Sentences with phrase «second power surge»

The 48th test proves almost successful, but a last - second power surge cripples the station.

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This project, suggested to her by Robert Bly, energized her own writing: «I know that if I had not worked so hard on Akhmatova,» Kenyon remarked, «I would never have experienced that surge of power» that resulted in the poems in her second book, The Boat of Quiet Hours.

Some storm - surge models resolve time in increments as short as 3 seconds, but doing so requires computing power that exceeds even that available in W&M's SciClone Computing Complex.

Power is loaded into one large coil a couple of feet in diameter, causing electricity to surge back and forth more than a million times a second.

She is the author of two books on pornography and violence against women: Power Surge and Pornography and the Sex Crisis (both Second Story books), and the play A Fertile Imagination.

Like the A5's four - cylinder, the S5's V - 6 engine is strong, with good mid-range acceleration and on - demand torque (max torque of 369 lb - ft arrives at just 1,370 rpm), but ultimately lacks the frenetic surge of power you might expect from a car with a 354 - hp rating, despite an estimated 4.5 - second 0 - 60 mph time.

I love the little car, but lately i find it loses power for no particular reason and then surges back in a second or two.

I've also noticed that there's a periodic hesitation in the power delivery - again going up that hill in 3rd at about 2000 rpm, the power surges on and off slightly, every second or so.

It almost feels like the transmission is waiting for a surge of power that never comes — kicking down, pausing, and then often kicking down again a second or two later when not much happens.

The Soul EV's 0 - 62mph time of 10.8 seconds is reasonable enough and the surge of electric power means it feels faster than that figure suggests, particularly when accelerating from rest to 40mph.

A 7 - speed automatic transmission assists the modestly - powered vehicle in its quest to surge past 60 mph in a respectable 5.1 seconds.

Engineering News China is surging ahead in wind power, blowing away the US — the world's second - largest wind power market — by a long margin, while African countries are making more inroads despite facing challenges, delegates attending the yearly Windaba conference and exhibition, in Cape Town, have heard.

A ground - fault circuit interrupter, or GFCI, is a fast - acting circuit breaker (surge detector) designed to cut off electric power in the event of a ground - fault within as little as 1/40 of a second.