The cost of producing electricity from the sun is expected to drop by 50% by 2015.
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Nobody can deny that hydro is one of the cheapest, cleanest, most efficient ways of producing electricity.
The rapidly-dropping cost of producing electricity from the sun is an important factor driving the solar surge.
Some foresee hybrid wind-gas and solar-gas plants, with gas producing electricity when sun and wind are weak.
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The existing reactor, which started producing electricity in 1971, will close by 2014.
In the top diagram the solar panel is completely exposed to a light source 1804 and all six electrode quadrants 1802 are producing electricity more or less equally.
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The 275-megawatt demonstration plant is designed to prove the feasibility of producing electricity and hydrogen from coal, while simultaneously capturing the carbon dioxide and sequestering it in deep underground reservoirs.
Or as has been pointed out about the Green Party plans, if you really want to create jobs in producing electricity, why not pay people to ride bikes linked to a dynamo?
And if you are going to the trouble of building mirrors to do that, you might as well go down the steam-generation route, which is a much more efficient way of producing electricity.
The gas is then fed into a stack of solid oxide fuel cells, where a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen occurs, producing electricity, water vapor and a tiny amount of carbon dioxide.
"What we are finding is that when people know that he way that they're exercising here is actually producing electricity and helping the environment, it is one additional motivation for the workout, " says California Fitness President Steve Clinefelter.
It helps for producing electricity, but if industrial countries like the U.S. and Europe can put in place more environmentally sound resources like nuclear energy, it would allow more developing countries to use fossil fuels for their development in the 21st century.
Now, the question for Electra Therm is -- or any of these companies that are innovating -- is, is there enough demand out there that they can start building to scale, they can start making the capital investments that allow them to catch up with these older ways of producing electricity that had a 50-year head start?
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Meanwhile, the implementation of a 1994 agreement that ended North Korea's plutonium production in return for two new western-designed nuclear reactors and interim supplies of heavy fuel oil is badly behind schedule, largely as a result of North Korea's obstructive behaviour: the two new reactors were meant to start producing electricity by 2003, but the first concrete will not be poured before the end of next year.
When completed, his 2, 700 turbines will be capable of producing enough electricity to power 1.3 million homes.
Lawyers for a Dundee man accused of "recklessly producing household electricity" have branded the charges against him "irrelevant and incompetent".
Solar power similarly despoils large stretches of land while producing minimal electricity.
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The cost of producing solar electricity by large solar power plants plummeted from 31 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2009 to 14 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2012.
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In August, the New England Independent System Operator (ISO-NE) asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to penalize businesses and other ratepayers for producing clean electricity during periods of peak demand or high congestion.
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Since Ford is producing its own electricity, it also has to shell out less money to buy energy.
This is the technology equivalent of every organization in the world, big or small, investing the capital and human resources to build and operate their own electricity producing power plants.
One, labouring under the term of "contracts for difference", is a mechanism under which the government will guarantee a price that energy firms can obtain for producing and selling electricity generated either by wind farms or new nuclear power stations.
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Natural gas powers the four-fuel-cell system, each cell capable of producing 200 kilowatts of electricity.
That said, different combinations of materials have different electricity-producing potential for the same weight and volume.
The Zevco fuel cell uses an efficient, silver-based catalyst to promote the electricity-producing reaction, instead of a traditional platinum one.
The renewable energy industry has published figures which, it claims, show Scotland is producing enough low carbon electricity to offset emissions from Longannet power station in Fife.
The energy infrastructure of Iceland is one of the cleanest in the world, capable of producing 100 percent of its electricity from homegrown renewable energy resources such as hydro and geothermal.
Lockheed Martin executives want to scale the technology up to 100 megawatts in subsequent ventures, producing the same amount of electricity in a year that 1.3 million barrels of oil could while generating virtually no fuel costs or greenhouse gases.
Because producing a requisite amount of electricity from gas results in estimate about 50% of the carbon dioxide for the same coal-based electricity, the only way to meet the proposed standard is to capture the outgoing carbon dioxide, pipe it somewhere, and bury it.
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But earlier systems are relatively inefficient, producing only a few milliwatts of electricity.
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