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«We believe our method provides researchers at JCAP and elsewhere with an important tool for developing integrated photocathode materials that can be used in future solar - fuel generators as well as other technologies capable of reducing net carbon dioxide emissions.»

Not exact matches

This gas, composed mostly of methane, can be used as a fuel for power generation (replacing diesel generators), compressed or sold into the natural gas grid.

It's more or less the internet's favorite portable generator — it's fuel - efficient, it's simple to use, it runs quietly, and, for something as strong as this, it's light, weighing in at less than 50 pounds.

Keep in mind, it usually isn't practical to backup the entire building, as doing so would be expensive and also reduce the total run time (i.e, fuel supply) for the generator.

As of September 28, just over a week after Maria struck Puerto Rico, clean water, food, and fuel for generators were still hard to come by, most cell phone sites were out of service, and emergency officials struggled to distribute supplies throughout the island of 3.4 million people.

Many homes and businesses are partially running on generators, but that's hardly a sustainable solution as they require expensive shipments of fuel.

And it has been reported that the Nigerian government has had to budget N837m (around # 2.5 million) last year for fuelling and maintaining generators for its offices in 2014 as a result of being unable to rely on the national grid for power.

, was originally addressed in the microgrid project literature as a reduction: «Noise associated with the obsolete emergency diesel generators will no longer exist and tractor - trailer trucks delivering fuel will be reduced,»

The heavy traffic of diesel trailer trucks, which has been an ongoing issue in the South End, was originally addressed in the microgrid project literature as a reduction: «Noise associated with the obsolete emergency diesel generators will no longer exist and tractor - trailer trucks delivering fuel will be reduced,» the project's FAQ site reads.

Puerto Rican scientists are still taking stock of the magnitude of the wreckage nearly two weeks after the hurricane made landfall on Sept. 20 as Category 4 winds propelled trees into buildings, knocked out power systems, left residents without fuel for generators and transportation and diminished access to drinking water and food supplies.

This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

While humankind has been digging fuel from the ground and burning it for power, living plants and the soil they grow in have been hiding some serious potential as electricity generators.

It turns out they are indispensable for a range of urgently needed green energy technologies such as wind turbine generators, low - energy lighting, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, magnetic refrigeration and hydrogen storage.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

The challenge now, scientists say, is to scale up the process to provide large amounts of hydrogen for various purposes, such as fueling vehicles or small generators.

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

But those reactors» spent fuel pools are benefiting from a diesel generator that is still working to keep cooling water in place, according to World Nuclear News, though temperatures are beginning to rise in these pools as well.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

iv) I'll go so far as to say that with an (admittedly unlikely) storage capability, the existing grid could service far more load while the generators consume less fuel.

But if your body doesn't rely on gluconeogenesis as it's primary fuel generator, how does it create energy from fat and REQUIRE fat (and resort to using body fat if deficient in oral fat load)?

Energy is generated through fuel cells powered with hydrogen collected from phytohydrogen generators (genetically enhanced algal cultures that produce the element as a by - product) and with solar - collector hydrogen generators.

As well as supporting fuel - saving technology such as engine - off coasting and an integrated starter - motor and generator, the 48V system will also allow VW to develop electrically driven turbochargers to improve performance on models such as the GTI and R. Unlike a number of its rivals, Volkswagen will offer its next Golf as both three - and five - door options, as well as an estate, while the GTI's classic red design clues and understated looks should also remain intacAs well as supporting fuel - saving technology such as engine - off coasting and an integrated starter - motor and generator, the 48V system will also allow VW to develop electrically driven turbochargers to improve performance on models such as the GTI and R. Unlike a number of its rivals, Volkswagen will offer its next Golf as both three - and five - door options, as well as an estate, while the GTI's classic red design clues and understated looks should also remain intacas supporting fuel - saving technology such as engine - off coasting and an integrated starter - motor and generator, the 48V system will also allow VW to develop electrically driven turbochargers to improve performance on models such as the GTI and R. Unlike a number of its rivals, Volkswagen will offer its next Golf as both three - and five - door options, as well as an estate, while the GTI's classic red design clues and understated looks should also remain intacas engine - off coasting and an integrated starter - motor and generator, the 48V system will also allow VW to develop electrically driven turbochargers to improve performance on models such as the GTI and R. Unlike a number of its rivals, Volkswagen will offer its next Golf as both three - and five - door options, as well as an estate, while the GTI's classic red design clues and understated looks should also remain intacas the GTI and R. Unlike a number of its rivals, Volkswagen will offer its next Golf as both three - and five - door options, as well as an estate, while the GTI's classic red design clues and understated looks should also remain intacas both three - and five - door options, as well as an estate, while the GTI's classic red design clues and understated looks should also remain intacas well as an estate, while the GTI's classic red design clues and understated looks should also remain intacas an estate, while the GTI's classic red design clues and understated looks should also remain intact.

Finally, Charge mode enables the car to use the hydrogen fuel cell system to act as a generator that charges the battery.

Hong Kong - based Hybrid Kinetic Group does specialise in turbine systems however, and its website makes claims that its turbine generators are as little as a half to a third the size of a conventional piston engine, runs 20,000 hours maintenance free and can run on virtually any fuel - from petrol and diesel to hydrogen, or propane.

This Regal joins the 2012 LaCrosse as the second Buick to feature the eAssist technology, which uses a state - of - the - art lithium - ion battery system together with an electric induction motor - generator and regenerative braking to improve fuel economy.

Range - extended models have a supplemental 650 - cc gasoline engine that acts solely as a generator and has a fuel capacity of 2.4 gallons.

This a modular concept that allows three models with different drive configurations: the BlueZERO E-CELL with battery - electric drive and a range of up to 200 kilometres using electric drive alone, the BlueZERO F - CELL (fuel cell) with a range of 250 miles using electric drive and the BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS with electric drive and additional internal combustion engine as power generator (range extender).

Like hybrids, however, and unlike EVs (or range - extender EVs, which incorporate a combustion engine that acts as a power generator, extending their range), PHEVs are powered primarily by a conventional combustion engine — fuelled by petrol in all cases in Australia so far.

And Chevrolet and GMC sell full - size hybrid pickups, though their hybrid systems are designed more to act as on - site electrical power generators than to achieve maximum fuel economy.

Fuel savings previously exclusive to the high - voltage hybrid technology will be made possible by innovations such as the 48 - volt on - board power supply, the integrated starter generators (ISG) and belt - driven starter generators (RSG).

The fuel cell generates electricity (and water vapor), so Toyota is pitching the Mirai as an emergency generator for the house during a power failure.

The company says that the engine will function as a generator in nearly all circumstances, enabling a version of its well - regarded 1.5 - liter four backed by a new two - motor hybrid system will deliver a city / highway EPA fuel economy rating in excess of 50 miles per gallon.

«We have diesel fuel for generators providing electricity in some areas as well as power to our kitchen where we are providing food for guests both at Royal Islander as well as our guests at the shelters,» according to a spokesperson for Sonesta Hotels.

Chassis incorporates weight redistribution, weight reduction and tyre wear, while aerodynamics improves front downforce, rear downforce, drag and DRS, alongside power train which enhances engine power and fuel consumption, although durability also plays a huge part as it reduces wear on power units and gearbox components throughout a range of enhancements to general wear, internal combustion engine, motor generator unit kinetic and heat, energy store, turbo charger, control electronics and gearbox.

Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

If power generator owners and governments had decreed that the most inefficient and most unreliable, most costly power generation systems that could be conceived to generate power for our modern civilisation were to be the norm then the so called renewable energy systems of wind and solar along with highly inefficient fossil fuel burning idling generators as standby's when the renewables fail to produce power then it is doubtful that a more hopelessly inefficient and unreliable system could be devised for a civilisation that depends so utterly on having dead steady, totally reliable, at call power every second of every day to run that civilisation's entire very sophisticated structures

Long lines formed at gas stations as people sought fuel to power backup generators.

Perhaps in a year or two they may have some appreciation of the impact of photovoltaics upon peak demand, an impact the fossil fuel electricity generators are well aware of and are trying to limit; for what they see as their commercial gain.

DERs can include solar panels, combined heat and power plants, electricity storage, small natural gas - fuelled generators, electric vehicles and controllable loads, such as HVAC systems and electric water heaters.

As well every CO of every military base in the world would give his left nut to have his own electrical grid not reliant on diesel fueled generators with a defensible small nuclear power plant.

Petroleum - fired generators either burn petroleum liquids (such as distillate or residual fuel oils) or petroleum coke, a refinery waste product that can be used as a fuel much like coal.

Work in the Scale - Up and Prototyping program informs the JCAP scientific efforts as to where key performance levers are and also identifies gaps revealed by real - world implementation of an integrated solar - fuels generator based on artificial photosynthesis.

«Higher gas prices are rationing consumption by electricity generators, especially owners of combined - cycle plants that operate as baseload and consume large volumes of fuel.

Better still, it can be compressed and purified for use as fuel in generators, garbage trucks, or mixed into natural gas supply.

In contrast, conventional generators can continue to produce energy as long as fuel is available, adjusting their output up or down as needed.

Due to an increase in demand for natural gas for space and water heating, and limitations imposed by natural gas pipeline constraints, electricity generation from gas was unable to scale up, and the burden was transferred to oil as dual fuel generators switched over.

An anti-idling generator is estimated to pay for itself through fuel savings in less than two years as they limit greenhouse gas emissions in the meantime.

I think you'd be much better off just drying and pelletizing the cellulosic material and using a syngas generator to produce carbon monoxide and then fuel your internal combustion engine directly from the CO which requires very little modification to the engine — about the same as the modifications required to run it from natural gas or propane.