Sentence examples for power expensive from inspiring English sources

There was a time when the south-eastern railway took its passengers down from on high on to the Boulogne ferry, but the line was steep, the locomotive power expensive, and the ferry port has long been superseded by the Channel Tunnel.

Moreover, the unity gain frequency (and the bandwidth), which is the key parameter influencing the settling behavior of the SHA, tends to decrease thus impacting the accuracy of the system (i.e., INL, DNL, and ) and mandating more accurate and power expensive calibration circuits.

Radio transmissions are the most power-expensive operation performed by the telemetry unit.

Solar power is expensive, and it does not work all the time, either.

Prices for solar power remain expensive, and cost-cutting has become a watchword for the government.

Adults see downed trees and power lines, expensive repairs, damaged infrastructures.

Because renewable energy, especially solar power, is expensive, it requires substantial subsidies or other incentives.

Watched by academics at Durham University, volunteers are testing a tariff that makes power more expensive when demand is high.

And it has grossly mismanaged PREPA, which still generates 65% of its power using expensive fuel oil.

If you make dirty power more expensive, people will consume less dirty power, but this shift can occur in a number of different ways.

The high prices were attributed to the utilities' costly nuclear power plants, expensive long-term contracts with independent power suppliers and excess generating capacity, and to inefficient regulation.