Sentences with phrase «called capacitors»
Detailed tests showed the new batteries hold five times as much energy as conventional quick - discharging devices called capacitors do, and they deliver that power 10 times as quickly as conventional lithium ion batteries can.
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After graduating, in 1995, he moved to Palo Alto, California, having been accepted into Stanford's physics Ph.D. program, where he planned to study a variety of energy storage device called capacitors.
The system uses a component called a capacitor, rather than a heavy battery, to store energy captured in braking.
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Dozens of state legislators, most of them Democrats, have called on GE to extend dredging operations in the upper Hudson River near two shuttered capacitor plants in Fort Edward, which dumped over a million pounds of PCBs in the river from the 1940s through the 1970s.
A capacitor is an electrical device that can store energy in the electric field between a pair of closely spaced conductors (called «plates»).
An essential component for the implementation of time travel in the movies was a so - called «flux compensator,» which later became a phrase of some popularity in German slang, an erroneous translation of the «flux capacitor» from the English original.
While attempting to develop water - absorbing plastics called hydrophilic polymers for use in smart contact lenses, UK company Superdielectrics inadvertently created an excellent capacitor.
A second alternative - energy system, called Tsetse (named after the mythological African goddess of lightning), uses massive lightning - containment capacitors composed of dielectric glass and conductive metals from waste.
An Advance package (late availability) includes those optional features as well as lane - departure warning, automatic high beams and an energy capture system called i - Eloop («intelligent energy loop») that can store energy during deceleration to a capacitor, which can then power air - conditioning, lighting and accessories for about a minute while the stop - start system shuts down the engine at a stoplight.