Chen eventually started working on financial software, and later developed an accounting program for the power supply industry.
The power and utility companies like to have control over the power supply and control over the transmission lines.
The transmission network is not the only vulnerable part of the power supply chain, which is one giant bottleneck.
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The 150-year-old technology is being rediscovered, inspiring more urbanites and suburbanites to tap into the power supply under their feet.
Engineers from Arqiva, which owns the transmitter, had to switch off the power supply to the transmitter to assess the damage to the structure.
The power supply seems a bit depleted, especially while they wait for the return of Jeter, Teixeira, Granderson and A-Rod, who combined for 100 home runs last year.
Incorrectly-soldered transistors on control boards could heat up and the power supply fuse could blow, shutting down the hybrid system causing the vehicle to coast to a stop, Toyota says.
Brown said the water would be delayed for no more than two hours, just enough time to take the pressure off the power supply during "rush" hour, but that move would not affect residents.
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The night after the blackout, there was indeed an earthquake, of 6.8 on the Richter scale strong enough to cut the power supply and once again to plunge large areas of the northern Philippines into darkness.
China's wind generation has increased by more than 100 percent per year since 2005 and 20 per cent of the power supply to the venues of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will come from wind generators, according to the official state agency, Xinhua.
Most utilities maintain that they will be unable to deal with local, renewable energy that provides more than 15 percent of the power supply because any more would destabilize the grid, according to Shalom Flank, the chief technology officer of Pareto Energy, a Washington, D.
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While your handset can be charged by the tablet power supply, the reverse is not true.
The PC power supply is probably the most failure-prone item in a personal computer.
With the existing wind capacity, there have already been times in recent years when surpluses have been generated and Denmark has actually paid other countries to take the excess power supply (much like the situation in West Texas, where surpluses of wind occasionally result in negative pricing for short periods).
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In electric trains, the braking energy is converted into electricity and fed back into the overhead power supply.
Thanks to a microchip, the new power supply from Power Integrations Inc. of Sunnycale, California is smart enough to know when power is needed.
The capital's main surgical hospitals and water treatment plants now rely solely on back-up generators because the normal power supply has been cut, an untenable situation, Doumani said.
The spread of radioactivity from Japan to China, and across the Pacific to the US is most unsettling as it may impact food prices, the ability to supply cheap energy through nuclear power and the supply chain of automotive and electronic goods to the US and other developed economies.
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They are used for significant functions such as providing the starting and emergency power supply on the A350 aircraft.
In Albacete, to the north, the power company cut the supply to municipal-owned buildings last week, fed up that the local government was simply ignoring its million-euro debt.
Above the whirring of the jerry-rigged power supply, the minister of tourism assured the shaken competitors of a long-scheduled Miss Europe pageant that the show would go on and the proceeds would go to the rebuilding effort.
We see the power of that supply chain this month as the new iPhone has gotten top reviews on sites like gdgt.com.
Unable to compete with the purchasing power and supply chain prowess of national chains, the mom and pop shop seemed destined for the dust heap.
The internal design architecture of the new PS3 system, from the main semiconductors and power supply unit to the cooling mechanism, has been completely redesigned, achieving a much slimmer and lighter body.
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The big idea: putting sensors everywhere that communicate in a mesh network and allow real-time tracking and optimization of everything from traffic to the power grid to the water supply.
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Iberdrola has interests in seven nuclear power plants in Spain, while its subsidiary Scottish Power and SSE, formerly known as Scottish Hydro, are the main customer power supply companies in Scotland.
Perfect for slipping into a laptop bag or pocket, all of Iomega's 2.5-inch portable hard drives are host powered, requiring no external power supply beyond the power provided through the USB bus on a personal computer, laptop or netbook.
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The cool-running, lower-power Barracuda Green hard drive delivers whisper-quiet acoustics and helps reduce system costs associated with the fans and power supply devices often required for power-hungry systems.
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On the other hand, the supply of dollars is controlled by the Fed, which has the power to increase its supply by a much larger amount.
There's a massive heat sink on the rear and it gets toasty from what we are assuming a large power supply judging from the PC style power cord.
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