The technology also can sit in DC-to-DC devices, which are designed to adjust the voltage and minimize power losses.
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With banks offering less than 1 percent interest before taxes on their best high-yield savings accounts, purchasing power losses accelerate.
In some cases, cooling technology becomes a necessary part of an equipment because the power losses are dissipated as heat.
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With current interest rates on savings accounts, CDs, and money market accounts languishing near zero, expect purchasing-power losses to continue for depositors.
Earlier this month the Financial Stability Board said that international regulators still lack the power to impose losses on creditors and resolve banks without taxpayer bailouts.
With a hostile Rajiv in power, Reliance registered losses for the first time.
Secondly, when considering end-to-end efficiency, it is much less energy-intensive to heat water by direct use of natural gas on-site, rather than by using that natural gas to first make electricity that is used to heat water because of the large conversion losses at power plants.
Japan and Germany must embrace natural gas as the fuel to replace recent losses of nuclear power.
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According to the report, "the nation's power grid will be stressed in ways never before experienced" and reliability depends on building new power plants to cover the losses.
The financial sector suffers heavier economic losses during a power outage than nearly any other sector, which makes reliability a critical issues for many firms in New York.
Since power from CHP is generated on-site, CHP avoids transmission losses that typically result from moving electricity over power lines.
To send power miles away without huge line losses demanded that electricity be stepped up to a high voltage, then stepped down again at the receiving end.
Similarly, in Glastonbury, CT, a Whole Foods grocery store kept the coolers running during a power outage with its 200-kW fuel cell made by UTC Power, which dramatically reduced inventory losses resulting from food spoilage.
The manufacturer can shift energy usage to periods when power prices are low to offset the production losses resulting from this arrangement, improving his or her bottom line.
Issuance of these loans exploded just before the crisis, as buyout firms launched ever-larger takeovers and banks engaged in a destructive race to the bottom, ceding a huge amount of power to borrowers and ending up with large losses.
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Its large banking sector has suffered losses on Greek bonds, and its biggest power station has been knocked out by munitions exploding on a naval base.
The main reason for wanting to install superconducting power lines in cities is not, perhaps surprisingly, to reduce transmission losses.
Each stage of converting and transmitting power results in a loss of efficiency, but with technological improvements these losses are being reduced.
Because power companies are losing money generating each kilowatt of electricity, they have acted to minimize losses.
Now, the extent to which they can become a big-market power again hinges on their ability to reverse a dramatic slide in attendance and limit their losses.
The most dazzling example of the power of negative space comes from the efforts of analysts during World War II to reduce the enormous losses of aircraft and lives of flight crews that were routine during missions from British airfields over the German industrial heartland.
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"The power-restoration issue becomes one of helping to contain the ripple effects of the event, the indirect losses from the event, " said Ms. Tierney.
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