EPRI, which is funded by power companies, is looking at ways to protect the United States' power grid from lightning strikes.

电力公司资助的电力资源研究院正在想办法保护美国电网免遭雷击。

An even bigger worry is an attack on the power grid.

更大的担心是对电力网的攻击。

So why not fix the power grid and the refrigerators?

那么为什么不修好电路和冰箱呢？

Many switched to electric heaters, overloading the power grid.

许多家庭开始使用电加热器，造成电网超负荷运作。

Despite great countermeasures, the power grid is still vulnerable.

尽管有很好的措施，电网仍然是脆弱的。

When the power grid overloads, fiction becomes fact for a short time.

当电网超载时，小说中的情节在现实中短暂出现。

Smart grid has become a worldwide spotlight as the next generation power grid.

智能电网作为下一代电网的基本模式受到各国普遍关注。

Such models get some of their energy from the power grid and some from gasoline.

这些车型一部分能量是从电网获得，另一部分是汽油。

In Boulder, Colo., a surge of electricity on the power grid can largely go unnoticed.

在科罗拉多州波尔得市，大部分电网的电力波动都不被人们察觉。

Most of those villages are remote and had relied on nearby forests as opposed to a power grid.

而绝大多数的是偏远乡村，没有电网，必须依靠周围的森林生活。

One solution is to rebuild the aging power grid to be less vulnerable to solar disruptions.

一个解决办法就是改造老化的电网，令其不那么容易受到太阳的破坏。

Jack has him spell out that the plan is to shut off the power grid for five minutes at 7:30 p. M.

杰克叫他再说一遍计划内容，原来，亚历克西斯付钱给这人是为了让他在晚上7点半切断某个电力网5分钟。

The power grid is balkanized, with about 200, 000 miles of power lines divided among 500 owners.

电网的情况有点类似诸侯分据，200 000英里的输电线路上有500家业主。

If we can't cut the umbilical cord that ties us to the power grid, here's a way to at least make it look pretty.

如果无法斩断给我们生活“通电”的各种电源线，至少现在可以让它们看上去更加赏心悦目一些。

Although he is now dead he was supposed to turn off the electricity in one section of the city's power grid.

尽管他现在已死，但是他本来计划断掉城市电网的一个区域的电力供应。

That cold is putting fruit and vegetable crops at risk, and it's adding an extra strain on the state's power grid.

低温正威胁到蔬果，并给州电力网平添压力。

Converting solar energy beamed from space into electricity in a power grid, however, has not yet been demonstrated.

可是，能否把从太空上发射来的太阳能转变成可以进入输电网中的电能，则还没有实例。

In many parts of Africa and Asia, however, there is no power grid, and those that do exist are highly unreliable.

然而，在亚洲和非洲的许多地方没有电，即使有也是那些很不可靠的。

The test berth is part of a massive effort to move wave energy out of the lab and onto the electrical power grid.

测试锚位是将波浪能源带出实验室、并入电网的巨大努力的一部分。

He even wondered if it might be possible to make computers for the poor in countries without an electric power grid.

他甚至想知道有没有可能为那些不通电的国家的穷人制造计算机。

The existing power grid has received a lot of attention because it loses some of the electricity that's pumped into it.

现有电网已经得到了普遍关注，因为它会丧失掉一部分已注入电力。

In 2007, Southern Power Grid only recorded 320 times in switch-offs, only equaling 0.18% of 180,000 switch-offs in 2003.

2007年，南方电网仅拉闸限电329次，为2003年18万余次的0.18%。

Where there is no public power grid, the PV systems currently operate cost-effectively, due to their low operating costs.

在没有公用电网的情况下，由于系统的低运营成本，就它们当前的表现来看这一系统的成本是可以接受的。

At the time, energy experts and politicians called the blackout a wake-up call about the country's antiquated power grid.

当时，能源专家和政客们称此次停电给国家陈旧的电网敲响了警钟。

In 2007, Southern Power Grid only recorded 320 times in switch-offs, only equaling 0.18% of 180, 000 switch-offs in 2003.

2007年，南方电网仅拉闸限电329次，为2003年18万余次的0.18%。

THOMAS WITHERSPOON: "we take our radios to parts of the world that lack access to the Internet, to a national power grid of any sort."

威瑟斯朋：“我们把收音机送到了世界上部分没有互联网和任何电力网的地区。”

While we won't be seeing a wireless power grid any time soon, the idea of beaming power on a smaller scale is rapidly gaining momentum.

尽管我们无法很快看到无线电网的出现，不过小规模应用光束电力的构想却很鼓舞人心。