While we're still a long way from umbrellas that double up as generators, the latest approach shows there might be a way to get power from rain showers at a level of efficiency that makes these systems practical.
More electricity demand for fridges, fans and other appliances will add to manmade climate change unless power generators shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energies, according to the report by the nonprofit Sustainable Energy for All group.
Tirana, Albania, wants to offload a few generators; Lisbon's lots seem mostly to include office furniture, but without pictures.
"We thought of them a little bit like random number generators.
Credit card penetration in China is small compared to that of developed markets, while online payments with debit cards are cumbersome — usually requiring authentication through a combination of SMS messages, USB dongles and random code generators.
Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines were among the lowest e-waste generators in Asia, with an average of 1 kg for each person.
Officials temporarily shuttered a coal-fired power plant, halted all construction and demolition work and shut down many diesel power generators.
Although power packs and mobile hand generators are good back-ups, they can be bulky and a nuisance when traveling.
But they say at least another decade of work is likely to be required to turn it into a commercial battery for cars and for grid storage — storing the intermittent output of solar and wind generators for use when needed.
"The city's generators are always going down, so electricity is unreliable, and people use diesel fuel.
Companies in this business aim to relieve humans from the burden of the writing process by using algorithms and natural language generators to create written content.
Green Goats are old locomotives recalled and updated with small "gensets" (the diesel engine-driven electric generators that power locomotives), which start and run only to keep large lead–acid batteries at the optimum charge level.
They say the information could possibly be used in an alert system to give seconds to tens of seconds of advance notice of an impending quake -- enough time for schoolchildren to take cover, power generators to trip off and valves to shut on pipelines.
