aptly titled sophomore album,Tooth and Nail. Frontman Don Dokken and guitarist George Lynch might have hated each other too much to work in the studio at the same time, but their musical yin and yang paid off,
1 megawatt (MW, 1 million watts) of wind power can produce from 2.4 million to 3 million kilowatt-hours of electricity in one year. Kilowatt-hour(kWh) - one kilowatt (kW, 1,000 watts) of electricity generated or consumed in one hour ...
A 1 watt solar power plant needs about 100000 sqft, which is about 2.5 acres. Due to the fact that large ground mounted solar PV farms require space for other accessories, the total land required for a 1 MW solar power plant will beabout 4 acres. How much does it cost to build a 1...
When you think of it in those terms, it doesn't seem like much. But consider that you may have as many as 20 or 30 other appliances using phantom power as well, and you can see how the numbers begin to add up. According to the Energy Star Web site, the average U.S. household ...
Our minds may automatically picture excess packaging or leftover materials on the factory floor, but supply chain wastage goes much deeper than that. It can also refer to employees’ time – due to a poorly-designed warehouse layout, for example – or unnecessary transport emissions due to inade...
As professionals in the power industry, we often encounter technical questions that seem simple but reveal much deeper insights into how our meters operate. I recently had someone ask: “Can a technician in the field change the Kh value of a watthour meter?” After working in the field for...
A power plant's job is to release this chemical energy as heat, use the heat to drive a spinning machine called a turbine, and then use the turbine to power a generator (electricity making machine). Power plants can make so much energy because they burn huge amounts of fuel—and every...
isestimatedto use just under 1,300 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity; about as much power asconsumed annuallyby 130 US homes. To put that in context, streaming an hour of Netflix requires around0.8 kWh(0.0008 MWh) of electricity. That means you’d have to watch 1,625,000 hours to ...
It turns out there are energy sources out there that are much more bizarre than corn and sugar. For the most part, almost anything that can be burned can be used as a fuel source, but to really work on a large scale, an alternate energy source has to meet certain criteria. It has ...
With a people-centered philosophy of development championed in Xiconomics, the Chinese people are living much better lives thanks to considerable economic growth. Following a development path tailored to its national realities and making notable and substantive progress toward common prosperity for all ...