Sentences with phrase «for smaller grids»

What the company calls its «mPower» reactor would be used for smaller grids or limited electricity - demand areas, such as those of municipal districts or for individual industrial use.

Not exact matches

We need companies to invest and people to look at small grid power systems, combinations of wind and diesel, thermal energy, hydro electric energy things that can be tailored for these individual villages depending on their location.

The bomb first entered service 50 years ago, and weighs about 700 pounds - slightly smaller than the M117 bomb often used by the B - 52 Stratofortress for «grid square removal.»

«The Tesla team has [built solar grids] for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too,» Musk said.

The Illinois Smart Grid Regional Innovation Cluster has used the funds to provide support to small startups developing technology to help modernize and update Illinois» electric grid, the network for delivering power from suppliers to businesses and consumers.

The analysts noted «OptBlue will make it easier for merchants to accept Amex cards, boosting the company's wallet share: OptBlue addresses small merchants» concerns as third - party acquirers negotiate directly for a combined, single - grid contract for all networks.

Luckily the earth is a pretty small target for such ejections and the last one happened before we had extensive power and communication grids.

He was granted a small indulgence for his March 14 debut at Kyalami, South Africa, after his McLaren - Ford stalled due to a faulty clutch and he was left sitting on the starting grid as everyone else roared away.

One of my hopes for the future is to live off grid and be able to have our small business grow enough to be able to support our family as the sole income source.

#Repost @alyssaaldersley with @Rep0stApp • • • • • • • I haven't posted a picture of my smallest person on the grid in for, like, ever.

Then you create a lot of business opportunities for small businesses and cooperatives to install distributed energy, because you've got a smart grid when you build it out.

Protecting the grid against small blackouts enables it to run at higher and higher power levels, ultimately setting up the grid for a major collapse.

The relatively small changes that do occur are well within the capabilities of existing systems for balancing supply and demand on the grid.

For one thing, Reyes explains, miniaturized nuclear plants are small enough to mass - produce, driving down costs, and they can be shipped just about anywhere by truck or boat, even to locations that are off the grid.

For example, grids of just one mile square would enable models to simulate the small - scale conditions that catapult a routine thunderstorm or hurricane into a monster.

For communities still using kerosene lighting, she said, such small - scale distribution «is not saying people shouldn't have access to the grid, but in the meantime, there is a quick win.»

«It's fair to think of these small reactors as grid - appropriate for many parts of the world,» Benjamin says.

But that quietness comes at a price: around $ 12,000 installed on the roof and hooked to the grid compared with as little as $ 4,000 for some other small - scale turbine designs.

The researchers set up a grid system for the Alpha Centauri system and asked, based on the spectrographic analysis, «If there was a small, rocky planet in the habitable zone, would we have been able to detect it?»

PNNL is a recognized leader in developing materials for energy storage, be it grid - scale batteries used to store energy from the sun or wind for later use, or smaller batteries used for transportation.

A 100 mile (161 km) grid, for example, might not capture the climate effects of a small mountain range rising out of the eastern Montana plains or the climate differences between mountain summits and valleys in western Montana where temperature and precipitation vary greatly.

Models of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaciers.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

It covers the small steps: Week 9: • Recognising tenths and hundredths • Tenths as decimals • Tenths as a place value grid • Tenths on a number line Week 10: • Dividing 1 - digit by 10 • Dividing 2 - digits by 10 Week 11: • Hundredths • Hundredths as a decimal • Hundredths on a place value grid • Dividing 1 or 2 - digit numbers by 100 Please see individual resource links for more information: Year 4 - Number - Decimals - Week 9 - Spring - Block 4 Year 4 - Number - Decimals - Week 10 - Spring - Block 4 Year 4 - Number - Decimals - Week 11 - Spring - Block 4 The resources support a mastery approach to encourage a deeper understanding of the topics taught.

A unique off - the - grid power solution for schools: children play on a merry - go - round that charges lanterns, which the students can take home and use to study in small g...

The camp is supplied with firewood (at a charge of R20 per bag for this), braai grid and tongs, fresh rain water, small gas cooker, pots, pans and kettle, cutlery and crockery, washing up facilities and a cold water shower!

Nash draws on American minimalism and conceptual painting, with a reduced palette and attention to grids, lines, and simple geometries; but her small - scale paintings also have a crafted care, with a clear attention to material and space for happy accident.

One of the sixteen small paintings that plays with me — holds me — the most is grounded by shiny reflections reminiscent of pennies in a wishing well, layered with these thick, orgasmic (for the painterly painter), awkward rectangles of material exploration which bar out Washington like stacks of gold or grids of currency, all finally subtitled with the words, «I HOPE IT RAINS» — maybe or maybe not a reference to the Louis Prima song, «Pennies from Heaven.»

Finally, for the third piece, thirty smaller collages will be presented as a large symmetrical grid.

Over the past 30 years James Hugonin has become known for his unusually deliberate and determined way of making paintings: completing on average just one painting a year and always following a structure of small marks of colour across an underlying grid, each mark shifting slightly from its neighbour and building to a rhythmic whole.

Mary Heilmann, for whom the grid has been a constant goad and reference throughout almost five decades of painting, here exhibits Pink Synergie (2011): small and faintly cross-like, its delicate pink surface offers a counterforce to its bold geometry.

The compressed velvetiness and devotional air of these small works go against the grain of most postmodernism, yet except for the small patches of grid that indicate the artist's handiwork, they can almost be mistaken for photographs.

Phong Bui (Rail): It must have been in late May of 1988, just a few days before Meyer and Lillian Schapiro left for South Londonderry, Vermont, where they had gone every summer ever since in the late 1930s, that they showed me a small abstract painting, with a loosely painted grid and rather somber palette of burnt sienna, raw umber, sap green, and deep blue, which, I was told, you had given them.

This show of small indoor pieces shows Mr. Fleischner integrating his influences over the years: Jasper Johns and Brice Marden in gray, gridded works on paper, for example.

Would there be any advantage to having seperate models at seperate scales, where smaller scale processes would be modelled at fine resolution, and the larger scale model would, for each unit grid and time, search the results of the smaller model based on similarity of input conditions, perhaps interpolating and if necessary using a randomly chosen result based on probability distributions, and in the ocassion where the results of the smaller model are too sparse, telling the smaller scale model to do a new run (as time goes on this would happen less often)?

In the meantime, engineers are trying to come up with simple, cheap means for providing a few hours of light a night in rural parts of developing countries while they wait for the convenience of a grid or a central small power station.

However, you are missing the fundamental point, the gridded data (which attempt to correct for UHI etc.) show a) much smaller trends than the individual station hot spots that jump out of your first figure, and b) clearly reflect the fact that the south east US has in fact cooled.

However, the actual claim of IPCC is that the effects of urban heat islands effects are likely small in the gridded temperature products (such as produced by GISS and Climate Research Unit (CRU)-RRB- because of efforts to correct for those biases.

In addition I would point out that small scale distributed wind and PV are ideal solutions for rural electrification in the developing world, in countries which don't have the resources to build giant power plants of any kind, or to build the grids to distribute electricity from large centralized power plants.

That an energy technology suitable for small - scale electricity generation in space probes can easily be scaled up to power the national grid?

The suppliers provide microfinancing, and since grid power for small homes is costly in less developed countries, it pencils out.

The FireBee Power Tower can make use of some of the heat produced for cooking food or warming a home to yield an additional harvest of clean electricity for keeping small electronics charged up, either for off - grid, home use, or both.

The main reason for a limit to how small I would say is that for every halving of the grid size you have 16x as much work (cube 1/2 on a side and your timestep has to halve at least).

Small - scale solar panels promise many off - grid applications for renewable energy, and the SolarPuff is a particularly elegant example.

I suggest enhanced energy efficiency as presented in my 1996 US Patent (# 5,537,823)- High Efficiency Energy Conversion System) that would generally invert energy flows associated with the grid, and also provide about 50 % thermal efficiency for a hybrid vehicular drivetrain (10 hp @ 45 mph CAN provide about 112 MPG for small cars).

The Sport weighs just 9 pounds, is built to be durable, and is small enough to be portable, which makes it a great option for an alternate cookstove for those of us who want to take a «baby step off the grid» by using solar energy for cooking.

My passion for environmental protection began around the age of 14, when I hiked into the small patch of woods and fields that remained untouched in the expanding suburban grid of streets and lawns around our home and discovered a bulldozer parked in a fresh - cut clearing near my favorite spruce tree.

New York is set to join the ranks of a small but growing number of pioneering states that are setting targets for energy storage as wind, solar and other renewable energies supply increasing amounts of power to their electric grids.

Sarah Jane Ahmed, an energy expert for US - based think tank Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), wrote a study in 2017 on how small islands in the Philippines can effectively replace outdated, polluting diesel fuel electricity - generation systems with solar and wind - powered grids.

Of course, since the grid is ubiquitous, creating a charging infrastructure for EVs and for PHEVs for those who don't have such access, or who want to charge at work, is a much smaller challenge than to deliver a new alternative fuel type.