Rather than fighting to reform its ailing public institutions, they opt out of them, enrolling their children in private schools, installing their own generators and gating their communities.
According to a study conducted by Joseph Romm of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, the Sure Power system reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 46 percent a year compared to emissions of traditional uninterruptible power supplies and their standby diesel generators.
Utilities such as Exelon Corp. and PSEG Corp. began ditching their older generators in the 1990s and replacing them with cleaner alternatives.
The power plant's backup diesel generators and their fuel supplies were destroyed by the tsunami.
There are some high-rise buildings that are running their elevators and their stairwell lights on generators.
Even when they don't have power, they turn on their generators and watch.
Hospitals and health facilities were testing their generators to make sure they would work if power was lost.
Photographs he showed from Sandy's destruction looked very much like those after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005: houses washed from their slabs or collapsed into their foundations, and critical equipment such as generators or switches flooded on ground floors or in basements.
Then the film crew revved up its generators and turned on their huge fans to blow fake potato-flake snow down the main street for the sake of consistency.
The company nonetheless chose to build a nuclear reactor directly on the coastline and to site all of their backup generators in a location that they should have known would be placed at risk if the area were hit by a 20 foot tall tsunami.
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The factories regularly lost power and had to rely on their own diesel generators, at a cost four times that of regular electricity.
Thousands of those American farmers set up small windmill generators to run their radios and sometimes lights.
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Businesses have to rely heavily on fuel-guzzling generators to meet their electricity needs and this substantially increases the costs of doing business in the country.
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Their compounds, along with those of wealthier Afghans, constitute the emergent generator-class rich enough to cool (or heat) their offices and homes with big diesel-powered generators.
And when companies finally began deploying their first wave energy generators in Europe, punishing ocean conditions took their toll as some devices broke down or failed to perform as expected.
The White House may have acted to solidify its environmental base but, in doing so, it is following the law and giving modern generators a shot to compete with their older coal cousins.
Generators need fuel to run and that limits their capability when fuel may be scarce.
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Several data centers, including several operated by Amazon in northern Virginia, have faced large fines because their emergency generators were installed without permits, and others because the diesel generators have contributed significant air pollution during testing.
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Essentially, 12, 000 or so electricity generators and industrial heavy users of energy have had their emissions limited by EU law.
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Iraqis rely on their generators to power their lights, refrigerators, and air conditioners - especially now, when temperatures regularly top 110 degrees every day.
Electricity generators and some other industries must buy the permits to cover their carbon dioxide emissions.
Will the public generators accept unduly low prices, undercutting private ones and undermining their own ability to invest in new energy?
Gas stations in New York City, on Long Island and in Westchester and Rockland counties could draw from the state-contracted generators or use their own.
Their firms are hobbled by the costs of building their own infrastructure: backup generators, water-treatment plants and fleets of buses to ferry staff to work.
Recently, they had generators in place for a hurricane and kept the electricity coming for their building despite power outages around them.
But generators of solar, wind, geothermal and biomass energy must have their plants operating by the end of 2007 to get their tax rewards.
In places where sunshine is bright and electric rates are stiff, solar cells could soon hold their own against fossil-powered generators.
On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said 252 generators had been turned over to state officials and a further 280 were on their way.
Oil firms, carmakers, power generators, nervous of being outmanoeuvred, are jacking up their investments in renewables and biofuels.
But solar generators can play a key and reliable role in disaster recovery and getting communities back on their feet.
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