Kevin Salwen and his daughter, Hannah, are the authors of "the Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back."
KevinSalwen和他的女儿Hannah,是《一半的力量:一个家庭关于停止索取开始回报的决定》的作者。
The project — crazy, impetuous and utterly inspiring — is chronicled in a book by father and daughter scheduled to be published next month: "The Power of Half."
这项疯狂、猛烈、十足鼓舞的工程被父女两人写入书中,这本名叫《一半的力量》的书籍计划在下个月出版。
More than half of all residential power goes into running household appliances, producing a fifth of the world's carbon emissions.
超过一半的居民用电用于运行家用电器,并产生了全球五分之一的碳排放。
The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: they now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.
世界各地向可再生能源转移的势头正在加快:目前,可再生能源在已上线新能源中已经超过一半。
The eastern half of the U.S. is particularly vulnerable, because the power infrastructure is highly interconnected, so failures could easily cascade like chains of dominoes.
美国的东半部分尤其容易受到攻击,因为那里的电力基础设施是高度互联的,所以功能失灵就像多米诺骨牌一样发生。
The navy wants to power half of its operations by nuclear and renewable energy within a decade.
他们希望在十年内用核能和可再生能源支撑一半的海军行动。
Gas power emits just half the carbon-dioxide of coal.
天然气的二氧化碳排放量只有煤的一半。
Electricity is managed by the National Electric Corporation, which was responsible for a blackout in April that left over half of the country without power.
负责管理电力供应的是国家电力公司,该公司应对今年四月导致半个国家失去电力供应的事故负责。
To get the world off coal, which produces roughly half of the world's power, would require 7-8 terawatts of energy.
要想让世界摆脱煤碳——全球大约一半电力由煤炭创造,则需要7至8太瓦的能源。
“It is the very wise and the very smart who use that unseen half of Demi Moore's law to harness the power of technology that leapfrogs everyone else,” he adds.
摩尔法则中看不见的那一半去驾驭技术力量的人,才会超越其他所有人。
It would also need to be only half the size of a conventional jet of similar power, says Dr Lior.
Dr Lior还说,它和类似动力的传统引擎相比,只有一半大小。
Moreover, this miracle-working solution is said to produce "ten times" the power of lead-acid batteries at half the cost, sans the need for "toxic materials or chemicals."
另外,这种神奇的解决方案可以提供铅酸电池十倍的电量,没有有毒原料没有化学危害,而且价钱只有铅酸电池的一半。
Last October, Belgium — which gets more than half of its electricity from nuclear power — pushed back the start of its nuclear drawdown to 2025.
去年十月,比利时——超过一半的能源来自核能——将它原定的核能减少计划推迟到2025年开始。
The surge in food and energy prices in the first half of 2008 squeezed profits and spending power.
2008年上半年食品和能源价格的暴涨让利润和消费能力双双缩减。
It appears to be the digital equivalent of the rolling blackouts that happen when some minor glitch at a power plant short-circuits the power grid for half the country.
故障原因是出现了滚动删除的等效数值,就好比当发电厂出现一些细小的操作失误时,国家一半的电网出现短路一样。
Some say that once the costs of power generation are factored into the equations, electric cars are only half as efficient with regard to energy use as modern diesel vehicles.
有人认为,一旦将发电成本综合考虑在内,在能源使用方面,电动汽车的效率只能达到目前现代柴油车的一半。
New types of tiny combined heat and power plants are able to turn about half the energy in fuel into electricity, almost matching the efficiency of huge generators.
新型的小规模热电联产机组,能够将燃料中大约一半的能量转化为电力,其效率已与大型发电机的效率相若。
In a typical configuration, one power distribution unit (PDU) supplies power to the top half of the blade chassis while another PDU provides power to the bottom half of the chassis.
在典型的配置中,一个电源分布单元(PDU)为刀片服务器机架的上半部分供电,另一个PDU为机架的下半部分供电。
Britain needs to increase its capacity for electricity generation because all but one of the country's nuclear facilities, and half of its coal power plants, are due to shut by 2023.
英国需要加强供电能力,因为到2023年,除了一个核电站之外,英国的所有核电站和一半的煤炭发电厂都面临关闭的命运。
Some of the money saved will go to subsidies for green technologies, such as a proposal to pay half the cost of installing solar-power systems in homes.
一些节省下来的资金将补助绿色技术的研发,如有提议将这部分钱的一半用来安装家庭太阳能系统。
It provides about half of the store's power, and the market pays 30 percent less for energy than similarly sized stores that use the same electric utility.
该系统提供了这家商店一半的电力,支付的能源费用比类似规模商场使用相同电量向公用电力支付的费用减少30%。
Today perhaps 17% of India’s population has half of its spending power, according to the Asian Development Bank.
亚洲发展银行称,可能如今印度17%的人口就掌握了全国一半的消费力。
China relies primarily on coal for its power, and only less than half of the amount of the oil that U.S. does.
中国主要依靠煤炭来满足能源需求,而中国石油的消耗量不到美国的一半。
More than half of the operators of power plants and other "critical infrastructure" say in a new study that their computer networks have been infiltrated by sophisticated adversaries.
在一项新研究中,一半以上发电厂和其他“关键基础设施“的经营者称,他们的电脑网络被手段高超的对手渗透。
Australia is preparing to introduce technology that allows algae to capture half or more of the greenhouse gases emitted by a power station.
澳大利亚正准备采用一种新技术,利用藻类吸收发电厂排放出的一半以上的二氧化碳。
ANYONE whose mobile phone has ever run out of juice-which means, these days, more than half the world's population-will like the idea of getting electrical power out of the air.
任何一个手机曾经没电的人(这在今天意味着全球半数以上的人口)都会喜欢从空气中获取电源的想法。
The crew of the International Space Station have been forced to reduce power after half the cooling system suddenly shut down over the weekend.
上周末,国际空间站上有一半冷却系统突然停了,上面的人员被迫降低功耗。
This focusing power is equivalent to the ability to read a newspaper at a distance of half a mile.
其强大聚焦功能,相当于半英里开外阅读一份报纸。
This focusing power is equivalent to the ability to read a newspaper at a distance of half a mile.
其强大聚焦功能,相当于半英里开外阅读一份报纸。
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