Sentences with phrase «powered by a cell»

Home boilers powered by the cells are cheap enough to begin rolling them out in their thousands this year, the start of a four - year programme to install 37,500 in the homes of customers of the UK's biggest energy supplier, British Gas.

These functions are powered by a cell battery that can last up to 12 months.

Not exact matches

Battery - powered cars offered by the likes of Tesla are gaining traction faster than fuel cell vehicles backed by Hyundai and Toyota Motor Corp..

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

And other carmakers like Toyota Motor and Honda are investing heavily in eco-friendly cars; however, they are betting big that the vehicles will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, rather than rechargeable electric batteries.

Each component, comprised of 16,000 lithium - ion battery cells, is meant to suck up power from the grid by day and then feed it back in as demand surges, according to the New York Times.

Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.

Powered by the Ethereum blockchain, The Sun Exchange allows users to lease solar cells to businesses in developing countries who lack affordable electricity, while generating passive income.

Since God does not have a monopoly on power, God's will - and consequently God's response to prayers consonant with the divine will - can be and sometimes is thwarted by the recalcitrance of non divine actualities, whether persons or cancer cells.

, I mean came «into existence» (mysteriously popped out of nowhere); rather, it will challenge intellectual thinkers to look at life as not just a compilation of atoms / cells; rather a universe that is controlled by powers much more awesome than the natural forces we all experience on a daily basis.

It has been imprisoned in the cells of alien dogma; it has been bound hand and foot in the grave clothes of human tradition; it has been entombed as a sepulcher by systems of theology, and the stone of human power has been rolled up to close its door.»

Plus, one branch of this mechanical family tree can also help power a village, charging cell phones and letting students study after dark by the light of LED bulbs.

«These attacks have grown in magnitude and they include attacks on security services, we have incidents where military officers have been lynched by mobs, we have instances where these vigilante groups calling themselves variously; Invisible forces, Delta forces, etc. invade police stations, break into cells and release suspects because they claim the NPP members are immune to any form of arrest in other words, they are living above the law because they happen to be members of a party living in power», he said.

Our powers of color vision derive from cells in our eyes called cones, three types in all, each triggered by different wavelengths of light.

A new water splitter powered by a single AAA battery could reduce the carbon pollution created from making hydrogen fuel cells, scientists report August 22 in Nature Communications.

Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants by 2030 in Alberta.

The researchers added the cells to a soft bio-compatible sheath that also contained wirelessly - powered red LED lights to create HydrogeLEDs that could be turned on and off by an external electromagnetic field.

Today's version of the NPS1 model includes a digital simulation of every building in the area affected by the bomb, as well as every road, power line, hospital, and even cell tower.

«High efficiency solar power conversion allowed by a novel composite material: A composite thin film developed at INRS improves significantly solar cells» power conversion efficiency..»

Etón's FR160 radio is powered by a solar cell and can pick up AM, FM, and dedicated weather bands.

And on a different technological track, hydrogen - powered fuel - cell cars — powered by devices Musk has publicly called «fools cells» — are beginning to enter the market, led by Japanese automakers.

Supporting a rail system powered by hydrogen fuel cells, for example, would require an entirely new infrastructure because hydrogen, being a small molecule, would leak through existing pipelines.

The 8 July cover story features a nickel - sized artificial string - ray whose swimming is guided by light and powered by heart muscle cells: a «living» robot hailed as a technical tour de force.

Now, two decades later, Zhang has developed tools to harness some of that power by controlling cells for specific purposes.

This year her team discovered that sleep deprivation impedes the metabolism of glucose, the sugar that powers the body, in fat cells by a startling 30 percent.

Motor rotation is powered by proton flow into the cell via ion channels.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

He envisions a system that uses electric power generated during the day by solar cells to separate water using his new electrode.

Saab's combustion - control engine has leapfrogged the manufacturers still studying fuel cells, methanol fuels, and electrics by reinventing an ordinary internal - combustion gasoline power plant that recycles unburned components of its exhaust.

The program is an opportunity for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test about 100 of the company's Equinox sports utility vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

The board is a DC / DC converter that evens out the power generated by the fuel cells, which fluctuates with the amount of sweat produced by a user, and turns it into constant power with a constant voltage.

Even more notable, Loki has genes that code for proteins involved in phagocytosis, the process by which one cell can swallow another — and widely believed to be the way eukaryotes acquired mitochondria, a cell's power source.

For example, it could be used to create supersensitive solar cells or even to power a Mars rover that would gather energy from a microwave beam sent by a satellite orbiting the Red Planet.

Researchers led by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Professor of Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the new cells could serve as a power - generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users» ability to see through the surface.

They found that KIF1B - β affects the cells» power stations, the mitochondria, by activating an enzyme named calcineurin.

Engineers developed the first tiny, synthetic machines that can swim by themselves, powered by beating heart cells.

It also illustrates the mechanisms by which dysfunction of mitochondria — the power generators of the cell — affects kidney disease.

It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.

But not all the sunlight would be absorbed by this electrode: light with a wavelength longer than 600 nanometres isn't absorbed by the rust - coloured water in the top cell so would pass through to strike the lower electrode, powering the production of hydrogen.

In principle, a solution to the neural code could give us enormous power over our psyches, because we could monitor and manipulate brain cells with exquisite precision by speaking to them in their own language.

This new revolution, powered by the ability of the Internet to allow us to communicate, share and monitor things, will result in what he calls the «zero marginal cost society,» where the cost to create consumables such as energy and information — the marginal cost — is nearly free after the initial capital investment is made in equipment such as computers, smart phones and solar cells.

«Our organotypic models demonstrate the power of the microenvironment by showing that normal cells in their native architecture naturally steer fully malignant, genotypically aberrant tumor cells into a quiescent state,» Ghajar says.

This power failure, the team found, is caused by disruption to the cells» mitochondria — the tiny powerhouses that fuel all cell life — when they become destabilized during the «resuscitation» period after a heart attack and trigger chaotic cell - to - cell signaling that interferes with the heart's entire electrical network.

By doubling the power density of the fuel cell stack, GM engineers halved its size as well as halved the amount of expensive materials, such as platinum catalysts, that such fuel cells require.

State of the Tech In 2009 a team of researchers from China and Japan created a titanium dioxide cast of the wing scales that improved the power output of solar cells by 10 percent.

Ultimately, hybrid vehicles and electric cars — whether powered by batteries or fuel cells — will deliver even more environmental rewards.

Unfortunately, the other great hope for vehicles that exhaust no carbon — those powered by hydrogen - fed fuel cells — remains too pricey for broad sales.

«Powering artificial hearts by glucose biofuel cells remains a long - term research objective.»

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogen.