Sentences with phrase «generate electrical»

Some 40 percent of energy - related emissions come from the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil, coal, and natural gas, to generate electrical power.

The technology is coming out of a small company called Wysips, which has perfected a transparent coating less than 100 microns deep that captures enough energy from the sun to generate electrical power.

Adding to the sustainable agenda for this project, mini turbines were conceived for the median strip along the highway to generate electrical energy for the building from the wind created by passing cars.

And that before 2075, one could have about 1/2 energy from nuclear energy and not be using coal to generate electrical power.

Sure lets use solar to generate electrical power from the sun, but first use the free energy from under your feet by using geothermal heat pump system saving half the number of solar panels you would us.

In addition to using sunlight to generate electrical power, as conventional PV panels do, the company's energy system captures the sun's thermal energy, which may then be used for heating water and home air conditioning.

Contributors to the Marrakech Biennale include curator Omar Berrada, who will present a specific show within the larger exhibition on the body of work and the archive of the late Moroccan critic and filmmaker Ahmed Bouanani; artists Yto Barrada and Mona Hatoum; a small survey of the art movement initiated by the Casablanca School; and architect Khaled Malas with documentation of his ongoing collaboration with a collective of artists and craftsmen in Ghouta and other areas of Syria to build windmills out of found materials to generate electrical power for hospitals.

Some of the cells in the heart are able to generate electrical signals that cause the rhythmic beating of the heart.

«Fifteen Million Merits» tells the story of Bing, an unsatisfied cog in a community forced to generate electrical power with stationary bikes.

All living things generate an electrical pulse, generating wave vibrations.

Ionic minerals are an essential part in this process, as the body relies on them to conduct and generate electrical impulses.

Of the fishes able to generate an electrical discharge, electric eels are by far the champions, producing up to 600 volts!

Fusion, the power that drives the sun and the stars, is the fusing of light elements that produces massive amounts of heat with the potential to generate electrical energy.

Pyroelectricity is the ability of certain materials to generate an electrical potential when they are heated or cooled.

British biophysicist Alan Lloyd Hodgkin won the shiny gold medal in 1963 for discovering how the nerve cells of squid generate an electrical pulse when stimulated

When the sensors come into contact with sweat they generate electrical signals that are amplified and filtered, and then calibrated using skin temperature.

The hairs in turn generate electrical impulses that somehow stimulate glands in the trap to produce jasmonic acid — the same signal that noncarnivorous plants use to initiate defensive action against herbivores.

Batteries generate electrical current when ions pass from the negative terminal, or anode, to the positive terminal, or cathode, through an electrolyte.

One that's recently been explored uses bacteria that generate electrical power by eating organic matter.

The Colombian native said: «The synthetic material can generate electrical signals, which stimulate the neurons at the back of our eye just like the original retina.»

Elizabeth Heidrich, a PhD student at Newcastle University in England and lead author of the new study, studies microbial fuel cells — devices that generate electrical current by capturing the electrons freed as bacteria break down organic matter in wastewater.

Several groups of fish have evolved the capacity to generate electrical pulses from specialised «electric organs», derived from either muscle tissue or nerve tissue.

Neurons generate an electrical spike when the flow of ions across the cell membrane rises above a set threshold.

The researchers discovered T - type channels in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, can shift from using calcium ions to using sodium ions to generate the electrical signal because of an outer shield of amino acids called a turret situated above the channel's entrance.

The researchers discovered T - type channels in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, can shift from using calcium ions to using sodium ions to generate the electrical signal.

Venus flytraps no longer generate electrical signals and their traps remain open when trigger hairs were touched, and growing pea tendrils stopped their autonomous movements and were immobilized in a curled shape.

The piezoelectric effect allows a material to generate an electrical voltage when it is exposed to pressure or stretching.

But those devices create only a voltage difference; they don't generate the electrical current required to produce hydrogen, Logan notes.

But this could change: a new finding shows that nanometer - sized particles can generate electrical charges from sunlight more efficiently than any semiconductor tested before.

The protons then react with oxygen to generate electrical current.

Fuel cells generate electrical energy through a chemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen.

Simultaneously, natural gas is sent to the cell stack to generate electrical power that could in theory be sent back to a power plant and cancel out the parasitic load.

Those high - altitude winds zip along at more than 300 miles per hour and generate electrical currents that surround the Earth.

It was the first water - powered belt used to generate electrical power in Santa Cruz.

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

But it takes energy to generate electrical potentials, and, according to biophysics, this energy can come only from cellular metabolism.

One important complication here is that other body organs such as the heart also generate electrical potentials that spread through the body and summate with the potentials from the brain.

And Bristol University in the UK is working on underwater robots that generate electrical energy by foraging for biomatter to feed a chain of microbial fuel - cell stomachs.

The basics: The Tiguan GTE can be plugged in to charge, but it also offers a solar roof module that generate electrical energy fed directly into the battery, which allows for up to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) of zero emissions driving.

When mature, these cells grow hairs that bend in response to sound, generating electrical signals.

When the textile is then stretched or exposed to pressure, the deformation of the fibres causes a reorganisation of the charge distribution, thus generating an electrical voltage.

First, he created 20 - centimetre - long flexible ribbons made of a piezoelectric polymer that generates electrical currents when perturbed, either by wind or when rain drops fall on it.

The thought generates electrical activity in the nerve cells and also brainwaves.

The key to the invention is the creation of an empty chamber on the seabed into which water can flow, generating electrical power as it passes through turbines.

In their experiments, the researchers heated one side of the Permalloy - silicon bi-layer sandwich to create a temperature gradient, which generated an electrical voltage in the bi-layer.

When the wearer blinks, the motion of skin to the side of the eye causes the polymer layers to touch and release, generating an electrical signal.

Now, a researcher has designed a springy backpack that generates electrical energy through walking, eliminating the need to carry heavy batteries.

The following year, based on experiments in the giant squid axon, British biophysicists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described how ion flow across the cell membrane generates the electrical spikes — called action potentials — that constitute these signals.

When the battery runs low, the engine generates electrical power to extend the i3's total range to about 180 miles.

Utilizes an Intoximeters electrochemical fuel cell sensor which generates an electrical response that is proportional to the Breath Alcohol Concentration in the provided, fixed volume sample.