Philip Morris Companies Inc. says it may buy back-up electrical generators for key plants, and rent additional warehouse space to stockpile inventory.

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Although solar panels will work on spacecraft at that distance, the desire for sufficient energy to drive many instruments means any mission would really need to go with radioisotope thermal generators (RTGs) - solid state electrical generators powered by the heat of radioactive decay.

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And the videos that they have released are well-lit and well-shot productions, suggesting access either to electrical outlets or to generators to run lights.

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Suggestions include buying more police boats, developing a system to track patients after hospital evacuations and lining up more generators, boilers and electrical repair gear.

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Staff members spent two days before the storm piling sand bags, checking generators, removing or raising electrical equipment and distributing oxygen canisters around the site.

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But because they all had their electrical equipment as well as their back-up generators in the basement, , they lost all power.

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But two of Ochsner's three diesel generators failed, leaving only a minimum of electrical power.

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He said the technical issue was an electrical fault with two of the ship's four generators.

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Some generators had been placed on roofs and survived, but the electrical panels that fed them power were stationed in the basement.

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