When you're done using your computer, it might seem green to shut it down and not waste electricity.
Transphorm aims to solve the multi-billion dollar problem of power waste whenever electricity from the grid is converted into usable electric power.
Meanwhile, scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have invented a new toilet that turns human waste into electricity while reducing the amount of water needed for flushing by up to 90 percent.
The project would have processed catering and farm waste to provide electricity - but protesters were unhappy.
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While it's true that we waste plenty of electricity each year just so our electronics are ready to go when we are, we think it's worth it.
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The new facility would burn the waste and produce enough electricity for 36, 000 homes.
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It's what the industry prefers to call 'energy from waste', generating electricity by burning rubbish in enormous incinerators.
The shed, which does not have any water, electricity or waste collection, is used to store the race baskets, and occasionally to ring the birds.
Prizes could be used to increase energy efficiency, cost-effectively convert solar energy to electricity, waste reduction efforts, and drive advancements on any number of environmental issues.
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The Isle of Wight, off the south coast in the Solent, aspires to become self-sufficient in energy over the next few decades through a combination of tidal power, a waste-to-electricity plant and efficiency savings.
Assessment of internal infrastructure conditions and issues, including access, waste removal, lighting, electricity, drainage etc.
It said the main reasons were falls in emissions from electricity supply, waste management, agriculture and domestic use.
The proof is in the pudding on this point: every dollar of public-sector funds received by these projects was being matched by nearly four dollars in private-sector investment toward buying and installing the systems that generate on-site electricity and use waste-heat created during generation.
They include raising more taxes and trimming waste in the state-run electricity and telecommunications sectors.
"The World Cup will bring increased demand for development of the stadiums, adequate electricity infrastructure, and waste disposal mechanisms, " Ms Mazibuko points out.
Combined heat and power (CHP) systems have long been used to generate electricity and use the waste heat for other purposes, especially for industrial processes.
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For instance, water pumps and waste water treatment plants rely on electricity, so when power is lost for long periods of time, reserves are depleted and bottled water must be transported into the zone, usually by truck.
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It develops anaerobic digesters that convert organic waste into biogas used to generate electricity, heat, natural gas and motor vehicle fuel (CNG). quasar already operates eight facilities in Ohio, and several more are in process in the Buckeye State and elsewhere.
Los Angeles County installed 30 of the units to harvest electricity from a large municipal waste center.
Even when heedlessly buried, waste can still produce precious gas and electricity.
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All the nuclear waste created since Sizewell B started generating electricity in 1995 is currently stored on site under water in storage ponds.
When electricity prices go up, waste-to-energy operations will get a tailwind.
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And a marketplace void now exists to recapture waste heat and to apply it to create electricity.
Further, the rising cost of energy makes converting municipal and industrial waste into advanced biofuels or combusting it to produce electricity an increasingly economic option.
But others point out that CCS is able to eliminate CO2 production from industries such as cement and steel, as well as electricity generation, again through absorbing it from waste gases.
Humanure toilets use the methane released by human waste to create power that is converted into saleable products, such as electricity.
He said the technology could be used to capture waste heat from a conventional 500-megawatt thermal power plant to boost electricity out by 200 megawatts.
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The company behind the scheme claims it will provide enough electricity for 25, 000 homes and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill by local councils by 90%.
After installing a solar panel, "it would take one to three months of generating electricity to pay off the energy invested in driving those hazardous waste emissions out of state, " said Dustin Mulvaney, a San Jose State University environmental studies professor who conducts carbon footprint analyses of solar, biofuel and natural gas production.
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