Sentences with phrase «as grids of»

The «shape - shifting» videos are virtually static projections of colour — presented either as a single rectangle or as grids of squares on the wall.

Code consisting of very «regular» calculations, such as simulating the atmosphere as a grid of evenly - sized squares, may always work best on vector systems.

Gravity distorted the coordinates, just as a grid of straight lines on a rubber sheet would curve if you placed a heavy cannonball on it.

Your matches will appear as a grid of all of the people who have swiped right on you, allowing you to either auto - match, dismiss or find more out about the person.

Products, such as books, movies, music, and more, are presented as a grid of thumbnails that users can browse through by swiping through the selection.

This work can be presented as a grid of screens or a long array installed along the wall.

Charles Demuth's Chimney and Water Tower (1931), painted in the artist's hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, depicts a local linoleum factory as a grid of austere, monumental forms and passages of steel gray, blue, and deep red.

Displayed as a grid of 160 framed inkjet prints, Cuneiform, 2015, is a series of photographs that documents the abstract marks revealed when signs are removed from exterior walls.

Tiny discrepancies of fit can get magnified as the grid of panels fills in.

It provides an at - a-glance overview of your latest deposits and payment, quick links to common tasks, as well as a grid of action links organized within categories, such as «Payments and Deposits» and «Reports.»

Not exact matches

The Bonneville Power Administration, which controls electrical transmission in the American side of the Columbia River basin (and supplies a chunk of B.C.'s power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm fish.

Andreasen described the big cables as «critically important for the electricity grid» by connecting regions and countries with one another, enabling the trade of energy over borders.

This gas, composed mostly of methane, can be used as a fuel for power generation (replacing diesel generators), compressed or sold into the natural gas grid.

You'll see a lot of similarities, such as the grid fins, obviously clustering a lot of engines at the base, and the big difference really being that the primary structure is an advanced form a carbon - fiber, as opposed to aluminum - lithium.

As in much of the mainland US, the power grid in Puerto Rico is more of a patchwork than a unified network.

Hashimoto (CEO) and Dadgar (CTO) use the metaphor of the power grid to explain their tools: Think of an app as an electronic device, and HashiCorp services as the transmission lines that carry power to it.

The concept of cloud presupposes a grid of computers that serve as a service - oriented architecture to give access to software and data.

Sandy, whose ferocity is described by weather experts as a once every 700 years event, left in its wake a path of destruction that wiped out entire towns, squashed power grids, flooded regional transportation, and hobbled tens of thousands of small businesses, the economic lifeblood of New Jersey and New York.

Trend Micro identified Russian - speaking cyber militias as the group behind the Christmas takedown of the Kiev power grid and, more recently, the Kiev airport.

«Geisha transformed us from old grid to grid of the future,» says her predecessor as CEO, Tony Earley.

Now, Matthews's wildly ambitious goal is to «democratize on - demand power for everyone» by rebranding her company as M.O.R.E. (motion - based, off - grid, renewable energy), an energy company that's creating a microgenerating system that can harness the kinetic energy of just about anything that moves.

«This can be as simple as coloured lights on your dishwasher to remind you to wait until after peak hours,» says Ian Rowlands, a professor in the University of Waterloo's faculty of the environment who's working extensively on smart - grid technologies.

Williams sees PG&E's future role as one of grid administrator and connector of distributed energy resources like solar panels, EVs, and battery storage facilities.

Alternatively, as has also been an issue in the context of the switch to smart electricity grids, where the transmission system owner remains part of a vertically integrated firm, it has an incentive to implement network upgrades in a manner that excludes third parties from the competitive segments.

ZURICH, Nov 6 (Reuters)- ABB is reorganising part of its global power grids operations as the Swiss engineering group responds to the division's sluggish profitability and falling orders.

And so he drew up a grid over Europe, each cell incorporating Bjerknes's weather data, including locational variables such as the extent of open water affecting evaporation, and five vertical divisions in the upper air.

Fogo Island, located off the northern coast of Newfoundland, is about as off - the - grid as one can get.

Given the approach American political leadership has taken to the aftermath of the devastation in Puerto Rico, Musk provided a rare a glimmer of hope when he talked about rebuilding the destroyed electrical grid using solar power — though some have argued that his comments in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria may serve as a distraction from the enormous challenges the island faces.

Wolfenstein — often credited as the game that launched the genre — looks positively rudimentary now, since it limited players to grid - like levels that had only one plane of action.

Each component, comprised of 16,000 lithium - ion battery cells, is meant to suck up power from the grid by day and then feed it back in as demand surges, according to the New York Times.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, March 5 - Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rossello on Monday pressed proposals for privatizing the U.S. commonwealth's shattered electrical grid as part of its painstaking recovery from devastating September hurricanes.

As our energy system increasingly switches from fossil fuels to clean power, we will need both more renewable energy supply and greater integration of our power grids.

With the U.S. under environmental and political stress to provide itself with alternative sources of energy, moving fusion power from the chalkboard to the power grid as quickly as possible was really the only option when the NIF was approved in 1997.

It also strengthens the company's other services such as providing power to buildings not connected to the power grid, which is an area of growth for the Engie, Demaille said.

It is an «off - the - grid,» modularly designed kiosk that becomes a hub of community activity by providing a place of commerce as well as safe drinking water, solar power and wireless communication.

The Midwestern state that launched the political careers of Presidents Lincoln and Obama isn't as well known for its leadership in electric grid technology.

The smart grid in both America and the UK uses communications technology such as smart meters to maximize the efficiency and affordability of electricity.

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

As you move into that kind of role, we need to revaluate how we price access to the grid and such things.

The company has one Connecticut service station, in Milford, and five super-charging stations that can provide up to 170 miles of range in as little as 30 minutes, though the charge rate depends on weather, demands on the utility grid, and other factors.

The Fitzsimmons Creek Renewable Energy Project, a run - of - river power generating facility between Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains, came online in 2009 and now returns as much power to the grid as is consumed annually by Whistler Blackcomb's operations.

As Vox has reported, Puerto Rico's electric grid was vulnerable and dilapidated before the storm due to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's long history of financial woes and minimal maintenance and investment.

The initial $ 220 million investment in the fiber optic system was funded, in part, by a $ 111.6 million federal grant provided as part of the federal stimulus program in 2010 designed to spur jobs and the development of a smarter electric grid.

«As for all electric vehicles, a grid emission factor of 0.5 g CO2 / Wh was also applied to the electric energy consumption.

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

A steadily increasing number of people will want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by God, who does not appear to have any interest in making any more of it.

TRADITIONAL ANSWER Off - grid mines have typically bought and operated their own diesel or heavy fuel oil power generating facilities, as security of energy supply is an important factor in the mining industry

In this session, Author Kim Zetter will talk about Stuxnet and the security issues around the digital systems that control our critical infrastructure — trains, planes, water treatment plants and the power grid — as well as the products of our daily lives, including cars and medical equipment.

By then, the energy minister had already presented the Russia deal to parliament as an intergovernmental agreement (pdf) between Pretoria and Moscow that would see 9,600 megawatts of nuclear power added to South Africa's grid.