Sentence examples for distant electricity from inspiring English sources

His first job was to build a London transmitter: he chose his spot by climbing to the roof of Marconi House on Kingsway, surveying the skyline, and then setting off to find the chimney of a distant electricity generating station in Marylebone.

The aim of the present study is to investigate the wave resource potential of open water sites, not too distant for electricity transmission inland and located outside of the coral reef platform of the island.

Power producers now sell electricity to distant utilities, putting far more strains on the grid.

So there was a real sense of bringing home comforts – all through sustainable electricity – to distant areas.

The Clean Air Act means Con Ed must stop burning coal, and then search the world for low-sulfur oil, for high-grade uranium, for electricity from distant dams.

The Mountain Pass mine plans to recycle more of the costly acid used in ore processing, use a separate recycling system to reduce the need for fresh water to 30 gallons a minute from 850 and install a natural gas power plant to reduce its need to buy costlier and less reliable electricity from distant cities.

Driving all these projects is the not-so-distant memory of the electricity crisis that gripped Egypt in the years following the 2011 revolution.

And having electricity remains a distant dream for much of the population.

But this also requires costly power grids to carry the electricity to the distant cities. Unexpectedly, it has also drawn the ire of some environmentalists, who love renewable energy but hate the mirrors (or wind farms) that ruin landscapes.

Down among the hovels that cluster around the ancient mud-walled fort that served as a focal point of the battle, there were only five lighted windows visible in an area of several square miles, testament to the hardships of life without paved roads, proper hospitals or schools, where electricity is a distant memory for anybody without a household generator.

But bricks and mortar, not to mention running water and electricity, are still a distant dream.