But it also meant that each supplier of, say, the wings or the batteries that supplied power to the engines or auxiliary systems, would use their own approach to both the design and the manufacture.
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The bottom line is that electricity supplied by the power grid is increasingly incapable of providing the quality of electric service needed to operate an advanced economy.
At the moment, this is supplied by traditional power stations.
User fees are charges for items like postage stamps, Medicare premiums, veterans' life insurance policies and electricity rates for power supplied by federal agencies such as the Tennessee Valley Authority.
According to the International Energy Agency, the amount of power supplied by renewables has grown only 2.5% a year from 1971 to 2011, to a modest 8.2% of total power generation in developed nations.
User fees are charges for items like postage stamps, Medicare premiums, veterans' life insurance policies and electricity rates for power supplied by federal agencies such as the Tennessee Valley Authority (nyse: TVC - news - people ).
In both scenarios, the amount of electricity supplied through the power grid is lower during peak periods, which improves reliability, reduces rates by avoiding the use of high-priced power plants during peak hours and delays capital intensive infrastructure investments needed to maintain the grid.
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That is well above the base power load and the surge is supplied by less efficient fossil fuel power generators as well as some peak pumped water storage.
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Power is supplied by an electric current generated in a pack outside the body.
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Gas-fired power plants supplied 31 percent of U.S. electricity in 2012, according to BNEF, up from 22 percent five years ago.
Gas prices spiked on short supply, and Sempra, struggling to keep U.S. power plants supplied with gas, cut off its 75 million cubic feet a day of gas deliveries to Rosarito.
In fact, the U.S. hit a milestone in April of this year when government data showed that natural gas-fired power plants supplied as much electricity to the nation as coal-fired plants for the first time.
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These are big batteries that run cleanly for as long as hydrogen is supplied, and which might power anything in or around your home notably, your car.
Utilities want those power plants to store solar energy so it can be used to balance a power grid increasingly supplied by intermittent sources of electricity like wind farms.
Formal religion, meanwhile, is supposed to have appeared only after agriculture produced such hierarchical social relations as required a cosmic backstory to keep them going and supplied a template for the power relationship between gods and mortals.
Travel up the Columbia River, which has long supplied this area with cheap electrical power, and you can see and hear what's luring students into the energy field.
The energy concerns of the future have also been taken into account with grand schemes of super-fast charging batteries supplied ultimately by solar or wind power connected to the stacking stations that could even feed back into the energy grid of the city itself.
After all, Scotland already has 18% of its energy needs supplied by clean sources, including hydro power, three years ahead of schedule.
The power for the operation is supplied by the engines of a fleet of trucks, so this stage of the process can be noisy.
More than 50 reactors had previously supplied 30% of the country's power.
These dams, which produce one-third of the hydroelectric power in the United States, attracted the power-hungry aluminium plants that supplied metal for Boeing's aircraft production in the second world war and afterwards.
The other raw material for photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, will be supplied as the exhaust from industrial plants such as power stations, oil refineries and natural-gas processors.
Only 1% of the amateur power is connected to the grid now, but Portland General Electric in Oregon has hooked up 21 large customers with 43 megawatts of generating power that can be turned on electronically and supplied to the grid.
He reminds us that the United States tacitly accepted the Taliban's assumption of power in Afghanistan, tells us that it supplied him with anthrax and botulin, and unkindly notes that it was one Donald Rumsfeld who went to Baghdad in 1983 to assure Saddam Hussein of American support.
Only 1% of the amateur power is connected to the grid now, but Portland General Electric (nyse: POR - news - people ) in Oregon has hooked up 21 large customers with 43 megawatts of generating power that can be turned on electronically and supplied to the grid.
Asked if such tactics had failed in places like Afghanistan, where members of the Taliban movement seized power and imposed harsh Islamic rule with arms supplied by the United States in the 1980s, he replied: "I'd rather have the problems we have in Afghanistan than the problems we had during the Cold War, " he said, referring to the Soviet invasion there in 1980.
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Engines for the planes are to be supplied by Rolls-Royce but no decision has been made on the power plants for the A380s.
In this case, however, the front electric motor-which is now supplied with energy by the TDI engine-operates exclusively as a generator and a power source for the electric motor at the rear.
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Eventually he believes wave power could supply 20% of the UK's energy needs, the same proportion currently supplied by nuclear.
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