He said the island had not been left short of power, as it has its own small power station.
Despite Prior's enthusiasm, the scheme had few supporters in the British cabinet and was firmly rejected by the SDLP as falling far short of power-sharing with a meaningful Irish dimension.
Here are two credible threats to global systems: a massive cyber attack that could spread to the rest of world and interfere with SCADA systems everywhere and carbon whiskers that could short out power transmission systems.
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The short-lived power-sharing executive was suspended in February during the dispute over IRA decommissioning.
The automaker says that the driver door could be corroded by liquids, cause a short circuit and power door locks and window switches could malfunction.
Both are rich with coal but, paradoxically, short themselves on power.
In short, the power of silicon is coming to lighting.
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Yes, in just a few short months the power-hungry data center, which will use about 20 megawatts of power when it reaches full capacity, will be running on 100 percent clean power.
Supercapacitors have a big internal surface-area that allows a large amount of energy to be delivered rapidly and are used in some electric cars to provide a short burst of power for rapid acceleration and in hybrids to recover energy during braking.
In fact, a battery system can perform more than a dozen tasks, from sending short bursts of power to stabilize the electric grid to releasing a steady supply of electricity over a longer period of time when there is a lot of demand for power.
Liberal Democrats are happy to see more gas power in the short term but insist that the UK should continue to support renewables, such as wind power, to ensure that people are insulated against possible future rises in gas prices.
Within a short time, the power station in a kitchen could become reality.
The batteries, lithium iron phosphate (LifePo4), are similar to laptop batteries providing large amounts of power and short recharge times.
Gurgaon, a business district near Delhi, has plenty of glass towers but falls short on sewerage and power supplies and is only slowly acquiring public transport.
More recently, Einhorn demonstrated the power of short-sellers, unveiling a short position on Green Mountain Coffee that sent the stock down more than 10% on that same day.
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The action in Tesla is the latest illustration of the power of short-term traders known as "day traders, " even though some hold positions for days or even weeks before moving on.
We have not even reached the peak season, and already power is in short supply.
Computers are well short of having the memory power needed to acquire and employ that experience.
Only then, if needed, might the ECB deploy its fire-power to buy short-dated debt in the secondary market.
At the moment most of the power lies a short walk away across the European quarter in Brussels, at the headquarters of the European Council.
More information, in short, could equal less power.
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The Irish are some of the hardest working and caring people on the face of the Earth, they have had a short sharp lesson of the power of modern world economics whilst making huge strides in their quality of life and they will be better for it.
But for the time being power will remain in short supply and rationing and blackouts will continue.
These things are well worth the price for the short- and long-term power of tax-rate reduction, sound currency and unclogged credit arteries.
We believe these concerns are short sighted and that the earning power of Western Digital ( WDC) has been greatly enhanced by its merger with Hitachi Global Storage.
Arguably, THQ had to made a play for the AAA space, and could not absorb the costs when it fell short without the scale or market power of its larger rivals.
Tax breaks for alternative power are good, short term, but remember: Once the Internet was up, eBay didn't need a tax break to start exploring the wealth of information and productivity out there.
ZigBee is a protocol that works on the 802.15.4 spectrum (WiFi is also known as 802.11 for its slice of spectrum.) As a short-range, low-power protocol, ZigBee is suited for two-way communications among small devices, and can be used to build self-organizing networks of devices.
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