Sentences with phrase «by conventional power»

Windpower requires equivalent back - up by conventional power generation, and saves little, if any, «carbon».

One such period of shortage was in the second half of January when most of the electricity was produced by conventional power sources — lignite, coal, natural gas, and nuclear.

Not exact matches

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

He was frustrated by the conventional wisdom that suggested Mexico's reliance on distributed power made adopting alternative energy more difficult.

XCOR is pursuing the latter paradigm with its winged rocket - powered Lynx, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway and blast into suborbital space (roughly 330,000 feet, or 63 miles) powered by an onboard rocket motor before flying back to Earth and landing on a conventional runway.

The basics: The car is powered by an advanced lithium - ion battery technology that can be charged at a conventional charging station or via a plate that can be stored in your garage.

Yet instead of enhancing the Fed's conventional powers of monetary control, the ballooning of the Fed's balance sheet has sapped those powers by making it unnecessary for banks to routinely borrow from one another in the federal funds market to meet their legal reserve requirements.

The technocracy is not merely dominating in its inner nature, but also it is the unusually dominant power reality, that can not be checked by the traditional and conventional means means.

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It was done by a six - wheeled, 17,500 - pound truck - tractor out of Fort Dodge, Iowa, the kind you might see behind you on any road: a conventional Kenworth about 10 feet high and one lane wide, powered by a 1,150 - cu.

Indeed, four conventional power plants burning fossil fuels are due to come online in the Hudson Valley, at least two of which are possibly being lured by the promise of higher profits due to the Zone configuration.

A laser - powered FEL could be far more compact and cheaper than those powered by conventional accelerators.

City of Dallas Texas Government 334 million green kWh, 40 % of total power used After hosting an eye - opening climate conference, the city government decided to help lower statewide ozone levels by decreasing its conventional power use, says Jill Jordan, an assistant city manager.

Now it's likely that President Obama's final years in office will be spent in part defending his plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions at power plants by one - third while addressing Republican priorities on conventional energy, like construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, in a legislature united under the GOP banner.

The power lost by these systems in transferring energy could be enough to make electric vehicles and plug - in hybrid electric vehicles less environmentally friendly than conventional cars, says Michael Kintner - Meyer at the Energy and Environment Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.

In the meantime, Tesla Motors in Silicon Valley is wowing the well - heeled with a conventional electric car powered by unconventional lithium batteries that can blast this $ 100,000 Lotus - based roadster from 0 to 60 miles per hour in four seconds.

Prototypes have the potential to power a multitude of devices with different energy needs, as well as recharging in a fraction of the time needed by conventional rechargeable batteries.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

At many places, the old, conventional, and power - consuming illumination is being replaced by LED technology at the moment.

Conventional high - power diodes are replaced by a special array of LEDs.

By 2020, IEA expects photovoltaic technology fitted on residential and commercial buildings to reach «grid parity,» or the point at which solar power is consistently cost - competitive with conventional fossil fuels and nuclear power.

Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.

Better yet, by leveraging the GPU computing power of the Cray XK7 Titan — the leadership - class machine managed by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at ORNL — these auto - generated networks can be produced quickly, in a matter of hours as opposed to the months needed using conventional methods.

Intel says Tri-Gate transistors consume less than half the power used by conventional transistors and can be packed more closely together on a chip.

Wind power reduces demand for water — heavily used by conventional generators — and that protects a resource particularly threatened in the Southwest.

A report by the group concludes that biomass gasi - fication plants could generate more power more cleanly and cheaply than conventional fossil fuels.

Unlike the waste from conventional nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the by - products of fusion decay within decades.

A team led by Prof. Laszlo Veisz has developed a novel high - power laser capable of emitting bursts of infrared light — each consisting of only a few oscillation cycles — which contain 100 times as many photons per pulse as in conventional systems.

More exotic designs remain on the horizon, such as reactors powered by thorium fuel, but the AP1000 and other more conventional designs are important for one simple reason: they are being built.

Cleaner air and reduced oil imports can be won by redesigning conventional internal - combustion - powered vehicles

A Bluetooth wireless protocol developed by Apple last year lets the prostheses connect directly to Apple devices, streaming audio and data while using a fraction of the power consumption of conventional Bluetooth.

For example, the researchers found that in a high - wind scenario in the Southern Africa Power Pool, strategic siting and grid interconnections would reduce the need for conventional generation capacity by 9.5 percent, resulting in cost savings of 6 to 20 percent, depending on the technology that was avoided.

Laser research and development is pushing into new regimes of power and energy, which are limited by conventional solid - state optics.

While this is still only around a tenth of the power density provided by conventional solar fuel cells, these new BPVs have several attractive features, they say.

The SMR - 160 is advanced only in the sense that it exploits gravity to drive passive plant cooling to levels of safety unattainable by large conventional nuclear power plants.

«And the newly improved Sensor Fish will allow us to more accurately measure the forces that fish feel as they pass by turbines and other structures in both conventional dams and other hydro power facilities.

We can then use our conventional, light - based telescopes to look at the transient light signals from the merged neutron star, which we actually think will be powered by the decay of these precious elements.

Mountain Rose Herbs is proud to have converted to 100 % renewable energy by transferring its conventional electrical power usage to renewable energy sources, credits, and development.

Churchill's ascension to Britain's prime ministership at the onset of World War II, after Neville Chamberlain's unpopular appeasement to the Axis powers, is acted out by Gary Oldman, who ascends from his previous counterculture parts to a conventional Establishment role signifying Great Actor Versatility.

He is now the power behind the making of A Shot at Glory, a football (or soccer) movie distinguishable only by how much of a conventional sports movie it is.

The irony is that although Cheney has little use for the progressives, her own rather conventional ideological critique is dwarfed by the power, originality, and range of Egan's attack.

Its so - called «e-AWD» system is likely a hybrid powertrain setup, with the front wheels powered by a conventional four - cylinder engine, and a rear - mounted electric motor powering the rear wheels.

In fact, it's the same system used in the Ford Focus RS - a conventional rear differential is replaced by a pair of clutches that can meter out power to each rear wheel individually, controlled electronically depending on cornering and traction requirements.

With hybrids and even conventional gas - powered cars continuing to up the gas - mileage ante, the HS 250h's fuel economy estimates — while good for the luxury segment — have been overshadowed by mainstream models like the Prius, Honda Insight and even the Ford Fusion Hybrid.

The roadster is powered by a natural - gas turbine that spun a conventional flywheel, acting as a power reserve for an electrical motor that powered the wheels.

Those familiar with more conventional powertrains might be surprised by the silence when the starter button is pressed, but like other Lexus hybrids, it's designed to move away initially on electric power alone.

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