Sentences with phrase «as power generators»

The new climate policy review proposes loosening the rules on Australia's biggest - emitting companies, such as power generators.

Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

This a modular concept that allows three models with different drive configurations: the BlueZERO E-CELL with battery - electric drive and a range of up to 200 kilometres using electric drive alone, the BlueZERO F - CELL (fuel cell) with a range of 250 miles using electric drive and the BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS with electric drive and additional internal combustion engine as power generator (range extender).

Like hybrids, however, and unlike EVs (or range - extender EVs, which incorporate a combustion engine that acts as a power generator, extending their range), PHEVs are powered primarily by a conventional combustion engine — fuelled by petrol in all cases in Australia so far.

Not exact matches

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.

The ECI adds that in wind energy, copper is used in the «coil windings» in a generator's stator and rotor portions, as well as high - voltage power cable conductors and transformer coils.

He didn't create the lightbulb, but he did create the first commercial one — as well as the first power generator to light them up in people's homes.

As of today there's still no power on the island except for a handful of generators powering high - priority buildings like select hospitals, and the island likely won't return to full power for another half a year.

Created in 2000 - 2001 as part of the deregulation of the electricity market, electricity buyers purchase the right to sell power from electricity generators.

The mine's processing plant is currently operating at reduced capacity, supported by an existing on - site diesel power station, as well as portable generators.

Furthermore, HVDC is already used successfully in applications such as the transmission of power from solar power stations and wind generators, sources of power that are set to increase in extent.

For specific industry applications with high organic loads, enough biogas can be generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell electricity to the national grid, often generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.

Portable power generators for household use are available to purchase at hardware and appliance stores as well as most major online retailers.

This is also useful during outages in extreme cold, as most generators can power cooking surfaces and portable heaters too.

Maria, which hit the island as a Category 4, completely knocked out the island's power grid — so the only power is coming from generators and car batteries.

«The Management in an effort to cushion the effect of the incident on the Power and Water supply made an arrangement with Kaduna State Water Board to be supplying the hostels with water in Tankers as well as diesel for the generators as a temporary measure until the situation is restored back to normalcy.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

The Ministry of Power has presented fifteen thousand solar lamps and 275 generator sets to the Electoral Commission (EC), as back - up power source ahead of the December 7 general elecPower has presented fifteen thousand solar lamps and 275 generator sets to the Electoral Commission (EC), as back - up power source ahead of the December 7 general elecpower source ahead of the December 7 general election.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- As New York City works to recover from Superstorm Sandy, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is calling for more buried power lines, generators at gas stations and other measures to help prepare for future storms.

And it has been reported that the Nigerian government has had to budget N837m (around # 2.5 million) last year for fuelling and maintaining generators for its offices in 2014 as a result of being unable to rely on the national grid for power.

The one - time charges on December's bills were imposed on customers so the village could recoup a $ 108,000 penalty it had incurred for missing a mandatory energy measurement test (known as a dependable maximum net capability test) for one of its power plant generators, according to the New York Power Authority, or NYPA, and village officpower plant generators, according to the New York Power Authority, or NYPA, and village officPower Authority, or NYPA, and village officials.

«They want them there just as an ultimate level of security, but they'll be roughly 90 percent less polluting than the existing ones... With just the diesel generators you can only power a couple of lights and maybe one elevator but if you actually wanted to use this as a shelter for an extended period of time you would need the cogeneration plant,» he said.

Indian Point not only serves as one of the state's largest power generators, but also as a de facto «pumping station» helping to more efficiently delivers power from northern areas to downstate New York.

Puerto Rican scientists are still taking stock of the magnitude of the wreckage nearly two weeks after the hurricane made landfall on Sept. 20 as Category 4 winds propelled trees into buildings, knocked out power systems, left residents without fuel for generators and transportation and diminished access to drinking water and food supplies.

With up to 8 hours of running time, this portable generator can power your next project, or it can serve as your emergency backup in a blackout.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

You can think of the Paxcess Generator Power Inverter as a giant battery because that is essentially how it functions.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

And just to make things really fun, two diesel generators, each the size of an automobile, roar nonstop as they crank out 450 kilowatts of electricity to power the drill.

This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

While humankind has been digging fuel from the ground and burning it for power, living plants and the soil they grow in have been hiding some serious potential as electricity generators.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

Some were interested in «islanding,» using it as the backbone for an alternate power grid that could sustain itself with emergency generators and large amounts of solar and wind energy if and when the central power grid went down.

The amount of long - distance power transfers can be reduced as much as possible, and generators close to population centers can be brought online.

For example, photonic crystals could funnel excess heat from a power plant's generator and release it over a much smaller band of frequencies to drive engines — such as those in electric - powered cars that can absorb energy only within a small range — much more efficiently.

Just as the watch is wound with movement, Soccket converts every corner kick or header into battery - stored power via an internal DC generator.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

Hyperion CEO John Deal insists that micro nukes will drastically reduce misery, disease, and poverty throughout the developing world by powering water - treatment systems (as well as lights, sewing machines, and everything else electrical) at less cost than a diesel generator.

Lithium - ion technologies make up a large part of the proceedings because energy storage is a crucial enabling technology for clean energy systems, such as powering electric vehicles and smoothing out electricity from wind and solar generators.

Behind the building, a biodiesel generator and waste vegetable oil boiler, both dormant during the summer months, attest to the aquaponic system's thirst for energy — the pumps, filters and bioreactor run year - round at a sometimes deafening whir, and the winter brings a need to heat the tanks and power overhead lights, as well.

As supercritical technology becomes more mainstream and power generators normally improve on the efficiency of even their oldest plants over the course of operations, the loophole allows plants requesting CDM credits to exaggerate the calculated emissions avoided by millions of tons of CO2 - equivalent gases, the panel warns.

PIC technology offers a way to integrate photonic components — such as the lasers and detectors used by the new quantum random generator — onto a chip with a small footprint and low power consumption.

Most other technology developed for harvesting wave power — including Finavera Renewables's AquaBuOY, WaveBob Ltd.'s wave - absorbing buoy and another buoy - mounted generator made by SRI International — absorbs energy from riding the waves as they bob up and down.

But cutting global (GHG) emissions by 50 percent by 2050 is a major challenge that would require curbs on the smokestacks of power generators and the tailpipes of vehicles as well as a halt to deforestation, among other efforts.

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

This has been true for renewable power generators, such as solar panels, and researchers expect the same would be true of energy storage technologies.

The institute's star attraction is its pulsed - power generator, the Angara -5-1, which, for a tiny fraction of a second, can produce about 100 times as much power as all the power stations in Britain could manage together.

Again, because these materials act as soft capacitors, variable - capacitance power generators and energy harvesters can be built from them.

Regardless, FIFA requires its stadiums to be equipped with backup power supplies such as generators and uninterruptible power supply systems (UPS) that can provide electricity for up to three hours.