To be seen from the earth they would need to put out a billion times more power even than a supernova (a stellar explosion which, in turn, can outshine an entire galaxy of 100 billion stars).
Transphorm aims to solve the multi-billion dollar problem of power waste whenever electricity from the grid is converted into usable electric power.
According to a 2009 Energy Information Agency Report on Electricity Generation, wind power provided only 70 billion kWh of the total U.S. 3, 953 kWh supply (1.79% of generated power).
From January to September, the China State Grid purchased 2.48 billion kilowatt hours of photovoltaic power, up 537% from the previous year.
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Granted, Facebook is incumbent with over 1 Billion users and that is sticking power.
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Four utility companies have revealed a multi-billion pound investment in water and power networks across Yorkshire and the North East.
And they'll make even more as the bulk of billion-dollar TV contracts flows into power conferences like the Pac-12, Big Ten and SEC.
We praise a billion dollars because it is raw economic power.
The industry is also caught in a web of inter-enterprise debt: it owes 7 billion hryvnyas to its workers and suppliers, and is in turn owed 3 billion hryvnyas by its customers, mostly power stations.
Chimera architecture removes those boundaries by providing the power to conduct nearly 100 billion mathematical operations per second to perform image processing, using computational techniques used in X-ray CT scanners, deep space telescopes and spy satellites.
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The remaining seven power projects involving investments of 320 billion rupees still haven't been cleared.
One such place is the developing world where nation-states are joining to deliver electricity to those 1.3 billion people who are now going without any power.
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The charity said the funding given this year was half a billion pounds less than when the coalition came to power in 2010.
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Zhu Yuguo, ranks at 102 on the Forbes China Rich List, with a personal fortune of 5.71 billion Yuan and has invested heavily in the wind power industry.
Electrical engineers at Stanford built a cardiac device that uses a combination of inductive and radiative transmission of power, at about 1.7 billion cycles per second, to its coiled receiving antenna.
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Other estimates suggest that only 5-10% of those 2 billion people can afford to pay commercial rates for power, and that another 15% could probably afford to do so if credit were provided.
The power of the MasterCard Initiative is that several billion calculations will be done, automatically, each year.
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Hugh Wynne, an analyst at Bernstein Research, estimates that the tougher regulations could, over the next several years, cut the nation's annual coal-fired power production by 14%, or 290 billion kilowatt-hours.
The administration estimates the savings will be equal to 1.8 billion barrels of oil and shutting down 194 coal-fired power plants.
If for no other reason than the law of large numbers and the power of their potential, this puts the Rising Billion in the same category as exponential technology, the DIYers and the techno-philanthropists: a potent force for abundance.
The U.S., for years burdened with a multi-billion-dollar trade deficit, had no problem because of the power of the dollar.
The proposed cable would be capable of exporting around five terawatt-hours (or five billion kilowatt-hours) each year, which is enough to power around 1.25 million European households.
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To counter his collapse in public support, Hollande marked his first anniversary in office by announcing government plans to spend 20 billion euros on infrastructure over the next decade to revamp road and power networks.
And while the amount of coal consumed by American power generators is down about 15% from the 1 billion tons per year average of the 2000s, the EIA expects the domestic coal burn to inch up to 859 million tons in 2013 and 870 million in 2014.
Roughly 4.2 billion solar rooftops, 300 million wind turbines, 2, 500 nuclear power plants or 200 Three Gorges Dams, according to Menlo Park, Calif.
In the other section, known as "traditional track, " the winning business plan was one aimed at exploiting the increasing spending power of a key segment of China's 1.3 billion-strong population.
Mobile payments are seen as the future of the payment industry that will power the growth in number of transactions processed by Visa from 54 billion currently to about 100 billion by the end of the year 2018 by our estimates.
Technology has the power to connect, empower, and renew ourselves in a world of seven billion.
The world is using less oil today to generate electric power than it did in 1973, despite output almost trebling to 17.5 billion watt hours of electricity, from 6.1 billion WH.
With the federal loan program expiring in September, the Energy Department has been pushing through the billion-dollar guarantees crucial for developers to secure the equity investment needed to build massive solar power projects.
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