Sentences with phrase «alternating current supplied»

Mains electricity is alternating current supplied at a frequency of 50 or 60 cycles per second.

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Best known for his invention of the modern alternating current electricity supply system, Tesla exercised religiously.

Kinisky said Saint - Gobain has consistently taken responsibility to help find and fund alternate water supplies, or provide filtering systems, in areas where PFOA and other perflourinated chemicals have been detected in groundwater near its current and former manufacturing plants.

Set in the late 1880s, the story follows the battle between Edison and Westinghouse to supply electricity, with Edison backing direct current and Westinghouse pushing alternating current.

Many people seem to have an irrational fear of nuclear power generation plants, just as people a century ago were fearful of domestic electricity supplies using alternating current.

And they did not address the difficulties of maintaining voltage and frequency of alternating current within extremely tight limits (a necessity in technologically dependent societies) when a large share of the supply is from wind and solar.

Most REDD initiatives have worked at the local level only, usually by providing alternate income streams for the rural poor, but the current trend is towards more ambitious efforts that cover entire jurisdictions and harness carbon finance to purge deforestation from corporate supply chains.

Additionally, a recent rumor suggested that Taiwanese company Lite - On was supplying Apple with bridge rectifiers for wireless charging which is needed to convert alternating current to direct current — again something which is necessary for inductive charging but not RF charging.