Sentences with phrase «on electric current»

He will touch the screen of a Sony Tablet with the Android operating system which, via the Internet, will transmit the command to switch on the electric current to the tree,» revealed Vatican News sources.

One of the fuses was inserted wrong, between two sockets, which meant there was an open draw on the electric current at all times, draining the battery in less than an hour consistently.

It's been over a year since Sebastian Lelio's Gloria wowed festival goers at the 2013 Berlinale, where it picked up multiple awards and turned the switch on the electric current

Next, the silicon tracker charts the particle's path based on the electric current it leaves in its wake, while the time - of - flight system measures its velocity.

«The electrical signal is thus not based on an electric current but is caused by a mechanical force,» points out Thomas Heimburg.

It relies on an electric current between two electrodes sitting in a solution of brine — the same process used to generate chlorine commercially.

Last year, Kaili and his colleagues placed electrodes on opposite ends of a 10 - centimeter - wide film, switched on an electric current, and were flabbergasted when it made noise.

Not exact matches

Martin Schulz, the head of Merkel's current junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), also laid into the auto industry on the weekend, slamming «irresponsible managers» that have not invested in electric cars as they should.

The former RAF base's current inhabitant, Dyson, is embarking on its own adventure fraught with peril: a # 2bn project to develop and build electric cars from scratch.

(Another connection: Nikola is named after Nikola Tesla, who among many other things is responsible for making alternating current dominant on the electric grid.)

But a number of questions will also be asked by shareholders, Buffett disciples that feed the electric current which will no doubt run through Omaha on Saturday.

The New York Times reports that China is taking a hard line on the two specific requests made by the Trump administration: to cut the US bilateral trade deficit by $ 100bn from the current $ 375bn, as well as limits to state support for advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electric cars, and commercial aircraft, all part of the Made in China 2025 programme.

On Thursday morning in an early string of tweets, Trump said Puerto Rico's current crisis is of its own making, saying «Electric and all infrastructure was disaster before hurricanes» and implying that the price tag to help Puerto Rico may soon become untenable.

Riggs Autopack offered to replace all pneumatic switch gears on the filling machine with electric sensors and upgrade the PLC control to meet current standard routines.

But he must be trolling us all with his recent comments to the Guardian about making Formula 1 an all - electric series after years of attacks on the current hybrid engines.

Then pulses of electric current are passed through her brain via electrodes positioned on her head.

Cuomo, in Niskayuna at General Electric Co. to unveil a new state economic development investment, added he was returning to New York City to receive another briefing on the current state of the negotiations.

It's very intimidating; once on, the stun gun has a bright electric current that makes a lot of noise; many potential threats will be chased off just at the sight of this stun gun turned on!

When an electric current is turned on, the liquid - crystal molecules rotate, thus bending the incoming light like a lens.

Like many touchscreens, Electrick relies on the shunting effect — when a finger touches the touchpad, it shunts a bit of electric current to ground.

Creating light in small structures on the surface of a chip is crucial for developing fully integrated «photonic» circuits that do with light what is now done with electric currents in semiconductor integrated circuits.

Extrapolating from his experience with a small eel, Catania estimates that a human struck on the trunk by a larger, 1.8 - meter - long electric eel might endure a current of 0.24 amperes, or 63 watts of power.

In «A researcher reveals the shocking truth about electric eels» (SN: 10/14/17, p. 4), Mariah Quintanilla reported on a biologist who recorded the electrical current traveling through his own arm during an electric eel's attack.

Solid chips of metal about 20 nanometres across will slide through carbon nanotubes when an electric current is switched on.

Japanese researchers developed a prototype electric fork that uses an electric current to stimulate the sense of salt on the tongue.

Each individual nanowire is a semiconductor, which means that electric current moving through the wire can be switched on and off, Kim said.

«Geomagnetically - induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers,» a 2009 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says.

They ran an electric current through a mix of ammonia, methane, and other gases believed at the time to have been present on early Earth.

Boeing has experimented with them in smaller aircraft, in anticipation of using them on its 787 - 8, the current state - of - the - art electric airplane.

Each point of light is a single light - emitting diode (LED) powered by an electric current, which is switched on and off by a transistor.

It also floods the space around our planet with radiation that can incapacitate satellites and sicken astronauts, and can trigger electric currents on Earth capable of knocking out power grids.

But to completely understand the dynamics of the clasps on Jupiter's magnetic skirt, «we need to measure the total electric current in the electrojets,» says Kivelson.

This concerted flow of electrons constitutes an electric current which in turn creates a magnetic field across the gap, perhaps providing the spark which causes the opposing fields on either side to break and reconnect.

Electrodes are surgically implanted into or on top of target nerve fibres, ready to sense electrical signals from neural activity or to deliver electric current that mimics the language of the nervous system.

Those pixels are converted to an electric current that is sent to the business end of the plastic strip — a 12 - by - 12 grid of electrodes that rests on my tongue.

Current research and development is largely centered on «hybrid» vehicles that use both electric power and internal combustion.

Solar cells, 62,120 of them, distributed over the surface of the wing, soak up the sun's rays, providing up to 32 kilowatts of direct - current electricity to power electric motors, computers, and other systems on the aircraft.

At night or on overcast days, the meter indicates that the house draws current from electric lines in the usual manner.

When sunshine strikes a solar cell, some of the electrons in the cell take on energy but quickly lose most of it as thermal energy rather than breaking loose to become part of an electric current.

Friedman's all - carbon, spintronic switch functions as a logic gate that relies on a basic tenet of electromagnetics: As an electric current moves through a wire, it creates a magnetic field that wraps around the wire.

Today's electronic devices are powered by transistors, which are tiny silicon structures that rely on negatively charged electrons moving through the silicon, forming an electric current.

In July a report from MIT, On the Road in 2035, found that if a market for lightweight hybrid and plug - in hybrid electric vehicles were developed, the United States could cut its gas consumption by 68 billion gallons — about half our current fuel use — within 27 years.

The HEMS system helps consumers use data on driving times, solar intensity forecasts and current household energy consumption to synchronize electric vehicle charging times with rooftop energy production, so they can maximize the proportion of household - produced energy they use.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

Light stimulates some of the 5,000 microscopic solar cells on the chip to produce a tiny electric current that wakes up the eye's failing photoreceptor cells.

When a cell sample is put on the biosensor, the interaction between the yeast and the antibodies changes the electric current of the device.

Next, Casasanto and Brookshire turned to depression treatments involving continuous transcranial direct - current stimulation (tDCS), a brain stimulation technique that involves running a weak electric current between two electrodes on someone's scalp.

The Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy organization, estimated that almost 42 percent of U.S. households are already in a position to use electric vehicles based on their access to power sources and parking space, and their current travel patterns.

Take the building blocks of proteins — amino acids — which are found on meteorites and can also be created in the lab simply by running an electric current through ammonia and other compounds.

TE materials display the thermoelectric effect: apply heat on one side, and an electric current starts to flow.