Sentences with phrase «energy into electrical energy»

The Pedalite principle is to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy from the movement of the pedal spindle.

The potential energy of water in an elevated lake that is rushing down a river does not contain «heat» per se, but, if we dam the river and divert the water pressure to run a hydroelectric generator, we can transform the river energy into electrical energy and then use that to power an electric heater.

An electric generator inside the wind turbine then converts this mechanical energy into electrical energy.

«The energy with this new system is harvested as before by braking and pedaling, just that it now also converts mechanical energy into electrical energy thanks to the Integrated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS).

The MGU - K converts mechanical and heat energy into electrical energy that can be stored for later deployment and the MGU - H takes heat from the exhaust and uses it to create electrical energy.

During the coasting and braking phase, the alternator can convert the kinetic energy into electrical energy that is stored temporarily in the battery.

Thanks to recuperation, the lithium - ion battery charges while driving: During braking and rolling, the VISION X converts kinetic energy into electrical energy and uses this energy later for driving.

The the amount of voltage produced by the Alternator is proportional to the engine RPM and the Alternator is at best 50 to 60 % efficient meaning it only converts 50 % of the mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Primarily efforts to improve the efficiency of solar panels, which is the ratio of the amount of the incoming sunlight energy into electrical energy generated.

Now, researchers have found a way to harness this property to create tubular structures of diphenylalanine that have the ability to convert thermal energy into electrical energy, also called a pyroelectric effect.

Fuel cells convert chemical energy into electrical energy using hydrogen and oxygen — with water as the only product.

Baughman and his colleagues have been developing substances that serve as artificial muscles (by converting chemical energy into electrical energy) that may someday be able to move prosthetic limbs and robot parts.

If your pinwheel were a wind turbine, and spinning counterclockwise turned wind energy into electrical energy, then it would most efficiently produce electricity when wind blows directly into the cups.

Wind farms, on the other hand, are examples of wind turbines that convert wind energy into electrical energy.

«For a photovoltaic material, obviously absorbing light is the first part and converting that solar energy into electrical energy is the second part,» said Ames Laboratory scientist Emily Smith.

But solar panels use photodiodes, too, converting light energy into electrical energy.

In some cases, special atomic arrangements enable them to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

The basics: The Tiguan GTE can be plugged in to charge, but it also offers a solar roof module that generate electrical energy fed directly into the battery, which allows for up to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) of zero emissions driving.

Using transducers, uBeam's device, which is not yet on the market, converts electrical energy into ultrasound waves and then back into electrical energy.

Excess solar energy produced by the company will also be fed into the electrical grid.

Standard x-ray systems have one detector containing individual elements called diodes, which convert the level of detected x-ray energy into an electrical signal that's sent back to the machine's on - board computer.

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

Over the hushed soundscape of pre-season McLaren critics, a Honda power unit stutters, burps out a bit of electrical energy and then curls up into a ball, the lyrics «hello darkness my old friend» reverberating softly out from the Toro Rosso garages.

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.

The inner ear is lined with approximately 30,000 sensitive hair cells that convert sound energy into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

«A lot of the waste we'll be able to turn that into energy which we'll be able to sell to the electrical companies to generate money.

This rotational energy can then be turned back into electrical energy whenever it is needed.

Boosting the fuel efficiency of motor vehicles by «harvesting» the energy generated by their shock absorbers and feeding it back into batteries or electrical systems such as air conditioning has become a major goal in automotive engineering.

Conventional systems simply send the braking electric power to resistors on the train, which convert the electrical energy to heat, which is then released into the air.

A typical solar cell has a silicon semiconductor that absorbs sunlight directly and converts it into electrical energy.

There are high hopes that such designer clathrates can be technologically applied in the future, to turn industrial waste heat into valuable electrical energy.

Certain species of bacteria and algae have genes that allow them to transform light into electrical energy.

As they incessantly shake or spin or crawl around the cell, these machines cut, paste and copy genetic molecules, shuttle nutrients around or turn them into energy, build and repair cellular membranes, relay mechanical, chemical or electrical messages — the list goes on and on, and new discoveries add to it all the time.

«If we are able to convert light, which is electromagnetic energy, into motion, or convert motion into electrical energy, then we have the potential to make molecular devices much smaller,» he said.

Researchers have tried for decades to harvest some of this lost energy and convert it into electrical power.

Indeed, it is essential to determine luminous efficacy as accurately as possible so that such lamps can be introduced in the market that transform as much electrical energy into light useful to the human eye as possible.

This gives the electron enough energy to escape the grasp of its silicon atom and slip into an electrical circuit to do work.

Therefore, it must be first generated (e.g., by electrolysis of water), then stored, to be finally used — ideally in fuel cells transforming chemical energy directly into electrical one.

«Multilayer polymers spring into action: Mechanical vibrations turned into electrical energy.»

The hydrogen can then be converted into electrical energy for inflight use.

The generator converts the mechanical energy generated by the blades into usable electrical power.

«We have discovered that by inserting a very thin film of gallium arsenide into the connecting junction of stacked cells we can virtually eliminate voltage loss without blocking any of the solar energy,» says Dr. Salah Bedair, a professor of electrical engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper describing the work.

When energy is added to the material, either by a laser «pump» or as an electrical current, it kicks some of the electrons orbiting the molecules into higher energy states.

First, a silicon charge detector measures the electrical charge of incoming particles, then layers of carbon provide targets that encourage impacts, producing cascades of particles that stream into electrical and optical detectors below while a calorimeter determines their energy.

Under working conditions the hydrogel - modified fuel cell is able to convert chemical energy from hydrogen into electrical energy over several weeks, while in absence of the hydrogel, the hydrogenase is deactivated within seconds.

Another student conceived the idea of a flooring material that would convert kinetic energy from rowdy football fans in the stands of the University of Maryland's stadium into electrical energy to power the lights on the field.

Background Wind turbines are machines that change the energy in wind into mechanical or electrical energy.

The new process, which the researchers have called «acoustowetting,» works on a chip made of lithium niobate — a piezoelectric material capable of converting electrical energy into mechanical pressure.

The electrons are then collected and the electrical energy pumped into the grid.