Sentences with phrase «which powers a generator»

The steam is converted into mechanical energy in a turbine, which powers a generator to produce electricity.

Second, because the power plants regulated by RGGI were operating in restructured electricity markets — in which power generators compete on open wholesale markets — they were going to capture the extra carbon value in their wholesale price bids anyway.

Not exact matches

Raleigh Studios operates in concert with Hollywood Rentals, which provides professional lighting and grip equipment, power generators and production vehicles for the film, TV, advertising and special - events industries.

And widespread power outages are expected for the foreseeable future, which will force patients to rely on backup generators and aid organizations.

They can no longer administer it at home since they don't have electricity but drive to her father's house to use his generator, powered by gasoline, which is now in short supply on the island.

«In an effort to improve our air quality, my company is in the process of implementing a significant project to replace these carbon based diesel generators with solar - powered alternatives which will run off the sun's pure renewable energy.

Maria, which hit the island as a Category 4, completely knocked out the island's power grid — so the only power is coming from generators and car batteries.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

He noted that though the nuclear power plant is known for high energy density without green house gases emissions and Few Recourse limitations, it can not compare to the safe, efficient newly invented (Green) «EX5» solar Quantum physics energy generator (nuclear replacement plant) which only needs a solar panel for 8seconds.

«We believe NYS should allow NY generators that located here, believing in competitive markets, the opportunity to deliver clean affordable energy to the state, while preserving critically needed jobs and tax revenues to our communities, which is why we are proud to join the Power NY coalition.»

The green - minded generator uses a process that saves power by converting heat that would normally be wasted into steam, which can then be used to cool air during the summer months and heat water in the winter.

Unlike FEGs, which carry the generators into the sky and send current down the tether, the WPI kite would bob up and down just a few hundred feet in the air, creating jerks or pulses in the tether that would power a generator on the ground.

It also lays out guidelines for carbon trading, which lets power generators buy allowances or credits from cleaner electricity sources to meet required CO2 levels.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

The generator sits on a bed of 60 springs, which are necessary to ease the tremors created when it decelerates after powering the magnet, creating an earth - shaking fury.

He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered vehicles.

The first authors, Assistant Professor Hirofumi Kurita and Professor Akio Mizuno, said, «W / O droplet electroporation is operated using a DC power supply, which obviates the need for an expensive pulse generator.

Most people in England and Wales buy their power from regional electricity companies (RECs) which, in turn, buy it from fossil - fuel and nuclear generators at market price.

He designed the practical infrastructure to make it a reality: the generators, power lines, and the form in which electricity would flow.

It also illustrates the mechanisms by which dysfunction of mitochondria — the power generators of the cell — affects kidney disease.

«All generator stations, transformer stations, power lines, and switch yards have protection systems, which until then were based on mechanical relays,» he explains.

Since 2003, Discover has been reporting on a biofuel company that turned turkey guts, garbage and old tires into oil, which it sold to refineries for vehicle fuel or to electrical utilities to help power generators («Anything Into Oil,» May 2003).

For electronics to be worn by a user, they must be light, flexible, and equipped with a power source, which could be a portable, long - lasting battery or no battery at all but a generator.

The turbines, in turn, drive generators that produce electricity, which is sold to the local power company.

Many have high hopes for a new power source called the Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator (ASRG), which uses a smaller amount of plutonium - 238 and is more efficient than previous radioisotope power sources.

The restoration of nuclear power also won't solve Japan's long - standing transmission problems, which continue to hamstring the ability of power generators and utilities to move power from where it's produced to where it is most needed, experts say.

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

The institute's star attraction is its pulsed - power generator, the Angara -5-1, which, for a tiny fraction of a second, can produce about 100 times as much power as all the power stations in Britain could manage together.

The scheme, which was established by the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act, is intended to cut US sulphur dioxide emissions by half without forcing every power generator to do the same whether or not they have installed anti-pollution equipment.

Tornado Terminator In 1998, the late physicist Bernard Eastlund suggested that we might control twisters with a space - based, solar - collecting microwave generator, which he called the Thunderstorm Solar Power Satellite.

It also illustrates the mechanisms by which dysfunction of mitochondria - the power generators of the cell - affects kidney disease.

Increased glucose processing has long been thought to inflict damage on the mitochondria (the cell's power generators), which then produce large amounts of reactive oxygen molecules, which in turn leads to kidney disease.

Our proposal has been prepared with substantial assistance from PSEG Power, which is New Jersey's largest power generator and the operator of the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants in the southern part of the sPower, which is New Jersey's largest power generator and the operator of the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants in the southern part of the spower generator and the operator of the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants in the southern part of the state.

At Sandia National Laboratory, Myers works on the Z machine, the world's most powerful pulsed - power facility and x-ray generator, which produces high energy density plasmas that are used to study fusion and the physics of nuclear weapons.

All geothermal power plants use steam to turn large turbines, which run electrical generators.

Once power is depleted from the lithium - ion battery pack, the Town & Country EV then activates a small 98 - hp gasoline engine, which serves as a generator.

The engine continues providing the power to spin the generator, which in turn supplies the drive motor with electric current.

It doesn't directly power the car, but instead sends power to a generator, which delivers electricity to the motor and battery.

There is also a hybrid model, which teams the V - 6 engine with three generators powered by a nickel - metal hydride battery pack to produce 280 hp, while achieving a combined rating of 28 mpg.

The turbine burns diesel fuel to drive the generator, which in turn charges up a 28kWh battery pack that supplies power to the electric motors.

Those motors are powered by an electric flywheel generator, which is charged up by regenerative braking each time the driver slows.

The engine is used as a generator to power an electric motor directly or charge the vehicle's battery, which also can drive the electric motor.

UK - based automatic transmission specialist Antonov, which is currently developing new gearboxes tailored specifically to electric vehicles to improve their performance and range and ancillary generators to improve low speed electrical power, says its high efficiency transmission systems are scalable for any torque applications and therefore beneficial to a wide range... Read more →

In Hybrid Drive, the petrol engine supplies power to the electric generator which in turn delivers power to the electric motor.

When cruising at medium to high speeds, the high - efficiency Atkinson - cycle i - VTEC gasoline engine provides propulsion via a high capacity lock - up clutch, which connects the generator motor (always linked to the engine) and the electric drive motor, effectively sending motive power directly from the engine to the drive wheels.

As far as power, the 1.8 - liter engine and pair of electric motor - generators generates a maximum of 98 horsepower, which is definitely enough to zip around the city with your cargo as needed.

Like hybrids, however, and unlike EVs (or range - extender EVs, which incorporate a combustion engine that acts as a power generator, extending their range), PHEVs are powered primarily by a conventional combustion engine — fuelled by petrol in all cases in Australia so far.

It features power - split hybrid architecture, which allows the lithium - ion battery and gasoline - powered engine to work together or separately using the motor and generator.

With the exception of the alternator, which is replaced by motor - generators, all components are now electrically powered which means notably lower parasitic losses to the engine and improved fuel consumption.

The electric propulsion motor alone powers the front wheels, while the gasoline engine (decoupled from the drive wheels) powers the electric motor / generator motor, which in turn provides power to charge the 1.3 kilowatt - hour lithium - ion battery pack.