Sentences with phrase «source of a lot of the powers»

Because it tells the story of the birth of The Order, we get to see the source of a lot of the powers that Assassins would exhibit in later centuries.

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Underwater data centers, envisioned to be powered by renewable marine energy sources, is expected to reduce the huge cost associated with cooling data centers that generate a lot of heat, and also to reduce the distance to connected populations.

«They influence people older than them, process lots of information from lots of sources, and... today they account for 21 to 25 percent of consumer discretionary purchases — and that's going to increase as they get more earning power.»

Meanwhile, a lot of the «clean energy» options (like hybrid / electric vehicles) still require the power grid, which — you guessed it — largely uses traditional energy sources (like natural gas).

Very painful to realise that behind the talk of «flat structures» and «open source religion» and whatever there was a lot of power games, and people being thrown under the bus (or sacrificed to idols like success, having a name and mammon, that are as popular in postmodernity as in any other age).

There are a lot of ancillary technologies that will be part of the challenge, such as improvements in communication technology or innovations in power sources.

Capturing carbon emissions from electric power plants and other sources is a hot research topic because there's a lot of room for improvement.

(laughter) But, putting that in an appropriate context, now it's not just that obviously online journalism lends itself so well to a lot of good coverage; the fact that it is so easily lent to dialogue and linking to sources, to multimedia, to the diversity of opportunities and ways of approaching all of this; not to mention the extraordinary explanatory power of lolcats.

I don't know if I would say «big proponent» but I am for more nuclear power because it's one of the only power sources I know of that can produce lots of baseload power 24 × 7.

When you're eating a lot of carbohydrates, your body has a source for powering your muscles because it has a go - to source for energy.

Early on there's a lot of this kind of stuff: connecting things to power sources, plumbing things in, learning which resources various buildings need, working out how to conserve the excess power and water and oxygen that you're eventually creating.

A lot of longtime rumors and MCU spoilers have pointed to the Soul Stone being the power behind Wakanda's connection to spiritual deities like The Panther, while the meteorite provides the Vibranium metal alloy that is the source of Wakanda's advanced tech and formidable weaponry.

There's a lot of open source information that people have put together and we hope to leverage the collective brain power of people working along similar paths.»

The industry as a whole is definitely heading toward more and more electric cars, but fortunately for those of us who love the sound, the character, and the history of power sources that go boom several thousand times per minute, there's still a lot more efficiency to be squeezed from our remaining allotment of dino juice.

Senior BMW M sources have hinted at a two - seat version of the upcoming M4 — similar in philosophy to the limited - edition GTS — complete with more power from the twin - turbo six - cylinder engine and a lot less weight.

The diesel engine that will power the Maruti Vitara Brezza is the same 1.3 - litre DDiS unit sourced from Fiat and it also powers a lot of other vehicles such as the Swift, DZire, Ciaz, Ertiga from the Maruti stable and the Bolt and Zest from the Tata stable (it also powers Fiat and GM cars).

The BlackBerry Playbook comes with a rapid charging adaptor of 1.8 A output and really helps a lot when I have little time to spare at a power source.

Meanwhile, a lot of the «clean energy» options (like hybrid / electric vehicles) still require the power grid, which — you guessed it — largely uses traditional energy sources (like natural gas).

Solar power is soon to become the defining power source, and it is said that the sun provides enough energy to power everything we need, and a lot more, and with an estimated 500 million years of life left, the sun can provide all our...

Facebook has been getting a lot of flack from the green community since it became well known that they're purchasing power from coal - powered plants rather than from renewable energy sources.

For a lot of reasons there is, at least by now, no «solution» with renewable sources to power a civilization of 7 + billion people.

Also fusion power could be a lot more accessible than we think, if we establish Helium - 3 collection on the moon (seems there's a good source of the non-radioactive ion up there) and then use it in reasonably cold fusion into Lithium in orbiting power plants.

Getting off fossil fuels would also greatly reduce the tensions in the middle east, and pull a lot of the power source away from Russia.

If you want to get polluting sources of electricity out of your generating portfolio, it helps to have a lot of hydroelectric power: It's cheap and it's less intermittent than the wind and the sun.

For example, if grids can't be adjusted to deal with intermittent supply from renewable sources like wind, that makes these sources more expensive — and potentially reduces their EROI if a lot of gas - fired power is needed for backup generation.

Because of a growing interest in renewable energy and the increasingly competitive prices of alternative energy sources, solar power has received a lot of attention over the past several years.

Public officials responsible for decisions made by Health Canada continue to espouse the now worn phrase: «This source of energy is viewed as a viable and environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels,» but it is now recognized that wind power always requires back up, including fossil fuels, and lots of it, and it does nothing at all to abate climate change or CO ₂ levels.

However, since you can't heat anything hotter than the source of the heat, your gadget is going to be severely limited in the thermal gradient it can achieve and hence its effciency will be abysmally low requiring a lot of expensive metal for a themopile which barely going to provide enough electricity to power a pissant's golfcart halfway around the inside of a cheerio.

Solar can't produce electricity at night, but as we've seen in Germany and Australia it doesn't take a lot of solar capacity to start pushing down electricty prices during the day and that is very bad for the economics of nuclear power as it's a high capital cost, low fuel cost source of energy and reducing output during periods of low demand doesn't do much to reduce costs.

California's aggressive renewable portfolio standard, mandating that utilities source 50 percent of their electricity sales from renewables by 2030, meant that PG&E would have to put a lot more renewable power into its existing mix.

Sometimes these energy sources generate too much power and while you hear a lot of hype about batteries we don't have sufficient storage even in California, where we have a lot of investment and a lot of Silicon Valley types putting a lot of investment in battery and other storage technologies.

At some power plants, a lot of the water they withdraw gets evaporated in the cooling process; at others, much of the water is discharged back to its source (albeit hotter).

Large - scale hydropower dams certainly can provide a lot of power and are a renewable resource — assuming the water source doesn't decline, an real concern with climate change but something beyond the scope of this piece.

Obviously the power grid needs a lot of work — not only to «harden» it against violent weather and solar flares, but to make it «smarter», more efficient, and better able to effectively integrate power generation from diverse, distributed, and variable sources at all scales.

Use wide - area smart HVDC grids, and lots of different types of power source — solar thermal plus wind plus geothermal plus biomass.

One could question its suitability as a power source in Africa; their use of open wood fires is problematic, and they have lots of sun.

They use a lot of energy to power their various activities, so why not do their part and invest in the sources of power of tomorrow?

For instance, batteries could store some of the energy generated by large solar arrays during the day, deploying that energy at night, effectively making solar into something a lot more like a «baseload» power source.

While these cameras do share a lot of similarities, they have one major distinction — their power source — and it's really up to you whether you want to deal with a power cord or batteries.