Sentences with phrase «electricity power lines»

If you only care about the big birds then you'll have to get rid of electricity power lines and hunting, specifically with lead bullets and also get rid of DDT in Mexico.

But the biggest reason is that natural gas pipelines already have routes laid out for them across Asia and they can provide the second leg of a tripartite infrastructure that can include electricity power lines.

This map shows how new infrastructure can be bundled together, with the needs for new electricity power lines, natural gas pipelines and the fiber optic cables for the National Broadband Network can all be laid at once.

Cuomo's Public Service Commission also approved the $ 2 billion Blackstone electricity power line project over the objections of labor and environmental groups.

Not exact matches

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

The state government will lay underground power lines in areas of the South West after the Yarloop bushfire racked up a $ 26 million damage bill to the region's electricity network.

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

Separately, 118,000 customers in the Denver metropolitan area were without electricity due to damaged power lines, fallen trees and high winds, said Xcel Energy spokesman Mark Stutz.

Think of an app as a toaster, and HashiCorp's services as the transmission lines that carry power to the toaster — except, instead of connecting electronics to electricity, HashiCorp helps the internet of things stay connected to the cloud servers that keep products and services running.

And electricity may not be restored fully in Puerto Rico and the USVI until May, since emergency managers are still reeling from the devastation across the United States in 2017, spreading thin reconstruction supplies like utility poles and power lines across all disaster areas spanning from California to Florida.

The line is a key choke point for Puerto Rico's power grid, carrying electricity from generators in the south of the island to load centers in the north.

For utilities like Florida Power & Light, the electricity utility that serves about half of the state's 20 million residents along the southern coasts and has 90 percent of its customers within 20 miles of the coast, putting power lines underground increases risks of flood damage, so the move would only trade one hazard for anoPower & Light, the electricity utility that serves about half of the state's 20 million residents along the southern coasts and has 90 percent of its customers within 20 miles of the coast, putting power lines underground increases risks of flood damage, so the move would only trade one hazard for anopower lines underground increases risks of flood damage, so the move would only trade one hazard for another.

«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

Puerto Rico's energy system currently routes electricity over long distances, which creates choke points for power, and the responsibility for these power lines that traverse the sparsely populated parts of the island fall to PREPA.

It used to be that electricity was carried almost exclusively from big power plants over transmission lines, dumped into distribution grids, and then dumped into buildings, to be used by relatively dumb appliances.

The area has neither water nor telephones, and electricity is stolen, via occasionally fatal, jerry - rigged splices, from the power lines that pass overhead on their way to the busy commercial seaport.

1) the light bulb «burned out,» 2) the fuse or breaker failed, 3) the electricity provided by the power company failed, 4) for some reason the switch itself failed, 5) the power line has been severed or maybe, 6) the electric bill was not paid and there could be other unmentioned reasons, but, nonetheless, faith was employed to operate the switch in the first place, even if the expected results failed.

Better electrical engineers create more efficient power lines or light bulbs or heating elements etc, which reduce energy consumption across the board, which takes unnecessary electricity money and diverts it into more pure research, which gives bio and biotech more money to work with, which produces more bio and biotech work.

Oyu Tolgoi has built a power line from the mine to the town of Khanbogd, which will provide the community with access to around - the - clock electricity for the first time.

Residents in parts of Accra will heave a sigh of relief after assurances from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to restore power to sections of the capital following the rainstorm on Tuesday which caused some damages to power lines.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says it has upgraded its power transmission lines in Bauchi and environs to raise the bulk electricity capacity...

High winds wrecked havoc in Western New York, downing power lines and leaving tens of thousands without electricity.

That existing line, which transmits power from a coal - fired power plant in central North Dakota, is being sold to electricity provider Minnesota Ppower from a coal - fired power plant in central North Dakota, is being sold to electricity provider Minnesota Ppower plant in central North Dakota, is being sold to electricity provider Minnesota PowerPower.

The vast network of power lines delivering the juice may be interconnected, but pushing electricity all the way from one coast to the other is unthinkable with the present technology.

The Grid We Have When electricity leaves a power plant today, it is shuttled from place to place over high - voltage lines, those cables on steel pylons that cut across landscapes and run virtually contiguously from coast to coast.

Winds of more than 160 kilometres per hour blew down trees and power lines leaving 30,000 homes without electricity.

Electricity output from individual turbine farms can vary greatly (colored lines), but linking them up along whole coastlines can smooth out total power production (thick black line).

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

Moreover, massive, complex, interconnected power lines are vulnerable to sudden disruptions, as became starkly apparent last August, when a switching error in Ohio cut off electricity to 40 million people from Michigan and Ontario to Connecticut and Quebec.

He designed the practical infrastructure to make it a reality: the generators, power lines, and the form in which electricity would flow.

Other new technologies — such as micro grids that generate and store power for individual neighborhoods and automatic switches that can find open lines when some lines go down — can also help keep the electricity flowing.

An analysis of the worm by computer security company Symantec makes it abundantly clear that a few lines of malicious computer code can trip electricity grids, burn out power - station generators, pollute water supplies and sabotage gas...

But in time, banks of batteries could line the walls of factory smokestacks or power plants, converting low - grade excess heat into electricity.

While electricity lines west and east of the Rockies are tied together as two synchronized generation systems, their power plants humming in close unison, two - thirds of Texas stands by itself.

Inside, giant floor - to - ceiling computer - driven displays show all the power lines and electricity flows across AEP's entire system.

Electricity firm Commonwealth Edison, based in Illinois, become the first in the US to get permission to start sending drones to inspect damaged power lines

The latest technique, dubbed PowerHammer, exploits current fluctuations flowing through the power lines that are supplying electricity to air - gapped computers.

Exposure to man - made radiation: electronic screens (TV, computers, video games, etc.), mobile phones, high power electricity lines, nuclear stations, and nuclear wastes.

The Cargo is the latest in Mitsubishi's line of iMiEV (pronounced «eye - meef») electric vehicles, all of which resemble mutated Smart Cars and are powered purely by electricity.

The Golf line is available in all the relevant drive systems: the Golf TSI, including GTI, is petrol - powered; Golf TDI, including GTD, is diesel - powered; the Golf TGI is powered by compressed natural gas (CNG); the e-Golf is powered by electricity; and Golf GTE is a plug - in hybrid.

Generating electricity locally is also far more efficient as it cuts out the substantial power line losses that are experienced when electricity is used a great distance from where it is generated.

When a security breach at Hoover Dam takes all the U.S. hydroelectric power stations offline the day after a category five hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico, cutting off electricity to millions and threatening an already compromised fuel supply, Cash figures it's time to chase those white lines home to Tennessee.By the time he hits Chicago, the lights are out across the country, throwing America into a new dark age in which only the strong and the prepared will survive.READER NOTE: This is Part One of the (separately available) three - part novel Long Haul...

You need to collect tape to repair a fuel line on a generator, grab a gas tank to fill up said generator so you can restore electricity to the base and access power - locked doors, and so on.

Hardly any solar homes are actually «off the grid,» since they still depend on power lines to soak up their excess electricity during sunny afternoons and deliver power at night.

Among other projects, according to Pop!Tech, she's designing a cheap wind turbine capable of generating enough electricity to charge a cell phone or power LED lighting in Guatemala, where 75 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

In the early 2000s, 50 miles from the MO I was helping my good mate (rip) install his self - sufficient solar power system w a battery pack unit which then was big as a car on a trailer, and helped out planting out his small plantation of Olive Trees into the ex-cow paddocks... he and his wife bought a 120 acre ex-cattle farm to regenerate that along the lines of New Age Healing Greenie Principles of Self - Sufficency and Self - Responsibility... they disconnected from the electricity grid as well.

The old transformers and power lines break because unpredictable and intermittent sources of electricity like wind and solar overload the old infrastructure.

Electricity Transmission Line for 7 GW of Offshore Wind Power Off Mid-Atlantic States Given Go Ahead

In the New Mexico of 2020 includes a move away from fossil fuels, a perfected use of renewable power sources, zero - emissions buldings, fewer miles traveled, less imported power and fewer power lines, micorgrids that produce their own electricity for hundreds of communities, a reconfiguration of human organizations that aligns with better pricing and energy supply, green collar jobs, and supportive local governments.

Merkel's assessment that the renewable sector was not capable of filling the energy gap if Germany was entirely rid of nuclear power was directly in line with the coalition's newly unveiled «Energy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 levels.