Only a gas-powered generator on the roof of the aquarium's hospital continued working.
That initial investment should provide the island's 14, 000 residents with enough clean electricity to shut down its heavy-oil-powered generator in 2004.
But the vehicle has a small gasoline-powered generator on board that can charge the battery on the fly when it gets low.
The system can be adapted easily for sale around the world by, say, installing a diesel generator for Europe or an ethanol-powered generator for Brazil.
The Volt can go 40 miles on a single charge (about a average day's miles for the typical American), and it also has a gas-powered generator that gives it the ability to drive 300 more miles, Chevrolet says.
It consists of a battery-powered pulse generator and several wires that are connected to the heart.
The 2013 Volt can travel an average of 38 miles on one full electric charge before its onboard gas-powered electric generator seamlessly switches on.
Or if the gasoline-powered emergency generator came with a true-life story about what happened to the family that had one of these things running indoors?
Taking to Crowd Supply for funding, Gridcase's Reactor features an internal 400mAh battery and a crank-powered 500mAh generator that allows users to manually distribute power to their phone's fading cell.
In other solar news, the Westmill Solar Cooperative launched the world's largest community-owned solar project in the UK, a group of African teenagers developed a pee-powered energy generator and Tunisian company Saphon Energy unveiled a new bladeless, bird-friendly wind turbine.
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He has people working to develop a drone the size of a hummingbird and others working on an electric generator powered by ocean waves.
It was powered by a nuclear generator and bristled with lasers, scoops, cameras, and mechanical claws.
The Banisters have been married for two years and live in a generator-powered home on the Pacific coast.
Thanks to an artesian well and an independent generator (which powered old submarine chillers to keep the air breathable), staff could have lived down here for months.
The brand new visitor and education centre is powered by green energy, produced by its own wind generator.
It was also a hot week for energy-generating tech as Intel unveiled a solar laptop chipset that can be powered by a desk lamp and MIT developed a tiny kinetic generator that can produce 100 times more power than previous devices of its kind.
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It's powered by a hydrogen internal combustion engine that turns a 44-kilowatt electric generator that runs eight propellers and whatever communications equipment is loaded on board.
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