Sentences with phrase «of our electrical power needs»

It can be adapted to meet a wide range of electrical power needs from applications such as automotive charging, biomedical implants, robotics, and the subsea industry.

We live in a well - insulated, passive solar house with a 2 kW solar array that provides us with about 85 % of our electrical power needs.

Not exact matches

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

In July, WWF Scotland said that wind produced enough power to meet, on average, the electrical needs of 124 percent of Scottish homes between January and June of this year.

To keep up with the rise of wind and solar power, Europe's electrical grid needs to get stronger and smarter, a demand that will be difficult to meet in an era of weak economies and tight budgets

Backup power was needed at Fukushima after the magnitude - 9.0 quake struck and the six power lines bringing in offsite electrical power to Fukushima Daiichi were severed, says Michael Weightman, Britain's chief nuclear installations inspector and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Group.

Singer says it could be potentially tapped to drive a tiny electrical generator, although the amount involved — about 10 - 24 joules per cycle — is so tiny that billions of single - ion engines would be needed to generate useful power.

Susan Shaw, a spokeswoman from Siemens Solar Industries, the Californian company that donated 26 of the solar units, says that although the solar units do not power the lights directly, they help to offset the extra demand from the tree, reducing the need to import power from outside the region which leads to wear and tear on electrical transformers.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A coil of wire made from such a metal could carry an electrical current round and round forever, without needing a power source to drive the current.

«These crystals produced very high thermoelectric powers over a wide temperature range, from the cryogenic level of 50 K (which is around -223 °C) up to room temperature, but still maintained the low electrical resistivity that is needed for practical cooling applications.»

Our new near - zero - power technology could one day eliminate the need to ever change or recharge a battery,» said Patrick Mercier, an electrical engineering professor at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and the study's senior author.

The pool water volume provides a minimum of 30 days of passive cooling of the spent fuel assemblies following a loss of all electrical power without the need for additional water.

The characters routinely allude to the riots and human - on - human bloodshed of the interceding years, and the same chaos promises to return once the power runs out, which is why Malcolm desperately needs to reactivate an electrical dam located on the cliffs near — you guessed it — the ape village.

«We need to divert auxiliary power to the rear deflector shield,» instructs Solo, as he takes charge of steering through what appears to be a huge electrical storm.

One of the factors in the conflict between the humans and apes in this story is the need for electrical power.

Oh and I can't forget about a roll of toilet paper to hold a live battery or starter cable from touching any ground, when you still need connections to power to diagnose electrical problems.

The Electric Code Detector is a component of the fuse block that detects increased electrical power needed and increases the idle speed to allow the alternator to provide more power.

The only thing that I dislike about my vehicle is that many of the power / electrical features have failed, which have needed repair, like the power windows, power seats, etc..

Massive 110 Amp Alternator For ultimate accessory integration and to power all your electrical needs, the RANGER Diesel is outfitted with a massive 110 amps of alternator output — more than double previously.

Another unique feature of SureFlap is it's the only cat door to use patented low - power radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, which enables it to run exclusively on 4 AA batteries, so there's no need for electrical wiring access.

Solar power provides all of the electrical needs of the veterinary clinic and recycling

The open - plan kitchen is equipped with a 4 - burner gas stove, a gas fridge and the house makes use of solar power for lights and basic electrical needs.

Your Exo - Rig's power core level is utilised to overcharge certain electrical circuits in order to open large heavy doors that lead to previously inaccessible areas; ranging from level 10 overcharges that will immediately be able to be opened, while some require a bit of upgrading to level 11 or 12, although there are some doors that need as high as a level 55 power core before being opened.

As a (now retired) electrical engineer (NYS Professional licensed) knowledgeable about power generation who has watched the challenge of meeting our energy needs over decades I can state with some expertise that the US is in a serious bind as to meeting our nation's energy needs.

The integrated «smart grid» electrical power network may be needed to make wind farm power available in the right places, but it will also perpetuate the most wasteful practice known to man which is the system of central power plants that throw away up to twice the heat energy as they manage to get converted into electric energy.

If we choose to use our own abundant coal resources to provide the energy for electricity, heating, and motive power; remove CO2 from the coal - fired electrical generationg plant smokestacks, and add better safety systems to the mines, we will have done all that we need to do other than greatly improve and enlarge our public transportation systems, and the reliability of our power grid system.

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the pPower Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the ppower capacity in the regions surrounding the plant.

The Life Pod is a small free standing structure that implements solar panels as a roof surface providing dry covered shelter and water catchment, the water off the solar roof is stored in rain barrels, on the south side there is a Hydroponic food system mounted that produces fresh organic supply of greens, on the north side of the structure is a small utility closet that houses the solar battery and all the food system equipment, on the side of the utility closet there are 4 electrical outlets and an EV charging station, you can run the AC power over to your home or business and power any of your electrical needs with the off grid energy from the Life Pod.

This means you are paid the retail power price for excess power your solar system exports to their grid during the day when your solar production is greater than the electrical needs of your home.

To split 40 million kg of water per year, you need about 200 million kW / h per year, which means if the price of electrical power on the Moon was $ 5 per KW / h it would be a gross of 1 billion dollars per year.

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

As of now, it doesn't go too deep into the solar aspects, but the basics of electrical, wiring, power systems and determining your power needs are covered in depth and designed for those who are totally new to the topic.

I would agree 100 % that building nuclear power plants using today's best technology to cover a majority of future electrical energy needs or to replace old fossil fuel plants that are being decommissioned anyway makes sense.

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.

When power needs to be taken out of the flywheels - because a cloud crosses in front of the sun for example and a solar farm stops producing power for a short while - the motor shifts to generator mode and converts kinetic to electrical energy, feeding it into the grid.

The flywheel energy stores should be capable of maintaining electrical supply long enough for alternative power sources (at present probably fossil fuelled) to power up; avoiding so much need for «spinning reserve».

Once the battery has reached its programmed depth of discharge then it will stop supplementing your electrical needs and you seamlessly roll back to full grid power.

Nuclear has been proposed, if you don't mind lots of third - world countries having access to nuclear materials, but the electrical distribution systems aren't there to take advantage of it and in many places it is cost - prohibitive to physically impossible to provide power lines wherever needed.

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).

It detailed the Southwest's ability to provide for much of America's electrical needs through solar power alone, and the region's ability to provide for all of the United States» energy needs through renewable energy sources if wind, biomass, and geothermal sources were developed.

And that did not include the electrical distribution systems necessary for the whole country to take power from this one spot, nor any kind of storage technology for using electricity at night (it was hard to cost one out when no technology exist for storing America's total energy needs for 12 hours).

Unbundling is also needed (separating electrical power generation and power transmission and distribution) so that a system can be established that ensures the necessary fair and neutral control and operation of power transmission and distribution grids.

Then, a high goal for introduction of renewable energy should be set, and the electrical power system needs to be reformed to achieve it.

And to provide electrical at 10 cent per kw / hour retail [a 1 / 10th of that wholesale] it needs to be able to build power plants in a time period of less than 10 years.

60 Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can take advantage of higher winds.

It is also exceedingly inefficient and needs a large gradient to begin producing useful amounts of electrical power.

Note that most of the storage, transport, and power generation technology for methane is already mature, and that a strong reliance on methane could reduce the need for large electrical grids with huge generating plants.

So, for example, let's say that we need 1,000 MWe (1 Gigawatt of electrical power) for a given area.

According to Goal Zero Senior Electrical Engineer Sterling Robison, the Venture 30 «has a lot of built in protection built in so you can't kill it or the thing you connect to it by plugging things in wrong,» and to ensure that power will be there when you need it, it «has some programming to keep the idle usage power down really low.»