«The only problem with photo voltaics is that
it takes more power to make a solar cell and the frame to hold it, than you can ever get from the cell over it's usefull lifespan.»
Duckster, The only problem with photo voltaics is that
it takes more power to make a solar cell and the frame to hold it, than you can ever get from the cell over it's usefull lifespan.
I believe you think that after 75 %, it somehow
takes more power to charge the battery because it loses a net amount of power somewhere.
Other key changes include the Secretary of State
taking more power to intervene in under - performing schools and the narrowing of the focus of Ofsted inspections.
Bear in mind that Windows 8 will
take more power to virtualize than XP.
Not exact matches
«We often try
to power through the day
to get
more work finished, which might not be as effective as
taking some time
to detach for a few minutes,» Rupp said in a release.
It's
taken more than a century
to refine the technology, and indeed, wireless
power still faces obstacles related
to safety, interference, efficiency and range.
Then SABRE will flip
to rocket
power,
taking the spacecraft
to low Earth orbit and reaching speeds of Mach 25 —
more than 19,000 miles per hour.
«Most of our companies are atoms leveraging bits» — lab science aided by computing
power — «and they generally
take more capital and a longer time horizon
to hit those key milestones,» says Lindy Fishburne, executive director at Breakout Labs and managing director at Breakout Ventures.
Returns on favoritism and capital become marginal, and it
take more complexity and capital
to wring ever - smaller profits and
power from ever - greater investments.
While global
powers and financial markets have long been accustomed
to over-the-top rhetoric from North Korea, the U.S. has traditionally
taken a
more diplomatic stance.
FIRE gives you
more power to take charge of your life, and what you do with it is entirely up
to you.
Proposed board reforms
to Canada's deposit -
taking institutions and insurance companies under the new guidelines include: appointing directors with relevant financial services experience;
more board control over enterprise risk; enhanced director training, self - assessment and external reviews; and certain
powers that allow boards
to better direct and monitor management.
I just wish that
more leaders
took interest in the humans in our workplaces and marketplaces and helped everyone be accountable
to the expectation of doing
more in operationalizing the
power of the individual defining the business at all levels of business.
The need
to take on corporate
power more generally has become a rallying cry among Democrats, especially amid new research suggesting the lack of competition is stymieing economic growth and wages.
These batteries then in turn
take up
more space, weigh the car down and demand even
more power, which means the battery needs
to be bigger, and so on.
At Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) we
take a
more demanding approach, defining investing as the transfer
to others of purchasing
power now with the reasoned expectation of receiving
more purchasing
power — after taxes have been paid on nominal gains — in the future.
Power posing: The act of
taking a posture of confidence, even when you don't feel so confident,
to make yourself
more dominant.
«That will lead
to more power by some of the giants, who will start consolidating
more and
taking companies off their IPO track,» he said.
But until he and other Silicon Valley CEOs show
more willingness
to take moral responsibility for that
power, it's hard
to regard that as a bad thing.
With the German government planning
to take its nuclear
power plants offline by 2022, CEZ Group will likely have
to supply even
more power to its giant neighbour.
I think you'll learn
more in watching the 20 - minute interview that Troy Carter and I did than you will in most tech interviews because he cuts down
to the raw essence of what it
takes any product
to be discovered and nurtured and the
power of being able
to connect the right emerging artist with the right influencers in a market.
A short video from one female executive won't change that, but hopefully a lot
more women in positions of
power and a growing awareness that burning the midnight oil
takes a serious toll on families, relationships and even individuals (not
to mention a
more equitable sharing of housework and childcare between the sexes) will slowly make it safe for
more of us
to say
to our bosses — or admit
to ourselves — what Sandberg has just said publicly.
In November 2008, within 48 hours after Flaherty's fall update sparked an opposition attempt
to form a coalition that could
take power from the Conservatives, Harper had sent his ministers
to announce the cancellation of everything in the update that had upset the opposition — party financing, pay equity and
more.
Within a few
more years, the government
takes notice and begins
to regulate the company and
to limit its
power.
Instead, it is in the control of a higher
power that cruelly
takes the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year — and this ideology becomes even
more absurd when you consider that we are supposed
to have a separation of church and state.
By allowing certain stock
to have
more voting
power than other stock our company
takes our public shareholder money but does not let us have an equal voice in our company's management.
The decrease in their DTLs will shore up their balance sheets and allow them
to take on
more debt
to invest in key areas like
power grid improvements and renewable energy generation.
And we need visible minority employees
to take greater advantage of these opportunities so that they have
more power over their own career development.
Mr Ward, dubbed «Chocfinger» due
to his influence over the cocoa price, blamed the rising
power of algorithmic and systems - based trading for making position -
taking based on «fundamental» supply and demand factors
more difficult.
But he said moving
to meet climate targets is becoming
more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have
taken over», market forces around wind and solar
power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy
to close their Liddell coal
power station «are being made on economic grounds».
For Flipkart, the stake sale
to Walmart would give it
more power to take on Amazon and provide access
to a partner that has experience in retail, logistics and supply chain management.
In 2012, it
took 19 people
to install a megawatt of solar
power; that number is now 15, and Luecke expects the trend
to continue as crews get
more and
more efficient and competent.
Due
to potentially - large oscillations in the desire
to hold cash and
to the fact that changes in the money supply can
take years
to impact the cost of living, this theoretical rate of purchasing -
power change will tend
to be inaccurate over periods of two years or less but should approximate the actual rate of purchasing -
power change over periods of five years or
more.
Since Tsipras came
to power in January, tempers have flared, insults have been hurled, a rift has appeared between a generally
more conciliatory France and a less pliant Germany, and the idea that the European «union» is a solid entity in which solidarity between countries can be
taken for granted has
taken a serious hit.
A research study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, led by a team at the Rotman School of Management, shows that
taking a moment
to assess your best qualities leads
to better results when negotiating a high - stakes deal with someone who has
more power than you.
More chilling still is the -4 % real loss p.a. that occurred over the worst 30 years of UK bond investing history or the 47 years it
took to recover the real purchasing
power of your bonds lost during the bear market of the 1940s
to 1970s.
We are confident that
more mainstream businesses will join the fray as they begin
to take cryptocurrencies seriously as a means
to broaden their investment portfolio into the nascent blockchain technology
powered businesses,» commented Takao Asayama, CEO of Tech Bureau, Corp. «COMSA is a one stop shop solution for token creation and exchange.»
In contrast, in the U.S. it
takes $ 26,000 or
more to have middle - class spending
power, and 80 % of Americans qualify.
Less obvious, but perhaps, arguable would be older and younger siblings where the older sibling has
more perceived
power, however it could
take many forms, and might be argued that any close familial relationship is likely
to develop a hierarchy of
power, or pecking order, that invalidates any equal position in which
to make a valid consent.
In fact, Niebuhr taught that the egotism of the individual only becomes
more powerful when collected into a group,
to the extent that an individual's egotistical will -
to - live
takes on the
more evil will -
to -
power, that is, coercion becomes the modus - operendi of the group.
It's recounted as one incident (told twice), but scholars think it was likely a pattern in which he antagonized the priests and attempted
to take more power than they wanted him
to have.
With
more than 40 years of recovery under my belt, I've tried it all and had my biggest chanllenge at 15 years when I became a Buddhist — we don't believe in God and not even in a Higher
Power, so it
took awhile for me
to reconcile the two.
When Whitehead describes the approach
to intellectuality as a gain in the
power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we
take this
to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower,
more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.
I give
to you what I give
to no one else, and that is my seed, my procreative
power, which, united
to your seed, can incarnate our love,
take on flesh that will be the living fruit of our love, the proof also that we want our love
to be a gift
to God and
to the future.1 I have expanded on this at length elsewhere.2 Holding
to our present topic, let us look a bit
more closely at those issues of justice involved in this divine plan of the union of man and woman in marriage.
I turn instinctively towards the ever
more numerous institutions and associations of men where in the search for knowledge a new spirit is silently
taking shape around us — the soul of Mankind resolved at all costs
to achieve, in its total integrity, the uttermost fulfillment of its
powers and its destiny.
In contrast, in Western Europe, where the political structure of the Empire suffered
more than in the East and in several regions disappeared, the Church survived and
took to itself some of the
powers and functions of the Empire.
While Gregory consolidated the
power of the Church over a
more limited geographic area, John Paul
took the Gospel and the Sacraments
to the ends of the earth.
This is, of course, no
more than we should expect, if we
take the New Testament's Paschal triumphalism
to heart: «Now is the judgment of this world, now will the prince of this world be cast out» (John 12:31); «I have overcome the world» (John 16:33); he is «far above all principality, and
power, and might, and dominion» and all things are put «under his feet» (Ephesians 1:21 - 2); «having spoiled principalities and
powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it» (Colossians 2:15); «he led captivity captive» (Ephesians 4:8); and so on.
I think some of the ways we can be
more aware of our
power is
to recognize some of the privileges we have, privileges we
take for granted and assume everyone has: our education level, our able - bodiedness level, our sexual orientation, the passport we have, etc..