Electricity in sentence

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Now to charge the battery, we connect a source of electricity.

The average household spends 10% of its income on kerosene for lighting – that's an order of magnitude greater than what the average US household spends on electricity to light their homes.

It's more than all our electricity.

That's more than the emissions from all electricity and industry, or from all the world's planes, trains and automobiles.

And switching from the old fire to the new fire means changing two big stories about oil and electricity, each of which puts two-fifths of the fossil carbon in the air.

Three-fourths of our electricity powers buildings.

By 2050 though, it could become efficient, connected and distributed with elegantly frugal autos, factories and buildings all relying on a modern, secure and resilient electricity system.

Those 125 to 240 mile-per-gallon-equivalent autos can use any mixture of hydrogen fuel cells, electricity and advanced biofuels.

But the electrified vehicles don't need to burden the electricity grid.

Rather, when smart autos exchange electricity and information through smart buildings with smart grids, they're adding to the grid valuable flexibility and storage that help the grid integrate varying solar and wind power.

So the electrified autos make the auto and electricity problems easier to solve together than separately.

And they also converge the oil story with our second big story, saving electricity and then making it differently.

And those twin revolutions in electricity will bring to that sector more numerous and profound and diverse disruptions than any other sector, because we've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Changing how we make electricity gets easier if we need less of it.

But as efficiency in buildings and industry starts to grow faster than the economy, America's electricity use could actually shrink, even with the little extra use required for those efficient electrified autos.

Over the next 40 years, buildings, which use three-quarters of the electricity, can triple or quadruple their energy productivity, saving 1.4 trillion dollars, net present value, with a 33 percent internal rate of return or in English, the savings are worth four times what they cost.

For example, three-fifths of the world's electricity runs motors.

So what do such savings mean for the electricity that is three-fifths used in motors?

Now needing less electricity would ease and speed the shift to new sources of electricity, chiefly renewables.

And it's how all of Europe can shift to renewable electricity.

Together, efficient use and diverse dispersed renewable supply are starting to transform the whole electricity sector.

And those utilities were rewarded, as they still are in 34 states, for selling you more electricity.

However, especially where regulators are now instead rewarding cutting your bills, the investments are shifting radically toward efficiency, demand response, cogeneration, renewables and ways to knit them all together reliably with less transmission and little or no bulk electricity storage.

Now combine the electricity and oil revolutions, both driven by modern efficiency, and you get the really big story: reinventing fire, where business enabled and sped by smart policies in mindful markets can lead the United States completely off oil and coal by 2050, saving 5 trillion dollars, growing the economy 2.6-fold, strengthening out national security, oh, and by the way, by getting rid of the oil and coal, reducing the fossil carbon emissions by 82 to 86 percent.

So there's 40 lightbulbs' worth for transport, 40 lightbulbs' worth for heating, and 40 lightbulbs' worth for making electricity, and other things are relatively small, compared to those three big fish.

You can also deliver heat more efficiently using heat pumps, which use a smaller bit of high-grade energy like electricity to move heat from your garden into your house.

There's a similar story for my electricity consumption, where switching off the DVD players, the stereos, the computer peripherals that were on all the time, and just switching them on when I needed them, knocked another third off my electricity bills, too.

NT: We are at the dawn of a new age, the age of electricity.

I have been able, through careful invention, to transmit, with the mere flick of a switch, electricity across the ether.

So, electricity is the flow of electrons inside a material.

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