The passive feature means they rely less on electrically driven pumps and valves, for safety, and more on systems designed to shut down plants safely in emergencies and to prevent operator error.
"Passive solar" means using windows or other materials in an energy-conscious way, not solar panels.
By saving that salary and investing, Johnson earned far more money through passive income than by active means.
Here, counterproliferation capabilities such as improved passive defenses, as well as counterforce means such as deep underground attack weapons, play a central role in deterrence.
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In practice that generally means dramatically reducing energy consumption through passive design measures and installing a small amount of on-site energy generation, often solar.
This means they become much more engaged with the ad, so passive advertising becomes active engagement.
Instead, the company's selling SteornLab testing equipment to other organizations working on magic fairy-power rotary and magnetic systems, and it's also got plans to sell something called "ZeroF passive magnetic bearings" later this year -- we'd assume ZeroF means "zero friction, " which is nicely impossible and totally in line with basically everything Steorn stands for.
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Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, thinks the strides made in technology means that by the 2020 Games there will be no such thing as a passive armchair fan.
The filing from Loeb is a 13G, which means the investor, who led a successful activist campaign at Yahoo, has only a passive stake in Herbalife.
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