Sentences with phrase «electrical transmission»

This computer model will quantify the economic, environmental, and social benefits of developing remote renewable energy sources and linking them to population centers via long distance electrical transmission lines.

However, advances in electrical transmission technology allowed electricity to be generated near the fuel source and transmitted to the consumer.

Common work activities include implementing safety policies, transporting materials, installing electrical transmission systems, performing repair work, and laying underground cable in trenches.

This will quantify the economic, environmental, and social benefits of developing remote renewable energy sources and linking them to population centers via long distance electrical transmission lines.

These sites should also be near necessary infrastructure, such as electrical transmission lines.

Tristate Generation is also responsible for the maintenance of over 5,200 miles of electrical transmission line in order to maintain strict safety standards and reliable power to it's customers, specifically because a majority of customers are in rural areas.

Modelled the effects and estimated the economic benefits of an additional intercity line on electrical transmission reliability (Annals of Regional Science)

Freeing electrical transmission from power lines has been a dream since the days of pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.

Electronics researchers would like to integrate silicon light emitters with other silicon electronics, in order to send signals between chips optically, avoiding bottlenecks caused by electrical transmission and so speed up communications.

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 fish.

Compare this to a full US map of major electrical transmission lines (in purple), many of which are clustered in the northern half of the country:

That removed any need to pay costly electrical transmission tolls, and allows Enmax to capture heat given off by the plant and use that to heat downtown buildings.

-- Over 500 people packed a hall in Vegreville to voice their opposition to the construction of new electrical transmission lines.

Although such patterned surfaces aid in light transmission, they hinder electrical transmission, creating a barrier to the underlying electrical material.

As the sun crested on May 25, tens of millions of solar panels across Germany generated 22 gigawatts of power, according to data provided by the nation's four largest electrical transmission operators.

Niemuth and his colleagues hope that their model can help to guide the siting of new wind, oil, and electrical transmission infrastructure to minimize potential conflicts with Whooping Cranes, as well as identifying opportunities for wetland restoration.

When discovered 28 years ago, scientists predicted we would soon have room - temperature superconductors for lossless electrical transmission or magnetically levitated trains.

The result, led by researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is the culmination of 20 years of research aimed at finding out whether the pseudogap helps or hinders superconductivity, which could transform society by making electrical transmission, computing and other areas much more energy efficient.

When a direct current was applied to [10] CPP - I, the bulk resistivity of the sample became approximately 380 times lower, indicating that it conducted electricity rather than resisting electrical transmission.

PC and GPC may help build nerve cell membranes, facilitate electrical transmission in the brain, hold membrane proteins in place, and produce the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.22 - 24 However, studies on soy lecithin, PC, and brain aging have been inconsistent and contradictory ever since the 1920s.

Did you know: Magnesium guards the cell as calcium enters to create necessary electrical transmissions — magnesium is responsible for ejecting calcium out once the work is done.

Well, if the Prius didn't send the message about the advantage of electrical transmissions perhaps the Chevy VOLT will.

Large amounts of wind energy are already being reliably and cost - effectively integrated with the electricity grid; utilities around the world continue to recognize the value wind energy can play within a larger, interconnected electrical transmission system.

The Director, Bird - Smart Wind Energy Campaign leads ABC's work to minimize the impact to birds caused by the development of wind power and associated electrical transmission lines and towers.

For those that didn't hear the message over the past year: One major bottleneck in expanding renewable energy generation in the US is that electrical transmission capacity needs to be expanded and modernized.

Four sets of 150 - foot steel electrical transmission towers march side by side toward Los Angeles, paralleled by a buried natural gas pipeline.

Evaluated the balance of economic, environmental, and land - use factors in routing a $ 125 million, 700 kilometre interstate electrical transmission line — managing Oregon's first such investigation and approval — and in raising a hydroelectric dam

The union has concerns over the legality of the Ontario government's plans to sell all or part of the publicly owned electrical transmission and distribution system.

For example, «growing affluence allowed households to switch from coal to cleaner, more efficient natural gas for home heating and cooking,» while improvements in electrical transmission allowed power plants to be located near coal mines rather than cities.

Research to create superconductors at higher temperatures has been ongoing for two decades with the promise of significant impact on electrical transmission.

A property rights activist and former leader of the Alberta Greens, Mr. Anglin sparked a political wildfire in central Alberta before the 2012 election over widespread opposition to electrical transmission line construction.

Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure — Vote Passed (254 - 175, 4 Not Voting) The House passed the bill that would establish a new system for the approval and permitting of border - crossing oil and gas pipelines and electrical transmission lines.

The platform developed by Fraunhofer IOSB is designed to tackle the low voltage network, which is the lowest level of the electrical transmission and distribution grid.

Impressed but still skeptical, the doubting Thomas professor demands proof of his interlocutor's divine power, which Klaatu delivers henceforth by causing civilization to stand still for an hour through the cessation of all electrical transmissions (except those where lives would be lost).

Expansion and modernization of the nation's electrical transmission and distribution systems (i.e., the power grid) are urgently needed.

Epilepsy — This condition stems from defects in the electrical transmission of nerve signals within a cat's cerebral cortex, the area of the brain responsible for thought, memory, sensation and voluntary muscle movement.

Major infrastructure projects — highways, dams, levies, electrical transmission lines, trains and subways — represent investments meant to pay off over generations.

The study further noted that «Electricity obtained from hydrogen fuel cells appears to be four times as expensive as electricity drawn from the electrical transmission grid.

There would be no electrical transmission loss, more jobs in urban areas, and less wasted water!

And so imagine on a mine project, on a pipeline project, on a real estate development, on an energy project, on an electrical transmission line, on a rail project, on a bridge project, on a big highway project, all of those types of projects could have an adverse affect on an aboriginal interest.»

In one, she says the IRS ruled that an electrical transmissions system was a good REIT property, but specifically noted that the system in question does not generate electricity.