Sentences with phrase «from small grids»

Micro-grids may not be the cheapest option in the long run, as electricity from small grids tends to be three or four times as expensive per unit than that from centralised sources.

Not exact matches

Small - scale solar panels generate electricity more cheaply than buying from the grid in certain parts of the United States.

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.

And shifting away from big, centralized power plants and large power grids toward smaller distributed systems does confer some advantages when it comes to standing up to storms and rebuilding after.

«I heard the Army had a 20 - foot grid above the entire Olympic complex to keep Osama bin Laden from buzzing the place in a small plane,» says Knaack.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

And while CNG vehicles would generate emissions from their tailpipes, the Argonne team believes that their overall emissions footprint would be smaller than that of an electric vehicle drawing power from the fossil - fuel - based electric grid.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

When hooked up to an electronic sensor, the pad converts signals from the sensor into small pulses of electric current across the grid, which the tongue «reads» as a pattern of tingles.

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.

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!

The bistable e-paper display uses the same concept: the smallest particles of the screen will hold the color — and the image of display — even when disconnected from the power grid.

While this would not be a covered loss if wind is excluded, $ 300 of food in your fridge spoiled because the hurricane took out the power grid is a far smaller risk than the flooding or destruction that can come from a hurricane in less well constructed dwellings.

You can command a rover to pick up a specific resources or all resources from a small area and then take them somewhere, but once the resources are gone it will stop and there is no way to make it ferry specific things back and forth, nor will the rover automatically recharge its batteries off the power grid, something you have to tell it to do or else it might get stuck.

Puzzles range in difficulty and size from small introductory pictures to huge scrollable grids with highly detailed pictures.

These are two new small paintings from «Silk Road,» an ongoing series of small grid - based color fields.

It may mean something that almost all the abstract painting in the show is by women, from Ulrike Müller's small geometric enamel - on - steel pictures, as precious as antique cameos, to Nancy Brooks Brody's black - and - white grids radiant with half - hidden color.

Gradually she began abstracting from the still - life images, pulling apart the compositions, re-introducing the grid, and arriving at a kind of abstraction where the original image has almost completely disappeared and small geometric units remain supreme, producing an illusion of subtle gradations and nuanced change across the surface.

Each of his chosen images, which are drawn from found or remembered source material, is subdivided into a grid of small squares that are transferred to the canvas one by one.

The small beads are hand - painted with some of the quirky freedom that characterizes her impermanent fabric arrangements, but the bead installation follows a uniform scale, height, and spacing logic, with beads dropping in parallel and perpendicular lines from the grid of ceiling beams from thin, nearly invisible strings that alter and direct the flow of the viewing space.

The centerpiece of the room is The Long Poem of Walking, a large - scale work comprised of shattered glass that Martinez has extracted from the street and arranged into a series of rectangles laid out according to volume, greatest to smallest, in a grid on the gallery floor.

I also made a lot of very small square oil - on - wood paintings, and again, the markmaking went from loose grids to the point where I started leaving the verticals out.

The dense, small - scale paintings included in this exhibition mark a highly prolific period in Mondrian's engagement with figurative landscape painting — an early but deeply significant stage in the artist's methodical progression from naturalistic representation to complete grid - based abstraction.

From left: a grid of nine of my Silk Road paintings, each 12 x 12 inches, encaustic on panel (I showed earlier work from this series in a small solo show at the gallery last year); Uttar 238, encaustic on panel, 36 x 36 inches; an assembled work on paper by Siri From left: a grid of nine of my Silk Road paintings, each 12 x 12 inches, encaustic on panel (I showed earlier work from this series in a small solo show at the gallery last year); Uttar 238, encaustic on panel, 36 x 36 inches; an assembled work on paper by Siri from this series in a small solo show at the gallery last year); Uttar 238, encaustic on panel, 36 x 36 inches; an assembled work on paper by Siri Berg

A retrospective exhibit of her work 10 years ago reviewed the evolution of her stringent abstractions, from grids and small shapes like ovals and squares to pure bands of luminous color.

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.»

A drawing from three years ago by Iraqi artist Salam Atta Sabri is a one - page grid divided into dozens of smaller grids.

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.

During the»80s her explorations took the form of large grids of small landscape vignettes appropriated from photographic sources and then restructured to form larger pictographic panoramas.

Morley depicts details: each calibrated digital image as a whole is fragmented into a grid of small squares or «cells» as the artist calls them, from which Morley paints one discrete component at a time, turning the canvas upside down and sideways so that the abstract shape and color tonality of each part is addressed.

The weed whacker piece shares space in the gallery with a pristine tower of variously sized and shaped stacked jars, each jar holding a small, dayglow rubber ball; a grid of cement sculptures formed from the interiors of plastic cups; and an airy circle of blue painters» tape applied directly to the wall.

These two artists bring fresh meditations on the poignancy of geometric resonance, von Wiegand with a 1955 collage based on the Golden Section and Inoue with a small painting from 2010, a densely layered glowing blue grid of deceptive simplicity.

The piece Kiss, Panic from 1984 consists of a grid of twelve appropriated photos that juxtapose two mouths kissing with a still depicting the scene of a riot; these two central images are surrounded by photographs of various small firearms.

Eye - catching paintings included Clayton Colvin's probing multilayered works shown by Beta Pictoris (Birmingham, AL), Diana Copperwhite's colorful but lugubrious canvases at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, the acid - distressed oils of Sara Hoppe from Dresden's M2A gallery, Ethiopian painter Tegene Kunbi's strangely doleful striations of color at Margaret Thatcher Gallery's booth, Chris Trueman's hypnotically undulating grids from Adah Rose Gallery (Kensington, MD), and a brace of small paintings by Jill Baroff, Astrid Bowlby, and Allyson Strafella at Philadelphia's Gallery Joe.

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.

In the early 2000s, 50 miles from the MO I was helping my good mate (rip) install his self - sufficient solar power system w a battery pack unit which then was big as a car on a trailer, and helped out planting out his small plantation of Olive Trees into the ex-cow paddocks... he and his wife bought a 120 acre ex-cattle farm to regenerate that along the lines of New Age Healing Greenie Principles of Self - Sufficency and Self - Responsibility... they disconnected from the electricity grid as well.

The Life Pod is a small free standing structure that implements solar panels as a roof surface providing dry covered shelter and water catchment, the water off the solar roof is stored in rain barrels, on the south side there is a Hydroponic food system mounted that produces fresh organic supply of greens, on the north side of the structure is a small utility closet that houses the solar battery and all the food system equipment, on the side of the utility closet there are 4 electrical outlets and an EV charging station, you can run the AC power over to your home or business and power any of your electrical needs with the off grid energy from the Life Pod.

Add in «micro-islanding» capabilities, so small services areas can disconnect from the larger grid and get by on their own distributed generation capacity, and you have the seeds of a full - blown renewable power rebellion.

With upfront funding from NativeEnergy reducing turbine costs to an acceptable level, these turbines help farmers reduce their long - term electricity costs and help stabilize the electric grid with distributed, small - scale power generation.

Given the pattern of migration to the suburbs and away from the large cities, small towns and countryside any large grid cell analysis claiming to capture the urban heat effect has to be nonsense.

And it can be deployed at any scale and at any point in the grid, from a small home storage system to a pumped hydroelectric reservoir big enough to power a small city.

The party will take lessons from Gujarat's program as it designs policies on a national level that will include both larger, grid - connected photovoltaic projects and smaller, decentralized applications for solar, Taneja said.

With an electricity grid supplied by hydroelectric dams across rivers, from the heat of its numerous volcanoes, and from wind and the sun, the small Central American nation expects 97 percent of its energy generation to come from renewable sources this year.

Small - scale, grid - connected, solar and wind projects usually benefit from quicker procedures.

But not managed this will become a grid disruptive issue and for those that can't afford solar, will drive prices up as the smaller number of residual full - grid users pay more per user for the grid's gold plating derived from coping with peak air - con load a few times per year.

Wind energy is great for small scale low intense needs, but large wind farms are just plain ugly, and putting them to a grid system not the most efficient use and also not the best way to harness the energy delivered to Earth from our free and safe distant fusion reactor that has zero maintenance costs.

Turbines in this category range in size from smaller than 1 kW for off - grid applications to 100 - kW turbines that can provide village power.

Power from the Wind covers every aspect of small - scale wind energy systems, from an initial site assessment to wind turbine towers, from inverters to batteries, should an owner decide to create an off - grid or grid - intertied system with a battery backup.

PCA was performed as the first step (after areal adjustment) on the gridded instrumental data, 1902 — 1995 and the individual proxy series from 1902 — 1980 were calibrated against the corresponding EOFs of the instrumental data matrix by singular value decomposition to determine retention of reconstructed PCs for each proxy series and then tested for robustness against the 1854 — 1902 validation period as well as a smaller subset of instrumental / historical EOFs going back to the 16th century.

This study assesses and compares the benefits of electricity service to households and small enterprises from microgrids, solar home systems (SHS), and the national grid in select rural communities in India and Nepal.