Sentences with phrase «electrical power grids»

The strongest solar cycle in recent memory occurred in the late 1950s, when there were few satellites aloft, no astronauts in orbit and less reliance on electrical power grids than there is now.

Usually following the increased occurrence of solar flares, some of these bursts of magnetic energy have such intensity that they can knock out electrical power grids, affect satellites and disrupt telecommunications — and a single event could cause $ 15 billion worth of damage in Europe alone according to ESA estimates.

The advance could provide a source of power to people in remote areas and developing countries that lack adequate electrical power grids.

American Superconductor's HTS cables were demonstrated recently in real - life electrical power grids in Columbus, Ohio, and Albany, New York.

Large geomagnetic storms can cause unwanted currents to flow through electrical power grids.

And yet the most powerful flares can lead to major disruptions on Earth, causing interference with telecommunications or knocking out electrical power grids across entire regions of the world.

Networks are used in electrical power grids, nuclear power plants, financial systems, transportation systems, health care systems, identification systems (including the new biometric chips in U.S. passports), and U.S. federal agencies» operations and assets.

Networks are used in electrical power grids, nuclear power plants, financial systems, transportation systems, health...

Solar storms can cause major disruption to human civilization by crippling large electrical power grids, global positioning systems (GPS), satellite operations and communications.

These neutral hydrogen atoms might also signal the approach of solar storms — gusts in the solar wind that can disrupt satellites, radio communications, and electrical power grids.

But a Carrington - scale storm today would cause far more harm because society now depends so heavily on electrical power grids, communications satellites and GPS.

While the most persistent threat is to our electrical power grids, a new mapping effort by the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows how the hazards of geomagnetic storms are not the same all over Earth.

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The electrical power grid may be next

It's also not hard to imagine that what binds you and your friends (and your «Friends») has analogs in ant colonies and beehives, tumor cells and the brain, terrorist groups and spam hosts, the Internet and the electrical power grid.

Such bursts in charged particles, originating in a solar flare or coronal mass ejection, could disable the electrical power grid or divert flights away from the Arctic, where radiation exposure is heightened.

The researchers also demonstrated a signal processing technique to reduce environmental magnetic noise, such as from the electrical power grid, which otherwise limits the communications range.

Earlier this month, U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order mandating that the U.S. government «mitigate the effects of geomagnetic disturbances on the electrical power grid» and «ensure the timely redistribution of space weather alerts.»

DOE is interested in high - temperature superconductivity because of its prospects for strengthening the electrical power grid in the United States.

I can not risk some kid turning on a generator in the Ukraine and blowing something up in Kentucky, so I might keep my electrical power grid network completely separate.

If they've accessed a network that's controlling something, such as an electrical power grid or a railroad system, they can cause things to happen not in cyberspace but in physical space.

As you know a plug - in hybrid relies even more on the electrical power grid to generate its transportation energy and I think that that also holds great promise.

Dimensions: Length 4,950 mm Width 1,990 mm Height 1,401 mm Energy supply: Lithium - ion battery with 9.4 kWh capacity and plug - in charging system compatible with electrical power grid.

The car's new ability to be charged from the electrical power grid has been combined with even higher perfor - mance components.

As mentioned, the heart has its own electrical power grid so to speak, a fine network of specialized nodes and electrical conduction pathways spread throughout the muscle of the heart.

I wish you were right, but I fear the climate debate will continue until a major solar eruption wipes out the communications and electrical power grid.

Combined these offer product and solutions for the challenges the electrical power grid such as Grid Reliability, Efficiency & Capacity.

Interconnection is the physical linking of a biogas recovery system to the electrical power grid.

Interconnection Guidelines provide general guidance for connecting a biogas recovery system to the electrical power grid.

The high population density of New York City would never have been possible without a number of technological innovations: an extensive network of mass transit, the electrical power grid, the water system, modern sewage removal and treatment, product packaging, food refrigeration, preservatives and, of course, solid waste removal.

Our electrical power grid now is designed to supply peak production but runs well under peak for most of the day (especially the overnight hours).

They mainly look after the distribution systems that create the electrical power grid.

Not exact matches

The Bonneville Power Administration, which controls electrical transmission in the American side of the Columbia River basin (and supplies a chunk of B.C.'s power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm Power Administration, which controls electrical transmission in the American side of the Columbia River basin (and supplies a chunk of B.C.'s power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm fish.

If consumers can economically produce, store, and swap electrical energy, they will not need the power grid.

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

Given the approach American political leadership has taken to the aftermath of the devastation in Puerto Rico, Musk provided a rare a glimmer of hope when he talked about rebuilding the destroyed electrical grid using solar power — though some have argued that his comments in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria may serve as a distraction from the enormous challenges the island faces.

Installing enough batteries to make most electrical grids fully reliant on wind power or even to take older natural - gas or coal plants off - line isn't cost effective yet in many regions.

By far the most common cause of blackouts is damage to power lines, which are the most vulnerable part of the electrical grid to storms.

In North Carolina, state laws and tax incentives that favor solar projects selling power directly to the electrical grid have helped the industry expand to the point where it now powers more than 400,000 homes and employs around 7,000 people.

Closures of a significant number of coal - fired power plants (for which compliance is too costly) will undermine reliability of the electrical grid and increase the risk of brownouts and blackouts.

As the state shifts toward renewable energy, under a mandate to power half its electrical grid with solar and wind by 2030, nuclear also supplies about 60 percent of its carbon - free power.

On Thursday, the administration began proceeding with the Clean Energy Standard, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered to be completed by July to reach the state's clean energy goals of powering half of the electrical grid with wind, solar and other sources by 2030.

Regarding electrical power, we must move beyond limiting states to generate, transmit and distribute electricity to areas not covered by the national grid.

Puerto Rico was hit with a massive power outage, the power authority said Thursday — nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria destroyed much of the island's infrastructure and its electrical grid.

Cuomo has mandated that New York double its reliance on renewable energy to power the electrical grid in just 15 years.

Hurricane Maria, one of the most intense storms ever recorded, wreaked havoc upon Puerto Rico's electrical grid, rendering a significant portion of the archipelago without power.

These electrical surges infiltrated power grids all over North America and northern Europe, and even destroyed a transformer at a nuclear power plant in New Jersey.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

Scientists use models of Earth's structure and measurements of Earth's magnetic field taken at USGS observatories (https://geomag.usgs.gov/monitoring/observatories/) to determine which sections of the electrical grid might lose power during a geomagnetic storm.

Electrical engineers reviewing grid research proposals questioned the trio's stripped - down, low - resolution power model and took a dim view of their interdisciplinary efforts.