Sentences with phrase «changing electric potential»

The nanogenerator relies on the triboelectric effect to harness energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle's wheels.

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Investors in the electric car maker are zealous about the company and its potential for social change... and they're willing to pay dearly for the shares.

Moreover, electrophysiological investigations show continuous, changing oscillations of electric potentials.

The mineralized shell changes the electric surface potential of the viruses.

Molecular movies reveal how chemical bonds form and break; ultrafast snapshots capture electric charges as they rapidly rearrange in materials and change their properties; and sharp 3 - D images of disease - related proteins provide atomic - level details that could hold the key for discovering potential cures.

Changing drivers» behavior To leverage the potential load of electric vehicles on to the grid in an impactful way, a vast majority of the cars will need to be plugged - in simultaneously, which is to say the cars will need to be aggregated and operated as one.

Information is written by applying an external electric field, which changes the direction of the ferroelectric's polarization vector, and this in turn changes the shape of the potential barrier.

«Equally important, we've shown here that QD brightness tracks, with very high fidelity, the time - resolved electric field strength changes that occur when a neuron undergoes an action potential.

Electrochromic coatings, such as tungsten trioxide (WO3), have the ability to change their optical properties in the presence of a small electric potential difference, a property essential for the construction of energy efficient windows.

Also of potential large magnitude benefit, is (3) changing away from an electric power generating system where power plants are located in remote areas but are connected by a grid, whereby this practice has caused a massive energy wasting establishment.

As an energy analyst recently explained in Issues, new ways to «synchronize battery recharging with clean power» will be among innovations needed to make electric vehicles more widely practical and capitalize on their potential for taming climate change.

Despite the potential collective loss of millions of dollars in electric generation, the U.S. wind energy industry has voluntarily committed to changing how turbines are operated during the bats» fall migration season, slowing blade rotations to fewer than 1 - 3 revolutions a minute, depending on blade length, thereby reducing the risk of collision.

In this report, commissioned by the Department of Energy (DOE) and included in the latest installment of its Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), we assess the potential impact of climate change on the US electric power sector.

Mark S. Mehos and David W. Kearney, «Potential Carbon Emissions Reductions from Concentrating Solar Power by 2030,» in Charles F. Kutscher, ed., Tackling Climate Change in the U.S. — Potential Carbon Emissions Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by 2030 (Boulder, CO: American Solar Energy Society, 2007), pp. 79 — 90; U.S. electricity consumption from DOE, EIA, Electric Power Annual 2007 (Washington, DC: January 2009), p. 1; U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office, «Energy,» Arizona State Office, «Arizona, the New Frontier!»

Like PCs and cell phones, electric cars and photovoltaics in particular (because they are all about technology, not «resources», and because they are consumer technologies that can be adopted by individuals) have the potential to cause disruptive radical change in a short time.

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