Sentences with phrase «in small grids»

The streets of Manhattan form the most famous urban grid in the world — we type in grid - shaped keyboard keys, we digest our digital media through tiny pixellated grids, and play the lottery filling numbers in small grids.

«bubble», displayed in a small grid - like formation in the courtyard of lisson gallery, was first shown in watson island, miami, florida, USA in 2008.

Not exact matches

Sandy, whose ferocity is described by weather experts as a once every 700 years event, left in its wake a path of destruction that wiped out entire towns, squashed power grids, flooded regional transportation, and hobbled tens of thousands of small businesses, the economic lifeblood of New Jersey and New York.

Small - scale solar panels generate electricity more cheaply than buying from the grid in certain parts of the United States.

«U.S. Solar's strategy of developing grid interconnected community solar projects aligns with our focus of investing in small - scale, high quality clean energy infrastructure,» said Ian Marcus, Principal at New Energy Capital Partners.

«I heard the Army had a 20 - foot grid above the entire Olympic complex to keep Osama bin Laden from buzzing the place in a small plane,» says Knaack.

Arrange them in a grid using the ruler, and mark each place where a hole will be with a small dot using the pen.

#Repost @alyssaaldersley with @Rep0stApp • • • • • • • I haven't posted a picture of my smallest person on the grid in for, like, ever.

He said more than 1,000 under - served communities in the Region had been connected to the national electricity grid and 300,000 people had also been supplied with potable drinking water under the Small Town Water system.

It affirmed that the Kainji plant serves as a demonstration of innovative small - scale electrification solutions which is the first renewable energy power plant in Nigeria that combines more than one technology, and is able to operate both off - grid and on - grid.

If big blackouts were just a random, unlucky confluence of many small failures, as grid planners and operators believed, a major grid collapse would occur only once in a thousand years or so, showing up as the slim tail on a bell curve.

In a traditional computer, a microprocessor is mounted on a «package,» a small circuit board with a grid of electrical leads on its bottom.

Joy: But at least in that situation, you know, when we're reaching, we're starting to come to an inflexion point where distributing renewable energy will be as cheap or cheaper than the grid; because solar and batteries and small - scale wind will start crossing over.

Programming a molecular biology experiment can be similar to playing Sudoku; both are simple if you're working with only a few molecules or a small grid, but they explode in complexity as they grow.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

If solar energy were to make up 10 per cent of the country's electricity mix, this difference would add an extra 0.23 per cent to overall grid emissions in the US — a small but significant amount.

Micro-grids may not be the cheapest option in the long run, as electricity from small grids tends to be three or four times as expensive per unit than that from centralised sources.

By using smaller grids — with spacing of just a few kilometers rather than several tens of kilometers as in conventional current models — they were able to show that they could more realistically model the amount of black carbon aerosols, mitigating the underestimation in more coarse - grained models.

Rather than pursuing the centralized power systems favored by big utilities and international lending agencies, the initiative encourages the private sector to develop small independent grids in remote regions.

Using a computer model that fused air pollution and atmospheric chemistry data, they estimated what annual average levels of ozone (a key smog ingredient) and fine particulates smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) were in 2010 within 100 - km - by -100-km grid squares across the world.

For communities still using kerosene lighting, she said, such small - scale distribution «is not saying people shouldn't have access to the grid, but in the meantime, there is a quick win.»

The Mosers also found that the different cells in the entorhinal cortex generate grids of many different types, like overlapping honeycombs — big, small and in every orientation and position relative to the box's border.

Gershon Dublon of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devised a small pad containing electrodes in a 5 × 5 grid.

The researchers set up a grid system for the Alpha Centauri system and asked, based on the spectrographic analysis, «If there was a small, rocky planet in the habitable zone, would we have been able to detect it?»

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

We use previous observations of the brown dwarf disk ISO - Oph 102 to inform a fiducial model around which we build a small grid of brown dwarf disk models, in order to explore the structure of CO isotopologue, HCN, and HCO + lines.

PNNL is a recognized leader in developing materials for energy storage, be it grid - scale batteries used to store energy from the sun or wind for later use, or smaller batteries used for transportation.

A 100 mile (161 km) grid, for example, might not capture the climate effects of a small mountain range rising out of the eastern Montana plains or the climate differences between mountain summits and valleys in western Montana where temperature and precipitation vary greatly.

Models of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaciers.

Samples were prepared by immersion of grids of S -160-3 type (Cu coated with carbon film, Plano GmbH) in a small volume (0.5 mL) of solutions followed by solvent evaporation in a dust - protected atmosphere.

Two Arteriors Jarrod Small Pendants hang over three modern gray counter stools placed in front of a marble waterfall island located facing a white center island fitted with a prep sink paired with a satin nickel faucet and flanked by a recessed fridge and a white kitchen hood with a wood trim fixed on white grid wall tiles above a Wolf range and beside open white shelves.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

Can be played in pairs, where two dice are used alongside small grids.

A unique off - the - grid power solution for schools: children play on a merry - go - round that charges lanterns, which the students can take home and use to study in small g...

Living in such small quarters poses its own kind of challenges but minimizes the resources needed to live off the grid.

Puzzazz Review The puzzle interface is user - friendly and the TouchWrite feature overcomes many of the drawbacks inherent in dealing with a relatively large grid on a small screen.

While this would not be a covered loss if wind is excluded, $ 300 of food in your fridge spoiled because the hurricane took out the power grid is a far smaller risk than the flooding or destruction that can come from a hurricane in less well constructed dwellings.

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to steer his electric car company's battery technology into homes and businesses as part of an elaborate plan to reshape the power grid with millions of small power plants made of solar panels on roofs and batteries in garages.

Other methods of debridement include a procedure called a grid keratotomy, when your veterinarian numbs the eye and uses a small, sterile needle to gently «scratch» a grid on the surface of the cornea in the area of the ulcer.

Puzzles range in difficulty and size from small introductory pictures to huge scrollable grids with highly detailed pictures.

Players navigate the Bomber sibling of their choice through dozens of small, grid - like areas, taking out obstacles and enemies by dropping timed bombs that blow up in straight cross-like explosions, while collecting powerups that can increase player speed, explosion size, and the amount of bombs that can be onscreen at once.

Fire Emblem still draws in a respectable crowd on the Nintendo portables, and roguelikes like Bedlam make good use of the good old grid - and - single - units battle system, but they're small beer compared to Final Fantasy Tactics and, arriving at last at the point, Advance Wars.

Each mission takes place on a small boardgame - like grid, which represents a city - sized space, but can be crossed by your mechs in as little as two turns.

In Inversus, you play as a small block (either black or white) and must navigate various grid - based maps.

In Channing Hansen's solo gallery debut, which consists of nine large knitted works and one salon - style grid of smaller pieces, traditional stretcher bars are visible...

It may mean something that almost all the abstract painting in the show is by women, from Ulrike Müller's small geometric enamel - on - steel pictures, as precious as antique cameos, to Nancy Brooks Brody's black - and - white grids radiant with half - hidden color.

While the grid and optical illusions are present in Livingston's paintings, the relatively smaller individual forms create more of an all - over pattern.

The small prints are displayed singly or in diptychs and grids that enhance formal and figurative relationships.

The twisted grids also appear as literal support in smaller maquettes.

In the 1940s, Sekula made small abstractions favoring the grid structure, saturated colors and a lyrical, delicate sense of line.