Sentences with phrase «harvesting energy»

Called regenerative braking, this is the effect of the motor being used to slow the car, harvesting energy back into the battery and eking out a little more range.

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Civilization building means harvesting energy from the planet to do work (i.e., the work of civilization building).

Now people have to start harvesting energy from the sun.

With the increasing adoption of mobile devices, which range from consumer electronics such as smart watches and fitness trackers to health monitors and other sensors, comes an increase in the need for better mobile power supplies, and although battery technology is improving (other than, you know, those exploding batteries), it seems equally important to continue to develop other methods of harvesting energy for mobile devices, such as this hybrid power textile.

Keep in mind, that battery / power storage and power regulation systems are often the highest costs of harvesting energy from the earth while turbines and solar panels are much more reasonably priced these days.

Bringing everything together, Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry and our Past President, talks on BBC World News about the future of renewable energy and how advances in harvesting the energy of the sun, such as organic solar cells and artificial photosynthesis, are being inspired by nature.

The Fellows Prize selection committee selected Sergei Tretiak in part for his development of organic light - emitting diodes for flexible displays, organic lasers, light - harvesting energy devices, and other important technologies.

Speculations have included the idea that the star swallowed a planet that it is unstable, and a more imaginative theory involves a giant contraption or «megastructure» built by an advanced civilization, which could be harvesting energy from the star and causing its brightness to decrease.

Plastids have their own genome and are responsible for harvesting energy from light in photosynthetic plants and algae.

Researchers have previously come up with several strategies for harvesting the energy in our footfalls.

The watchmaker in the 1920s who devised the self - winding wristwatch was on to a great idea: mechanically harvesting energy from the wearer's moving arm and putting it to work rewinding the watch spring.

«To achieve the really, really low power consumption that you need to run a phone by harvesting energy from the environment, we had to fundamentally rethink how these devices are designed.»

During her half - hour of interaction with the class, McNutt said, students asked questions ranging from the feasibility of the OTEC, or Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion — a strategy for harvesting energy from the oceans — to whether deforestation in Africa «might actually have a silver lining if it leads to ocean iron fertilization.»

Researchers have created glass that tints by harvesting energy from wind and precipitation.

«That's enough to start thinking about statistics,» says Frank, «like what is the average lifetime of a species that starts harvesting energy efficiently and uses it to develop high technology.»

Considerable work has already been done harvesting energy from brake systems, so Dr Wang decided to focus on the suspension.

«Breakthrough in harvesting energy from automotive shock absorbers.»

As Prof. Duncan Gregory of the University of Glasgow told the Daily Mail, «The idea is to harvest the energy and store it using a combination of a super capacitor and a lithium battery.»

This means plant chloroplasts somehow «know» how to pick the most optimal path for a photon to harvest its energy.

When chickens eat the weeds, bugs, and grass they were meant to eat, they harvest the energy from the sun.

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease, to harvest the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow (METAPHOR, EXAGGERATION AND RULE OF THREE).

NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) is a molecule that harvests energy from nutrients in food and converts it into a form cells can use.

A new nanogenerator that acts like a second skin and harvests energy from human motions can easily generate enough power to light 20 small LEDs.

Harvested energy can be used for any auxiliary purpose in a vehicle, said Professor Ball, and in hybrids it could recharge the electric motor.

They harvest energy from our food, provide us with nutrients that would otherwise be denied to us, prevent the growth of harmful bacteria, and more.

«There could be a huge improvement there to harvest energy, and these materials could potentially do this,» she says.

Dagdeviren has big plans for the brain implant, and she is developing ideas for piezoelectric - based devices that harvest energy from outside the body, such as from the motions of knees and elbows.

Last year, the government finally took advantage of those winds, installing 33 wind turbines manufactured by domestic company Xinjiang Gold Wind at the Guanting wind power field to harvest this energy and use it to supplement the electricity provided by polluting coal.

Big money awaits innovators who can build rockets, sequence genomes, predict people's movie preferences, harvest energy from the tides, or explore the Moon.

In this image, a local farmer drives harvested energy crops to the bioenergy plant, where they will be stored under large tarps until ready for processing.

The 15 - millimeter long soft robot harvests energy from green light and is controlled by spatially modulated laser beam.

While other groups have harvested energy from living systems, Shepard and his team are exploring how to do this at the molecular level, isolating just the desired function and interfacing this with electronics.

Next, the spacecraft would reel out the tether while applying a brake that harvests energy while the spacecraft accelerates.

When it's time to move on to another celestial target, the spacecraft would use the harvested energy to quickly retrieve the tether, which accelerates the spacecraft away from the body.

To harvest energy from those natural movements, biophysicist Ozgur Sahin and his Columbia University colleagues glued spores to both sides of small tapes, shown in yellow.

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

Its solar panels harvested energy from the sun, which could be stored in onboard batteries that allowed the plane to stay powered overnight.

Krupenkin adds that another advantage of the technology is that it can be easily scaled up to harvest energy from a larger device with hundreds or thousands of liquid drops.

Now scientists have built a flexible nanogenerator out of cellulose, an abundant natural material, that could potentially harvest energy from the body — its heartbeats, blood flow and other almost imperceptible but constant movements.

The second layer of nanogenerators lies just beneath the first and harvests energy from the wind.

Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA researchers have developed a two - layer, see - through solar film that could be placed on windows, sunroofs, smartphone displays and other surfaces to harvest energy from the sun.

By engineering nano - size branches and trunks into plastic solar cells, researchers have improved their ability to harvest the energy in sunlight

«Our experimental results are promising and show that, for many practical applications, piezoelectric polymer multilayers may enable harvested energy to replace batteries,» notes Yao.

So far, however, attempts to harvest this energy using vibrating plates or piezoelectric materials, which produce electricity when compressed or bent, have mustered only a few milliwatts.

Piezoelectric elements inside its recycled cork shell harvest energy from its movements, its clicks and its scroll wheel.

But what if there were a compact, flexible material that could harvest energy from the body's own movement?

That includes power - constrained devices that have to harvest energy from their environments or go months between battery charges.

The ability to capture vehicle energy creatively is not limited to the car itself: London and Israel plan to embed generators in roads to harvest energy dissipated by the traffic running over them.

Instead of having to constantly recharge them by hooking them up to some external system — or, worse, periodically removing them and replacing their batteries — researchers would prefer that these machines somehow harvest energy from their hosts.