The logistical challenges involved in sustaining military operations in remote areas where wars are commonly waged has convinced the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy a growing number of cutting-edge solar-energy technologies in off-grid combat zones.
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In an off-grid village in India, for example, biogas from an anaerobic digester could be burned to drive the Stirling engine to generate power.
In this past quarter, for example, Japanese industrial giant Mitsui invested in smart-grid company Viridity Energy.
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These systems weigh less than batteries, which simplifies the logistics required to support military operations in off-grid areas.
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They are also most useful in consistently sunny areas for those who can afford high upfront costs of rooftop panels, or who live in off-grid locations.
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They can be used for communications, border patrol initiatives, disaster response, relief missions, and much more, meeting the most demanding infrastructure requirements in on-grid applications and off-grid areas.
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Recently, researchers writing in Physical Review B suggested that arranging a number of tiny cloaks in a two-dimensional grid could be put to use in biomedicine and sensing, as well as traditional camouflage.
The smart money in the smart-grid space is swimming upstream and doing so as speedily as possible.
Rather than showing up as a pop-up window, the Friends page now gets a dedicated section, where you can see them all displayed in a grid-like fashion.
Outfits operating in the smart-grid space like Accenture, IBM and General Electric would be reckless not to read the writing on the wall revealed by the report.
These are one of the few ways (but not the only way, see article) that energy from transient sources like the wind can be stored in grid-filling quantities.
Two rival metering models used in large commercial buildings to track the flow of electricity as it moves through a building shows the difference between upstream and downstream applications in the smart-grid space.
Unlike Google and Microsoft, most of the remaining companies in the smart-grid space have targeted large electric utilities like Duke Energy and Consolidated Edison of New York with services and products that most consumers have no idea exist.
As interoperability and cyber-security standards become increasingly established over the next year, it will be easier to pick winners and losers in the smart-grid space and perilous for multinationals to sit on the sidelines as their competitors corral control over a promising growth industry.
It is the pits, which are three-quarters of a micron in diameter, three microns deep and arranged in a grid four-fifths of a micron apart, that do the trapping.
When imports are factored in, this author calculates that average emissions rates for on-grid electricity in Vermont, Washington and Oregon still fall below that of the Bloom fuel cell (but emissions rates vary within each state from utility to utility as well).
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The proposed super-grid in the Mid-Atlantic is enjoying broad public support from the politicos and its would-be patrons.
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Images and status updates are arranged in a side-scrolling grid that clearly takes inspiration from some of Tumblr's flashier templates.
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China is investing billions of dollars in so-called smart grid technology.
Chowdhury, who formerly headed up IT for the Grameen Bank, describes what happened in off-the-grid Bangladeshi villages when her team put solar power and mobile technology into the hands of illiterate women.
As for Button, he is back in eighth on the grid with team-mate Rubens Barrichello in 13th.
As with the homepage, the layout isn't much to look at -- it's laid out in a basic 3-by-4 grid.
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Specialists say out of 30 or so areas in the visual cortex, only one shows any grid-like relationship to something in the real world.
As wind turbines and solar panels add more energy to the grid in farther-flung places, ABB hopes to move the energy.
TenneT, which operates the grid in Schleswig-Holstein, wants to extend the wind park idea to the transmission network, offering stakes in a line along the west coast.
The company has become a prominent player in the so-called smart grid market because its communication technologies help utilities collect and manage energy consumption data from customers quickly.
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Meanwhile, the FDA approved the world's first bionic eye and biotech researchers developed a painless sugar-covered vaccine bandage that could replace needles and doesn't require refrigeration -- which opens up groundbreaking applications for off-grid locations in the developing world.
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It had been hoped a new owner would soon be found to allow Honda, in whatever new guise, to be on the grid for the season-opening race in Australia in five weeks' time.
They're guaranteed a price - a feed-in tariff - for their electricity when they sell it into the grid for 20 years.
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