The Banisters have been married for two years and live in a generator-powered home on the Pacific coast.
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.
For the sake of comparison, AMSC indicates in their literature that a 10 MW superconductor generator would have a nacelle-generator combination weighing approximately 420 tons, compared with a conventional direct-drive machine weighing over 800 tons.
The generator transformer - measuring over 13ft (4m) high, 29ft (9m) long and 13ft (4m) wide - contains more than 30 tonnes of copper and around 120 tonnes of steel.
In addition to the petrol engine and electric motor, the LF-CC hybrid drive system further comprises a generator, a high-performance battery, a power split device which, via planetary reduction gears, combines and re-allocates power from the engine, electric motor and generator according to operational requirements, and a compact power control unit to govern the high speed interaction of the system components.
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Coming in 2012, a hybrid version of the flagship Audi A8 sedan will team a 2.0-liter turbocharged gasoline engine with an electric motor generator and self-charging 1.3 kWh lithium-ion battery pack to realize an impressive 37 mpg.
IMechE says this process is only 25% efficient but it is massively improved by co-siting the cryo-generator next to an industrial plant or power station producing low-grade heat that is currently vented and being released into the atmosphere.
The system can be adapted easily for sale around the world by, say, installing a diesel generator for Europe or an ethanol-powered generator for Brazil.
TXU, Texas's main power-generator, led the company to abandon eight out of 11 planned coal-fired power stations because the private equity firm concerned, Texas Pacific, wanted to square the environmental movement.
Or if the gasoline-powered emergency generator came with a true-life story about what happened to the family that had one of these things running indoors?
The fight between Repsol YPF , a Spanish energy concern, and Endesa , Spain's leading electricity provider, for the second-biggest generator, Iberdrola, has ended in a government-sanctioned settlement.
But when they make a capital improvement--they recently added a generator and a tool shed--it is partially tax deductible.
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After all, youth sports advertising and sponsorship has proven to be a pretty effective money-generator for some large companies.
And just before the gas heads to the still it is passed through a turbo-generator which producers electricity for the distillery.
Publishers will also be able to generate revenue from apps built using the BlackBerry App Generator through in-app advertising using the BlackBerry Advertising Service.
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Portland's 'green' gym will have spinning bikes connected to wind-generator motors.
Federal researchers who launched an experimental cyberattack last year in Idaho caused a generator to self-destruct, prompting fears about the effect of a real attack on the nation's electrical supply.
The question for many now is whether that type of growth can continue absent idea-generator Jobs, new products and with intensifying competition from Research In Motion ( RIMM), Samsung ( SSNHY), and others.
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The Lexus' whirligig is familiar from the Toyota Camry and Avalon hybrids: a lean-burning Atkinson-cycle, 2.5-liter in-line four-cylinder (156 hp) coupled with two electric motors, one a 141-hp traction motor, the other a starter-generator.
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Companies spend billions of dollars each year on decades-old generator technology and tens of billions on the diesel fuel to burn in these inefficient and high-pollutant generators.
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In other solar news, the Westmill Solar Cooperative launched the world's largest community-owned solar project in the UK, a group of African teenagers developed a pee-powered energy generator and Tunisian company Saphon Energy unveiled a new bladeless, bird-friendly wind turbine.
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Early in the project the laptop included a hand-crank generator to power the battery.
The on-board motor is a tiny, 3-cylinder generator that supplies electricity when the battery runs low.
The plant needed to install a separate 20-megawatt generator just to do the job.
The noise from an on-site generator meant the track gang had no warning about the trailer's approach.
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The Volt will have a small petrol-engine generator to recharge its batteries on trips of more than 65km.
It carries an auxiliary fuel-cell generator in the pickup bed that the Army will use to power communications equipment.
Only a gas-powered generator on the roof of the aquarium's hospital continued working.
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