Elsewhere, some innovators are experimenting with devices that draw power from the human body's kinetic energy.
Consumers can not only draw power from the grid, but can feed power into it as well.
Many branch lines use diesel engines and the Harlem-Hudson line uses a third rail system to draw power.
As those flights become longer and higher, the aircraft will start to draw power from its solar cells.
He says an electric car could be programmed so that it would only draw power when rates fell below a certain level.
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It can exist independent of the power grid or interact with it so users can draw power from the macrogrid or the microgrid.
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The prominent, late scientist Joanne Simpson developed some of the first mathematical models of clouds in an attempt to better understand how hurricanes draw power from warm seas.
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For ten years he's been trying to convince utilities and automakers that electric cars could draw power at night, when power is cheaper, and then discharge some of that juice back into the grid during the day to balance supply and demand for electricity.
For so long, leaders were able to draw their power from a mythological or holy source.
The car squats close to the earth, seeming to draw its power from it, like Antaeus.
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Does a device draw more power when heavily used?
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While most economists advocate taxation and regulation to deal with these consequences, I prefer (when feasible) to rely on norms, which draw their power from social consensus rather than from the political process.
Future packages for a year's computing power might have the customer pay up front, pay later, pay now and run down an account, or draw computing power from a general-purpose "grid" of computers run by Sun.
So, crawling out on a limb, he asked BorgWarner's strategy board for funds so that he and a small group of engineers could begin work on a new turbocharging system that would draw its power from the supersize battery instead of the car's exhaust system.
Even though the Graphics Core Next GPUs have been slightly underclocked to 825MHz, and even though they technically offer better performance per watt than a single-GPU configuration, their overall 375w power draw could still get you in trouble with your local power station.
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When it gave permission for the project, the Scottish government asked Scottish Power to draw up plans to limit the visual impact of the power line.
Jini also allows your little PalmPilot to draw unused processing power from a supercomputer.
It weighs 45 pounds or so and takes 100 watts, a lightbulb-size power draw.
Background location data, both with live GPS for backgrounded turn-by-turn, and cell tower-based for lower power draw.
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And poor countries that do have universal electricity today draw far less power, on a per-capita basis, than rich ones.
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Will EV drivers draw so much power during driving hours (rush hour, or mid-day), that it contributes to overall peak demand?
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Recently announced systems add performance while maintaining a constant power draw.
This increases airflow which decreases power draw and improves cooling.
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Three high-performance MIPS computing cores--or brains--can be crammed into the same space within a phone or mobile device as a single Intel Atom mobile processor core without increasing the device's power draw.
By comparison, in high frequency trading, they want speed first and they are willing to live with whatever the power draw is in that co-location center if it gives them an edge.
This statistic should raise our concern, and in fact, this power draw has doubled in the last five years and continues to grow about 20 percent annually in part because of the growing popularity and variety of online apps and services.
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In the meantime, though, we'd guess that this update may not be worth hunting down to the degree that the new iPad 2 was -- the level of shrinkage here doesn't seem enough to have a huge impact on power draw, and in any case that's less of an issue for a device that's fed from the wall.
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" And that means if Republicans win the House but lose key governors' races, "Democrats could literally draw themselves back into power.
One reform takes the power to draw the districts of state legislators and congressmen away from those legislators and gives it to an independent redistricting commission, which first met this week.
The towering masked figure dances at the culmination of a series of other masquerades, protected by six 'police' and carrying a mirror with the power to draw in and punish evildoers.
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