Sentences with phrase «high battery use»

This can lead to high battery use, and some people prefer to not give their location away to apps they don't trust.

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«The ability to track, navigate, map and recognize both scenes and objects using Movidius» low - power and high - performance SoCs opens opportunities in areas where heat, battery life and form factors are key.»

The idea is that when grid electricity rates are high, a building can switch over to using the batteries for power as a way to lower monthly energy bills.

OnePlus cofounder Carl Pei says he doesn't want to use higher resolution screens for now as they take up too much battery.

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

Fort Wetherill used to be a coastal defense battery and training camp on granite cliffs 100 feet high.

Working with the app and equipped with a grip of high - tech parts (a microprocessor, an accelerometer, a lithium - polymer battery and Bluetooth, 2G and 3G cellular components), the collar monitors your dog's overall health and activity levels, lets you remotely play with and train your dog using customizable programs and even helps you keep your dog within an invisible «geofence» perimeter around your yard.

Using nano - technology to synthesize artificial molecules, Tel Aviv - based StoreDot says it has developed a battery that can store a much higher charge more quickly, in effect acting like a super-dense sponge to soak up power and retain it.

The products that will be produced at the refinery include cobalt chemicals used to make high performance rechargeable batteries, bismuth metals and chemicals, as well as gold.

Using a high - capacity lithium - ion battery and proprietary technology, the Powerwall is a major step towards Tesla achieving its major goal of integrating energy generation and storage in the home.

Using a high - capacity lithium - ion battery and proprietary technology — the Powerwall is a major step towards Tesla achieving its major end goal of integrating energy generation and storage in the home.

You will be compelled to use the highest volume setting, but when it comes to the signal and battery life, it scores highly.

The battery used in this cradle swing is high quality and longer lasting.

It has approximately 11 hours of battery life when used on high speed, and around 14 hours on low, though this varies based on the quality of batteries used.

Lithium, among the top 10 most expensive minerals in the world can be used for the manufacture of batteries, heat - resistant glass, and ceramics while Lithium stearate is mixed with oils to make all - purpose and high - temperature lubricants.

When the battery is fully charged, you can take this multitool anywhere for up to 20 minutes of continuous use at the highest variable speed setting.

The average battery life is 64 hours when using the green LEDs and closer to five hours when using the highest white light setting.

Today's batteries use graphite anodes, but lithium anodes are ideal because the metal is lightweight and stores high energy levels in a small spac...

High schools in the U.S. have been using Head Impact Telemetry System technology in football helmets, where six battery powered sensors record the location, force, duration and direction of an impact and send the information wirelessly to a lap top on the sidelines.

The results of this work could lead to the ability to design materials that have extensive surface areas that can be used in batteries as high durability silicon electrodes.

Lithium - sulfur batteries have recently become one of the hottest topics in the field of energy storage devices due to their high energy density — which is about four times higher than that of lithium - ion batteries currently used in mobile devices.

Using an alternative electrolyte that is more stable at higher temperatures could help reduce fires in large lithium - ion batteries such as those used in the aircraft.

Ong, who leads the Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells and LEDs.

I mean for the high voltage batteries the amount of power you got to use, you know.

Black and Decker and DeWalt have started using the batteries in high - end power tools, and they may appear in the Chevy Volt electric car by 2010.

A plug - in hybrid electric uses a traction - drive power electronics system to propel the car forward by providing force to the car's wheels and has a charger for recharging the high - voltage battery when it is plugged into the power grid.

Finally, if the power supply improves slightly, or if it can be used to charge Philae's drained batteries, instruments with high power demands (about 25 watts) could be activated.

Researchers at The City College of New York - based CUNY Energy Institute announce the development of a novel low cost, rechargeable, high energy density battery that makes the widespread use of solar and wind power possible in the future.

Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including batteries for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.

Using their test cell, the researchers were, for the first time, able to explain precisely what transpires inside a high - voltage battery.

Compared to batteries that use graphite as the host material in the anode, Huang's solution is much lighter weight and can stabilize a higher load of lithium during cycling.

The team demonstrated the new concept in a lithium carbon fluoride battery, considered one of the best single - use batteries because of its high energy density, stability and long shelf life.

U.S. scientists have warned Congress that the significant demand for these minerals for use in high - tech and green technologies (like wind turbines, computer parts, and hybrid car batteries) could lead to shortages.

Using an antimony - based nanocomposite anode, Manthiram said he could design a safer, more durable battery that tolerates higher voltages.

Researchers have created a high performance anode material for lithium - ion batteries (LIBs) using waste silicon (Si) sawdust.

The metal - coated microbe can thus be used to build energy - storage devices with a power density much higher than that of traditional batteries, says Paula Hammond, a self - assembly expert who helped develop the technique.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low - cost chemical process to create nanosilicon anodes for high - performance lithium - ion batteries.

Presto: the batteries delivered a higher voltage than was used to charge them.

The underlying technologies of high temperature storage and thermophotovoltaic conversion could also be used to produce grid - scale batteries able to rapidly supplement other power sources by storing heat for quick conversion to electricity.

«Another, unexpected bonus of this electrolyte's high energy density is it could potentially expand the use of flow batteries into mobile applications such as powering trains and cars,» said the study's corresponding author, Wei Wang, a materials scientist at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

The germanium nanowires produced by this method have superior electronic properties compared to silicon and can be used as high - capacity anode material for lithium - ion batteries, but the nanowires were previously too expensive and difficult to produce.

They used high - resolution 3 - D images of the brain, questionnaires evaluating temperament and personality traits of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder and their non-bipolar relatives, and an extensive battery of cognitive tests assessing long - term memory, attention, inhibitory control and other neurocognitive abilities.

But so far, sodium - ion batteries have not operated at high capacity for long - term use.

A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid - charging the battery and using it to do high - power, rapidly draining work may not be as damaging as researchers had thought — and that the benefits of slow draining and charging may have been overestimated.

If we can collect that energy, we can use it in batteries, and recharge by returning them to a higher state.

Researchers have used the compound to create a high - performance «flow» battery, a leading contender for storing renewable power in the electric utility grid.

Vanadium is used in the most commercially advanced flow battery technology now in development, but its cost sets a rather high floor on the cost per kilowatt - hour at any scale.

Their unique optical and magnetic properties are used in various high - tech applications, such as motors, catalysts, light - emitting diodes and batteries.

Alán Aspuru - Guzik, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, used his pioneering high - throughput molecular screening methods to calculate the properties of more than 10,000 quinone molecules in search of the best candidates for the battery.