Sentences with phrase «on the electrical power grid»

But a Carrington - scale storm today would cause far more harm because society now depends so heavily on electrical power grids, communications satellites and GPS.

Earlier this month, U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order mandating that the U.S. government «mitigate the effects of geomagnetic disturbances on the electrical power grid» and «ensure the timely redistribution of space weather alerts.»

As you know a plug - in hybrid relies even more on the electrical power grid to generate its transportation energy and I think that that also holds great promise.

The strongest solar cycle in recent memory occurred in the late 1950s, when there were few satellites aloft, no astronauts in orbit and less reliance on electrical power grids than there is now.

Not exact matches

Installing enough batteries to make most electrical grids fully reliant on wind power or even to take older natural - gas or coal plants off - line isn't cost effective yet in many regions.

On Thursday, the administration began proceeding with the Clean Energy Standard, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered to be completed by July to reach the state's clean energy goals of powering half of the electrical grid with wind, solar and other sources by 2030.

Cuomo has mandated that New York double its reliance on renewable energy to power the electrical grid in just 15 years.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

The pair of papers, «Assessing the cost of large - scale power outages to residential customers» and «Providing limited local electric service during a major grid outage — A first assessment based on customer willingness to pay,» examined residential power users» willingness to pay (WTP) for full or partial backup services during a theoretical 24 - hour blackout and then determined the investments required by the electrical provider to implement these services.

Additionally, installation of electrolyzer systems on electrical grids for power - to - gas applications, which integrate renewable energy, grid services and energy storage will require large - capacity, cost - effective hydrogen storage.

And yet the most powerful flares can lead to major disruptions on Earth, causing interference with telecommunications or knocking out electrical power grids across entire regions of the world.

I can not risk some kid turning on a generator in the Ukraine and blowing something up in Kentucky, so I might keep my electrical power grid network completely separate.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

On view at the Swiss Institute and titled «Less Light Warm Words,» the series of work was created to exhaust the precise amount of power running through the space's electrical lighting grid; Lewitt's copper heaters, laying on the floor with chords running to the ceiling, replace the Swiss Institute's fluorescent lightOn view at the Swiss Institute and titled «Less Light Warm Words,» the series of work was created to exhaust the precise amount of power running through the space's electrical lighting grid; Lewitt's copper heaters, laying on the floor with chords running to the ceiling, replace the Swiss Institute's fluorescent lighton the floor with chords running to the ceiling, replace the Swiss Institute's fluorescent lights.

Lilith Taveril wrote, «Finally, providing necessary transportation to all of the city's population results in a massive increase in buses themselves, which all run on diesal engines (no setup for electrical buses is currently possible with the way the power grid is constructed), and would negate much of the pollution benefit.»

We both talked about how nuclear power especially Thorium - based nuclear power could be a solution for future power needs that would provide a stable base electrical grid while at the same time having far fewer problems than the current fission products based on uranium and plutonium.

Finally, providing necessary transportation to all of the city's population results in a massive increase in buses themselves, which all run on diesal engines (no setup for electrical buses is currently possible with the way the power grid is constructed), and would negate much of the pollution benefit.

As people become more mobile, more pressures will be placed on their already taxed electrical grid, exponentially increasing demand for power.

What's more notable this time is his inclusion of a link to presentations given Nov. 3 at a Washington workshop on non-polluting energy options by a dozen other specialists in a range of technologies and arenas, from energy efficiency to nuclear and solar power and the electrical grid.

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.

Conversely, taking advantage of battery storage also confers benefits when ramping down a wind turbine, smoothing out the electrical flow into the grid by drawing on batteries to supply power to the grid more evenly.

Meanwhile, Tesla deployed solar to Puerto Rico as it began its recovery efforts from Hurricane Maria, quickly restoring power to a Children's Hospital on the island at a time when conventional fossil fuels were offline and electrical grids were down.

As well every CO of every military base in the world would give his left nut to have his own electrical grid not reliant on diesel fueled generators with a defensible small nuclear power plant.

Currently, anyone with rooftop solar panels can provide excess sun power to electrical companies for general distribution on the power grid.

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 Hong Kong.

Despite the U.S. Congress passing the Consolidated Appropriations Act in December 2015 to slather another $ 9.3 billion of taxpayer credits on new solar power added to the electrical grid, California solar installments peaked in 2015 and are now headed south.

The basic idea is very straightforward: place very large solar arrays into continuously and intensely sunlit Earth orbit (1,366 watts / meter squared), collect gigawatts of electrical energy, electromagnetically beam it to Earth, and receive it on the surface for use either as base load power via direct connection to the existing electrical grid, conversion into manufactured synthetic hydrocarbon fuels, or as low ‐ intensity broadcast power beamed directly to consumers.»

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.

The data will help operators more effectively bring wind power on to the electrical grid.

Aside from the excellent information provided on the breakdown of energy sources used to power the Australian electrical grid, the main figure in contention is highlighted in red — the percentage of coal - fired power used per day versus all other sources of generation.

After all, we can't escape the fact that we depend on an infrastructure — roads, buildings, sewage systems, power plants, electrical grids, etc. — that requires huge quantities of fossil fuels.

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Our work has shown that reflective roofs can lead to better air quality, reduce the strain on our electrical grid, improve comfort and decrease emissions from power plants.

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.