Sentences with phrase «from conventional power»

Geography — if you've found your little slice of heaven here on earth that's too far to feasibly plug in to the grid — is often a good motivator, but ethical, environmental and altruistic choices drive many an off - gridder to unplug from conventional power sources; producing and using your own clean energy can be a wonderfully empowering, liberating experience, and it sure can be nice to not receive all those bills.

It indeed means that around 90 % of the total so - called installed wind power (turbine capacity) must be available from conventional power plants, in order to compensate for the variations of wind power.»

This differs from conventional power strips, which must be manually turned off and on.

If you do that, you effectively replaced what you would have consumed from conventional power plants with electricity produced by solar panels (or wind farms).

The two billion people on the planet who lack a light bulb or scrabble for firewood for cooking or heat (sometimes getting into knife fights in the process) need affordable, convenient energy sources now — whether from a solar panel or biogas, or from a conventional power plant or propane tank.

Featuring a 50 km pure - electric range, the downside of the plug - in powertrain is it takes two hours and 45 minutes for a full charge using a 32 - amp charger (if you can find one Down Under), or 7.5 hours from a conventional power socket.

Coming off a Westside program; I needed a change from the conventional power lifting routine and this worked well for me as a 55 year old.

Paired with Tesla's Powerwall 2 unit, the Solar Roof has the potential to give customers true independence from conventional power grids.

The term «constitutional monarchy» means that the king is stripped from the conventional powers - though he retains very limited power - an absolute king would have.

Not exact matches

XCOR is pursuing the latter paradigm with its winged rocket - powered Lynx, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway and blast into suborbital space (roughly 330,000 feet, or 63 miles) powered by an onboard rocket motor before flying back to Earth and landing on a conventional runway.

The opportunity from Global Opportunity Report 2017, Business of Power, showcases how decentralised, peer - to - peer platforms and innovative energy storage technologies are disrupting the conventional concept of utility delivery and better preparing cities and residents for energy and climate resilience.

Yet instead of enhancing the Fed's conventional powers of monetary control, the ballooning of the Fed's balance sheet has sapped those powers by making it unnecessary for banks to routinely borrow from one another in the federal funds market to meet their legal reserve requirements.

«You simply can not pull as much as 20 per cent of the purchasing power away from conventional mortgage borrowers and not create a downturn in consumer demand,» Muir says in the release.

The setting of the myth reflects a conventional Hindu plot: the divine power emerges through a process of transposition of heads.27 Furthermore, the mythological characters contained in this song present easily identifiable figures from common Hindu stories that are fairly well - known in South India.

A new analysis of President - elect Barack Obama's campaign fund - raising punctures one of the most enduring pieces of conventional wisdom from his presidential run — that small donors powered his record - breaking money machine.

The state would instead subsidize the plants using proceeds from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a market - based program that requires conventional power plants to purchase credits as a mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, «in recognition of their zero carbon emitting attributes,» according to the bill memo.

Microchips made from tiny magnets rather than conventional power - hungry transistors may enable intensive number - crunching tasks like codebreaking or image - processing using a fraction of the power.

Starbucks Seattle, WA Restaurants 211 million green kWh, 20 % of total power used A 2006 audit showed that a whopping 81 percent of the coffee giant's greenhouse emissions came from the conventional energy it used to power its North American stores; each square foot consumed an average of 6.57 kWh of electricity a month.

In the meantime, Tesla Motors in Silicon Valley is wowing the well - heeled with a conventional electric car powered by unconventional lithium batteries that can blast this $ 100,000 Lotus - based roadster from 0 to 60 miles per hour in four seconds.

The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.

When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air, nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue gases from conventional gas power stations contain as little as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon from power plant emissions difficult and expensive.

Case in point, Gallagher says, is «smart grid» technology that's designed to integrate renewable power coming from wind turbines and solar cells with the nation's 9000 conventional power plants and 300,000 miles of transmission lines.

Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.

The new plug pumps several hundred watts of power into the mixture to start combustion, compared to tens of watts from a conventional plug, and is made of an alloy of tungsten, nickel and iron, tough enough to survive the powerful spark.

Unlike the waste from conventional nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the by - products of fusion decay within decades.

Known as lithium - sulfur batteries, the devices can hold twice the energy per kilogram as conventional lithium - ion batteries to drive everything from power tools to Teslas.

Conventional laser - powered proton acceleration results in proton bunches in which the velocity distribution is exponential, i.e. most of the particles are accelerated to relatively low velocities and very few are ejected from the target at the highest speeds.

But ANP engineers and management were mired in debate over reactor technologies, how best to transfer nuclear power to a conventional engine, and the best material to shield the crew from radiation.

University of Sydney researchers have found a solution for one of the biggest stumbling blocks preventing zinc - air batteries from overtaking conventional lithium - ion batteries as the power source of choice in electronic devices.

Hydrogen - powered fuel cells are regarded as a clean alternative to conventional combustion engines, as, aside from electric energy, the only substance produced during operation is water.

We encourage you to investigate and include significant direct and indirect emissions from all fuels, including conventional petroleum, heavy oils, natural gas for transportation, oil sand - based fuels, and the range of fuels used to power electrified transportation, consistent with the best available science.

«While conventional silicon - based solar cells are more efficient than algae - powered cells in the fraction of the sun's energy they turn to electrical energy, there are attractive possibilities with other types of materials,» says Professor Christopher Howe from the Department of Biochemistry.

We can then use our conventional, light - based telescopes to look at the transient light signals from the merged neutron star, which we actually think will be powered by the decay of these precious elements.

During her pre-med studies at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Hawkins discovered the healing power of Naturopathic Medicine as a patient herself and immediately shifted her focus from conventional western medicine to Naturopathic Medicine.

-- This begins from the floor in a position similar to a conventional deadlift, but you'll drop your hips slightly lower for the Power Clean.

Churchill's ascension to Britain's prime ministership at the onset of World War II, after Neville Chamberlain's unpopular appeasement to the Axis powers, is acted out by Gary Oldman, who ascends from his previous counterculture parts to a conventional Establishment role signifying Great Actor Versatility.

They can't be defeated via conventional methods due to regenerative powers that can heal anything from puncture wounds to missing limbs.

Power comes not from a conventional combustion engine, but using laser pulse shock waves, and the driver operates the vehicle leaning forwards, in a kind of fusion between drag - bike racing and skeleton sledding.

A 3 - litre petrol V6, putting out 328bhp and 368 lb ft of torque, makes up the conventional component of the drivetrain while the rest of the power comes from a 100kW (134bhp) electric motor.

To do this, it uses regenerative braking from the electric motor and the stopping power of the car's conventional brakes.

There's four - wheel drive too, thanks to a clever Power Transfer Unit that takes the place of a conventional front diff (and would take several hours to explain), plus a brand new direct injection engine that delivers all the power and the fury that you'd expect from a MaranelloPower Transfer Unit that takes the place of a conventional front diff (and would take several hours to explain), plus a brand new direct injection engine that delivers all the power and the fury that you'd expect from a Maranellopower and the fury that you'd expect from a Maranello V12.

As you can see, it's got a conventional black grille, as opposed to the «pig snout» grille on the Power Wagon, and aside from the wheels, tires and winch, you'd be hard - pressed to tell it apart from a run - of - the - mill Tradesman 2500.

Made from aluminum rather than conventional steel, the front side walls and the bonnet (with power dome) make an important contribution to the models» lightweight design concept, while at the same time improving axle load distribution.

Yes, most of the vehicles will roll out in the next few years, but the transition from conventional gasoline power to plug - in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles is going to be rapid.

Made from aluminum rather than conventional steel, the front side walls and the hood (with power dome) make an important contribution to the models» lightweight design concept, while at the same time improving axle load distribution.

The Jeep Switchback receives conventional power from Jeep's standard 3.6 - litre Pentastar V - 6 routed through the Wrangler's factory five - speed automatic.

4 Cylinder Engine,4 - Wheel Disc Brakes,6 - Speed A / T, A / C, A / T, ABS, Adjustable Steering Wheel, Aluminum Wheels, AM / FM Stereo,Auto - Dimming Rearview Mirror, Auxiliary Audio Input,Back - Up Camera, Bluetooth Connection, Bucket Seats, CD Player, Child Safety Locks, Cloth Seats, Conventional Spare Tire, Cruise Control, Daytime Running Lights, Driver Adjustable Lumbar, Driver Air Bag, Driver Illuminated Vanity Mirror, Driver Vanity Mirror, Engine Immobilizer, Floor Mats, Fog Lamps, Front Head Air Bag, Front Reading Lamps, Front Side Air Bag, Front Wheel Drive, Gasoline Fuel, Heated Mirrors, Intermittent Wipers, Keyless Entry, MP3 Player, Navigation from Telematics,Pass - Through Rear Seat, Passenger Air Bag, Passenger Air Bag Sensor, Passenger Illuminated Visor Mirror, Passenger Vanity Mirror, Power Door Locks, Power Mirror, Power Outlet, Power Steering, Power Windows, Privacy Glass, Rear Bench Seat, Rear Defrost, Rear Head Air Bag, Satellite Radio, Smart Device Integration, Stability Control, Steering Wheel Audio Controls, Telematics, Tire Pressure Monitor, Tires - Front All - Season, Tires - Rear All - Season, Traction Control, Trip Computer, WiFi Hotspot

[2][4][6] A lightweight and dimensionally small German Ford Cardinal 1,500 cc 60 degree V4 engine powered the Mustang I. [Note 1] The front - wheel - drive powertrain from Ford Germany's mainstream Cardinal / Taunus sedans was mounted directly behind the cockpit with the engine and 4 - speed transmission in a common housing with an axle and conventional clutch.

Asterion LPI 910 - 4 - LP stands for «longitudinale posteriore», the position of the conventional engine, I stands for «ibrido», 910 for the system power and 4 for the permanent 4WD system - is the new concept of a new kind of dream car designed by Lamborghini starting from an intuition: the key for anticipating the future lies in a transformation and hybridisation of Lamborghini's own DNA.

To combat this, the D - 4S tech switches from port fuel injection (Atkinson) back to direct injection (conventional) when the driver calls for power.