Many companies pride themselves on devolving power to front-line workers.
In addition, the Controller can delay restart or sequence re-start of appliances to prevent them from coming-back on line simultaneously after a power outage, which can also cause unstable grid conditions.
Metro-North Railroad lost power from 59th Street to Croton-Harmon on the Hudson Line and to New Haven on the New Haven Line.
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The Metro-North was without power from 59th Street in Manhattan north to Croton-Harmon on the Hudson Line, and as far as New Haven on the New Haven Line.
Walters was ultimately able to shoot himself down, but he landed on a power line, causing a 20-minute blackout in a Long Beach neighborhood.
And Metro-North Railroad's New Haven line relies on overhead power lines that could get tangled in blown foliage.
Come summer Intel will debut a whole line of similarly low-power chips based on the Centrino laptop design to take on Opteron in all server categories.
HDDs provide the majority of low latency mass storage in most enterprise storage environments and a denser storage device that requires less power to run will help reduce the costs of on-line and enterprise storage even lower than it is today.
Intel (15, INTC) has all but dispatched Advanced Micro Devices as a serious competitor in computers, and now with its Atom line of tiny, low-power-consumption chips based on the x86 architecture, is moving into netbook computers, mobile Internet devices and a wide range of other consumer gadgets.
To ensure the reliability of the electric grid after that date, TXU is planning on building 1500 megawatts of wind generation and is considering building multiple nuclear facilities, though these would not come on line by 2015 at the earliest--too late to resolve the looming power shortage.
Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD - news - people ) as a serious competitor in computers, and now with its Atom line of tiny, low-power-consumption chips based on the x86 architecture, is moving into netbook computers, mobile Internet devices and a wide range of other consumer gadgets.
On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.
In 2008, the young husband and father was riding his four-wheeler on his grandfather's farm when he came in contact with a downed power line.
Zero watt disk archives provide the benefit of being on-line and keeping the data accessible at all times while sleeping when not in use, thereby keeping power billslow.
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