Sentences with phrase «using conventional technologies»

Using conventional technologies, geothermal energy could provide over 80,000 megawatts of electricity - generating capacity — enough to meet half of the country's electricity needs.

Japan's 80,000 megawatts of potential capacity using conventional technologies could meet half of its current electricity demand.

His new design required the development and use of new 3D computational methods, and the component itself could not have been manufactured using conventional technologies.

The new nanotube - enhanced ultracapacitors could be made in any of the sizes currently available and be produced using conventional technology.

Cleaning up these contaminated sites using conventional technology can be very expensive, so scientists at the University of Washington and the University of York have developed an alternative — they've created transgenic grass that «eats» RDX.

The photo of the very attractive Fétish is the prototype using conventional technology.

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The technology is supposed to be an alternative to conventional background checks and credit score services that businesses typically use to screen employees before hiring.

But an overemphasis on conventional person - to - person customer engagement does not come close to areas of growing consumer interest: innovation, self - service and the use of contemporary technology.

Quantum computing could make use of the phenomenon to make computations faster than digital electronic technology, which is the basis of conventional computing.

This falls under the rubric of business process automation, something Gartner calls «the automation of complex business processes and functions beyond conventional data manipulation and record - keeping activities, usually through the use of advanced technologies.»

The technology giant said Thursday that several companies and universities have joined its initiative to create practical uses for quantum computing, a nascent technology that researchers believe could eventually surpass conventional computers in speed and power.

# 5 — New tech — VoIP, mobile phones and the paperless office New technology can represent a great way to save money, so investigate using a VoIP phone system rather than a more expensive conventional land line provider.

In contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.»

Accordingly, blockchain has been touted as everything from a replacement for conventional stock exchanges to a new distribution mechanism for digital music, but most viable uses for the technology are decidedly more practical.

The fields of academia and education are one of the most conservative fields — there are centuries - old traditions and conventional that has remained in use to the detriment of new technology.

Using a technology that helped render the protein molecule while helping cut away the oftentimes off putting dry taste of the ingredient, Ripple has raised more than $ 44 million in funding from Silicon Valley investors such as Google since launching in 2014, and has expanded from the natural channel into the conventional retailers like Target.

Food processors worldwide are increasingly relying on Eagle's superior MDX technology, originally pioneered for use in the security sector, to detect foreign bodies previously unseen by x-ray or other conventional inspection technologies in difficult product applications.

On the conventional press side a major launch is the FoodSafeUV project, which demonstrates to brand owners how the use of new dose measurement technology at the web surface can lead to a certified workflow to guarantee migration well below current Swiss Ordinance levels.

Featuring PA's PowerdriveTM technology, the Revolution is a fully electric machine and operates without using any compressed air, therefore offering savings of up to 98 % of the running costs of conventional pneumatically operated tray sealers.

The technology enables a 15 percent weight reduction from an earlier Vitaminwater ® bottle with enhanced vacuum absorption capabilities compared to conventional bases used for hot - fill containers.

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Cyberbullying — using modern communications technology such as e-mails, texts or web - postings to abuse people - is as common in the workplace as «conventional» bullying.

Conventional desalination plants that employ reverse - osmosis technology, used since the 1960s, are pricey: The new Carlsbad desalination plant in California, which outputs 50 million gallons a day, cost $ 1 billion to build.

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

Dr Oliver Kuras, from the British Geological Survey, who led on the development of geo - electrical imaging technology, said: «It is traditionally difficult to reliably «see inside rock walls» using conventional electrical imaging methods, particularly when repeating surveys over time.

Senior author Jelena Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, has been working for years to develop various nanoscale lasers and quantum technologies that might help conventional computers communicate faster and more efficiently using light instead of electricity.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

Instead of the conventional signals used in today's technology — bits — which can only be a one or a zero, the new hardware will have to process far more complex quantum entangled states.

Reporting in today's issue of Science, Gershenfeld and colleagues describe how they designed the new technology using the presence or absence of a sequence of bubbles as a substitute for the conventional «on» or «off» binary language of computer circuits.

The conversion technology is well established (the Germans used it during World War II), and liquid coal can power conventional diesel cars and trucks as well as jet engines and ships.

The currently - used artificial intelligence works on the conventional framework of semiconductor - based integrated circuit technology.

«The Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress estimated that fewer than 30 percent of procedures currently used in conventional medicine have been rigorously tested.

Now, research performed in part at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revealed a way to reduce the energy demand in one key step of plastic manufacturing by using a class of materials that can filter impurities more efficiently than the conventional manufacturing process.

Hyperion's 25 - megawatt prototype, which is based on technology developed at nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory and is similar to reactors long used on Russian submarines, gets by with more conventional levels of uranium enrichment but could still run 8 to 10 years without refueling.

In a pair of recently published papers, a team led by Berkeley Lab researcher Jonathan Ajo - Franklin announced they had successfully combined a technology called «distributed acoustic sensing,» which measures seismic waves using fiber - optic cables, with novel processing techniques to allow reliable seismic monitoring, achieving results comparable to what conventional seismometers can measure.

The new technology is designed for conventional lithium - ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones, laptops and other electronic devices, as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.

Using advanced diving technology to survey reefs at depths up to 300 feet, much deeper than conventional scuba gear allows, scientists were able to observe rarely seen ecosystems.

«The results, which demonstrate a reduction in both noise and energy consumption, raise the interesting issue of a technology «transfer» by which conventional cars could be fitted with tires developed for electric cars, combined with a re-assessment of what road surfacing textures should be used in heavy traffic areas.

The cooling process that they are developing does not require climatically harmful refrigerants and should consume less energy than the conventional cooling technologies used thus far.

Lyric's technology has a lot of potential, although it is difficult to know at this point whether their approach will succeed, Handy says, adding, «Lyric's approach is to go back to the starting point and not use conventional digital logic.»

In the nearer term, Tan's technology could be used in tandem with conventional solar cells.

The most commonly used or conventional method for assisted reproductive technologies involves a technique called centrifugation.

However, until now, all prototypes of devices based on conventional ferroelectrics have not been compatible with silicon technology, which is used in the production of most modern chips.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

«In 10 years or so you may be able to use existing technology and resources to outperform a conventional computer,» he says.

Some of the problems that have arisen, such as the uptick in the use of certain herbicides, are more about farming practices than about dangers inherent to GM technology; the same problems arise with conventional, non-GM crops.

Conventional photovoltaic technology uses large, heavy, opaque, dark silicon panels, but this could soon change.

The technology could also be used to transmit data at greater rates than conventional light or radio transmissions.

Conventional technologies for capturing xenon use activated charcoal, which is fine black carbon powder processed to be porous, with an effective surface area of 500 square meters a gram.

To capture xenon and krypton, conventional technologies use cryogenic methods in which entire gas streams are brought to a temperature far below where water freezes — such methods are energy intensive and expensive.