When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Westinghouse Atom Smasher - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Atom_Smasher

    The Westinghouse Atom Smasher was intended to make measurements of nuclear reactions for research in nuclear power. [8] It was the first industrial Van de Graaff generator in the world, [9] and marked the beginning of nuclear research for civilian applications. [10] [11] Built in 1937, it was a 65-foot-tall (20 m) pear-shaped tower.

  3. Standby power - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standby_power

    A switchable power strip or power bar. Timers can be used to turn off standby power to devices that are unused on a regular schedule. Switches that turn the power off when the connected device goes into standby, [30] or that turn other outlets on or off when a device is turned on or off are also available. Switches can be activated by sensors.

  4. General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper

    A new high-capacity starter generator offers increased electrical power capacity to provide growth capacity; a backup generator is also present and is sufficient for all flight-critical functions, improving the electrical power system's reliability via three independent power sources. [262] [263]

  5. Charge-depleting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-depleting

    Another charge-depleting strategy is called blended mode, in which the engine supplements the battery during medium to heavy loads. Although this strategy does not include a purely all-electric mode, early NREL ( National Renewable Energy Laboratory ) simulations indicate that similar fuel savings as compared to conventional plug-in hybrid ...

  6. Start-stop system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-stop_system

    A start-stop system off button on a Perodua Myvi. A vehicle start-stop system or stop-start system (also known as S&S, micro hybrid, or micro hybrid electric vehicle (μHEV)) [1] automatically shuts down and restarts the internal combustion engine to reduce the amount of time the engine spends idling, thereby reducing fuel consumption and emissions.

  7. Marx generator - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_generator

    Marx generator diagrams; Although the left capacitor has the greatest charge rate, the generator is typically allowed to charge for a long period of time, and all capacitors eventually reach the same charge voltage. The circuit generates a high-voltage pulse by charging a number of capacitors in parallel, then suddenly connecting them in series ...

  8. Van de Graaff generator - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator

    By 1931, he could report achieving 1.5 million volts, saying "The machine is simple, inexpensive, and portable. An ordinary lamp socket provides the only power needed." [8] [9] According to a patent application, it had two 60-cm-diameter charge-accumulation spheres mounted on borosilicate glass columns 180 cm high; the apparatus cost $90 in 1931.

  9. Supercapacitor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor

    The electrochemical charge storage mechanisms in solid media can be roughly (there is an overlap in some systems) classified into 3 types: Electrostatic double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) use carbon electrodes or derivatives with much higher electrostatic double-layer capacitance than electrochemical pseudocapacitance, achieving separation of charge in a Helmholtz double layer at the interface ...