Sentences with phrase «generate useful power»

Singer says it could be potentially tapped to drive a tiny electrical generator, although the amount involved — about 10 - 24 joules per cycle — is so tiny that billions of single - ion engines would be needed to generate useful power.

is so tiny that billions of single - ion engines would be needed to generate useful power.

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To power Tesla's electric car empire, the company has joined hands with Vestas, a top wind turbine manufacturer, to create a storage system that would make power generated from wind useful during quiet days in the jetstreams.

The energy generated by the device is currently small (about a nanowatt), but Wang says that this is still an important step along the road to developing useful power sources for nanoscale devices.

Power - generating shoes could be especially useful for the military, as soldiers currently carry heavy batteries to power their radios, GPS units and night - vision goggles in the fPower - generating shoes could be especially useful for the military, as soldiers currently carry heavy batteries to power their radios, GPS units and night - vision goggles in the fpower their radios, GPS units and night - vision goggles in the field.

While algae - powered fuel cells are unlikely to generate enough electricity to power a grid system, they may be particularly useful in areas such as rural Africa, where sunlight is in abundance but there is no existing electric grid system.

However the latest technology uses Building - Integrated Photo - Voltaics (BIPVs) useful to generate power within its place of need.

(Sec. 242) Requires the Secretary to establish a program to make monetary awards to encourage the owners and operators of new and existing electric energy generation facilities or thermal energy production facilities using fossil or nuclear fuel to use innovative means of recovering thermal energy that is a potentially useful byproduct of electric power generation or other processes to: (1) generate additional electric energy; or (2) make sales of thermal energy not used for electric generation, in the form of steam, hot water, chilled water, or desiccant regeneration, or for other commercially valid purposes.

This link provdes a useful primer of the varioius alternatives, although having written an article on generating energy from waves many of the methods described are either unacceptable to many (nuclear) or in their infancy (such as wave power)

As a means of producing useful electrical power, wind and solar are very expensive generating technologies because of their low capacity factors and because of their non-dispatchability and intermittency.

Solar power, nuclear energy, and coal are primarily useful for generating electric power, but these energies do not provide liquid fuels needed for transportation or mechanized agriculture, nor do they provide raw materials for manufacturing of 300,000 products, including fertilizer.