Sentences with phrase «from central power»

With cryptocurrency and Gelios, the value that tokens are assigned comes not from a central power structure telling you that it has value (and then insisting on seeing the transaction, etc), no, the value comes rather from a decentralized network of users providing demand that in turn creates the values itself.

And even if you stomp your feet hard enough and get your way and all coal mining is eliminated, then the people of rural China and India will not receive electric power from central power plants and will burn locally mined coal and wood in their homes causing horrific air pollution and deforestation.

And unlike most solar panels, they will have the ability to operate in islanded mode, meaning they can separate from the central power grid when it experiences an outage.

Using electricity from the central power grid to run an energy - intensive electrolysis machine is expensive and inefficient.

MIT's Kirtley noted that remote microgrids that aren't connected to a larger main grid would also require overbuilt generation and energy storage even during normal operations, since they can't get backup power from another central power plant.

Not exact matches

The increased computational power that is making all this possible derives not only from Moore's law but also from the realization in the late 2000s that graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia — the powerful chips that were first designed to give gamers rich, 3D visual experiences — were 20 to 50 times more efficient than traditional central processing units (CPUs) for deep - learning computations.

Henceforth, «great - power competition,» not terrorism, must be the primary focus of U.S. national security, the report declares: «The central challenge to U.S. prosperity and security is the reemergence of long - term strategic competition,» primarily from China and Russia.

Nothing could be further from the truth, and the central reason for that is the necessity for energy to power economic activity.

Decentralization is the process of dispersing powers or functions away from a central point to a network of independent parts.

Brown thought the remedy was for the proposed new country — Canada, to clearly separate the powers of the central government from those of the provinces, which it, in fact, did in 1867.

At last month's Seoul summit of the G20 — or the G19 +1, as one senior Asian central bank official recently dubbed it — the US was isolated from the other world economic powers by the Federal Reserve's decision to print hundreds of billions of dollars to boost the struggling US economy.

Politicians spend too much money, debt expands exponentially, central banks monetize debt and desperately inflate and reflate bubbles to maintain their power and continue the transfer of wealth from the many to the few.

Haftar's concentration of power in the east, aided by his military forces, opened up Libya's central export terminals, marking the start of the most recent rise in Libyan output back to 1 million b / d from 300,000.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

While we are pleased to see three cabinet ministers from B.C., the balance of power in the new cabinet has generally shifted to Central Canada.

With Buffer for Instagram, we're excited to be giving you the power to manage your social media marketing from one central location, and we're eager for you to have the tools you need to plan, track, and amplify your Instagram marketing.

The more one familiarizes himself with such time - honored prayers, the more his own praying is enriched by alignment with the central sources of vitality from which the Church has drawn its power.

I was born in north central China, far from port cities and displays of Western power, and lived there for 17 years until shortly before Pearl Harbor.

If at this point in the central tragedy in our history there had occurred the demonstration of the power and glory of the God in whom he trusted; if Elijah had come; if he who saved others had been saved; if we know not what natural or supernatural event had taken place to deliver this soul of faith from death and further shame; then might not faith as universal loyalty and universal trust have been reconstructed among men?

From the standpoint of our interpretation of religion the central Christian experience just described is important because it provides an answer to the question regarding the relative power of community - creating and community - destroying factors in human history, i.e., to the question concerning the outcome of the battle between good and evil.

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

The evangelical movement's strength has always been its centripetal force — the power of its central theological and missional premises to unite those from drastically different Christian traditions.

To be sure, there is a hierarchy of human organizations from families right on up to the central government - but this is a hierarchy of scale and power, not of dignity or resemblance to the Almighty.

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

17 - 18), the tribe of Dan migrates from the central coastal area (near the Philistines, and beyond a doubt forced out by the Philistines) to north Canaan, demonstrating en route the power of any bully to act as he would (see especially Judg.

Preventing firms with a substantial degree of market power from engaging in conduct that has the purpose or effect of substantially lessening competition is now a central limb of Australia's competition laws.

The Portugal international has developed a reputation as a tough tackling central midfielder and is seen by many as the ideal signing to add much needed power to the Gunners squad, but they could face strong competition from rivals Manchester United, who are also interested in the youngster as Mirror Online revealed last month.

in Soviet Union, the supreme leader was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and his power came from three pillars — army, KGB, and politburo.

«We are committed to redressing this injustice that has been done to our people by doing all that is within our powers, that is proper and legal to ensure that Mr. Sani leaves the Senate to pave way for a fit, proper and qualified person from Kaduna Central to go to Senate to give us quality and efficient representation,» the group said, in a statement read by its secretary, Alhaji Aminu Sha'aibu.

In the early 1970s he joined Rothschild's Central Policy Review Staff at No 10 in the Heath government where he learnt to admire Heath and make contacts and friends with a generation of the ablest young civil servants who would rise to power and influence from which he benefitted.

Meanwhile the European Commission is seen by many as having lost power as the EU enlarged (jumping from 15 to 27 member states since 2004 as it absorbed the new democracies of central and eastern Europe).

On one the hand, criminal groups in countries from Brazil to Mexico see the potential for increased power through politicization, which some argue is already happening in Central America.

A statement from his spokesman, Mr. Hakeem Bello, said the tour also took him to Benue, Nasarawa and Plateau states in the North Central zone by road «to see firsthand the state of work at several important power, roads, housing and other infrastructure facilities under the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.&rpower, roads, housing and other infrastructure facilities under the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.&rPower, Works and Housing.»

For instance, he has promised that the big society «will redistribute power from central government to ordinary citizens», and «will foster a culture of volunteerism».

For instance, decentralization (in its various forms of political, administrative, or fiscal) can be one response, where powers or function are redistributed or dispersed away from a central government or authority.

He suggested Labour should make a constitutional convention central to the Brexit debate to look at devolving the powers that will be repatriated from Brussels to regional mayors and national assemblies.

From the Poor Law system via the nineteenth - century Speenhamland legislation to the 1948 National Assistance Act, central government gradually increased its power and reach while both workers and employers saw their autonomy decline.

Absolutely central to the contemporary civic republican program is the conception of political liberty as non-domination or independence from arbitrary power, and so it makes good sense to begin with an explication of this idea.

Also charged in the 10 - count case are Peter Galbraith Kelly, a former energy company executive who hired Percoco's wife at a time when it was seeking assistance from Albany with a downstate power plant, and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, founders of Syracuse - based Cor Development that prosecutors say paid Percoco to help with projects in central New York.

One obvious advantage of using the initiative is that taking agenda - setting power away from politicians and devolving it to the people responds to one of the central elements of contemporary «anti-politics» — the suspicion that politicians too often act in their own interests.

From my limited understanding of the issue it would seem that, in many countries, privately owned and controlled central banks, responsible for printing new currency to stabilize the economy, have the power to inject the newly produced currency into projects of their own choice.

Still, it's hoped, stripping more power from central government will enable improvements in public services which far outstrip the downsides of cutting departmental spending.

We will shift power away from central bureaucracy and give choice to the parents, patients and local citizens who use public services.

Secondly, we should seek to learn from the local government experience with procurement to see whether central government can use its power to insist that large firms that get major government contracts commit to being living wage employers.

The power structures in Central New York remained from the first day I started running at the end of 2005 to today.

More importantly, the 1988 Act signalled a shift in the relationship between local government and Westminster in the way it moved many powers from local to central government.

The speech follows a theme of the coalition government, devolving power away from the state and central government.

And Liberals argued for local government to have a role in the NHS right from its founding, for fear that a fully centralised system would put too much power in the hands of central government instead of the professionals and the patients.

The government is introducing the localism bill that aims to hand powers back to local communities from central government.

It's not just Iraq, but a series of decisions that have not stood the test of time over PFI, private contractors in public services, central control of power and money stymying councils from building social housing - the list goes on.