Dubbed KERS, for Kinetic Energy Recovery System, the powerplant designed to recapture energy lost during braking or coasting.
An overall reduction in energy subsidies would encourage conservation and could reduce carbon emissions, even if renewable energy lost out in the deal.
The design aims to increase efficiency by reducing the amount of energy lost when sunlight is reflected off the solar cell or absorbed into the material before reaching the contact wires.
They can carry five to 20 times more current in the same unit area while reducing the amount of energy lost as heat by 75-97% (depending on whether the current is alternating or direct), even after accounting for all the nitrogen-cooling paraphernalia.
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The results showed that the prosthetics returned more energy and lost less energy compared to the able-bodied runners.
Advantages include energy security, price stability, less demand (because less energy is lost in transmission), and fewer emissions because most distributed generation is renewable energy.
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The difference is that energy normally lost through heat in the latter two scenarios is now recovered.
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During braking, it becomes a generator, recapturing energy normally lost as frictional heat.
In existing CAES systems energy is lost as heat during compression, and the air must then be reheated before expansion.
She is working on focusing the transmitted beam into a much smaller area, so that less energy is lost along its way.
But biologist June said the group is working on a plan that would have the nets burned, creating energy from lost fishing nets.
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The hybrid recaptures energy through a process known as regenerative braking -- where the energy normally lost through braking or coasting goes to power the electric motor.
The wind energy industry lost a pioneer last month when Corwin Hardham, the athletic, kitesurfing CEO of Makani Power, died at his desk at the age of 38.
"Django Unchained, " which has not one but two blow-out endings, is overlong energy is lost when the narrative loses track of Django's quest for his wife and it will surely be too blood-bespattered for many moviegoers.
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Because of this, US energy giant Chevron lost its shale gas exploration permit.
They are believed to have influenced the climate of the earth by controlling the amount of energy that is lost by the earth into space.
While the production of hydrogen results in lost energy, Pivovar says that the use of hydrogen in a fuel cell vehicle provides much more oomph than gasoline.
All of that heat (and its accompanying energy) would be lost into the atmosphere if it is not otherwise captured.
For example, the retail division, which was called Enron Energy Services, they lost more than a quarter of a billion dollars in just one quarter.
John Sununu was as good a senator as a libertarian is likely to find outside of the energy belt but he lost on something else.
Almost immediately the price of ivory drastically dropped and within a few years the illegal trade ring had lost its energy and the massive wave of poaching had stopped.
Visiting fans and their energy get absorbed and lost in the mix of a huge city, while less populous ones make much better venues, because the event takes over and transforms them into one big Super Bowl party.
Kers stores energy that would normally be lost during braking and converts it into power.
This novelty harnesses energy that would have been lost during braking and allows the driver to reapply it during acceleration.
Furthermore, by capturing and reusing energy that would otherwise be lost in waste-heat, CHP improves overall efficiency by double digits.
Kers stores energy that would normally be lost during braking and converts it into power that drivers can then use.
The process would capture energy that would normally be lost as heat.
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