电力公司资助的电力资源研究院正在想办法保护美国电网免遭雷击。
EPRI, which is funded by power companies, is looking at ways to protect the United States' power grid from lightning strikes.
他们还没有拿出美国电力科学研究院说需要的500万美元，这笔钱是为了通过制造更小更便宜的激光器来开发一个商业系统。
They have not yet come up with the $5 million that EPRI says will be needed to develop a commercial system, by making the lasers yet smaller and cheaper.
电力研究院(electric Power Research Institute)是位于加州帕罗·奥多市(Palo Alto)的一家能源智囊团，该院的Roger Be dard说：在美国，海浪大约可以满足现今电能需求的6.5%。
In the United States, waves could fuel about 6.5 percent of today's electricity needs, says Roger Bedard of the electric Power Research Institute, an energy think tank in Palo Alto, California.
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