Sentences with phrase «power as compressed»

Steve Orchard illustrates the inefficiencies of storing excess wind power as compressed air (15 November, p 31).

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This gas, composed mostly of methane, can be used as a fuel for power generation (replacing diesel generators), compressed or sold into the natural gas grid.

The Middle Eastern firm is going the extra mile, however, utilizing other electric vehicles, machines that run on compressed natural gas and biodiesel, as well as solar - powered boats that are capable of cleaning lakes and other bodies of water for its operations.

If the coil is compressed for too long or is not strong, energy is wasted as heat and the power release from the spring is compromised.

Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.

Other R&D efforts in alternative forms of power focus on developing fuel cells, alternative forms of combustion such as GDI and HCCI, and even the stored energy of compressed air.

In his vision, billions of robots on the ocean floor tend tanks of compressed air that power turbines, the Southwest is known affectionately as algae country, and energy traders make their fortunes speculating on the price of chicken - manure gas.

A large part of this is down to the lack of an exciting engine note — just a lot of hissing and wooshing as large amounts of air are ingested, compressed and turned into power, rather than what a supercar should have, namely a thrilling, engaging engine note.

Despite chest - compressing power, a curb - weight somewhere around 2,300 pounds, and a short wheelbase, it doesn't switch ends as often as advertised.

The supercharger compresses the intake air to as much as 0.8 bar; two intercoolers then cool it for greater power.

In addition, the brand will remain committed to vehicles powered with compressed natural gas (CNG) as well as internal combustion engines.

As for power, the current North American Ford Transit Connect makes do with just a pair of engine options: a 1.6 L EcoBoost four - cylinder, or a normally - aspirated 2.5 L four - cylinder that can be configured to burn compressed natural gas or propane instead of petrol.

The proportional order of the works seems a minimalist cliche to my eyes in 2008; still, there's no denying the graphic power of these eight works as they move from white to black, maintaining the simplest geometric expression into a compressed infinity of blackness.

In contrast to Pollock, who extended his gestures while defining paint as paint, Seliger expanded paint's allusive powers, while compressing his gestures into tiny abstract and calligraphic marks.

One interesting facet of the graph above is how much of the stimulus spending has been focused on carbon capture and sequestration, the process of catching CO2 as it leaves a power plant, compressing it and stashing it in the earth for safekeeping.

Glenn Bower, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, who with his students has designed hybrid - power vehicles, said he thought that compressed air compared unfavorably with batteries as a medium for storing energy.

As an example, soot - free buses can be powered by a wide range of fuels including fossil diesel or compressed natural gas (CNG), biogas, or other liquid biofuels, and electric drive engines including hybrid drive, fuel cell, and battery electric drivetrains.

The receiver contains an engine known as a Stirling engine that converts heat to mechanical power by compressing a cold fluid, which could be water or synthetic oil.

A far less costly option, although still a fossil - fueled one, might be the as - yet - unreleased $ 6,800 Elio Motors vehicle, which is touted as being capable of getting 84 mpg, but there's another contender in the race to build clean affordable vehicles, and instead of being powered by electricity, the $ 10,000 AIRPod boasts of being a «Zero Pollution Vehicle» because it runs on compressed air.

More controversial is subsidizing downstream development and deployment, such as tax credits for building commercial - scale compressed - air power storage or a new nuclear reactor design.

For example, some invest in their own set of pneumatic tools — such as impact wrenches — powered by compressed air.

Key Power Engineer duties and responsibilities include operating, maintaining, repairing and renovating equipment such as boilers, steam systems, heat and air - conditioning systems, motors, condensers, pumps, turbines, generators, compressed gas systems, diesel engines, automated machinery and more.