Sentences with phrase «run generators even»

Technical and economic factors may drive power plant operators to run generators even when power supply outstrips demand.

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That's half a year with Puerto Rico's 3.4 million residents relying on generators, half a year without air conditioning in the tropical climate, half a year where electric pumps can't bring running water into homes, half a year where even the most basic tasks of modern life are made difficult.

We're even investing in huge engine generators that will ensure the facility continues to run if commercial power fails.

There's even a hot plate to boil water for tea, but it only works when you run an extension cord from the generator, and that prevents you from closing the door all the way.

The evening hours electric demand should be provided from generators run on landfill methane and electricity generated by tidal energy.

For example, if wind supplied 15 % of the electricity, it would save less than 15 % of fuel because other generators backing up the wind must often run at idle even when the wind is blowing and because their fuel economy suffers when they have to ramp up and slow down to compensate for variability in wind.

What I was referring to is simply collecting the electrolyzed H2, and maybe even the O2 if it made sense, on site and then using it to run a local generator, which would simply hooked into the grid like any other generator plant.

The so called Renewable Energy technologies such as Wind and Solar even if further refined and made more efficient, sought after efficiency increases that are now running into the problems of ever diminishing returns for the investments needed to raise those levels of efficiency, are now just one of the limiting factors in the hope of the so called Renewable Energy systems ever replacing today's base load coal, gas, oil, nuclear powered generators.

He even had a generator that could convert natural gas to diesel fuel to run the city and his mushroom - shaped home.»

More powerful generators may even let you keep the heat or central air running.

Adding a power generator to your home can provide you with a backup power source that allows you to keep your appliances and electronics running, giving you security and comfort even in the face of severe weather conditions.