Sentences with phrase «v of electric current»

Based on the fact that nothing can grab hold of your attention as effectively as an electric shock, Pavlok have created the first «behavior change wearable» that will jolt you with 340 V of electric current whenever you choose not to follow your fitness plan (or any other plan, for that matter).

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In the 1890s, naturalist Alexander von Humbolt, knowing that the muscles of animals had been made to contract via an electric current, put wires into his own open wounds in an attempt to do the same.

Martin Schulz, the head of Merkel's current junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), also laid into the auto industry on the weekend, slamming «irresponsible managers» that have not invested in electric cars as they should.

Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc (tsla) and rocket company SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion.

It led to the introduction of the electric chair, which Edison hoped people would associate with alternating current.

At its current price, General Electric has a price to economic book value (PEBV) ratio of 2.7.

Toward that goal, Tesla Motors said that it has made substantial reductions in the required costs to launch the production of the Model 3 next year, with Musk telling analysts that the current plan will not require the company to raise extra capital for the upcoming high - volume electric vehicle.

Even if the goal was to replace say 5 % of the worlds current cars with electric, it would stretch the copper and rare metals resources way beyond anything current markets could handle.

I turned this way and that in the darkness, and groped mentally for the familiar sense of that higher mind of my mind which had always seemed to be close at hand as it were, closing the passage, and yielding support, but there was no electric current.

Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I'd have to shut it off because I don't know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back... It feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head — I'm going to sound like such a lunatic — and then your whole body is filled with this electric current.

Applicants must bring the following documentation to the outreach: 1) Proof of gross income received within the last 30 days for all household members a) Wages: If paid weekly, last four (4) paystubs b) Wages: If paid bi-weekly, last two (2) paystubs c) Award letters, if applicable (Social Security, Pension, Unemployment, Workers Comp, Disability, etc.) d) Yearly statement of interest received (savings, checking, CDs, money market account, etc.) e) Dividend proof (stocks, bonds securities, etc.) 2) Social Security numbers for all household members 3) One (1) form of ID for all household members (birth certificate or Social Security card or driver's license or school ID, etc.) 4) Proof of residency (utility bill, Rent / lease information or mortgage statement) 5) Current heat and / or electric bill.

The bill, introduced by Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle (D - Rochester), would allow the electric car maker to expand to 20 stores from its current roster of five, it said.

It's very intimidating; once on, the stun gun has a bright electric current that makes a lot of noise; many potential threats will be chased off just at the sight of this stun gun turned on!

How this dynamo was initiated and how it works is mysterious, but it seems that the circulation of liquid metal through a magnetic field (which must have begun eons ago) causes a feedback loop of electricity and magnetism and unleashes a powerful electric current hundreds of miles wide.

The material they were using, antimony sulfide, is a molten semiconductor, which normally would not allow for the kind of electrolytic process that is used to produce aluminum and some other metals through the application of an electric current.

He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered vehicles.

«Geomagnetically - induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers,» a 2009 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says.

They ran an electric current through a mix of ammonia, methane, and other gases believed at the time to have been present on early Earth.

A new, lightweight composite material for energy storage in flexible electronics, electric vehicles and aerospace applications has been experimentally shown to store energy at operating temperatures well above current commercial polymers, according to a team of Penn State scientists.

Boeing has experimented with them in smaller aircraft, in anticipation of using them on its 787 - 8, the current state - of - the - art electric airplane.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

The trouble, from an electric utility's perspective, is the tens of thousands of Arizona's total of three million or so homes that have installed small solar: photovoltaic panels made from wafers of semiconducting material, typically silicon, that use incoming sunlight to create an electric current.

Scientists at the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a new way to generate very low - resistance electric current in a new class of materials.

How would Michael Faraday have described his «project»: «To conduct a series of experiments with the purpose of discovering the induction of an electric current»?

In the famous Miller - Urey experiment of the 1950s, researchers produced a rich soup of amino acids by running an electric current through flasks containing elements of a primitive Earth, thus showing how precursor chemicals could have formed here.

Scientists have converted a gentle flow of gas directly into an electric current by flowing common gases like oxygen, nitrogen, or argon over a special kind of semiconductor.

To localize the source of his seizure and identify which nearby tissue could be surgically removed without major loss of function, Parvizi's team implanted so - called subdural intracranial electrodes into Blackwell's brain that would not only monitor neuronal activity but could also apply electric current and so stimulate the adjacent part of the brain.

Otto Overbeck claimed to have the answer: wire yourself up to his «Rejuvenator», plug in the battery and enjoy the scintillating buzz of an electric current that slowly restores your body's youthful vigour.

While some engineers are dragging solar energy into the big time, others are getting small: They have hit upon a novel phenomenon that creates an electric current in nanotubes, hollow microscopic structures made of carbon atoms.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

«We've never had an asset that allowed us to measure any fundamental electrodynamic quantity, current or electric field through the entirety of a geomagnetic storm and see what happens.»

They describe technology that would react the CO2 with water or other liquids and, with further processing, produce a flow of electrons that make up electric current.

A coil made from an ordinary conductor such as copper would overheat from the electric current, while one made of a low - temperature superconductor, which is only superconducting up to about 10 K, would be too expensive to cool.

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to provide tactile feedback with an array of pins, air jets and an electric current.

It has already been shown that brain stimulation using electric currents can boost a number of cognitive functions (see «Apply the electrodes...»).

To melt only the ice layer immediately in contact with the surface, he has developed a way of pulsing electric current into the heater in 1 - millisecond bursts.

Unlike standard glass or plastic lenses, which have fixed parameters, the optical properties of an electrically tunable lens can be dynamically controlled using an electric current.

The device also regulates electric current based on the history of voltages that have been applied to it, which is where the processing comes in.

We detect such currents in muscles, nerves, secretory glands, and electric organs of fish as well as in plant tissue -LRB-...) It seems likely that all these currents have a similar, if not the same basis, and that their strength and potency depends on the structural conditions and chemical composition of the cells making up each organ.»

The team also found the moment of conversion resulted in a sudden reduction of electric current, suggesting diamene could have interesting electronic and spintronic properties.

Now, a team of researchers led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported that a new lithium - sulfur battery component allows a doubling in capacity compared to a conventional lithium - sulfur battery, even after more than 100 charge cycles at high current densities, which are key performance metrics for their adoption in electric vehicles (EVs) and in aviation.

A combination of PPPL modeling led by physicist Gerrit Kramer and DIII - D experiments has found that broadening the electric current in the center of plasma could reduce the loss of crucial elements called alpha particles that heat the plasma and sustain fusion reactions.

At issue has been an accurate prediction of the size of the «bootstrap current» — a self - generating electric current — and an understanding of what carries the current at the edge of plasmas in doughnut - shaped facilities called tokamaks.

Scientists at PPPL have produced self - consistent computer simulations that capture the evolution of an electric current inside fusion plasma without using a central electromagnet, or solenoid.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have produced self - consistent computer simulations that capture the evolution of an electric current inside fusion plasma without using a central electromagnet, or solenoid.

I think we can agree that the current grid would not support the kind of huge power draws we're talking about here but we should also be able to agree that, if the demand was there, the electirc utilities would find a way to make it work, even if the electric system in houses will never have the capability of handling 100K watts.

For such researchers, RMS - EMG is the preferred measurement, as the RMS of an electrical waveform represents the voltage that would be achieved if the electric current were constant.

I have simply used basic principles of chemistry to calculate how much silver would be deposited into distilled water (DW) when a given amount of electric current is passed through pure silver electrodes.

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Meanwhile BMW has no choice but to ask customers for patience as the current 7 Series does not even have a humble 48 - volt system, let alone the option of an all - electric drivetrain.