Sentences with phrase «raising operating temperatures»

The hope is to find ways to raise the operating temperature for real - world energy - saving applications — things like highly efficient power generation and transmission and computers that work at speeds thousands of times faster than today's.

For example, energy companies estimate that raising the operating temperature by 1 percent at a single electric generation facility can save up to $ 20 million a year.

«If we can somehow remove this competition, or handle it better, we may be able to raise the operating temperatures of these superconductors.»

«Our simulations indicate that this approach — using natural vibrations in one material to boost superconductivity in another — could be used to raise the operating temperature of iron - based superconductors by at least 50 percent,» said Zhi - Xun Shen, a professor at SLAC and Stanford University and senior author of the study.

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One idea to cut down on energy use in server rooms (as well as large server farms) is to simply raise the temperature such servers operate in.

We increased the operating temperature of the wheel; we raised the speed of the wheel to keep it out of the region below 300 revolutions per minute, where the nature of the friction and the internal lubrication changes state.

Alabama Power, the state's largest utility, has been operating some of its coal plants at significantly reduced levels to avoid raising water temperatures in the Coosa, Black Warrior and Mobile rivers.

However, it should be said that any modification that raises the amount of fuel and air put through a diesel engine will increase its operating temperature, which will reduce its life and increase service requirements.

This friction will raise the fluid temperatures up to around 175 degrees Fahrenheit, the normal temperature range in which most vehicle fluids are designed to safely operate.

From then on, it can do everything from opening and shutting the sunroof blind, to raising or lowering the cabin temperature, or even operating the navigation.

The only actual warming since the satellites started operating is a step warming that began with the 1998 super El Nino, raised global temperature by a third of a degree in four years, and then stopped.