Now scientists at Norwegian renewable-energy company Statkraft aim to use osmosis to generate electric power.
These workers control, operate or maintain machinery to generate electric power keeping your home or business juiced.
Only a few companies generate electric power, and it can be metered in a way that dodgy cash transactions cannot.
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Clean coal is a trade term to describe methods and technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal to generate electric power.
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The world is using less oil today to generate electric power than it did in 1973, despite output almost trebling to 17.5 billion watt hours of electricity, from 6.1 billion WH.
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That water is then released through tunnels to generate hydro electric power at times when consumers need it.
Fuel cell electric vehicles generate their power from hydrogen and oxygen, and emit only water.
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Of course the coal industry can also rely on support from representatives of coal producing states and, to a lesser extent, those representing the 20 states that generate at least 49% of their electric power from coal.
It is then released through a number of turbines to generate electricity in the same way as hydro-electric power plants work.
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Or this: If you could cover an area about the size of Massachusetts in the Southwest U.S. entirely with solar cells, you could generate enough electricity to quench America's need for electric power.
Not to be outdone, England just flipped the switch on the world's largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric set up kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon.
"Moreover, in places that do generate electricity from renewable sources, it would be more cost-effective to use that electricity to power electric or plug-in hybrid cars than high-speed rail, " O'Toole said.
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