The general concept is known as energy harvesting, which simply refers to the gathering of energy from one source and applying it to power an object.
As a result, many people no longer think of credit, debit, or prepaid as a service: people view payment cards as objects, with all of the iconic power that an object has when it becomes so ubiquitous.
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The bq500410A achieves greater than 70-percent efficiency, and relies on a unique parasitic metal and foreign object detection feature to safely protect the system and stop delivering power if a metal object is detected between the transmitter and receiver.
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Planning will be streamlined and it will be harder for local residents to object to big power stations (nuclear or otherwise).
The danger here is that people whose real objection is to Mr Brown will find a high-minded quasi-constitutional pretext to object to his growing power.
In general, it can probably be said that the conservative does not object to coercion or arbitrary power so long as it is used for what he regards as the right purposes.
On a slightly smaller scale, there's the huge Siemens breaker I saw at the Bonneville Power Administration. (If you're thinking of buying one as an art object, ask your dealer for a Siemens 72.5 kV SF6 sulfur hexafluoride power circuit breaker).
Not the responsible and orderly transfer of power undertaken by Boris Yeltsin, until recently the object of scorn as a "buffoon" by Brent Scowcroft, Mr. Bush's much-touted strategic aide.
They object to the degree of economic and political power that corporations wield.
The primeval object of "veneration" was the goddess with the power to call forth desire from men, and to make barren women fertile.
Because many Filipinos object to the return of troops from the former colonial power, American forces have not been allowed to do any fighting, except in self-defence.
Challenges include attempting to make a care that runs on the power of a mousetrap spring, making a laptop or iPhone holder, best kitchen object, etc.
Electoral reform in Scotland and Wales has achieved its object of ensuring that a party without a majority of the votes cannot claim the arbitrary power of a sovereign majority, though the prime minister appears to have been surprised to discover that this was the case.
From the outside she seems far too big an object to move at all much less at better than thirty knots but deep inside is a seething power plant that will handle that speed with ease.
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