They were exploring things like what affects how grass grows, how electricity works, and why bread gets moldy.
You'll want a cellphone charger that works without electricity, such as one used in a car.
It works by using electricity generated from a nuclear reaction to accelerate charged particles out of the back of the spacecraft.
He explains that the technology works by first generating electricity in the traditional manner of a wind turbine.
The system also works better than an alternative approach to creating electricity from wastewater, based on anaerobic digestion that produces methane.
Demand growth with outstrip increases in supply in the medium term, as the developing world works frantically to provide its billions of citizens with electricity.
The installation at City Works is expected to generate 40, 000 kWh of electricity a year, equivalent to 12 average-sized family homes.
Root3: The company, founded in 2011, works on software that helps those who produce their own electricity and other energy onsite, such as colleges, military bases and large hospitals, to generate and use energy efficiently.
The hydrogen home refuelling station works via an electrolyser which produces the gas from water and electricity.
It works to smooth power demand on the grid and effectively lowers electricity costs to the customer.
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It works to smooth power demand on the grid and effectively lowers electricity costs to the customer, says Schmitz, who was formerly Chief Operating Officer of UltraLife (ULBI), a worldwide designer and manufacrturer of power and communictions systems.
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If the demonstration plant works as well as hoped, the plan will be to build combined electricity and hydrogen generating stations in locations where there are geological formations containing saline water overlain by a thick caprock serving as a seal.
The complex runs completely on solar power, courtesy of 150 Sanyo solar panels that provide round-the-clock electricity. ("We fire up the generator once a month just to see if it works, " Derek Joubert says.) Construction materials were chosen through an environmental audit: The furniture is made from Indonesian mahogany uprooted by the 2004 tsunami.
Unlike baby boomers, who are simply happy if technology works, Millennials grew up taking the Internet and mobile phones as much for granted as they take electricity and running water.
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