Sentences with phrase «lack of electricity in»

It has also integrated a UPS as well as an ACDC converter in the machine so that it can work on a car battery for six to eight hours, to tackle the lack of electricity in many villages.

Well news to those who couldn't make it, we got all of the games in despite the eerie weather, lack of electricity in the burbs (hope everyone has theirs back by now) and traffic lights that caused dozens to be stuck in traffic.

Also, on a personal note, dozens of friends have shared with me countless stories of their elderly loved ones dying as a result of the lack of electricity in their homes, hospitals, and care centers.

Not exact matches

More than six months after Hurricane Maria, daily life in Castañer, Puerto Rico, is nowhere close to normal as residents try to deal with the effects of trauma, chronic stress and the continued lack of electricity.

«Today, seven out of ten people lack access to even the most basic electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

U.N. special envoy for Palestinian rights Richard Falk said Tuesday the lack of electricity for 1.7 million residents in Gaza Strip is sparking a catastrophe.

Among the numerous factors cited by some failed startups in Africa's most populous country Nigeria from a personal survey I conducted include, high and multiple taxes, lack of funding, electricity and security.

This is unconscionable that Puerto Rico still lacks electricity in 14 percent of the island.

According to witnesses, because of a lack of electricity, many of the bodies were buried later that day in mass graves.

At one point the electricity supply to the mine was cut in the hopes that the lack of light would force the protagonists to halt.

Climatic conditions, lack of resources, poor education, difficulties in maintaining the «cold chain,» electricity failures etc., preclude collection at home, transport to the special baby units and prolonged frozen storage.

It also organised a protest in the city of Port Harcourt against the federal government's inability to address the burning perennial fuel scarcity, zero megawatts and total lack of electricity amidst increased tariff and economic hardship unleashed on Nigerians by the Buhari administration.

I witnessed the lack of roads, electricity and basic services in these regions.

LOWER EAST SIDE — After two weeks of no gas, running water or electricity in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, fed - up residents at a 1,600 - plus - unit housing complex are calling for a break in rent to make up for the lack of livable conditions.

Costly energy, poor transport, and a lack of electricity for the future are also issues in search of solutions that could assist growth.»

Elsa Seguinot indicated that she had a lot of family in Puerto Rico, and after the storm abated most of the island's residents lacked access to electricity and clean water.

Fresh off meetings in Haiti to discuss potential renewable energy plans with the government, state electricity company and other players in the country's energy market, Konold calls the lack of political will in the Haitian government to tackle the hardest problems like theft disheartening.

«Water shortages from lack of electricity are common in today's conflicts,» says the ICRC.

But in the coming decade, nukelets like NuScale's may well eclipse solar and wind as the green energy of choice, bringing plentiful electricity to billions of people who lack it and possibly powering individual neighborhoods within cities.

GeneXpert also requires a constant and uninterrupted flow of electricity, lacking in many developing nations, although Weyer says studies are under way to attempt to power the machines with batteries and solar energy.

«As a region, Africa is in an unparalleled energy crisis rife with electricity deficiency, lack of access, and high costs,» said Wu.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, ambulance service is rare and 30 % of all hospitals and clinics lack reliable water and electricity.

Chalk one up for self - determination: The lovely Julianne Nicholson spent much of her childhood in a cabin in rural Massachusetts that lacked water and electricity — her mother relocated there after her parents divorced — before finding the spunk to move...

Additionally, the sexual components in Anon lack the electricity and pulpiness of other classic erotic thrillers like Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction.

In addition to Ms. Lawrence and Mr. Sutherland, returning to the fold are Josh Hutcherson as Peeta (still lacking even an ounce of screen presence), Woody Harrelson as Haymitch (giving a bit more effort this time around), Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Paula Malcomson as Katniss» mother (seen recently as Abby in «Ray Donovan «-RRB-, Willow Shields as Prim, Liam Hemsworth as Gale (his most exciting scene is washing his hands), and of course the instant electricity and energy provided by Elizabeth Banks as Effie and Stanley Tucci as Caesar — two of the most colorful characters this side of 1970's era Elton JohIn addition to Ms. Lawrence and Mr. Sutherland, returning to the fold are Josh Hutcherson as Peeta (still lacking even an ounce of screen presence), Woody Harrelson as Haymitch (giving a bit more effort this time around), Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Paula Malcomson as Katniss» mother (seen recently as Abby in «Ray Donovan «-RRB-, Willow Shields as Prim, Liam Hemsworth as Gale (his most exciting scene is washing his hands), and of course the instant electricity and energy provided by Elizabeth Banks as Effie and Stanley Tucci as Caesar — two of the most colorful characters this side of 1970's era Elton Johin «Ray Donovan «-RRB-, Willow Shields as Prim, Liam Hemsworth as Gale (his most exciting scene is washing his hands), and of course the instant electricity and energy provided by Elizabeth Banks as Effie and Stanley Tucci as Caesar — two of the most colorful characters this side of 1970's era Elton John.

A folktales project is behind schedule because of lack of electricity, lack of heat in the school — which kept students home for several weeks — and infrequent access to computers at their school.

Lack of basic infrastructure, such as electricity, is a major obstacle to the use of technology in African schools.

It's been widely assumed that this is due to the lack of a battery packs ability to hold larger amounts of electricity which would result in more energy to deliver to your electric motor — thus allowing you to travel farther.

He said that in the event of a disaster, to give an extreme example, lack of electricity or other would mean an inability to access all those books.

Other far - flung locations in this Talent in Texas show reflect art - making's increasingly migratory character, such as rural Maine — see Keliy Anderson - Staley's fascinating Off the Grid series depicting the homes of families living without plumbing or electricity — and Venezuela, where Miguel Amat shot his hauntingly ambiguous large - format photographs of dams used not just to generate electricity to «contain» the leisure activities of low - and middle - income local tourists who lack international travel options.

Not long ago, we wrote about blueEnergy, a non-profit organization that is building hybrid wind and solar systems to power homes, schools and rural clinics in rural Nicaragua where nearly 80 percent of the population lacks electricity.

A further 255 million people are served by health centres without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, it says, where over 30 % of facilities lack power.

(I had that same feeling when I first saw photos of kids, lacking electricity in their slum dwellings, doing homework under the lights in an airport parking lot in Guinea.)

«I am struck by the lack of fundamental breakthroughs required for an abundant, clean energy future, whether in electricity generation from wind, coal (IGCC), ocean thermal, ocean wave, ocean tide, solar, nuclear, or liquids from coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, biofuels, bio-engineered fuels, and so on.»

I'm dealing with a disaster of microscopic dimensions, being among the 200,000 households in the Northeast still lacking electricity, heat and flushing toilets three days after an astonishing dump of snow.

As the Nobel Committee notes in its press release: «The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids.»

Now the deployment of fossil and coal generation in regions like sub-Saharan Africa is very likely a net positive for humanity, since a lack of modern electricity systems is largely what makes those locales most vulnerable to climate and other impacts in the first place.

The country has built a sophisticated energy industry that underpins its economy, despite lacking infrastructure enabling it to rely on electricity imports or natural gas flowing from international pipelines,» said Claude Mandil, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today in Seoul at the launch of Energy Policies of IEA Countries — Republic of Korea 2006 Review.

On part loaded condition the marginal cost of electricity from diesel generator could be higher than 20 Rs / kWh (US$ 0.31), but due to the lack of policy certainty and delays in decisionmaking, we are yet to achieve goals set up for «Greening the Islands».

While there are about 274 million households worldwide that lack access to electricity, Mills» study focuses on the «poorest of the poor,» or about 112 million households, largely in Africa and Asia, that can not afford even a mini solar home system, which might power a fan, a few lights, a phone charger, and a small TV.

Today, over 300 million people still lack access to reliable centralized electricity in this nation of 1.2 billion people.

Currently, around 15 percent of the world's population lacks access to electricity, mostly in rural areas of the developing world, where providing power infrastructure is more challenging.

This Carbon Tracker report shows how rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks.

(Sec. 299D) Establishes in the Treasury the Alternative Energy Sources State Loan Fund for loans to states and Indian tribes to provide incentives to owners of single - family and multi-family housing, commercial properties, and public buildings to provide: (1) renewable energy sources for such structures; (2) energy efficiency and energy conserving improvements and features for such structures; or (3) infrastructure related to the delivery of electricity and hot water for structures lacking such amenities.

Lack of access to electricity is keeping people in poverty.

LONDON, 13th November 2014 — Rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks, new research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) shows.

According to his biographical note at Eco-Imperialism.com, he «abandoned their cause when he recognized that the environmental movement had become intolerant in its views, inflexible in its demands, unwilling to recognize our tremendous strides in protecting the environment, and insensitive to the needs of billions of people who lack the food, electricity, safe water, healthcare and other basic necessities that we take for granted.»

In April, Kinder Morgan, the nation's biggest energy infrastructure company, dropped its plan for the Northeast Energy Direct project because of a lack of assurances that electricity ratepayers would pay for the $ 3.3 billion pipeline.

Stated conversely, the lack of interconnection between China and neighboring states meant much of the water release from the Three Gorges Dam in late May for drought reasons was left under - utilized for electricity production.

Low natural gas market prices and their impacts on wholesale electricity prices, along with low energy growth since 2008 and a lack of stability in federal policy (such as the production tax credit), have influenced wind power deployment.