Of the 10 who dropped out altogether (one other, Gracias Saldanha, died in July), 4 have their fortunes tied to the power industry, which is plagued by fuel shortages, including power producer L. Madhusudan Rao of Lanco Infratech and power-equipment maker B.
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It also is in motherboards in computers, cellphones and solar panels, and some joints in appliances and power-plant equipment.
The storm probably means an uptick in demand for construction machinery and power-generation equipment for such companies as Caterpillar Inc.
They sell power-generation equipment and aircraft and train engines.
According to the GE-Arista partnership, GE, the largest maker of power-generation equipment, will join with Arista Power to sell systems that store electricity for commercial customers and release it when demand is at its highest, which would help reduce the cost of electricity.
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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).
Finally, once the biofuel crops have been planted, grown and harvested -- often with the direct involvement of fossil fuels in the form of fertilizers, pesticides and petrol to power farm equipment -- they then have to go through a distillation and fermentation process to actually turn them into fuel.
Houston-based Powell Industries (nasdaq: POWL - news - people ) makes switchboards and other kinds of electric-power distribution equipment for businesses including commuter rail systems, utilities, and oil and gas producers.
Emergency and X-ray equipment suffered power failures at Wishaw - home to Scotland's second biggest maternity unit - for more than an hour until full power was restored.
The Low Power feature is a must-have function in Europe for managing the power-saving modes of Orange equipment as well as consumer electronics devices over the home network.
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In practice, people "can't be bothered" in the UK to make changes, says Prof Anderson, partly because energy is too cheap, and partly because we don't use as much power-hungry air conditioning equipment as other countries.
And it has shed non-core assets and refocused on high-margin sectors, such as transportation, power generation, and healthcare-medical equipment.
The U.S. military has also invested in a range of flexible solar-panel technologies designed to power everything from night vision equipment and image intensification devices to laser-range finders, battlefield-ready laptop computers.
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Take, for example, Andrew Corporation (nasdaq: ANDW - news - people ), a maker of cables, antennas, power amplifiers and other equipment for wireless and fixed-line communications.
The group also makes oil-well equipment and power transmission towers.
We took extraordinary efforts to bring equipment from the West Coast using DoD assets, Defense Department assets, to the Northeast so that assets from -- the equipment from power companies on the West Coast could be brought to bear in the effort to restore power in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
Where once the non-pro was exposed only to danger from lawnmowers and jig saws, the democratization of power equipment has opened up new world of hazards for the do-it-yourselfer.
Evolution has arranged financing for methane-capture equipment in Argentina and for a switch by a 120-megawatt power plant in Hungary from coal to biomass fuel.
The EFOY is also standard equipment as back-up power for federal troops in Germany, because it reduces on-the-move weight compared to diesel generators.
Heico also sells electronics like electrical power supplies, infrared test equipment and high-speed systems to link digital cameras and high-resolution scanners to computers.
The duo were inspired by the energy needs of people who would not have ready access to the electric grid, particularly soldiers in the field, who often carry as much as 20 pounds of batteries to power their communications equipment, laptops and night-vision goggles, according to the news release.
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Still, the solar-power industry has successfully cut the cost of equipment.
It also closed the private Spanish Hospital, a complex that covers an entire city block, after waters rushed into the basement, cutting power and destroying X-ray machines and other diagnostic equipment.
What does the new gas-free motor technology mean for portable outdoor power equipment?
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However, it said that if insects were to be equipped with control mechanisms and other add-on kit, the equipment would require a power source.
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The new standards also apply to industrial chargers used to power the batteries of golf carts, forklifts and other heavy-duty equipment and go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.
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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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But the company said it had been affected by weaker-than-expected sales in Europe, especially in sales of power and water equipment.
With support for a wide array of input and output options and a large number of protocols available in the industry including IEC 61850, DNP3.0, and IEC60870-5-104, GE has the ability to connect and integrate your power system equipment with virtually any HMI, SCADA or Energy Management System with the security, reliability and dependability you expect from GE.
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