If he needed a surge of strength, he imagined throwing an electric switch to flood his muscles with power.
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When you slip the stubby gear selector (an electric switch, actually), you can hear and feel satisfying mechanical clunks and shudders coming from the six-speed, dual-clutch transaxle, signaling that the fuse is lit.
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On the other hand, this conflation makes far more sense in the long term, as our electrical grid becomes more sophisticated, and as electric vehicles begin the inevitable switch from internal combustion engines to electric motors or some other renewable source of power.
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The hurdles for electric cars are in the electrical grid currently overloaded, and not ready for a big switch to electric cars and still-developing battery technology.
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Electric utilities that can switch to natural gas are switching.
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It is true that some other green changes could help car makers notably a switch to electric cars which could give the manufacturers a new product line to make.
The gearbox has the momentous, latch-in-place action of a switch for an electric chair.
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Mr Brown also said the government was launching a new website, ChargePlace Scotland, which will allow the public to find charging points and detail financial help available to switch to an electric vehicle.
He said the housing association had given him two electric heaters but he had to switch them off at night because of the danger to his stepson.
They treat banking like an electric utility where if you flip the switch it has to be there for you.
However, these figures are somewhat distorted by a drop in coal shipments, which contributed 44% of total rail shipments last year, as coal demand has been impacted by a switch to natural gas for electric power generation.
Better Place will initially build two battery switch stations to service four Coda Automotive electric sedans.
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That project got put on the backburner and Better Place instead said it would build battery switch stations for a small fleet of electric taxis that would operate from the San Francisco and San Jose airports.
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Electric boost is also available when a kick-down switch in the throttle pedal is activated by the driver during acceleration.
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Much of the avoided energy consumption will come from the switch to carbon-neutral district heating (rural households will switch from oil, natural gas, and electric heating to heat pumps and biomass burners).
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Even the simplest electric appliance, the desk lamp, generally has at least a power switch or chain.
American Electric Power agreed late Friday in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, to retire or switch to natural gas two coal-burning units at the Muskingum River power plant in Ohio and the Tanners Creek power plant in Indiana by the end of 2015.
Not to be outdone, England just flipped the switch on the world's largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric set up kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon.
Environmental groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth would like to see a switch to renewable and clean sources of energy such as solar, wind and hydro-electric power.
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We saw a number of Electric Imp demos and appliance ideas at the booth including a simple hand-held "detonator" toggle switch with LED, seven-segment counter, water level sensor, servo-controlled gauge, RGB light, power socket, Christmas light, power monitor, toy washing machine, 16x16 LED display and receipt printer (the latter two being combined to show the avatars and tweets of anyone mentioning the Electric Imp) -- all Internet aware.
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