Sentences with phrase «most electric generators»

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Upgrades include moving elevator machine rooms, generators, and electric hubs to first floors, out of the path of most floodwater.

That's half a year with Puerto Rico's 3.4 million residents relying on generators, half a year without air conditioning in the tropical climate, half a year where electric pumps can't bring running water into homes, half a year where even the most basic tasks of modern life are made difficult.

All but two of the 440 or so commercial nuclear reactors operating are thermal, and most of them — including the 103 U.S. power reactors — employ water both to slow neutrons and to carry fission - created heat to the associated electric generators.

But generators aren't designed to run for months at a time, and most of the facilities can not get back to full operations until the utility restores the electric grid, Gottlieb said.

At the car's heart is a turbocharged four - cylinder engine, likely the 2.0 - liter unit found in most of the automaker's current cars, and a 70 - hp electric motor / generator.

Under most operating conditions, the Accord works in the Hybrid mode where the engine acts as a generator and supplies electric power to the battery with power being channelled to the wheels via the electric propulsion motor.

Honda says that in most driving conditions the Insight will operate using its electric motor, using the 1.5 - liter engine as a generator or drawing juice from the battery.

In most conditions, Insight operates on electric power only, drawing energy from the engine (operating as a generator) or battery pack.

Shutting off the engine when the vehicle is stopped, to minimize idling Restarting the engine promptly when the brake pedal is released Enabling early fuel shut - off during vehicle deceleration Capturing vehicle kinetic energy during deceleration through regenerative braking to charge the advanced nickel metal hydride battery Performing intelligent battery charging when it is most efficient The new GM Hybrid system provides additional power, when required, during launch from the electric motor / generator.

If the charge state of the IMA battery is low, the motor / generator will also recharge while the Insight is cruising, however, the advantage of regenerative braking is that it eliminates the need for a large, on - board electrical generating system, like the ones used on most parallel hybrid gasoline - electric drive - trains.

The powertrain will be able to operate on electric power alone in most conditions as it draws energy from the engine that acts as a generator or the battery pack.

Under most conditions the i - MMD system utilizes the gas engine to power a generator, which in turn provides energy to charge the hybrid battery and / or for the electric motor to drive the wheels.

Under most conditions, the vehicle operates in Hybrid Drive mode, in which the gasoline engine operates as a generator, supplying electric power to the hybrid batteries, with motive power supplied by the electric propulsion motor.

Under most conditions, the Insight operates as a series hybrid, in which the gasoline engine, connected to the generator motor, produces electricity that is supplied to either the electric propulsion motor and / or the 60 - cell lithium - ion battery pack.

Conscious brains are a hybrid device, part generators of squiggly electric current waves and part receivers of mind waves from the field of consciousness, the most fundamental of the quantum fields that fill the universe.

Most new electric power generators built between 1950 and 1990 were coal - fired.

EIA's utility - scale electric generator survey has a threshold of 1 MW for reporting and, thus, does not capture most customer - sited installations.

«Among the most ambitious is a $ 5 million system that collects methane from brewing wastewater and uses it to fire a 290 - kilowatt electric generator... [that] supplies up to 60 percent of the brewery's power».