Sentences with phrase «power generators like»

When power generators like windmills and solar panels transfer electricity to homes, businesses and the power grid, they lose almost 10 percent of the generated power.

Everywhere you look, companies and power generators like the Tennessee Valley Authority are announcing plans to shutter coal - fired plants and replace them with wind, solar, and plants that use cleaner - burning natural gas.

Not exact matches

The company has a pilot project offering small backup storage batteries made by Tesla that, like emergency backup generators, allow homeowners to run some appliances and lights if the power goes out (they could also help utilities manage loads).

That means for a place like Puerto Rico, whose energy infrastructure vulnerabilities were laid bare after Hurricane Maria, there isn't much room in the budget to make power lines, generators, and transformers more resistant to future disasters.

As of today there's still no power on the island except for a handful of generators powering high - priority buildings like select hospitals, and the island likely won't return to full power for another half a year.

And a microgrid still has to perform functions like frequency regulation, voltage stepping, and power routing between generators, storage, and electricity users.

But the Hollywood facility, like many others, had no generator to run the air conditioner in a power failure.

There are a lot of great backups — a backup plan (like a boy scout, be prepared), backup generator (keep the power running) and backup cowbell (more cowbell, baby!)

It was extremely discouraging to me when an official from the City of Niagara Falls seemed to promote the closing specific power generators, like this clean coal facility in Somerset, putting hundreds of hard working men and women out of work.

For example, DOE, DHS, and other agencies should oversee the development of more reliable inventories of backup power needs and capabilities, like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers» mobile generator fleet.

External Power: Are you traveling with access to an external power source like an electrical outlet, or a generPower: Are you traveling with access to an external power source like an electrical outlet, or a generpower source like an electrical outlet, or a generator?

Observations of the galaxy MCG -6-30-15 suggest that the spinning of its central black hole is producing power just like an electric generator.

Recent observations of the galaxy MCG -6-30-15 suggest thatthe spinning of its central black hole inside a huge magnetic field produces power just like an electric generator.

And, in 1990, Plant Vogtle in Georgia lost all externally supplied electric power — just like Fukushima Daiichi's reactors — when a truck backed into a transmission line and the backup diesel generator failed, forcing it to rely on its last power source: batteries with an eight - hour life.

In raw numbers, here's what the electric power industry's abandonment of coal looks like: This year, 24 coal - fired electricity generators at 14 power plants in 11 states are expected to shut down, followed by another 22 coal generators in 2018, according to

Leaf - like solar panels harvest the sun's rays, while their fluttering harnesses wind power using a series of piezoelectric generators on the underside of each leaf.

The black COG is connected to the crankshaft of the engine with a belt just like the compressor of the air conditioner, and runs off of the engine power, think of it as a electric generator for the car.

Now that series electric hybrid vehicles are beginning to emerge in commercial applications (first seen in buses and soon in the Chevrolet Volt), the concept of an electrically - powered vehicle that uses an on - board turbine generator seems like a practical idea.

The 2.5 i, because it has to rev to produce power, can occasionally sound like a stationary generator run amok.

The Mustang Hybrid, for example, will deliver «V8 - like performance with more low - end torque,» while the F - 150 Hybrid will gain extra pulling power thanks to the low - end torque, with the powertrain allowing it to serve as a mobile generator as well.

Like hybrids, however, and unlike EVs (or range - extender EVs, which incorporate a combustion engine that acts as a power generator, extending their range), PHEVs are powered primarily by a conventional combustion engine — fuelled by petrol in all cases in Australia so far.

However, instead of powering the wheels, it acts like a generator to produce more electricity for the car's electric motor.

Like the Nissan Leaf, the Karma is always electrically driven; the gasoline engine powers only the generator.

Then if you go RADICAL (the way all vendors will need to go tomorrow when PHEV prices will start to go down and they will have no other choice to compete), I mean go the best Tesla - Like all - electric drive trains, just adding a small «pure power generator» Range extender on top, never tracting the car mechanically itself, BUT then pulling the huge central ICE engine, the huge central gearbox, the huge central transmission, saving tons of space and $ for more battery, then you can save a lot of space, look at Tesla Model X front and back Trunks and its internal space!

Only serious buyers please.This is like new, only used once for one night  Great modern interior, 2 TV «s, 2 power slides, Onin Generator, power awning, backup camera, outdoor kitchen with BBQ.

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You can create your very own wasteland home any way you like, fortify it against raiders using turrets and traps powered by generators, and then invite traders to come and turn it into a base of operations.

Iron Brigade plays like a cross between a straight mecha action game and a tower defense title: a stream of enemy waves come through generators towards a target you need to defend, and all you have to hold your ground with are deployable turrets powered by super-science and a creaky WWI - era mecha with some truly fearsome heavy artillery haphazardly pasted on.

Next up is the Remote Electrical Charge which is a sniper - like taser gun used to power generators and shock enemies.

This maze - like mirage is one entry in the 2010 Land Art Generator Initiative competition, which aims to combine clean energy generation and technology with the Land Art / Environmental Art movement, in the hopes of encouraging what they call «solution - based art practice» in creating «aesthetic power plants».

That will benefit industries like steel, cement and ammonia manufacturing, which have lower costs of capture than do power generators.

While New England is starting to come to its senses (procuring and enhancing sustainable base load sources like hydro and gas) we are also making some foolish choices (blowing over 2 BILLION DOLLARS on wind projects that don't scratch the grid's surface, closing reliable power plants with no reliable generators available to replace them).

For example, ever since the 1990's Professor David Mills and Dr Mark Diesnedorf have been making statements like: — solar power is cost competitive with nuclear power now as a baseload generator, if the government would just give us some more money to demonstrate it — wind power is cheaper than nuclear and because the wind is always blowing somewhere wind can provide baseload generation.

Like wind power generators, solar cells lack storage capacity.

According to this research paper (pdf), the embodied energy of a 150Wh lead - acid battery (like the one offered with the Windstream pedal power generator) is at least 37,500 Wh, which equals 250 full charges of the battery (more sources: 1/2).

Even if power companies had sufficient warning to shut down prior to the event (to avoid transformer failure), facilities like nuclear power plants and hospitals which use back - up generators would still be exposed.

According to Inhabitat, off - grid solar could help make electricity accessible to communities across Myanmar, as traditional alternative power sources like diesel generators are far too expensive for poverty - stricken areas in the country.

well, there wwere recent calculations, that pure basload power generators also need significant grid extensions and balancing costs, not exactly like wind and solar, but also not that much cheaper when a high penetration of the load in the grid exists.

There was a recent paper that showed the effects of just changing from natural to farmed land, IIRC, and the impacts of activity, power generators and users and the like close to a station can (see the station work at WUWT) have more impact than the growth of a city, which may well be outward away from the station.

But because backup generators must repeatedly surge to full power and back to standby, as wind speed rises and falls, they operate inefficiently, use more fuel and emit more — much like cars forced to stop repeatedly on freeways.

A urine - powered generator was presented at Maker Faire Africa in Lagos by Duro - Aina Adebola (age 14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15), and according to the Maker Faire Africa blog, the system works like this:

We write about piezoelectric generators from time to time, like sneakers that can power your gadgets or kinetic - energy harvesting sidewalks or wave - powered speakers that let us communicate with dolphins, all of which generate energy from movement.

Requiring no gigantic «smart grid» sucking the efficiency like a vampire — things that are inherent to these nasty wind machines — Nuclear SMRs are going to allow us to meet all our CO2 reduction goals, without the canard of «nominal power output» being accepted by the lost eco-sheep, and without the 100 % conventional, CO2 - generating backup generators — which must be kept on idle at all times should the wind die down, or a cloud pass over a solar cell — and which all of these wind turbines require.

Then get a simple «combo» tool (oscilloscope, signal generator, power supply, digital multimeter) like the OpenScope MZ [1] or the Espotek Labrador [2].

Things like a gas - powered generator also «create» electricity by using mechanical energy to create EMF (electromotive force).

Responsible for maintaining preventive measures on the diesel power generators as well as associated components like cooling, lubrication and fuel systems