Sentences with phrase «from electric potential»

The researchers harvested energy from the electric potential, or voltage, across the ion gradients.

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While rumors about a potential merger between the electric car maker and consumer electronics giant have swirled for years, a new Bloomberg report suggests that Tesla has recruited at least 150 employees from Apple — more than any other company, including competing car firms.
After the company released its three - year lease program for the electric vehicles, Tesla Motors said that it received high interest from potential buyers regarding leases with a shorter period.
The much - reported growing demand for lithium, for its use in electric vehicles and energy storage, has been demonstrated to LPI by the flood of interest from potential off - takers in the past few weeks.
The potential implications of tax legislation and regulatory headwinds on the gas and electric utility Black Hills Corp (NYSE: BKH) led to a downgrade from Credit Suisse on Tuesday.
Air powered machinery eliminates the potential risk of fire from electric power.
Catania can not say, however, whether a leap attack from an electric eel is equally as shocking for all potential predators.
«After careful consideration of my responsibility to protect the public health and environment from actual, threatened or potential harm from air pollution, I have decided to deny the Sunflower Electric Power Corporation application for an air quality permit,» Roderick Bremby, KDHE secretary, said in a written statement.
When an electric field is applied, the electrons move from an energetically higher lying potential well to an energetically lower lying potential well via the quantum mechanical tunneling effect.
The nanogenerator relies on the triboelectric effect to harness energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle's wheels.
I ache to see your action potential in action To be blinded by the searing speed of your electric signal As it sparks from node to node To behold the violent beauty of vesicles fusing with your presynaptic membrane — Pouring their contents into your synaptic cleft How I wish to be your postsynaptic cell So that I may be flooded by your molecules
To satisfy the growing demand from emerging markets (electric cars, for example, and renewable energy storage), researchers from Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have devised a new battery prototype: known as «all - solid - state,» this battery has the potential to store more energy while maintaining high safety and reliability levels.
«For example, we know that some metallic glasses have demonstrated enormous potential for use in electric motors, reducing waste heat and converting more power from electromagnetic fields into electricity.»
Its developers see great potential in applications such as electric cars and storing energy from intermittent sources such as solar and wind.
But General Electric, wary of potential lawsuits, gradually moved away from direct involvement in weather research.
A 2008 environmental impact statement estimated a potential for 5,540 megawatts of new electric generation capacity from geothermal on BLM lands in Western states and Alaska by 2015 through 111 new geothermal power plants, with an additional 6,600 megawatts from another 133 plants by 2025.
When measuring electric potential difference within muscles using EMG, there are different electrode types available, different normalization options, and a range of possible data processing methods to choose from.
Even after accounting for the equipment and environmental noise that interferes with the electromyogram, there are many other factors that affect the size of the electric potential difference that is recorded from the muscle.
We can add this open question to the larger ones, such as how long it will take for battery prices to drop and / or for government incentives to cease, whether there's enough profit potential to keep automakers in the electric game, and how much an electric car will be worth years from now, as newer models inevitably bring higher efficiency and longer ranges.
Many potential customers and interested buyers on the Ford Focus Electric Forum seem disappointed at the lack of communication from Ford.
Using V2G - technology, peak demand on the electricity grid can be better balanced, by allowing electric vehicles to not just take power from the grid, but also return it to the network and expect to introduce a new potential earnings model for electric drivers.
Inspired by Electric Earth, the single channel version of Doug Aitken's expansive video installation from 1999 available at EVR, this program of experimental and documentary short films explores the power of imagination, the potential of the supernatural that derives from the foundations of our highly technological world.
Also of potential large magnitude benefit, is (3) changing away from an electric power generating system where power plants are located in remote areas but are connected by a grid, whereby this practice has caused a massive energy wasting establishment.
Asked to rate each energy technology's potential to decrease atmospheric carbon levels over the next 25 years, the number of respondents seeing «high potential» for solar electric, for example, dropped to 66 percent from 74 percent.
LA TIMES ASSESSES IMPACT OF PLUG - IN TAX CREDIT: Automotive journalist Martin Zimmerman in «Plug - in electric vehicles get boost from bailout plan» http://www.latimes.com/­business/­la-fi-speedblog31-2008oct31,0,4635802.story says «The deduction may help defuse potential sticker shock for buyers.»
It does not consider any potential health or environmental benefits from reducing CO2 emissions from existing electric generating units covered by the proposed Clean Power Plan.
But to fully capitalize on the potential of electric vehicles for reducing climate - altering carbon emissions from the transport sector, an analyst recently explained in Issues, new investments are needed in large - scale electricity storage and new public policies are needed to encourage recharging when renewable energy sources are providing the power.
It's time decision makers in the Southeast move aggressively to maximize the growth of clean energy in our region by lining up the right policies, policies with great potential, so we can all benefit from what other regions have discovered: Promoting renewable energy creates good jobs, cleaner air, and lower electric costs.
Utilities get a potential way to relieve stress on their infrastructure, while electric - car owners get a potential source of income — from storing storing excess power.
According to a recent report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, plug - in electric vehicles, including plug - in hybrids and battery electric vehicles, have the potential to make up 9 % of auto sales in 2020 and 22 % in 2030 (1.6 million and 4 million vehicle sales respectively).
Rather, area grid electricity tends to come from Clean Hydro - Electric resources, and regional Wind resources may have even more potential.
«In terms of energy policy and the potential to shift transportation away from liquid fuels to the electric grid, PHEVs may prove to be nothing short of revolutionary.»
The estimated global practical potential from tides and currents totals 70 GW, about 2 % of current global electric power generation.
The following post summarizes a series of presentations focusing on a the potential of vehicle - to - grid capability to accelerate the adoption of plug - in hybrid (PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (BEV): [From GCC:] The premise is that the additional cost to consumers of full - function zero - emission vehicles (ZEV) or near zero - emission vehicles — whether full battery electric vehicles, plug - in hybrid vehicles or fuel - cell vehicles — can be partially offset by providing grid power support to utilities or major power consumers.
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EST (An Interactive Audio and Web - Based Seminar Hosted by Infocast) The Basics Seth D. Hilton Stoel Rives LLP 111 Sutter / CO2 emission from average combustion levels New Generation — Geothermal Geothermal emits some CO2 mostly in condensate evaporation in the cooling cycle Levels / states or countries with capped emissions Repowering existing electric generation facilities New clean energy sources Potential Opportunities for Entities Subject to California's Emission Reduction Requirements /
The research needs that have high priority in establishing the technical, environmental, and economic feasibility of large - scale capture and disposal of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- from electric power plants are: (1) survey and assess the capacity, cost, and location of potential depleted gas and oil wells that are suitable CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- repositories (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (2) conduct research on the feasibility of ocean disposal, with objectives of determining the cost, residence time, and environmental effects for different methods of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- injection; (3) perform an in - depth survey of knowledge concerning the feasibility of using deep, confined aquifers for disposal and, if feasible, identify potential disposal locations (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (4) evaluate, on a common basis, more» system and design alternatives for integration of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture systems with emerging and advanced technologies for power generation; and prepare a conceptual design, an analysis of barrier issues, and a preliminary cost estimate for pipeline networks necessary to transport a significant portion of the CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- to potentially feasible disposal locations.
* Finding acceptable sites for the huge machines will be difficult in many parts of the US due to wind conditions, availability of transmission lines, distance from electric load, scenic and other environmental values and potential impact on property values.
Turkey estimates that there are potential indigenous sources for 246 billion kilowatt - hours (kWh) per year of electric power generation (105 billion kWh from lignite, 16 billion kWh from hard coal, and 125 billion kWh from hydroelectric resources).
Mark S. Mehos and David W. Kearney, «Potential Carbon Emissions Reductions from Concentrating Solar Power by 2030,» in Charles F. Kutscher, ed., Tackling Climate Change in the U.S. — Potential Carbon Emissions Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by 2030 (Boulder, CO: American Solar Energy Society, 2007), pp. 79 — 90; U.S. electricity consumption from DOE, EIA, Electric Power Annual 2007 (Washington, DC: January 2009), p. 1; U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office, «Energy,» Arizona State Office, «Arizona, the New Frontier!»
Interesting report on electric vehicles here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19830232 Did not expect the environmental impact of prouction to be so bad «The global warming potential from electric vehicle production is about twice that of conventional vehicles.»
clean energy innovation improving consumer choice and affordability more efficient use of energy deeper penetration of renewable energy resources wider deployment of «distributed» energy resources micro grids roof - top solar on - site power supplies and storage promote markets advanced energy management enhance demand elasticity and efficiencies empower customers more choice 50 % of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030 business as usual bad public policy clean energy's economic and environmental potential the power industry was headed for trouble rising utility bills growing customer dissatisfaction socially unjust clean energy economy haves - and - have - nots change in culture business model for the whole system moves the electric industry away from a monopoly, top - down and incentive driven system governed by the market emphasizes distributed energy a distributed system platform market exchange microgrids solar energy efficiency distributed energy resources compete to serve the grid pro-consumer pro-innovation markets - based more affordable resilient capital efficiencies encouraging more distributed energy demand response energy efficiency
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system for the continent, finds in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment, that (contrary to NETL raising potential reliability issues from future coal and nuclear retirements) most regions of the country have sufficient reserve margins through 2022, as new additions more than offset expected retirements.
The interesting thing about the physics of plasma double layers is that they are regions defined by charge separation that enshroud matter immersed in a cell of plasma, and the electric potential drop occurs within the double layer itself, so if we have a solar source that is positively charged, for example, and an earth that is negatively charged, then the electric potential drop is not between the anodic sun and the cathodic earth themselves, but within the plasma double layer shrouding the earth from its plasma environment.
In December, amid mounting concerns about the viability of the electric - car startup Faraday Future, Nevada's governor and the mayor of the city of North Las Vegas slammed the car company's naysayers, saying taxpayers in the state are «fully - protected» from the potential ramifications a $ 335 million incentive deal for...
In December, amid mounting concerns about the viability of the electric - car startup Faraday Future, Nevada's governor and the mayor of the city of North Las Vegas slammed the car company's naysayers, saying taxpayers in the state are «fully - protected» from the potential ramifications a $ 335 million incentive deal for FF if it failed to spend $ 1 billion to construct a factory in North Las Vegas.
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