Among those projects is the Brightsource Ivanpah project, a 450-foot-fall solar power tower located in the Mojave Desert.
Thrill seekers can venture further into the park and buy tickets for rides like the Star Flyer, which spins around 60m above the ground, or the Power Tower, which rises slowly over the twinkling lights of the London skyline and then quickly drops to the ground.
Apple is positioning its latest mobile as appropriate for handling some of the computing-heavy tasks usually reserved for Power Mac G4 tower models.
The musician was identified as Victor Conte, a bassist who toured with Herbie Hancock and the seventies funk band Tower of Power.
We didn't want to use some cheap tower and power supply package.
In 2009, I recorded Wilson Pickett's "634-5789" for Tower of Power's "Great American Soulbook" on a similar setup at a friend's home nearby.
And applications would each run on their own tower of power hardware that was often running in a unique data center rack or racks.
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This is similar to the way a power station's cooling tower works.
Instead of having an application running on a dedicated tower of hardware power, apps are now free from the limitations of the infrastructure underneath.
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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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In October, the solar-tower developers signed a power purchase agreement for the first La Paz facility.
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No other thin form factor tower houses as much power as Bolt because no other system can handle the type of bleeding edge hardware and overclocking that Bolt does.
Background location data, both with live GPS for backgrounded turn-by-turn, and cell tower-based for lower power draw.
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To be fair, much of the ample CPU tower was empty, earmarked for extra features power users might add, such as CD writers and Zip drives.
However, to do the same to the Loran system, you'd need a 40ft tower -- and around 25kW of juice to power it.
The city's international airport was also closed to flights at one point, and staff began building a temporary control tower, as air traffic facilities were switched to emergency power sources.
Tower blocks are not intrinsically bad places to live, reckons Anne Power of the London School of Economics (LSE).
The Ivanpah solar tower, formally known as the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is the largest solar thermal power facility currently under construction.
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