Early versions of new labor restrictions still being hashed out in Congress would have barred children under 16 from operating power-driven farm equipment and kept anyone under 18 from working at agricultural co-ops and stockyards (the latest version would let kids keep running machines on their parents' spreads).
Escalating tensions over a proposal to impose rolling outages on wind-power farms in Oregon and Washington State to prevent the electric grid from overheating has convinced the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which is responsible for operating the power grid in the Pacific Northwest, to pull the plug on the plan.
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Across the state 91 healthcare facilities, including 29 hospitals, lost street power and are operating on backup power.
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Physicists hope that by operating at full power, the LHC will be able to find evidence of so-called supersymmetric particles.
Operating on battery power when untethered, the KMC 3 utilizes eight D-cell batteries that allow for up to 26 hours of listening.
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Oh, and why does Yang put his money in Microsoft if he won't even rely on Microsoft's operating system to power Yahoo!'
Hitachi has never before taken on the risk of operating a nuclear power utility, as opposed to simply building and selling the plants.
Only Stephenson could write an entire chapter on operating systems as power drills and teach you something while making you laugh out loud.
He said investigators are still working on lighting the room because the ship is operating on temporary power from a generator on the dock.
Nevertheless a firm called Powercast, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has developed wireless-charging products that can do useful things while still operating at safe power levels.
All projects will be capable of operating during a power outage.
Fuel cells also operate 97% of the time as opposed to intermittent solar and wind power operating at 14% and 25% of the time respectively.
At the same time, Google has pledged to not give special advantages to Motorola, which like Samsung uses Google's Android mobile operating software to power its devices.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is counting on new versions of its flagship Windows operating system to power a new generation of smartphones, tablets and PCs as it competes against Apple and Google.
"The entire process is quite involved, given that there are more than 3, 100 passengers and nearly 1, 100 crew, and this is compounded by the ship only operating on emergency power, " he said.
In renewable energy news, the German town of Feldheim has set a new standard for energy independence by generating 100 percent of its energy from renewable sources and operating its own power grid.
Given this context, I am saddened to report that those responsible for operating the electric power grid in New England are pursuing a radical proposal to push power prices up, prevent businesses from growing and kill clean-energy in the process.
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With a more power efficient operating system and processor, it looks like the iPhone 5 will have the battery power to play those games throughout the day, without necessary pitstop charges, which is more than I can say about the 3DS and PS Vita.
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While new coal plants seem to be on the horizon in Texas, power companies operating in the state are also aware of a shift toward cleaner technologies, including nuclear power, which has no environmentally harmful emissions.
As a result of current low natural gas prices, natural gas-fired power plant operating costs have fallen so much that they are now displacing previously lower cost coal-fired power in the dispatch order of many electricity supply regions.
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Microsoft leveraged its monopolistic power in operating systems (Windows) into success in applications (Office).
Currently, Brazil has two nuclear power plants operating in Rio de Janeiro, with a third under construction.
One is a rack system, PureFlex, designed for firms that want to roll their own applications to run on X86 or Power with operating systems from Windows to ZIX or Unix.
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Executives from Research in Motion have gathered for a six-city, simultaneous launch of BlackBerry 10, a mobile operating system that will power a new series of phones (and who knows what else).
We're now on track to go from zero -- zero commercial-scale biofuel refineries to 19 by the year 2012, and from no commercial-scale power plants operating carbon capture to five by the year 2015.
He cited the potential to shift some power to Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey, who is popular with investors.
It's also without power and is operating on its own generators - the first time in its history that it's done that.
This reactor does not use fission, the process of splitting atoms into smaller elements employed by every commercial power reactor currently operating on earth.
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