Sentences with phrase «urban grid in»

Even though cruising Chicago's urban grid in the back of a taxi cab comes with its share of risks, as does automobile travel in general, that's just part of living in the big city.

The streets of Manhattan form the most famous urban grid in the world — we type in grid - shaped keyboard keys, we digest our digital media through tiny pixellated grids, and play the lottery filling numbers in small grids.

Not exact matches

As in White Noise, a sunset dominates the novel's end: the chance alignment of sun and urban grid known as Manhattanhenge.

In fact, informal urban navigation can offer a richer, more complexly layered experience of the city; these sorts of unaddressed places, located not by numbers and grids but by human conversations, can have an altogether different quality precisely by existing outside of a city's official system.

On December 12 Scientific American sat down with the new Secretary in an overheated conference room tucked in the back of a start - up grid - scale battery maker Urban Electric Power.

The team tested how parameters such as the flow of goods to and from relief centers evolved in two different model networks: a grid lattice common in cities and a «scale - free» road network that represents a mix of urban hubs and rural spokes.

For folks in urban and suburban areas, we typically rely on the electric grid for, basically, EVERYTHING!

With a tagline that promises «minimalism can be bold», these pink adidas originals sneakers are covered in a layer of white stretch grid webbing - an urban finish that boasts style and substance in one slick package.

This new vehicle is a modified version of theAcura RLX Sport Hybrid SH - AWD and is slated for testing by Honda Research Institute USA at the GoMentum Station — a 5,000 - acre proving ground in San Francisco that has more than 20 miles of paved roadway grids and is specifically designed to provide a realistic urban infrastructure for testing autonomous cars.

All it takes to install this smart urban display are four bolts fixing the sign in place — no access to the power grid or complex machinery necessary!

But just as e-signage presents an opportunity for a city's development, it is not without its challenges: to enable a city's evolution into a truly smart, and therefore sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, be implementable even at the most demanding of locations, power grid or no, and feature superb visibility in all light conditions.

The house carries an address that has appeared on the Denver tax roles for 87 years, and that exists in the middle of Denver's urban grid.

Already there's a young couple seeking an off - the - grid existence, hunters with their sights set on a backyard full of game, and urban professionals hoping to find a condo in the middle of a northern town.

Modern grids found in cities are generally graphical, and I have been inspired by them, but I also class a cobbled road as an urban grid, which is obviously much more organic.

Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.

Baconian Empericism originating in 16th Century Dutch Landscape painting and finding its way into the grid of minimalist painting is manifest as a series of intersecting metal framings that hold the mirrors in place and distribute the urban scene along a flat grid.

By 1964, he began constructing images, which he titled» Composites,» to better express the urban jitteriness he felt, and the exhibition features a small never - before - seen macquette of a grid of 12 contact prints of shapes of light seen between the tops of buildings, as well as a unique work titled In the Depths with seven strips of figures brightly lit and isolated in shadowIn the Depths with seven strips of figures brightly lit and isolated in shadowin shadows.

Each piece is a response to the concept of the urban grid — the framework of streets, buildings, paving stones and indeed tiles, that shapes the cities around us — and the ways in which these grids are transformed by the movement of people over time.

Life in late - capitalist culture, according to Halley's own critical writing, has been inscribed and circumscribed by geometric networks: think of the urban grid, the office tower, the high - rise apartment building, the correctional institution, the parking lot.

In Bradford's South L.A. studio, they are collaged, bleached, left to dry in the sun, sanded down with a Home Depot hand buffer, and carved into urban cartographies, some as striated grids, others into hilly terrain gouged with scar - like canyons that expose the layers of color beloIn Bradford's South L.A. studio, they are collaged, bleached, left to dry in the sun, sanded down with a Home Depot hand buffer, and carved into urban cartographies, some as striated grids, others into hilly terrain gouged with scar - like canyons that expose the layers of color beloin the sun, sanded down with a Home Depot hand buffer, and carved into urban cartographies, some as striated grids, others into hilly terrain gouged with scar - like canyons that expose the layers of color below.

Here's a tweet of mine making the point that innovation, in this case a fresh business model at Selco in India, can fast - forward improvement in people's lives in rural or off - grid communities even as urban power systems evolve:

However, the actual claim of IPCC is that the effects of urban heat islands effects are likely small in the gridded temperature products (such as produced by GISS and Climate Research Unit (CRU)-RRB- because of efforts to correct for those biases.

But, Lets imagine that 10 % of the land mass in this grid were URBAN.

Over the period to 2030, new connections to the grid bring electricity to over half of those that gain access, and offer the most cost - effective means of access in urban areas, but decentralised systems are the most cost - effective solutions for over 70 % of those who gain access in rural areas.

In the main part of the paper, for China, we compare a new homogenized station data set with gridded temperature products and attempt to assess possible urban influences using sea surface temperature (SST) data sets for the area east of the Chinese mainland.

In any case, reducing power theft among the urban poor will solve only one of many problems for India's grid.

The project applies smart grids for the energy management of households, buildings and local communities, introduces large scale renewable energy, and promotes next generation transport systems in order to demonstrate new urban management forms.

Domestically, this will prove most crucial in areas like Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, where exploitation of wind resources has been stymied by the electricity grid's inability to deliver the power to urban markets.

At the intermediate, urban level, other battery projects, for instance around New York City, are being built to handle fluctuations in the larger grid.

My point is that in the absence of such a fine grid, one should place the measurement locations according to the well studied rules of polling: Decide on the number of types of environment: urban, desert, mountain, iceberg, tropics, etc and weight the results according to the percentage each of these types have on the surface of the globe.

Every village in India now has some form of access to electricity whether it be through an on or off - grid solution, according to prime minister Narendra Modi, however, there are still millions of households across India, both urban and rural, without access to electricity.

In an effort to recycle the thousands of surplus containers that sit on docks around the world, shipping containers have been used in urban farms, off - the - grid getaways, and even as all - in - one poolIn an effort to recycle the thousands of surplus containers that sit on docks around the world, shipping containers have been used in urban farms, off - the - grid getaways, and even as all - in - one poolin urban farms, off - the - grid getaways, and even as all - in - one poolin - one pools.

For anyone who's lived here, it really doesn't take an expert to recognize that the island - state has a number of things going for it: a contained urban area (the longest east - west stretch is just over 40 km and north - south stretch about 20 km), one of the most efficient and reliable electrical grids, sophisticated IT sector, ambitions to remain at the forefront of maintaining its already world - class transportation infrastructure, and a top - down policy environment which will ensure rapid deployment of a complicated and ambitious system once there is buy - in from the top.

However, they don't mention how many * other * stations in the gridded network are used, or whether these other stations are rural or urban.

In addition, this would eliminate the requirement of transmission lines from remote locations to urban areas via the grid.

In recent years, the idea of pulling water vapor from the air and condensing it into drinking water is getting a whole lot more attention, and not just in off - grid areas and in the developing world, but also right here in suburbia and urban areas as welIn recent years, the idea of pulling water vapor from the air and condensing it into drinking water is getting a whole lot more attention, and not just in off - grid areas and in the developing world, but also right here in suburbia and urban areas as welin off - grid areas and in the developing world, but also right here in suburbia and urban areas as welin the developing world, but also right here in suburbia and urban areas as welin suburbia and urban areas as well.

If we can trust the RF calculation in the absence of effective peer - review — and using the observed global rise in T (criticism of urban heat islands and dodgy grid homogenising algorithms not - withstanding), then 0.7 = X (RF), where the RF for CO2 is.....?

Initially the energy input for the heat grids would be mostly from gas, but all the gas - fired industrial CHP and urban CHP&P capacity would be progressively converted to hydrogen, piped in from coal and biomass CCS gasifiers.

The Waka Waka is a combination battery pack, solar charger, and emergency / task light designed for use both in urban / suburban settings as well as off the grid to provide power solar power for small to mid-size devices as well as a portable source of light.