If our lucky-bastard neighbor, who owns a gas generator, extends a cable to our house to run the TV, we see a smiling President glad handing supporters and railing against his opponent.
Only a gas-powered generator on the roof of the aquarium's hospital continued working.
The way utilities now meet demand spikes is to attach an extra natural-gas-fired generator or two to the grid and let it sit idle for most of the year.
The Volt can go 40 miles on a single charge (about a average day's miles for the typical American), and it also has a gas-powered generator that gives it the ability to drive 300 more miles, Chevrolet says.
At a Valero station in Bellmore in Nassau County, Doug Ulberg, 55, was filling up two gas cans for his generator.
The 2013 Volt can travel an average of 38 miles on one full electric charge before its onboard gas-powered electric generator seamlessly switches on.
Rob Peterson and Britta Gross of GM, both integral to the Volt program, dare me to guess when the car switches from battery-only to using the gas engine as a generator, and I totally miss it.
An internal combustion generator converts the gas back into electricity to provide power for the home.
Race Point Light on Cape Cod, Massachusetts doesn't have electricity-just gas lanterns-and the generator runs for barely two hours a day.
The power plant has been shut down since this winter, when a small amount of radioactive gas escaped from a steam generator during a water leak.
And just before the gas heads to the still it is passed through a turbo-generator which producers electricity for the distillery.
While gas-fired power plants are popping up like dandelions across America, just one coal-fired generator was brought on line in the first half of 2012, the EIA reports.
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"Energy ought to be looked at on a competitive basis and not as a foreign-exchange generator, " Mr. Lozoya said, pointing to a prospective investment boost in industries ranging from gas to petrochemicals and fertilizers.
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