The slow and steady roll up of smart grid start-up companies is still rolling along.
The 2012 season will is see a total of six former world champions line-up on the grid, with Raikonnen and Vettel being joined by Mercedes' seven-time winner Michael Schumacher, Ferrari's two-time champion Fernando Alonso and McLaren's championship-winning duo of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.
Meanwhile, the FDA approved the world's first bionic eye and biotech researchers developed a painless sugar-covered vaccine bandage that could replace needles and doesn't require refrigeration -- which opens up groundbreaking applications for off-grid locations in the developing world.
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They were both bumped up the grid after 16th-placed Esteban Gutierrez of Sauber was dropped three spots for impeding Raikkonen during Q1.
Their 2003 chassis, in particular, was very good - many consider it to be the best on the grid - and it made up to some extent for what remains a down-on-power radical wide-angle engine.
Using a powerful supercomputer, weather forecasters divide the atmosphere up into an elaborate three-dimensional grid, assign initial values of pressure, wind-speed, humidity and so on, and then apply the laws of physics to see what happens next.
The HondaLink EV application will allow the user to remotely view the state of charge, initiate charging, and activate the air conditioning and heater to pre-condition the vehicle while connected to the grid to maximize battery range on start-up.
Alternatively, swipe from any edge across the lock screen to bring up the applications view -- a vertical grid of icons.
Expansion of the grid, which is made up of eight fiber-linked data centers at universities and research institutions around the country, will not only make the grid mind-bogglingly fast and powerful but will also enable many more outsiders to connect to it and take advantage of its resources.
That's because this grid -- which is made up of everything from power lines to generators to the meters in your home -- still runs on century-old technology.
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In another major driver move, two-time world champion Alonso left Renault for Ferrari where he will line-up alongside Massa, happily returned to the grid after his horrific crash in Hungary last July.
Sense also gets an overdue upgrade to the way it manages applications -- with the icon grid now scrolling up and down in a paginated fashion and being accompanied by subcategories for your downloaded and most frequently used apps -- but our overwhelming feeling remains that we've seen this all before.
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For communities that may not be able to commit resources to a full micro-grid, or may take years to set one up, this type of resource is worth considering.
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It shows that Singapore is moving up the value-chain ladder and is staying plugged into the global electronics grid.
Chowdhury, who formerly headed up IT for the Grameen Bank, describes what happened in off-the-grid Bangladeshi villages when her team put solar power and mobile technology into the hands of illiterate women.
It has been suggested that bringing forward the timing of Winter Fuel Payments for off-grid households might provide some help by enabling them to stock up on fuel at a time of year when prices are likely to lower than in the middle of winter.
The investments will, among other things, hook up new wind farms and nuclear power stations to the electricity grid to replace traditional coal-fired power stations, and enable more liquefied natural gas imported from Qatar and elsewhere to be added to the gas network as North Sea gas supplies dwindle.
The bottom-left 4 x 4 pads represent drum sounds (touch the slider to scroll up and down through even more sounds), while the bottom-right quarter of the grid serves as a clip-length control (press and hold the first pad, tap the fourth for a four-bar loop, etc.).
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The user can call up the central news feeds from different hardware and gaming sites via the now standard integrated Media-Grid.
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Healy and Brewster dream of people someday driving a fuel-cell car up to an Enernoc meter during peak demand and pumping electricity back into the grid.
Because the energy flow is not just non-constant but also erratic, the back-up systems also need to be extremely sensitive and capable of ramping up from shut-down to fully-on within a very short period of time to prevent grid instability and even collapse.
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Ideally, this sort of set-up could allow computer users in remote areas to be able to charge up without worrying about grid connectivity.
From 2002, the Luzon grid will have 2, 700 MW more capacity coming onstream - or, rather, up from the sea.
The project on a six-acre site, currently the largest in Wales, was up and running and connected to the national grid within seven months.
Additionally, there's now a new grid icon at the bottom of the homescreen, which when pressed brings up a webOS card-style preview of all homescreen pages -- which raises some interesting possibilities.
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Section 248 leaves the responsibility of securing the power grid in the hands of the same owner-operators who have failed to harden their networks up to this point.
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