Electricity in sentence

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But five and a half years later, there still was no electricity; there still was no safe drinking water; there were still no job opportunities; there was still rampant crime, and it went unpunished.

That might have been obvious to some people in the 19th century; the revolutions of wiring and electricity were just getting underway.

But we knew that neurons used electricity, and by World War II, our technology was advanced enough to start doing real electrical experiments on live neurons to better understand how they worked.

I drew it during the few hours of electricity we get.

The consumption of electricity in Africa on the continent in Sub-Saharan Africa is equivalent to Spain.

Nearly 100 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources, five of them.

Did you know that last year, for 299 days, we did not use any fossil fuels in order to generate all our electricity?

Because why would we continue importing oil for transportation if we can use electricity instead?

Remember, this is the country where electricity comes from water in our rivers, heat from volcanoes, wind turbines, solar panels, biowaste.

Abolishing fossil fuels means disrupting our transportation system so that we can power our cars, buses and trains with electricity instead of dirty energy.

So I believe Costa Rica can be an inspiration to others, as we did last year when we disclosed that for so many days we were not using any fossil fuels in order to generate all our electricity.

So big, shiny black solar cells on our roof mean our electricity bill rarely exceeds more than five bucks in a month.

This is electricity from clean energy sources over the last 20 years.

But when you look at the percentage of global electricity from clean energy sources, it's actually been in decline from 36 percent to 31 percent.

And if you care about climate change, you've got to go in the opposite direction to 100 percent of our electricity from clean energy sources, as quickly as possible.

Now, you might wonder, "Come on, how much could five percentage points of global electricity be?"

When you combine all the electricity from solar and wind, you see it actually barely makes up half of the decline from nuclear.

They were almost entirely replaced with fossil fuels, and so the consequence was that we wiped out almost as much clean energy electricity that we get from solar.

Every time you put electricity into a battery and take it out, you lose about 20 to 40 percent of the power.

And if I could show you this map animated over time, you would see that Tokyo has actually become darker, because ever since the tsunami in Japan, Japan has had to rely on a quarter less electricity because it turned the nuclear power stations off.

It's easy to forget that last night, one billion people went to sleep without access to electricity.

So this was a source of innovation as well, because a farmer could take a manual hand pump, and they could add this artificial power, this electricity, and he'd have an electric pump.

And it really is a stomach because you can put energy in this side in the form of pollution, and it creates electricity.

Chemical fuel cells take hydrogen and oxygen, and they can combine them together and you get electricity.

So you can see how this stomach could be used to not only treat the pollution but also to generate electricity from the pollution.

So the robot will move through the environment, taking food into its stomach, digest the food, create electricity, use that electricity to move through the environment and keep doing this.

But we can't force the microbes and they generate a small amount of electricity per second.

Artificial muscles are smart materials, you apply electricity to them, and they contract, or they bend or they twist.

Think of it like instead of getting electricity from big power plants, you put solar panels on top of your house, and if your neighbor down the street needs some extra energy, then they can just download some from your house.

If you look at the 20th century, so, the technologies of the Industrial Revolution, the trains and electricity and all that could be used to create a communist dictatorship or a fascist regime or a liberal democracy.

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