Sentences with phrase «require huge batteries»

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Liang said conventional inorganic metal - based batteries and energy storage devices are expensive partly because the materials used to make them, including cobalt and silicon - based compounds, require huge energy expenditures to process.

This was a huge leap; the regular Gameboy Advance required two AA batteries.

That's because a working electricity system fueled mostly by wind turbines requires additional massive costs that a fossil fuel system does not: huge excess capacity (perhaps 300 - 400 %) to deal with conditions of light wind; gigantic batteries to store power for conditions of no wind at all, which can persist for days; extra transmission lines to bring electricity from windier areas to the rest of the country; and finally, an entire array of fossil fuel back - up plants for those occasions when the wind doesn't blow for a week and the batteries are dead.

Prof MacKay argued that solar, wind and biomass energy would require too much land, huge battery back - ups and cost too much to be a viable option for the UK.

With the addition of a Retina display in the iPad 3, Apple had to compromise on the device's sleekness to give way to the extra space required by the display and the huge battery.