Sentences with phrase «like electrical energy»

Messages to and from the brain are then interrupted, just like electrical energy is interrupted during a blackout.

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National Sustainability means bringing solutions, like energy efficient lighting and electrical vehicle charging stations, to Towne Park's customers to help them make a better planet while also saving money.
«We'd like to enable electric vehicles to charge on the go,» said Khurram Afridi, an assistant professor in CU Boulder's Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering.
Rudy Diaz, an electrical engineer at Arizona State University in Tempe, likes the concept and execution, but he suspects that in a consumer device or inside the body the antennas will give off too much heat because of their high energy density.
But for postdoc - turned - entrepreneur Riccardo Signorelli and his mentor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) electrical engineering professor Joel Schindall, the stimulus money looks more like a launching pad — one that they hope will blast a technology they have developed toward the goal of making a «transformative» difference in America's energy future.
Like astronomers tweaking images to gain a more detailed glimpse of distant stars, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found ways to sharpen images of the energy spectra in high - temperature superconductors â $» materials that carry electrical current effortlessly when cooled below a certain temperature.
They are encased in energy fields which are barely visible but reveal themselves when they pass anything electricallike a car or a streetlamp — which reacts to their presence.
Like batteries, ultracaps store electrical energy.
Braking: Like all hybrids and electric vehicles, the Volt uses regenerative braking to convert unwanted momentum to electrical energy.
Using features like intelligent start / stop technology (shuts the engine down at stoplights or when the A / C system demands are low), direct fuel injection, and smart regenerative charging that puts the vehicle's kinetic energy back into the electrical system to reduce fuel demands, the 2014 Range Rover Sport delivers economy numbers of vehicles easily half its horsepower.
The electrical energy between Alice and Lucy crackles with kinetic menace, as Mangan turn the mood and the setting of the story into a kind of composite force field that sucks the reader in almost instantly, like a wave of humid air blanketing you after emerging from an air - cooled room.
Each work in «Transformer», much like an electrical transformer is, therefore, an energy mediation between the original intent of found work, and the new narrative of Gortner's creation.
One advantage I really like, aside from energy savings, is that they are less hot and produce more light with less wattage, making it possible to have a «60» watt cfl where one is only supposed to have a 40 watt incandescent or a «100» watt cfl in a 60 watt lamp, both in terms of electrical and fire (the shade) safety.
3) My biggest concern is that the Obama administration is bailing out a non-competitive auto industry that is not addressing climate change, and considers «infrastructure» investment to mean roads and bridges and not a functioning electrical grid that will support renewable energy and other forms of distributed energy like CHP that would greatly lower emissions.
What people need is clean energy services for cooking, lighting, space comfort, hot water, heat for industrial processes, and electrical energy services like motors, pumps, computing and communications.
Buildings operate like trees; they sequester carbon, make oxygen, distill water, provide habitat for thousands of species, and convert solar income into all the thermal and electrical energy they need — and sell excess power to the neighbors.
«If we can directly store solar energy as a chemical fuel, like what nature does with photosynthesis, we could solve a fundamental challenge of renewable energy,» says Zetian Mi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan who led the research while at McGill University.
Seems like the investment of Warren Buffet's MidAmerican Energy Holdings in Shezhen - based BYD Auto is not just a bet on electric vehicles, but also on the collaboration between MidAmerican and BYD to develop «rapid charge batteries» for electrical grid systems to serve as energy storage for renewable but intermittent power such as wind and solar, revealed MidAmerican's chairman, David Sokal, at a press conference earlier this week in HongEnergy Holdings in Shezhen - based BYD Auto is not just a bet on electric vehicles, but also on the collaboration between MidAmerican and BYD to develop «rapid charge batteries» for electrical grid systems to serve as energy storage for renewable but intermittent power such as wind and solar, revealed MidAmerican's chairman, David Sokal, at a press conference earlier this week in Hongenergy storage for renewable but intermittent power such as wind and solar, revealed MidAmerican's chairman, David Sokal, at a press conference earlier this week in Hong Kong.
Regardless of our future national energy strategy (fossil fuels (oil, coal) versus renewable energy (solar, wind, biofuels, tidal, etc.)-RRB-, there will still exist the need to feed the ever - growing population (N2O released thru fertilizer use), refrigerate food for storage (leakage and release of the refrigerant, HFCs), and distribute electrical power (dielectric gases used like SF6).
Just like an electrical resistor the flow of energy is one way only.
Costs of key technologies like solar and wind power, energy storage and electrical vehicles are falling and show no signs of levelling off.
With renewable energy technologies like solar PV and energy storage becoming highly - sought skills for electrical workers, managing the solar project from design to installation allowed IBEW and NECA to showcase their talents to prospective clients in a high - profile way.
ALEC's Updating Net Metering Policies Resolution, discussed last week at its States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, DC, would complement dirty utilities like Duke Energy that are working to make it more costly for people to feed their own solar power into the electrical grid.
Isolated from electrical systems, the lodge has so far produced the little energy it consumes (for laundry, refrigeration, lighting and low consuming artifacts like fans or guests» computers) with regular diesel generators; but is now adjusting its electrical generation system to work with biodiesel.
The EMerge standard also embraces the trend toward using on - site alternative energy, by providing a means of direct and more efficient connection between these new energy sources and interior electrical loads, like lighting and controls.
These include strong renewable electricity standards, financial incentives like clean energy tax credits, and investment in a smarter electrical grid.
As for the next generation of music technology, gear like the Sonos wireless music system may not have the Energy Star seal, but it does have built in power management, updatable firmware to combat obsolescence, and is ROHS compliant (the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment).
Keeping your cell phone charged in places like these have always nvolved expensive and often ineffective gear, but a new device introduced by TES NewEnergy Co. directly converts heat into electrical energy.
It's a bit like taking solar energy technology and creating your own electrical grid at home.
I would explain efficient use of water and even simple savings like running the dishwasher at night and a host of other things like electrical safety and tips on energy savings.
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