Maximilian Fremerey, Steven Weyrich, Danja Voges, Hartmut Witte Sub-millilitre Microbial Fuel
Cell power for soft robots.
Not exact matches
And when the batteries wear down — as they're likely to do every 60 miles or so — the driver can simply pull over to a roadside charging kiosk (a «GoStation») to grab fresh
power cells and drop off used ones
for recharging.
Gogoro actually owns the batteries and, according to the company's math, these
power cells pay
for themselves after about 500 charges.
She also recommended purchasing backup generators to keep the lights on and having backup batteries and solar
powered chargers available
for cell phones.
The research cluster in B.C. centred around early developer Ballard
Power still accounts
for more than a quarter of fuel -
cell industry revenues worldwide, said B.C.'s job, tourism and skills training minister, Pat Bell.
Beyond using this clean electricity to
power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice
for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel -
cell cars) on the road by 2020.
The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the
power equivalent of 17,600 homes
for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel
cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.
They include ECD's low - cost
cell for solar
power; «rewritable» compact discs and DVDs; an instant - start, regenerative fuel
cell currently in development; and a rechargeable nickel - hydride battery
for powering hybrid - electric vehicles, which ECD is producing in a joint venture with Texaco.
Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive
power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor
cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions
for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.
Tesla only installs enough
cells in the roofing tiles to generate the
power generating capacity desired
for the system, in this case 9,900 watts.
There are a number of competing solar
cell technologies (c - Si, perovskite, CIGS, etc), but currently with 80 tonnes of silver necessary to generate one GW of solar
power, should solar really become ubiquitous, a steady and increasing demand driver
for silver is in place.
Mississauga, Ontario - headquartered Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation technology and hydrogen fuel
cell systems, today announced that it has received an order valued at C$ 7.8 million to supply fuel
cell power systems
for zero - emission vehicles in China.
The «
cell» group of ten or a dozen who share a common outlook, and who pray together in humble search
for the
power of God, can become a source of much dedicated action.
Solzhenitsyn even blesses his prison
cell for having purged him of the confusion of his age,
for once on the other side of history — free from the petty progressive notions of one's time — one enters history in a new way, as a witness to the inner force that intuitively resists oppression born of the human will to
power.
Totally agree — but remember that it took hundreds of years
for the
power of the priest to diminish in the west —
cell phones and the Internet have not been around very long...
I have purchased netbook sleeves, extra
power chargers, car chargers
for cell phones and much more.
A Massachusetts company that makes silicon wafers
for solar
power cells has decided not to build its first commercial factory in a Genesee County business park after all.
Furthermore, in the case of Oneida Correctional Facility, millions of taxpayers dollars have been dumped into that facility in the past four years, even though it is slated
for closure, they are currently still installing new
cell doors on the SHU (our tax dollars), it also shares a fence,
power house, and water source with another facility, and houses over 900 inmates.
The electronics giant would produce photovoltaic (PV)
cells in the Buffalo factory
for use in solar
power home installations.
At 6:30 p.m., People's
Power Assemblies holds protest on the 1st anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland, who died in a Waller County, TX, jail
cell, following her arrest 10 Jul 2015
for an alleged assault after being pulled over
for a minor traffic violation, B / Q Church Avenue Train Station, Brooklyn.
Due to budget restraints, Correction Management found it more feasible to build dormitories and have decreased the
power of the officer to lock an inmate in his
cell,
for the safety and security of the facility.
Power has not been fully restored, affecting Garcia - Arraras» own samples of monoclonal antibody
cell lines collected
for organ regeneration research.
Before electric cars started gaining traction five years ago, lithium - ion batteries were good primarily
for powering laptops and
cell phones
for a few hours.
Changes in the normal function of Ras proteins — mutations which are responsible
for 30 percent of all cancers — can
power cancer
cells to grow and spread.
Developers Phinergy and Alcoa envision the design as a range extender
for electric vehicles, providing more than 1,000 miles of range on a charge, or as an emergency
power solution, since the
cells have a theoretically infinite shelf life.
Many efforts are underway to design atomically thin materials
for quantum communication, low -
power electronics and solar
cells, according to Oliver Monti, a professor in the department and Eads» adviser.
Scientists may have turned mouse skin
cells into embryolike stem
cells, but prior claims
for the
power of adult
cells have yet to stand the test of time
(DC is much like the
power supply
for a
cell phone or laptop.
In 2014 Stefan Hell, Eric Betzig, and William Moerner won
for increasing the
power of light microscopy and allowing scientists to see molecules in action within a living
cell, although not at the level of atomic change.
This year those breakthroughs include tools
for reprogramming living
cells and rendering lab animals transparent; ways of
powering electronics with sound waves and saliva; smartphone screens that correct
for the flaws in your vision; Lego - like atomic structures that could produce major advances in superconductivity research; and others.
Supporting a rail system
powered by hydrogen fuel
cells,
for example, would require an entirely new infrastructure because hydrogen, being a small molecule, would leak through existing pipelines.
Ong, who leads the Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable
Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials
for energy applications, including batteries, fuel
cells and LEDs.
Another class, the solid oxide fuel
cells (SOFCs) that
power backup generators
for hospitals and other buildings, typically run at 1000 °C.
«With appropriate scaling, this technology could provide a
power source
for implanted systems in ATP - rich environments such as inside living
cells,» added Roseman.
«This work demonstrates the feasibility of using a single gene editing platform, plus the regenerative
power of stem
cells to correct genetic mutations and restore dystrophin production
for 60 percent of Duchenne patients,» said Pyle, associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and member of the Broad Stem
Cell Research Center.
Hanging on to one of the pieces, our electron is now headed
for the
cell's
power plant: the mitochondrion.
Burned or used in fuel
cells, hydrogen is an appealing option
for powering future automotive vehicles
for several reasons.
«The future city will not need big, high -
power cell towers, expensive coaxial cables, or repetitive network infrastructures
for different wireless services,» Xu says.
Now, two decades later, Zhang has developed tools to harness some of that
power by controlling
cells for specific purposes.
The work, which appears in the November 27, 2014, edition of Science Express, points to new avenues
for producing single - site supported gold catalysts that could produce high - grade hydrogen
for cleaner energy use in fuel -
cell powered devices, including vehicles.
It is important
for such circuits to be able to discriminate accurately between cancerous and noncancerous
cells, so they don't unleash their killing
power in the wrong places, Weiss says.
«Using near - UV light to
power these windows means that the solar
cells can be transparent and occupy the same footprint of the window without competing
for the same spectral range or imposing aesthetic and design constraints,» Loo added.
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently developed a working prototype
for a portable fuel
cell energy source that could
power a cellular phone 300 percent longer than existing rechargeable batteries do.
The program is an opportunity
for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test about 100 of the company's Equinox sports utility vehicles
powered by hydrogen fuel
cells.
Now Carroll and his colleagues at Wake Forest's Center
for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have shown how to incorporate nanoscale polymer trees to improve the potentially revolutionary solar
cell's ability to produce
power.
Even more notable, Loki has genes that code
for proteins involved in phagocytosis, the process by which one
cell can swallow another — and widely believed to be the way eukaryotes acquired mitochondria, a
cell's
power source.
Hydrogen fuel
cells may be the best option
for powering zero - emission vehicles: Toyota has just introduced a hydrogen -
powered car in Japan and will make them available in the United States in 2015.
For example, it could be used to create supersensitive solar
cells or even to
power a Mars rover that would gather energy from a microwave beam sent by a satellite orbiting the Red Planet.
Clean electricity could produce hydrogen
for fuel -
cell -
powered vehicles and replace on - site boilers and furnaces
for residential heating.
We know that mitochondria do more than simply
power our
cells, but in a recent New Scientist piece, Robin Lovell - Badge from the MRC National Institute
for Medical Research in London explained why none of these «extra» functions are relevant to mitochondrial replacement.