Sentences with phrase «even as grids»

Not exact matches

If fares were capped at something resembling a normal rate, Uber riders would be able to get cars, even on busy nights, and they'd come to trust Uber as a reliable, semi-affordable transportation grid.

Second, the Powerwall 2 storage system, which starts production this quarter at the Gigafactory, will take the energy that is generated by any source (whether from the solar roof, another solar power system, or even the grid) and use it when it's most beneficial, such as during the night, during a power outage, or when the customer can make money by doing so.

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

Even making it through wasn't a guarantee of starting the race, as with 30 cars in qualifying and only 26 spots on the grid there was still a pretty good chance of failing to qualify!

Now things are getting even worse, as Hartley, Gasly, and Riccardo are all going to suffer this weekend too, thanks to 10 - place grid drops for taking on a new MGU - H.

And we haven't even seen all the cars yet — by the time they've all been released we might be talking about the Force India as one of the most attractive cars on the grid...

Somehow Honda's 2017 Formula 1 engine is even worse than it was the year before as it lacks in terms of both performance and reliability, leaving McLaren in a fight to not be the slowest team on the grid.

So they end up having sold or having talks to sell critical infrastructure as aiports, electricity plants, or even the electricity grid itself to foreign funds for extremely undervalued pricing.

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.

Experts say there is an animated technical and financial discussion already under way around the North Sea grid, including whether it is even desirable given the complications of where to place the grid connections and substations involved as well as some calculations that suggest development of a grid would be more expensive than simple point - to - point connections.

According to the cardinal rules of designing and operating power grids, the system should always have enough spare capacity to sustain the loss of any single element, even one as big as the Southwest Powerlink.

The shape even fed into the name — Solyndra — as well as promising half the installation cost in one third of the time, enabling «grid parity» (that is, a price competitive with electricity from fossil fuel — fired power plants) at some imminent date for the first time in the history of solar power.

As the wind data showed, he added, the quick swings between high - and low - power generation periods that are characteristic of individual wind farms slowed down dramatically within the simulated grid, taking days instead of hours or even minutes.

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

As the researchers aim to model even higher frequency motions between 5 to 10 hertz, they will need denser computational grids and finer time - steps, which will drive up computational demands.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

And the power grid could be modernized to use cheaper, greener fuels such as sunlight or wind even on days when the sun doesn't shine bright enough or the wind doesn't blow hard enough to meet electricity demand.

Too many of the citizens of the US and Britain still believe there is substantive scientific uncertainty about climate change — even as George Bush lives in a «green,» off - grid home and now says climate change is real.

So I went «off the grid» for one whole weekend (as with any challenge, it's important to have a realistic goal): I shut off all of my digital devices, dodged TVs, and even ran for the landline phone when it rang.

I recently started messing around with a foam grid roller... I find rolling on an 18 inch diameter 30 pound «wall ball» even more effective... Same principal as the roller...

Even more interesting, the actor currently listed in the same grid to play the assumed villain is none other than Joseph Gordon - Levitt, whose status is just listed as «interested.»

Captain Fantastic stars Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings) as sudden widower Ben, who is devoted to raising his six kids off the grid, imparting the freedoms and values he holds most dear through their isolated woodland existence where they spend their days roaming the landscape and hunting for food, and their evenings discussing great works of literature or playing musical instruments.

Microsoft Excel required 4 files - Fun with numbers up to 20, 30, 40 and 50 A new set of numbers every time the file is opened 16 questions on each sheet Use the numbers in the grid to solve - Highest, lowest, even, odd, how many, division, subtraction, number closest to numbers Use as a starter activity or for homework Colourful commendation certificate for each file Essential resource for improving confidence with basic numbers

Geoboards allow pupils to perform complex algorithms, such as multiplication, division, fractions, plane geometry, and even basic algebra, simply by shifting a rubber band on a 10 × 10 grid.

I like drivers who are fast whatever they drive: Loeb, Ekstrom, Stephane Sarrazin, or even Hulkenberg going Le Mans... hope he will do fine but F1 drivers are so specialized now they usually don't perform that well when they go elsewhere and that put them out of contention as far as i'm concern, thinking about it we have far too many f1 world champions on the grid nowadays which tells a lot about the real level of the field (pretty average imho, a lot of «marketing tycoon» but no real great)

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.

Whereas LCDs, LEDs and plasmas will strike horror into the hearts of signage integrators by turning dark as soon as power to them is cut off, an electronic paper screen will hold the last image displayed even if disconnected from the electric grid or if its battery runs out.

The eink technology is remotely updatable, energy efficient, battery - powered and independent from the electrical grid — and as such installable at even the most demanding of locations.

But just as e-signage presents an opportunity for a city's development, it is not without its challenges: to enable a city's evolution into a truly smart, and therefore sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, be implementable even at the most demanding of locations, power grid or no, and feature superb visibility in all light conditions.

Even without seeing the mantas, just savouring this location as a viewpoint is reason enough to scooter along the bone - jarring road to get here — we came via the highest point of the island, where nine wind turbines help supply some of the island's electricity grid.

It's even cooler as the grid gets filled up by other riders and bikes from the era, though it has to be said that while I'm a fan of the sport I can't comment on whether the lineups are 100 % accurate for the times.

Take to the starting grid with Hello Kitty and her Sanrio friends as they race on land, over water and even through the air.

- get Public Works tasks from Isabelle - early on you'll have to build a school - choose the outside look from a selection of options then work on the inside - inside includes work on benches, lockers, tables and more - later you'll work on a hospital, cafe, a shop and more - the hospital tasks you with working on multiple rooms - use the stylus to drag and drop items into the playing field - tap the object to change the perspective and move them all easily to somewhere on the grid - drag the characters around as well - tapping on the D - Pad lets you change the camera angle - move around with the Circle Pad and interact with others by pressing the A-button - the plaza is where old and new animals are gathered - a speech bubble above a head denotes requests - once you've wrapped up the development of a property, a scene will play where the animals interact with the property - animals will say specific things when they are in stores / school or comment on things that are placed around the house - throw in your own favorite characters by purchasing amiibo cards - scan them and they will enter the house or scene - cards also give requests from characters before you even meet them in the game - some characters are exclusive to the cards - put data back on the card and give that information to the friend

While the plot isn't as hard - hitting as the previous game, the excellent grid - based combat, light yet solid RPG gameplay and beautiful visuals make this a superhero quest worth playing, even if it's ridiculous from beginning to end.

Even the scenario mode is quite exciting as you fight your way to the sharp ending of the grid, executing spectacular drifts as you do.

Race mods act like perk cards and attempt to add even more variation into individual events, which can be single - use boosts to your grid position or to car performance, or event - based parameters such as being locked to cockpit view.

And the use of a grid, strictly or loosely maintained, has been even more constant; again Reinhardt could be cited, but so too an artist as different from him as Chuck Close.

One work even starts with a Minimalist grid, like much in the LeWitt collection, covering a gently raised floor and drop ceiling as well as three walls, like an open cage.

Behnke writes: «For the event, Roach brought together six abstract / non-objective painters whose works offer a dramatic contrast to their ancient surroundings even as formal elements (grids, texture, color and composition) are often reflected in the environment of the crypt.

Far outside of his usual choice of materials, he took to the grid, navigating through frustrations and limitations to eventually create these energetic works on paper; they turned out to be more open and expansive, and even after healing he took these materials with him as he continued the series, his curiosity of the materials pushing him from drawing to drawing.

Narrow metalpoint lines form an even grid of 36 separated squares that form the basic structure and serve as a spatial context for irregular events on the surface.

The bread rolls, stand - ins for the unpredictability of human subjectivity, disrupt the grid, even as they are swallowed by its all - encompassing presence.

Empty boxes figure in many of the works, as do overlapping sheets of colored and gridded paper that are likely to stimulate painterly debates about space and perspective even as they suggest a rational - mathematical mind - set.

Perhaps sensing that she had reached an ultimate image, much as her near - contemporary Ad Rheinhardt had, she stopped painting for several years before returning to grids that were even more subtle in making thin, straight parallel lines that shimmer, and thus evoke a spiritual experience outside of themselves.

I also thought of Hans Hofmann as I admired the mobility of Jaffe's red and gold rectangles and the calligraphic confidence of gridded black lines in the work on paper Untitled # 35, and even of Gerhard Richter's scraping across color on the right side of Untitled # 13.

His intensely hued portrayals of sites in Havana, Miami, New York, and the Middle East feature rectilinear overlays of strong, intensely moody colors that integrate multiple allusions to reason and its traditions — the ideal planned - city street grid; the Golden Ratio and its long history as a supposedly true and self - evident compositional principle; the sharp - edged, no - nonsense Bauhaus aesthetic — with subtle references to the small flashes of vitality and inspiration that lurk within even the most drab and desolate environments.

As evidenced by the paintings in her current retrospective at the Whitney, she keeps a toolshed of effects and objects — drop shadows, large modernist grids, drips, bicycle wheels, squiggles, text, impasto that rivals cake frosting, and even wallpaper — that appear predetermined to keep every possible idea of «mark - making» alive.

Standard GCMs have most of this physics included, and some are even going so far as to embed cloud resolving models in each grid box.

But, of course, you totally ignored the main point, that the Powerwall is inadequate as a substitute for a grid connection, and even if one did string 14 Powerwalls together, it would be just about the most expensive and least efficient way to go.