The latter would enable long-haul truckers to plug in to power their air conditioning systems, TVs, etc.
The cells could then reduce peak power demands air conditioning would be making on the electricity grid, leveraging their own economic value.
He says, for example, it took almost five hours on Monday morning to get a generator to the plane to power the air conditioning.
Customers such as California's public university system and the San Francisco Giants baseball team have signed long-term outsourcing contracts with the firm to take care of their energy needs, from power and air conditioning to risk management.
Data centers typically house servers and other equipment that have special air conditioning, power and security needs.
The cheapest versions won't have air-conditioning or power steering, but Tata hopes its cute looks will make up for missing creature comforts--just as happened with the VW Beetle and the Mini long before it.
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.
There's no city sewer, no power lines and no air conditioning.
The capacitor will power electrical components such as the air conditioning and stereo, which are normally powered by an alternator connected to the engine.
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Several utilities offer their customers the ability to receive discounts in summer months in exchange for power companies being able to temporarily suspend air conditioning service.
Stanway's traders are buying power in load blocks of 250 to 300 megawatts--enough current to keep the air-conditioning and lights on at more than 200 superstores, depending on the weather (and enough to power 250, 000 homes).
Utilities would be better off storing power in flywheels, or as ice for air-conditioning systems, he says.
Even in places where power was not disrupted, people with no air-conditioning were advised to spend the day in a library, a cooling center or some other such place to avoid heat exhaustion.
Lynch said his downtown facility now has a generator system robust enough to power the entire building for three weeks, including the air conditioning.
Millions of people were left in the dark, with no power, no telephones, no internet, and no air-conditioning during the worst heat wave in years.
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So have electrical power, refrigeration, television, telephones, cars, and air conditioning.
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The ship generates and distributes its own power, provides and maintains sanitation, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and makes several hundred thousand gallons of water every day from sea water.
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But temporary power has been brought in, and efforts continue to get the air conditioning back working.
Its boss calculated that, if his firm hooked up all its power-hungry computers and servers, it would fuse the air-conditioning.
In fact, Mitsumi says these can be integrated into the RF sensor network of large air conditioning facilities, as an RF transmitter can run on very little power these days -- even less than a calculator.
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In higher-temperature climates, for example, the cost of installing and running the air conditioning necessary to properly cool the lead acid batteries can represent up to 50 percent of the total power consumed at each cell tower site.
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