Sentences with phrase «electric capacitors»

The company, which operated electric capacitor factories in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls, for years dumped an estimated 1.3 million pounds of PCBs — polychlorinated biphenyls — in the river until the practice was banned in 1977 amid concerns that the chemicals are carcinogenic.

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A nuclear plant in Oswego County may close, General Electric is shuttering a capacitor plant in Fort Edward and Kraft - Heinz is eying cutbacks at its facilities.

Last November, General Electric announced it was closing its capacitor factory early next year in a cost - saving measure, taking its 200 jobs to Florida.

After first announcing its exit from Fort Edward last October, General Electric has pushed back the closure of its capacitor manufacturing facility until May.

In devices known as capacitors, energy is physically stored in an electric field between metal electrodes.

A capacitor is an electrical device that can store energy in the electric field between a pair of closely spaced conductors (called «plates»).

When voltage is applied to the capacitor, electric charges of equal magnitude, but opposite polarity, build up on each plate.

How it Works A capacitor is a device that stores electric charge.

Just as engineers rearrange capacitors and resistors to create different electric circuits, researchers can arrange gene promoters and repressors — stretches of DNA that control gene activity — to create gene circuits with different properties.

A more fundamental breakthrough could come from switching to capacitors, devices that use electric fields to trap electrons.

Sticking to the Infrastructure Given the shortcomings of both batteries and capacitors, some engineers say the true solution lies in better infrastructure: They want to make electric - charging spots as ubiquitous as gas stations.

The big advantage of the nanotube muscle is that it can also act as a capacitor, storing up electric energy it does not immediately need for later use, Baughman explains.

This could either be fed into the grid or stored in super capacitors or flywheels within the panels to allow electric vehicles to recharge through roadside plug - in points, he says.

For example, every handheld device has hundreds of capacitors, which are dielectric components that can store and manage electric charge.

The coil was connected to a capacitor, which discharged an electric current to create a split - second magnetic pulse inside the coil, about 10 times weaker than the magnetic field generated by an MRI machine in a hospital.

Rather than storing the recaptured energy in a battery, however, it's stored in a capacitor, which is quickly recharged and can power all the electric accessories in the car for brief periods.

The system uses an electric double - layer capacitor to capture recovered energy during braking and supplies electric power to the car during acceleration instead of using the battery.

In «Flux Capacitor», based on a 1970s Enfield 8000 electric city car, Jonny put its roughly 800bhp to good use with a 9.8697 quarter at 121.73 mph — roughly a second quicker than a Tesla Model S P90D can achieve in «Ludicrous mode».

Motor Trend suggests the Mini hybrid could be one of the first vehicles to utilize super capacitors — the highly - efficient energy storage modules pack a higher density than lithium - ion batteries and appear to be the next big advancement in electric vehicles.

A third electric motor sits between the gearbox and rear motors, and acts as a regenerative braking system for the capacitor.

Like many hybrids, the two electric motors work as generators during braking, storing energy in a super capacitor, located under the rear seat.

The regenerative braking system efficiently converts kinetic energy to electricity during deceleration, stores it in capacitors and then uses it to power the vehicle's electric equipment, thereby reducing load on the engine and saving fuel.

There's a new regenerative braking system on offer too, which converts kinetic energy to electricity and stores it in capacitors which can then be used to power the car's electrics, thus saving load on the engine and reducing fuel consumption.

Batteries generally charge comparatively slowly and inefficiently; it's not a major drawback during constant operation, but when just a few seconds of regenerative braking are being captured, a battery is less efficient than Mazda's electric double - layer capacitor (EDLC), which recharges fully within only a few seconds.

Both electric motors generate energy under braking and store the energy in a super capacitor, rather than a battery.

The display fundamentally is a capacitor not a resistor, so all we need to do is place a charge onto both sides of the display, which is a very low - power activity, and then once the particles have moved in response to that electric field, we can remove the field and the image will persist.

XD Electric Group makes circuit breakers, high - voltage transformers, and capacitors.

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This plan involves the construction of a world - class rapid transit network and experimenting with new energy - ef cient vehicles such as the super capacitor trolleybuses and electric, hydrogen fuel - cell and hybrid buses.

So the result of an electric field in a charged capacitor is a mechanical distortion of the molecules or atoms of the substance.

Many types of good dielectric insulators, used in capacitors, are also piezo - electric.

These components were replaced by four of our electric wheels, a lithium polymer battery, a large ultra capacitor, a very small ICE with generator (so small it almost fits alongside the spare wheel), an energy management system and a sexy in - car display module.»

Troubleshoot electric problems, install and maintain reclosers, capacitors, transformers and any other duties assigned.

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