Sentences with phrase «using excess power»

This system, introduced in the early 1900s and used around the world, uses excess power to pump water uphill, and then generates power when it is released back down.

Grid operators would call ARES, which would use the excess power to drive the train.

Not exact matches

Gasee coins will be used to buy and sell excess power generated by solar panels and other localised energy sources.

If I do so, I'm pretty sure I'll also get the Tesla Powerwall battery system to store excess solar power - generated electricity for use at night or whenever conditions are suboptimal.

With the Powerwall, Pfitzner is able to store excess power that his house doesn't use.

Because the Court does not seem to be disposed to correct this serious error, it is put upon the Congress of the US to perform its duty to support and defend the Con - sti - tu - tion of the US, by the use of its authority to apply checks and balances to other branches of the gov, when abuses of power and the exercise of excesses of power are evident.

(1) Hare and Madden use the analogy of a parent and child and argue that just as a parent is morally required to use enough extrinsic motivation on his child to protect the child and society so God should use coercive power to prevent excess evil.

1/4 to 1/2 cup cashew cream (from 1 cup raw cashews blended with 1 cup water, soak cashews for a few hours before blending if you don't have a power blender, save excess cashew cream for another use.)

If you've got it, flaunt it — and your hair will remain perfect until the excess energy you used powering two hair dryers will hasten the world's expenditure of fossil fuels to the point where we can no longer afford the electricity to power hair dryers, and instead resort into walking into darkened caves full of bats and allowing the collective heat of their tiny nocturnal bodies to hasten the evaporation of our surplus hair water.

Excess wind power will be used to produce ammonia — easily stored and distributed for burning later when wind is low.

«One of the largest shortcomings in the world of microelectronics is always good use of power: Designers are always looking to reduce excess power consumption and unnecessary heat generation,» said Gregg Jessen, principal electronics engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory.

When hooked up to the average 500 - megawatt natural - gas or coal power plant, the vortex engine could produce an extra 200 megawatts of energy just by putting the excess heat to use.

Use cinnamon to help heat up this power center, or peppermint to cool any excess fire in the system.

If you do not have excess to a power rack you can (believe it or not) use a door frame to train the legs in the same manner by sitting within the frame and placing your back against one edge and your feet against the other and then pushing as you would with a power rack.

I still got the dopamine dose from catching rare fish, selling the excess for money and leveling up my skill, and I used almost no brain power to do it.

Unfortunately, the large majority of the cash went toward Tim and Eric living a lifestyle of Hollywood excess, complete with plastic surgeries, stylists, an expensive life coach (Zach Galifianakis) who has magical powers for no reason except that there's no reason for him to have magical powers, and piercings (The movie gives us a long look in close and medium shots of Eric getting a genital piercing (using, we assume and hope, a prosthetic), which is the first of a few reasons why the MPAA's decision to give this an R rating is a bigger point of offense than anything in the movie, especially considering the ratings board's tendency to overreact to naughty words).

LaFerrari takes advantage of the electric boost in a straight line, where the tires can handle the extra power output, but when the car is exiting a corner and the tires, limited by grip and lateral acceleration, can only transmit a limited amount of torque to the ground, the KERS system uses the V - 12's excess torque to recharge the battery pack.

If it has failed, this could be causing a loss of power and excess use of...

Some 4 wheel drive cars use a centre viscous coupling unit that will provide most power to the rear wheels unless the amount of torque being supplied to the rear wheels is in excess of the traction limits of the rear tyres, such as in a Lamborghini Murciélago.

We've seen hybrid vehicles — which use a tiny gasoline engine and a big electric motor for power, resulting in high overall fuel mileage — marketed in the United States using two central selling points: that hybrids such as the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic and Insight are economical, getting in excess of 45 miles per gallon, and that environmentally, hybrids are The Right Thing To Do.

It can operated in full electric mode, use the gas engine to feed excess energy to the battery pack, or use both the gas engine and electric motors to power the vehicle.

The hybrid system conserves fuel consumption by running at optimum engine speeds, generating power to run an electric motor turning the wheels, and storing excess power in a small battery pack to be used when the engine is not running.

I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that their intention may have been to make viewers think about the relationship of labor, art, and money at the epicenter of Park Avenue's 1 % excess, but in reality it domesticates the power of a symbol being used by real protesters throughout the city — even the Lever House website explains it «undermined the political content» of the original symbol.

My work comments on power, or the deconstruction of power, and I tend to use notions of excess as a way to represent that power — deconstructing things within that.

Shonibare describes his art as a Trojan Horse, «My work comments on power, or the deconstruction of power, and I tend to use notions of excess as a way to represent that power — deconstructing things within that.»

They use the solar power and the excess capacity of the diesel plant to charge this battery bank, which cuts their diesel consumption in less than half, to 10 - 12 gallons per day.

And note that there are many ways to store excess power for use during non-peak-input times.

The facility will also have green roofs featuring flowering plants that will help to keep the buildings cool and during the summer when the heat rises, excess steam from the local electricity plant will be used as an additional power source for running machines that keep the equipment cool.

When your renewable sources like wind and solar are all pumping out more power than you can use, you use the excess to push the train full of rocks up a hill.

Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.

Researchers at Stanford University in the US have developed a battery that runs on saltwater, allowing excess energy to be stored in a cheap and safe way, and then used when there are higher demands for power.

Likewise, if solar or wind produced more power than the grid could use, that excess power might simply be lost.

Usually in sunny Florida more kWh's are exported than drawn, this excess is credited at the retail power rate and can be used to reduce future bills or deposited into your account.

at Stanford University in the US have developed a battery that runs on saltwater, allowing excess energy to be stored in a cheap and safe way, and then used when there are higher demands for power.

The anticipated law will NOT allow excess power sales to the grid, but will use a billing mechanism ICE is expected to call «simple net metering.»

The system produces more than enough electricity to power Ad Astra's labs on a daily basis, and excess electricity is stored on ICE's power grid for later use in experiments with high demand.

The fleet is expected to provide up to 700 kilowatts of energy to the grid, which can be used to balance the overall load by absorbing excess power, then putting it back into the grid during times of high demand.

My calculations suggest the CO2 sequestration costs would be halved using nuclear power (allowing for the higher cost of nuclear plants in Antarctica and allowing for the need to disperse the excess heat).

Besides CHPs running with bio gas and heating boilers, we use a power - to - heat installation to convert excess power from renewables into heat.

In most states the systems provide your power needs throughout the day and if your system produces more electricity than your home is using, it sends the excess back to the electric grid, selling your extra solar power back to the utility where it can be used by your neighbors and others.

A tax on natural gas used for boiler fuel in excess of 20 percent of the capacity of any power plant unit

When a solar system produces more power than what is being used in the home this excess power is sent to the grid and credited by SCE at the retail power rate per kWh.

As a side note is the possibility of using EV's to push excess power out to the grid during peak daytime hours when the rates are higher and then recharging at nighttime when the rates are lower.

They could install solar panels for self - use, just to reduce their power bill, without the need to use grid services to feed «excess» power into the grid.

Excess wind power generated from both locations under certain weather conditions could be used to pump water uphill in Tasmania's dams for pumped storage.

Net metering laws require power companies to bank excess credits for solar electricity fed to the utility grid for later use by the homeowner.

This means more use of batteries, pumped hydro - power, solar - thermal with storage, possibly things like using excess electricity to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen and storing that until it is needed.

Pumped storage works by using excess electricity to pump water upwards, and allowing the water to flow downwards and power turbines when needed.

The preference for grid - connected systems not only enhances grid reliability by supplementing grid power with these new renewable energy sources, but taps into any excess solar power that is not used on - site that would otherwise be wasted if not stored in a portable battery.

The excess power or off - peak power generated by wind generators or solar arrays may then be used at a later time for load balancing in the energy grid.