Sentences with phrase «electrical transformers»

Plus, inside the two towers were heavy metals, such as lead that helps make electric cables flexible and poisons the human brain, as well as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) used in electrical transformers that are toxic on their own and become even more toxic when burned at high heat, and glass fibers that lodge in the lungs.

In addition to the recovery funds, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and New York's congressional delegation will ask for another $ 9.1 billion for «prevention and mitigation» projects including hardening of Long Island sewage treatment plants, protection of transportation tunnels from flooding and elevation of electrical transformers in New York City commercial buildings.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider is in standby mode after a 66 - kilovolt / 18 - kilovolt electrical transformer suffered a short circuit April 29 at 5:30 a.m. Central European Time.

Susan Shaw, a spokeswoman from Siemens Solar Industries, the Californian company that donated 26 of the solar units, says that although the solar units do not power the lights directly, they help to offset the extra demand from the tree, reducing the need to import power from outside the region which leads to wear and tear on electrical transformers.

For certain types of steel, such as for electrical transformers, only one U.S. producer remains.

The root cause is when excess heat — both from heavy electrical loads and a heat wave itself — overburdens, melts, or otherwise damages equipment like electrical transformers and power lines.

«That's something electrical transformers really don't like.

New York state is renewing its call for tougher oversight of electrical transformers at the Indian Point Energy Center after the third failure in eight years of one of the power - transfer devices at the nuclear plant.

They were used for many decades as a nonflammable fluid for insulating electrical transformers.

The enhanced currents can damage or destroy electrical transformers, causing a cascade of power failures across a large portion of the electric grid.

It was reported that the lawsuit represented the latest movement in a long - running effort to clean up the 6 - acre site where Missouri Electric Works Inc. sold, serviced and repaired electrical transformers and other equipment from the years of 1954 to 1988.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN came to a halt last week after the critter chewed wiring attached to a 66 - kilovolt electrical transformer.

Researchers found that the dogs» sperm motility — how well a sperm can swim — dropped by 30 %, and their testicular tissue and sperm contained chemicals common in electrical transformers, paint, and plastics.

Background: GE polluted the Housatonic River and surrounding lands over several decades with hundreds of tons of PCBs — toxic and persistent chemicals used in the manufacture of electrical transformers — which pose threats to human health and wildlife.

No chance — on Oct. 23, SMU's WAC game at San Jose State was canceled minutes before kickoff when an electrical transformer providing power to Spartan Stadium exploded.

The 64 commodity groups include; Mobile phones, electrical transformers, tractors for agricultural purposes, solar cells, musical instruments, outboard motors, concrete, mortar mixers, and day - old chicks.

A new study led by biologist R. Thomas Zoeller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides «the strongest evidence to date» that endocrine disrupting chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) found in flame retardant cloth, paint, adhesives and electrical transformers, can interfere with thyroid hormone action in pregnant women and may travel across the placenta to affect the fetus.

The Large Hadron Collider has suffered a power outage after the unfortunate critter chewed on a 66 kilovolt electrical transformer

An inspection by the UN last year found widespread pollution of the River Danube from some 50 bombed - out factories, electrical transformers and ammunition dumps in the former Yugoslavia (This Week, 19 June 1993).

And this polluted air and water vapor certainly will be carried to the near shore and left as an oily residue on everything from trees to electrical transformers, just as the salt from seawater often coats several kilometers inland in the wake of a hurricane.

According to internal documents placed online, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva has suffered a power outage after the critter chewed on a 66 - kilovolt electrical transformer.

I hung a mirror to deflect the electrical transformer on my street, but you might hang one to offset a neglected lot nearby, oncoming traffic, a church (remember there are funerals there as well as happy occasions), a water tower or large power line, or even a graveyard (need I say more?).

Induction coils in the charging pad and coils in the car form an electrical transformer when in close proximity — and the resulting energy can be used to top up the batteries.

A fire sweeps through an office building, and the flames reach an electrical transformer, which catches fire and explodes.

Floods are also an exclusion, but if the flood blows an electrical transformer and the burning transformer lands on your house and sets it on fire, the cause of loss would be the fire, not the flood.

Electrical transformers and spools of cable sit just across the fence.Because the public works department needs more space, the city is studying plans to fill part of the pond and build a 20,000 - square - foot office building and two new parking lots on the property.

Polychlorinated biphenyls, more commonly known as PCBs, were heavily used in electrical transformers, oil, paints, adhesives, and cement for decades until they were banned in 1977.

But as for the rest, they range from kill all enemies in a given area, jump on an electrical transformer and quickly get to the next one nearby to re-activate it, finding a hidden package based on a picture and taking pictures of different objects and situations.

Each work in «Transformer», much like an electrical transformer is, therefore, an energy mediation between the original intent of found work, and the new narrative of Gortner's creation.

Drawing on unconscious sensations from childhood, travel, and other places and things, Sonnier's art resonates with a quality that is almost acoustic; not because of the low hum of electrical transformers, but because his art possesses a musicality that helps to tease out the sensuality, theatricality and corporeality of memory.

We have been on the national trial team for breast implant litigation, for the cell phone litigation, as well as handling individual actions involving kidney - dialysis machines and mercury amalgam dental fillings, heart valve implants, uterine devices, geothermal generating equipment and electrical transformers; printing presses; and, highway graders and snowboards.

Floods are also an exclusion, but if the flood blows an electrical transformer and the burning transformer lands on your house and sets it on fire, the cause of loss would be the fire, not the flood.

into compliance with ISO standards for the electrical transformer industry.

• Reduced annual electricity consumption costs by 20 % through installation of energy saving devices without effecting lighting or power efficiency and quality • Trained 4 apprentices and implemented the National Electric Code to book at the firm • Fixed a major issue with an electrical transformer saving the client an expense of up till $ 20k • Detected and dealt with a minor current leakage in a pre-installed electrical heating system and saved the company from a big accident