They could power electrically driven wheels, letting an aircraft taxi without using its main engines.
Early versions of new labor restrictions still being hashed out in Congress would have barred children under 16 from operating power-driven farm equipment and kept anyone under 18 from working at agricultural co-ops and stockyards (the latest version would let kids keep running machines on their parents' spreads).
Heartening news rang forth from the renewable energy sector this week as a UN-backed study reported that the building of new renewable energy plants has officially overtaken fossil fuel plants in Europe and the US. We also took a look at two brand new types of power plants -- the world's first hydrogen-driven power plant in Italy and the first hybrid coal-solar power plant in Colorado.
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Lunchtime on Sunday, local lads Fly With Vampires will be entertaining their rapidly growing fan base with their melody-driven power pop.
If they fail the test, they will lose their shine and will be driven from power at a future election.
And as our economy gets back on track, consider the power behind songwriter-driven small businesses that provide jobs in every state.
Soon afterwards he was driven from power because he had obstructed justice, and because leaks to the Washington Post exposed this.
This combination of assured single-photon emission at high rates driven by power no different from a battery, Dr Hoefling said, brings QKD much closer to commercial application.
After the Taliban were driven from power in 2001, women in Afghanistan, even in conservative areas in the south, returned to jobs as teachers, civil servants and health workers.
It is mostly a hodgepodge of local fighting groups with no clear chain of command, meaning it could prove difficult to rein in if Mr. Assad is driven from power, these people say.
The suspicion deepens that the Obama folks have secretly adopted a strategy of making Republicans look so extreme that they will be driven from power in 2014 and the president can then govern as he chooses in his final two years in office.
Fluoride salts can carry fuel in chemically-stable forms that can be passively cooled without pumps driven by emergency power generation.
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Yes, that's right, we said AC adapter jack: unlike the X1, the S4 can't be driven off bus power alone, unfortunately.
The e2o is automated, can be charged on a household 15A power socket and can be driven more than 100 kilometers in one charge, the company said.
Children driven by the power of curiosity figured it out.
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While Sony has wisely adopted a standard x86 PC architecture for the its new game console (translation: developer friendly), the PS3 was driven by incompatible Power PC architecture from IBM.
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This is a plutonium-driven device that produces power far more efficiently than the traditional Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) used hitherto on space missions, such as on Cassini.
They say it would make default easier and, whatever the Fund's official line, would increase the power of an institution that is driven by politics more than economics.
Another corporation driven mad with DRM power?
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We created a print literate workforce with the communication skills to organize a First Industrial Revolution driven by coal and steam power.
The game was developed by Brooklyn based Curious Brain, the talent behind popular character-driven games based upon the Power Rangers, Angelina Ballerina and Paul Frank franchises.
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The power struggle sprawls across seven kingdoms and is driven by fractious family dynasties, deep grudges and greed.
Graham was driven to create technique that communicated power and emotion.
There's a tractor-trailer overturned near a tree, and the only upright and functioning truck on this road is driven by men from the local power cooperative.
The hunt for acquisitions is being driven by the huge capital demands facing power companies over the next quarter century.
However, a Portuguese MEP and Socialist, Ana Gomes, argues that Mr Barroso "has lots of ability, but no strong convictions on anything, and he's driven not by money, but by power".
Just as enforcing personal morality seems to be a unifying principle behind many conservative appeals for government interventionism, liberals seem to be driven by a desire to reverse perceived power imbalances.
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Earlier in the day Hitoshi had driven north to the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, where the reactors are feared to be leaking radiation and at risk of an outright meltdown.
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While it may be true that the archetypal chief executive is driven as much by a desire for power and to amaze the world with his business prowess as by a desire to be rich, human nature makes it certain that some will be guided by meaner motives.
In the future some airliners may be driven to and from the runway with electric power.
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