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).
Historically groundless, since it ignores the decision of the Allied Commission of Paris in 1946, which charged that Germany must pay in Greece 7 billion one hundred million U.S. dollars 1938 purchasing power, ie 108 billion without interest.
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Transphorm aims to solve the multi-billion dollar problem of power waste whenever electricity from the grid is converted into usable electric power.
Worldwide, 1.6 billion people have no power at all though many of those people do use cellphones, often topping them off with car batteries.
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Gasifiers have been around for decades, but they are expensive from five hundred million to more than two billion dollars for the power-plant size so hardly any American utilities use them.
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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RWE, for example, is dropping dark hints about scrapping a DM4.5 billion project to build a coal-burning power plant in the north-west, wiping out 14, 000 new jobs a blow in a country where unemployment is nearly 11%.
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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The then Cardinal Bergoglio, now, the leader of one billion Catholics in the world, spoke truth to power to the Kirchners on their authoritarian and megalomaniac style.
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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.
By using the mobile infrastructure to deliver renewable, local electricity and emulating its pricing models and usage patterns they hope to quickly bring low-carbon power to the more than half a billion cellphone subscribers around the world who live off the grid.
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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.
Their objective is raw political power and the eventual radicalization of all 1.3 billion Muslims worldwide.
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.
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