Sentences with phrase «centralized power systems»

Rather than pursuing the centralized power systems favored by big utilities and international lending agencies, the initiative encourages the private sector to develop small independent grids in remote regions.

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«I'm grateful for everything you've done to help connect the world, and for everything you've taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands,» Zuckerberg wrote.

Although this arrangement makes sense in many cases, as it can be more efficient, there are many networks where a centralized source of power poses significant threats to the health and fairness of the system.

There are important counter-trends to this — like encryption and cryptocurrency — that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands.

«I'm grateful for everything you've done to help connect the world, and for everything you've taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands,» Mr. Zuckerberg wrote.

Mark Zuckerberg responded with his own comment on Koum's post saying he was «grateful for everything you've done to help connect the world, and for everything you've taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands.

In response to Koum's post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes: «I'm grateful for everything you've taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg commented on Koum's post, saying he was grateful for what Koum taught him about encryption «and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands.

And shifting away from big, centralized power plants and large power grids toward smaller distributed systems does confer some advantages when it comes to standing up to storms and rebuilding after.

Any system that dissolves centralized power risks being met with stern resistance from the old boys club.

He may have been the first to recognize that a centralized system of the legends, songs, stories, (what we call entertainment, as well what we call information) forms a compelling mythology reaching every home and confers power that kings, emperors, and popes could only dream about.

Gingrich's first move in 1995 was to dismantle the decentralized, democratic committee system that the liberals and moderates had created in the 1970s and instead centralize that power on himself.

The team has also been tweaking its network detection algorithm, which powers the centralized system that analyzes the smartphone data and relays warnings.

Arnulf Grubler, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, wrote in a 2010 paper published in the journal Energy Policy that France's success in nuclear energy stemmed from establishing a standard design for reactors, centralized decisionmaking and certainty that the government was committed to nuclear power.

ESEA faced an extraordinary challenge: attempting to reform a system that had been carefully designed to impede centralized power.

Relinquishing power is something almost no centralized public system ever does — and DPS deserves a lot of credit and applause for putting the needs of principals, teachers and students above the instinct to maintain control.

If anything, this experience shows that the deep - seated belief in state - led education systems, which draw their strength from America's profound historical distrust of centralized power, are entrenched in our national ethos.

As a reminder — the SDC is operating a centralized product data service for manufacturers that organizes, houses and then distributes online product catalog information to WDs and retailers to help power all manner of business systems, ultimately driving sales growth.

why not just get every house a point of use «geothermal» pre-heating and pre-cooling system instead of these big, dirty, wasteful centralized power plants which require incredibly harmful transmission projects which more than negate any GHG offsets from the plants themselves?

Thanks to IoT technologies, DES will disrupt the traditional centralized, linear power generation model, giving way to a complex and dynamic system with multiple players and energy sources.

1 Executive Summary 2 Scope of the Report 3 The Case for Hydrogen 3.1 The Drive for Clean Energy 3.2 The Uniqueness of Hydrogen 3.3 Hydrogen's Safety Record 4 Hydrogen Fuel Cells 4.1 Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell 4.2 Fuel Cells and Batteries 4.3 Fuel Cell Systems Durability 4.4 Fuel Cell Vehicles 5 Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure 5.1 Hydrogen Station Hardware 5.2 Hydrogen Compression and Storage 5.3 Hydrogen Fueling 5.4 Hydrogen Station Capacity 6 Hydrogen Fueling Station Types 6.1 Retail vs. Non-Retail Stations 6.1.1 Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.1.2 Non-Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.2 Mobile Hydrogen Stations 6.2.1 Honda's Smart Hydrogen Station 6.2.2 Nel Hydrogen's RotoLyzer 6.2.3 Others 7 Hydrogen Fueling Protocols 7.1 SAE J2601 7.2 Related Standards 7.3 Fueling Protocols vs. Vehicle Charging 7.4 SAE J2601 vs. SAE J1772 7.5 Ionic Compression 8 Hydrogen Station Rollout Strategy 8.1 Traditional Approaches 8.2 Current Approach 8.3 Factors Impacting Rollouts 8.4 Production and Distribution Scenarios 8.5 Reliability Issues 9 Sources of Hydrogen 9.1 Fossil Fuels 9.2 Renewable Sources 10 Methods of Hydrogen Production 10.1 Production from Non-Renewable Sources 10.1.1 Steam Reforming of Natural Gas 10.1.2 Coal Gasification 10.2 Production from Renewable Sources 10.2.1 Electrolysis 10.2.2 Biomass Gasification 11 Hydrogen Production Scenarios 11.1 Centralized Hydrogen Production 11.2 On - Site Hydrogen Production 11.2.1 On - site Electrolysis 11.2.2 On - Site Steam Methane Reforming 12 Hydrogen Delivery 12.1 Hydrogen Tube Trailers 12.2 Tanker Trucks 12.3 Pipeline Delivery 12.4 Railcars and Barges 13 Hydrogen Stations Cost Factors 13.1 Capital Expenditures 13.2 Operating Expenditures 14 Hydrogen Station Deployments 14.1 Asia - Pacific 14.1.1 Japan 14.1.2 Korea 14.1.3 China 14.1.4 Rest of Asia - Pacific 14.2 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 14.2.1 Germany 14.2.2 The U.K. 14.2.3 Nordic Region 14.2.4 Rest of EMEA 14.3 Americas 14.3.1 U.S. West Coast 14.3.2 U.S. East Coast 14.3.3 Canada 14.3.4 Latin America 15 Selected Vendors 15.1 Air Liquide 15.2 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 15.3 Ballard Power Systems 15.4 FirstElement Fuel Inc. 15.5 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 15.6 Hydrogenics Corporation 15.7 The Linde Group 15.8 Nel Hydrogen 15.9 Nuvera Fuel Cells 15.10 Praxair 15.11 Proton OnSite / SunHydro 15.11.1 Proton Onsite 15.11.2 SunHydro 16 Market Forecasts 16.1 Overview 16.2 Global Hydrogen Station Market 16.2.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.2.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.2.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.3 Asia - Pacific Hydrogen Station Market 16.3.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.3.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.3.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.4 Europe, Middle East and Africa 16.4.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.4.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.4.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.5 Americas 16.5.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.5.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.5.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 17 Conclusions 17.1 Hydrogen as a Fuel 17.2 Rollout of Fuel Cell Vehicles 17.3 Hydrogen Station Deployments 17.4 Funding Requirements 17.5 Customer Experience 17.6 Other Findings

The term distributed generation distinguishes these systems from the large, centralized power plants that provide the vast majority of the nation's power.

«The dominance of a single energy source and centralized power generation are highly susceptible to disruption, failure and even sabotage with severe consequences economically and socially, as articulated clearly and convincingly by Lovins and Lovins, 1982 and Lovins and...» (Diversification and localization of energy systems for sustainable development and energy security X Li — Energy Policy, 2005 — Elsevier)(Cited by 74)

CCS has not yet been commercially deployed at any centralized power plant; the existing nuclear industry, based on reactor designs more than a half - century old and facing renewed public concerns of safety, is in a period of retrenchment, not expansion; and existing solar, wind, biomass, and energy storage systems are not yet mature enough to provide affordable baseload power at terawatt scale.

Having a distributed ledger system also means that there is no centralized authority who holds all the records (and thus, have all the power).

Satoshi's vision of a peer to peer payment system that's outside the control of centralized powers has given birth to a rapidly growing, multi billion dollar industry that is currently taking the world by storm.

The belief in the principle of constant improvement along with open source innovation has propelled the technology to this point, but only when crypto is used in practical ways, like the areas mentioned above, will crypto truly usurp the inefficient centralized systems which are now in power.

Such distributed systems have the power of toppling traditional centralized procedures.

He continues: «There are important counter-trends to this — like encryption and cryptocurrency — that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands.

This is a free system which gives power of security, responsibility and authority to the end - user, not a centralized body.

This level of centralized power allows governments to control the supply of money, allocate banking licences (which means they can decide who can allocate credit) and grant access to payment systems.

«There are important counter-trends to this — like encryption and cryptocurrency — that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands,» says Zuckerberg.

Centralized systems are always flawed because the centralized source of power has too much incentive to becoCentralized systems are always flawed because the centralized source of power has too much incentive to becocentralized source of power has too much incentive to become corrupt.

The Tokyo Electric Power company (TEPCO) has invested in UK - based blockchain firm Electron in a focused pivot from centralized structures to decentralized systems for the energy sector.

He stated that «there are important counter-trends to this — like encryption ad cryptocurrency — that take power from centralized systems and put it back into peoples hands.