Sentence examples for a net consumer of from inspiring English sources

Even after the shale revolution, the U.S. is still very much a net consumer of oil, importing five million more barrels of oil a day than it exports.

Some losses occur in the pumping process, thus making the plant a net consumer of energy [15].

"There's a time after being a student when you go from being a net consumer of wealth to a net producer of wealth".

The station is, however, a net consumer of electricity as it uses up more power for pumping water and spinning its turbines than it actually generates.

Thus, it is a net consumer of caloric energy.

Despite its impact as a market, a port, and a net consumer of humans, London's economy continued to be dominated by small-unit manufacture and crafts.

The homeowner, farmer or business investing in solar or wind generation realizes immediate savings on energy costs and in many cases will go from being a net consumer to a net producer of energy.

He conceded that in recent years, the business had been a net consumer, rather than a generator, of the company's cash.

Lactate through pyruvate provides under normal circumstances 10 to 40% of the myocardial fuel supply, making the heart an important net consumer of lactate.

But if you are a net consumer, a rise in price is definitely not good news".

The benefits of such increased productivity will flow through to rice-growing countries' landless rural and urban poor, all of whom (1) are net consumers of rice and (2) spend a large proportion of their income on rice.