zap of electricity went through her body and her heart started to beat faster. |
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| Clocks were regulated by electricity to Greenwich mean time. |
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| New council wardens brought in to enforce parking restrictions have been accused of being over-zealous following Witham's recent electricity blackout. |
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| In rural areas, electricity for refrigeration was slow in coming. |
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| The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day. |
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| While bcg cited low labor, natural gas and electricity costs, Williamson emphasized lead-times. |
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| With little water and only a few hours of electricity a day they were unable to shower or bathe the 25 children in the apartment. |
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| In basilicata and Calabria, hundreds of families are living in houses where electricity has been cut off. |
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| As the balloons and electricity scared us, inhibitions were naturally lowered and I saw the flirtation begin. |
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| Wooden decking runs around the back and side of the house and there is a large detached garage which is wired for electricity and includes a shower room. |
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| How can you make it to class on time when you have no electricity and no alarm clock? |
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| Systems can be used to produce electricity to meet a facility's baseload demand, to shave peak demand and to meet electrical needs when a utility feed fails. |
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| Although exact details have yet to be finalised, the new vehicles will probably be powered by diesel or electricity through a third rail in the middle of the lane. |
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| Fleming called his device the thermionic valve because it used heat to control the flow of electricity just as a valve controls the flow of water. |
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| The best way to prepare for an ice storm is to consider what emergency heat you have in case the electricity goes out. |
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| Ethanol and gasoline will be blended to generate electricity on a sustainable basis through the use of bagasse, a by-product of the milling process. |
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| The 4.8 kilowatts of electricity generated by the system is stored in advanced lead-acid batteries to keep the size and cost of the 250 lb battery pack reasonable. |
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| Fourteen large wind turbines are spread across the slopes of Beinn Ghlas in Argyll, their blades turning in the breeze to produce up to 600 kilowatts of electricity each. |
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| India's electricity grid is clearly inadequate and badly needs upgrading. |
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| The second phase, in May, will shift the focus to the hazards of fires, illegal electricity connection, construction sites and uncovered manholes. |
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| Once the plant is in operation it will mean a significant amount of electricity will be generated for the 900-year-old castle without burning fossil fuels. |
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| France has a great abundance of cheap electricity thanks to their nuclear power stations, whereas our electricity to recycle the glass is produced by burning fossil fuels. |
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| There's obviously much in pop culture that deserves satire and critique, for reasons too obvious to enumerate, but it's also part of the electricity of our times. |
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| The owner will have to install private drainage, link up to the mains water and electricity and rebuild the property under the watchful eye of the park planners. |
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| By evening the water had receded but the electricity wasn't back. |
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| Crina Bottom, a detached house nestling in the heart of the famous Dales landscape, does not have mains electricity and is serviced by a generator which runs on oil. |
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| In conjunction with the West Wales Eco Centre, Keith Knight is hoping to supply the electricity from his wind turbine to local people at a cheap rate. |
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| It's critical that suppliers do all they can to clamp down on electricity theft. |
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| Chris Watts, 40, of Peldon, was using a mechanical digger in the front garden of a house in London Road, Marks Tey, when he hit electricity and gas mains. |
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| Since the overwhelming majority of us are connected to the electricity grid, gas mains or both, the scourge of indoor air pollution is not a killer. |
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| Maxwell's theoretical unification of electricity and magnetism was engineered into the modern human power to communicate across space at the speed of light. |
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| People with pacemakers and defibrillators who use arc welding devices and other kinds of heavy energy that involve magnetism or electricity tend to have problems. |
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| Gases released during the mining process can be recovered to generate electricity and improve worker safety with gas engines. |
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| Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass. |
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| When demand for electricity exceeds the available supply, a brownout occurs. |
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| He wore a brush cut that looked like static electricity firing up from his pink skull. |
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| Instead of producing thrust, they cogenerate electricity and heat, meeting another goal of the sustainability plan. |
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| Using electricity as motive power for railroads will do away with fuel trains, tenders, coal handling, water, and all that. |
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| How does it work, though? It's based on the observation made some 200 years ago that electricity can change the shape of flames. |
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| Other rooms filled with other men roaming a flatscape only recently wired with electricity and now braising in radio waves. |
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| The discovery of the laws of electricity laid the groundwork for a century of innovation. |
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| A new revolution began with electricity and electrification in the electrical industries. |
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| The company opened the first power station in the world to generate electricity using turbo generators in 1890, at Forth Banks in Newcastle. |
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| Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. |
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| For much of their existence electricity networks in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland were entirely separate. |
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| Optimimal intraday electricity trading and water values for hydroassets are computed. |
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| We generate our own electricity with a small hydroelectric generator on the river. |
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| They don't possess any materialistic things and also don't use the basic services like that of a phone, electricity etc. |
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| Elster Metering makes gas and electricity meters, and is based in the north of Luton on the opposite side of the railway to Vauxhall. |
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| The Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary have the potential to generate more renewable electricity than all other UK estuaries. |
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| Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases. |
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| The rated input power does not indicate the effectiveness of the cleaner, only how much electricity it consumes. |
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| In technical usage, a replaceable component that produces light from electricity is called a lamp. |
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| Sri Lanka has already banned importing filament bulbs because of high use of electricity and less light. |
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| Early buses, known as trolleybuses, were powered by electricity supplied from overhead lines. |
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| Between 1992 and 2007, electricity for the Metrolink system was procured by the operator, based on price only. |
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| Coal fueled electricity generation alone is a much greater source of heavy metal contamination in the environment than fireworks. |
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| During 1928, the studio was sold to Ludwig Blattner who connected it to the electricity mains and introduced a German system of sound recording. |
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| Northern Ireland Electricity is responsible for transmitting electricity in Northern Ireland. |
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| Belfast's electricity comes from Kilroot Power Station, a 520 MegaWatt dual coal and oil fired plant, situated near Carrickfergus. |
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| Edison and Tesla undertook the widespread distribution of electricity to industry, homes, and for street lighting. |
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| Late August saw one of NATO's largest operations in Helmand, Operation Eagle's Summit, aiming to bring electricity to the region. |
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| The electricity distribution network operator supplying Swansea is Western Power Distribution. |
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| His book De Magnete was written in 1600, and he is regarded by some as the father of electricity and magnetism. |
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| The first usage of the word electricity is ascribed to Sir Thomas Browne in his 1646 work, Pseudodoxia Epidemica. |
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| This time is especially noteworthy for the advances Maxwell made in the fields of electricity and magnetism. |
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| The paper presented a simplified model of Faraday's work and how electricity and magnetism are related. |
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| Cavendish continued to work on electricity after this initial paper, but he published no more on the subject. |
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| After setting up his workshop, Bell continued experiments based on Helmholtz's work with electricity and sound. |
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| In his twenties he tried to create diamonds by heating graphite and shorted out Glasgow's electricity supply. |
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| However this was dependent on the government making rapid progress on reducing carbon emissions from UK electricity generation. |
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| It sold these products to wholesale customers such as retail gas suppliers and electricity generating companies. |
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| In the United Kingdom, demand for electricity is higher in winter than in summer, and so are wind speeds. |
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| Several of the halls include electricity bills and gas bills as part of rent. |
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| A growing number of airports are installing solar photovoltaic arrays to offset their electricity use. |
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| It keeps the electricity running in the plane when it stands at the terminal. |
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| The World Bank reports that electricity is now in large part supplied by local businesses. |
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| Shortfalls of electricity occur periodically, when drought reduces water flow. |
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| Utilization of abundant hydroelectric and geothermal power has made Iceland the world's largest electricity producer per capita. |
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| As of 2012 Such a cable would give Iceland access to a market where electricity prices have generally been much higher than those in Iceland. |
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| Production of Czech electricity exceeds consumption by about 10 TWh per year, which are exported. |
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| It owns airports, electricity generators and retailers, and a public transport business, with operations in New Zealand and Australia. |
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| The plant relied for its electricity supply on the island's nuclear power station at Wylfa, near Cemaes Bay. |
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| It was praised for its scale and showing that electricity could compete with gas lighting on the same scale. |
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| The mine was one of the first to install electricity and by 1910, fans, hauling systems and pumps were electric powered. |
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| He paid thousands of dollars for electric lighting, including bringing electricity and building a bank, as well as a road into the Cahuenga Pass. |
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| A characteristic of electricity is that it is not a primary energy freely present in nature in remarkable amounts and it must be produced. |
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| The fundamental principles of electricity generation were discovered in the 1820s and early 1830s by the British scientist Michael Faraday. |
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| In 1870, commercial electricity production started with the coupling of the dynamo to the hydraulic turbine. |
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| This is the most used form for generating electricity and is based on Faraday's law. |
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| Electrochemical electricity generation is important in portable and mobile applications. |
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| The selection of electricity production modes and their economic viability varies in accordance with demand and region. |
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| Wirral Council said that they had had difficulty finding a ranger prepared to live without mains electricity or running water on the island. |
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| It is the site of the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale. |
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| Methane is important for electricity generation by burning it as a fuel in a gas turbine or steam generator. |
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| The HHV figure is a computation of electricity net energy compared to energy content of fuel input. |
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| A solar photovoltaic power plant converts sunlight into direct current electricity using the photoelectric effect. |
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| Wind turbines can be used to generate electricity in areas with strong, steady winds, sometimes offshore. |
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| This energy can be harnessed to generate electricity to power homes, transport and industries. |
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| Generated electricity is fed to ESB Networks distribution grid through the Arklow National Grid Substation. |
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| Since then, electricity has been generated mostly from hydropower and nuclear power. |
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| Instead of just delivering electricity, it draws electricity from even the smallest generators, like rooftop solar panels. |
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| The other major use for fossil fuels is in generating electricity and as feedstock for the petrochemical industry. |
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| Breakups at alarm siren lines and electricity lines affected the warning system severely. |
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| Natural gas is a fossil fuel used as a source of energy for heating, cooking, and electricity generation. |
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| The gas can be vented to the atmosphere, flared or burned to produce electricity or heat. |
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| Natural gas is a major source of electricity generation through the use of cogeneration, gas turbines and steam turbines. |
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| Offshore wind power refers to the construction of wind farms in bodies of water to generate electricity from wind. |
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| Higher wind speeds do not automatically result in increased electricity generation. |
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| Although not yet widely used, tidal energy has potential for future electricity generation. |
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| Greater tidal variation and higher tidal current velocities can dramatically increase the potential of a site for tidal electricity generation. |
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| A hydroelectric power station still generates electricity here, although the mills are now a museum and World Heritage Site. |
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| This method of milk cooling was popular before the arrival of electricity and refrigeration. |
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| Ukraine has sufficient coal reserves and increases its use in electricity generation. |
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| Especially Iceland and Sweden, but also Finland and Norway, have a significant production of electricity based on hydro power. |
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| Silk is a poor conductor of electricity and thus susceptible to static cling. |
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| In 1925, the city of Jacmel was the first area in the Caribbean to have electricity and was subsequently dubbed the City of Light. |
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| An agreement with Quebec was required to secure permission to transport the electricity across Quebec territory. |
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| Most of the electricity comes from hydroelectric facilities and wind parks. |
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| Colombia with a very clean electricity generation matrix reaffirms its support for the Paris Climate Agreement. |
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| The electricity production in Colombia comes mainly from renewable energy sources. |
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| In 2008, 420 solar home systems of 200 Wp each were installed on Ailinglaplap Atoll, sufficient for limited electricity use. |
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| Tidal energy harnesses the movement of ocean water to generate electricity through a number of mechanisms. |
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| Current technologies, such as those in use in Mauritius, produce over 100 kWh of electricity per tonne of bagasse. |
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| Using Mauritius as a reference, an annual potential of 10,000 GWh of additional electricity could be produced throughout Africa. |
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| Recent cogeneration technology plants are being designed to produce from 200 to over 300 kWh of electricity per tonne of bagasse. |
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| A greener alternative to burning bagasse for the production of electricity is to convert bagasse into biogas. |
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| The level of most glacial lakes in the upper parts of the Waitaki and Clutha rivers are controlled for electricity generation. |
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| Botswana imports refined petroleum products and electricity from South Africa. |
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| This electricity in turn is used to drive motors forming the actuators of mechanical systems. |
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| Also there was a great increase in power as steam powered electricity generation and internal combustion supplanted limited wind and water power. |
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| His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices were the foundation of the practical use of electricity in technology. |
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| The invention of Parson's steam turbine made cheap and plentiful electricity possible and revolutionized marine transport and naval warfare. |
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| A scientific understanding of electricity was necessary for the development of efficient electric generators, motors and transformers. |
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