Which energy is now the cheapest form of electricity in many parts of the world?
在世界各地，哪种能源是目前最便宜的电能形式？
In many parts of the world, solar energy is now the cheapest form of electricity.
在世界许多地方，太阳能现在是最便宜的电能。
The International Energy Association reported last year that nearly one and a half billion people in the world had no electricity to use, and most of them live in sub---Saharan Africa and in India and other countries in Asia.
国际能源协会去年报告说，世界上有近15亿人没有电可用，其中大多数人生活在撒哈拉以南非洲、印度和亚洲其他国家。
Much of the talk is about how to restore electricity supplies or get a giant television screen up in the city so that locals can watch the World Cup.
多数言论是关于恢复电力供应或者在城市中建一个巨大的电视屏幕，这样地方居民就可以观看世界杯了。
Japan's 54 nuclear reactors provide about 30% of the country's electricity, according to the World nuclear Association.
世界核子协会的资料显示，日本的54的核反应堆提供了这个国家30%的电力。
Any company, anywhere in the world, that could make a piece of glass with wires on it that generated electricity when the sun hit it could sell as many as they wanted.
在那时，世界上的任何公司，只要他们能制造一片附上电线的玻璃能产生电力，太阳照射的时候，他们想销售多少就能销售多少。
"The cloud" has come to represent the bright future of computing, a world where processing and storage become as ubiquitous, cheap and accessible as electricity.
“云”成为了计算光明未来的代表，一个处理和存储变得跟电力一样可以无所不在而便宜地获取的世界。
Indeed, only 15% of the manufacturing firms surveyed by the World Bank in 2006 identified Labour regulations as a big obstacle to their operations; 36% worried about electricity.
确实，2006年世行的一份调查显示只有15%的制造公司认为劳工法是他们经营的一大障碍；36%的则担心电力供应。
According to the ECF, more than 50% of the plants that will be providing the world with electricity in 2020 have yet to be built.
根据欧洲气候协会的分析，那些计划可以在2020年提供电力的，多于百分之50的工厂还没有开始建。
In 1898 he proposed a "world system" of giant towers that would form both a global wireless communications network and a means of delivering electricity over large areas without wires.
1898年，他提出了一种巨型广播塔的“全球系统”，巨型广播塔既能形成全球无线通讯网络，又能成为给没有电线的广大区域提供电力的一种举措。
Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.
科学家不断发现许多生物世界里可能有益于人类的关于电的有趣秘密。
A new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, believes its teenage inventor.
十几岁的少年发明家相信，他这种新型的用人头发发电的太阳能电池板能够带给世界便宜和绿色的电能。
In Laos, one of the poorest countries in the world, Sinohydro, which built the Three Gorges dam, is constructing two DAMS to export electricity to neighboring China and Thailand.
在老挝这个全世界最穷的国家之一，负责三峡建设的中国水利水电建设集团公司正在修建两座大坝，以便向邻近的中国和泰国输出电力。
Ever since early this century, electricity has become an essential part of our modern life. It has played a decisive role in the modern world.
第一段的段首句是讲电已经成为人们现代生活中必不可少的部分，因而接下来的续写部分应强调它的重要性。
In hot, dry parts of the world, turning sunlight into electricity directly with solar cells or indirectly with solar-powered steam turbines makes sense.
在那些热且干旱的地区用太阳能电池将太阳光直接转换为电能，或用太阳能蒸气涡轮机间接转换是可行的。
Retail electricity prices in Japan are among the highest in the world, making it much easier for solar to compete.
日本是世界上电力零售价最高的国家之一，这使太阳能电力竞争力增强。
It relies on the 58 nuclear power plants that dot the country for about three-quarters of its total electricity, and it's also a major exporter of nuclear technology throughout the world.
它依赖于58个核电站，约占国家总电力的四分之三，它也是一个在世界各地的核技术的主要出口国。
Researchers at the Hebrew University discovered that the enhanced salt bridge capability of treated potato tubers can generate electricity through means readily available in the developing world.
希伯来大学的研究者们发现，通过提高盐分桥梁性能，可以让加工过的马铃薯块茎发电。
Windmillsand solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to powera busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.
风力发电和太阳能电池板看上去也不可能产生足够的电力来驱动一个繁忙而又极度利己主义的世界，就像锅炉与汽轮机现在做的那样。
Right now, fewer than 20 wind farms (including one financed by the World Bank) produce about 452 megawatts of electricity a year.
目前，土耳其只有不到20个风力发电场(其中一个是由世界银行资助的)，每年生产大约452兆瓦的电力。
Three decades later, with more and more vital computer systems linked up to the Internet, could enemies use logic bombs to, say, turn off the electricity from the other side of the world?
30年后，随着愈为重要的电脑系统接入互联网，敌人从世界的另一端运用逻辑炸弹，比如切断我们的电力，可能吗？
Annual electricity in the world for Internet use is 588 billion kWH for PCs and monitors, 167 billion kWH for modems and routers, 112.5 kWH for data centers and 1 billion kWH for phone networks.
世界每年用于互联网的电力分布为，电脑和显示器588*10亿kWH，数据中心112.5*10亿kWH，猫和路由器167*10亿kWH，电话网络1*10亿kWH。
Imagine a world where sunlight can be captured to produce electricity anywhere, on any surface. The makers of thin-film flexible solar cells imagine that world too.
想象一下这样一个世界：人类能收集阳光在所有地点、所有表面上发电，薄膜软性太阳电池的制造者也希望有这么个世界。
Imagine a world where sunlight can be captured to produce electricity anywhere, on any surface. The makers of thin-film flexible solar cells imagine that world too.
想象一下这样一个世界：人类能收集阳光在所有地点、所有表面上发电，薄膜软性太阳电池的制造者也希望有这么个世界。
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