If we could power such an elevator with solar energy, we could simply rise up into space for a fraction of the cost of a trip by rocket or shuttle.
如果我们能利用太阳能为这样的电梯提供动力，我们只需花费乘坐火箭或航天飞机旅行费用的一小部分就能进入太空。
Before the internet, renting a surfboard, a power tool or a parking space from someone else was feasible, but was usually more trouble than it was worth.
在互联网出现之前，从别人那里租冲浪板、电动工具或停车位是可行的，但通常其带来的麻烦多于它应有的好处。
Simply put, if you can virtualize a number of under-utilized systems on a single server, there are distinct savings in power, space, cooling, and administration due to having fewer servers.
简单来说，如果您可以对一个服务器上多个未经充分利用的系统进行虚拟化，由于服务器的数量少了，显然可以节省大量电力、空间、制冷和管理成本。
Fortunately, a few years later both America and the Soviet Union became interested in using solar power in space, where its advantages became apparent very quickly.
值得庆幸是，几年后，因为太阳能动力在太空的优势十分明显，美国和苏联同时对应用它的兴趣大增。
RTGs power many space missions — including NASA's Cassini and New Horizons probes — as the slow decay of small pellets of radioactive material produces heat that can be turned into electricity.
RTG已为许多太空任务提供动力，包括美国宇航局的“卡西尼号”和“新视野”探测器。在放射性物质的小球衰退过程中可以产生出热量，从而将其转化为电能。
To maximize space, doors are automated using hydraulic power, and bedrooms are separated using either curtain dividers or bookshelves.
为使空间最大化，门都是采用液压动力自动开关，卧室是分开的，既不用窗帘分离器也不用书架。
Selecting technology that minimizes floor space, cooling, and power requirements will pay off in the long term and will likely reduce the initial hosting bill.
要选择能够最小化地面空间、制冷和电源消耗的技术方案，这将会使您在长远意义上受益并有可能会减少托管服务的初始费用。
Converting solar energy beamed from space into electricity in a power grid, however, has not yet been demonstrated.
可是，能否把从太空上发射来的太阳能转变成可以进入输电网中的电能，则还没有实例。
The most common motivation for virtualization is consolidating servers to improve server utilization, and to reduce operational space and power expenditures.
虚拟化最常用的方法是整合服务器，以便提高服务器利用率，并减少操作空间和能量损耗。
P2P plays a role in enabling high performance computing. Sharing of resources like computation power, network bandwidth, and disk space will benefit from P2P.
而P 2 P因为在实现高性能计算中帮助系统分享比如计算力，网络带宽和磁盘空间这样的资源而扮演重要角色。
As they're commonly built from commodity hardware, they include hardware that isn't relevant but consumes power and space.
因为它们通常是利用普通硬件来构建的，所以包含的有些硬件不相关却要耗费很多电量和空间。
Amazon's Web services provides developers the cloud-based processing power and storage space they need to build applications and services.
亚马逊网站为开发人员提供云计算处理所需内容及储存空间的网络服务，以便他们创建各种应用程序和服务。
This costs less to make, takes up less space, consumes less power, makes the radio perform better and allows it to work more smoothly with the other electronics inside the device.
这意味着更少的制作费用、更小的制作空间以及更低的制作能耗， 微处理器使得无线装置的性能更加健全，并且有助于无线装置在设备内部更流畅地与其他电子部件共同工作。
Companies are able to scale instantly and on-demand, paying only for the processing power, bandwidth, or storage space they use.
公司能够立刻做出判断，根据需求购买计算力、带宽以及存储空间。
Higher performance means fewer servers, which minimizes space, power, and cooling expenses.
更高的性能意味着需要的服务器更少，这可以减少场地、电力和冷却费用。
A Pentagon report last May referred to China's “rapid and relatively smooth rise as an emerging space power”.
去年5月五角大楼一份报告指出，中国正“快速而且比较顺利地崛起为一支太空新军”。
Clusters have a much lower maintenance cost (they take up less space, take less power, and need less cooling).
集群的维护成本很低(它们占用的空间较小，耗费的电力较少，对于制冷条件的需求较低)。
The isolation feature enables applications with different prerequisite operating systems or middleware to be consolidated onto the same physical server for space and power conservation.
分离功能允许将具有不同的先决操作系统或中间件的应用程序合并到相同的物理服务器上，以节省空间和能量。
The retailer achieves reduced operational cost related to maintenance, space allocation, and power consumption.
零售商还能够减少与维护、空间利用和功耗相关的运营成本。
That could happen about five years from now, perhaps using a laser on the International Space Station to transmit solar power collected by its panels to Earth.
从现在算起，实验可能会在未来的五年内进行，可能采用的方法是利用国际空间站的激光将太阳板收集到的太阳能传送到地球。
But this is a survey of the people the inspirational power of space works for, not those it left out.
但是这个调查只涉及为空间激励效应工作的人，而忽略了其他。
A select group of companies and researchers have been given the task of designing and building the Space Solar Power System (SSPS).
一些经过精挑细选的企业和研究人员承担起了设计和建造空间太阳能系统(SSPS)的任务。
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。
There was a heavy snowfall the week before Christmas that year, and for the space of nearly two days the power lines were down.
那年圣诞节前的一个星期里，雪下得很大。将近两天的大雪，压断了供电线路。
There was a heavy snowfall the week before Christmas that year, and for the space of nearly two days the power lines were down.
那年圣诞节前的一个星期里，雪下得很大。将近两天的大雪，压断了供电线路。
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