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By using self-timers, automatic power-down devices and solar panels among other things, the plant has reduced its electrical consumption by 9 percent between 2001 and 2008.
Zorianna Kit: Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Celebrates 35 Years -- Part 2 Zorianna Kit 2011
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Nuclear energy can then fill in the power-down episodes which will occur for various renewable sources.
Nuclear Fusion Power Closer to Reality Say Two Separate Teams | Universe Today 2010
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Almost all the systems aboard were in their maximum power-down mode to conserve what they had left.
Lawnmower Season 2010
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We don't need a power-shift in this civilization as much as we need a power-down.
J.S. McDougall: Three Lessons We Still Haven't Learned 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 2009
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Other recommendations from Zeo include reducing noise, light and disruptive influences like pets in the bedroom; having a "power-down" hour before bedtime with no email, no Internet use, no cellphones and no BlackBerrys; and keeping a consistent sleep schedule.
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Why did they mine the Towers during the power-down the previous week (plus WTC7, which they expected the hijackers to attack) and order the Air Force not to intercept the hijacked planes?
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If you are anything like me of course you have your browser open from power-up to power-down – and probably have three to six tabs going as well I use Firefox as well.
Favorite tools: WeatherBug « Musings from an overworked translator 2008
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There was a ‘power-down’ in parts of the Twin Towers on the weekend before 9/11, security cameras were shut down, and many workers ran around busily doing things unobserved.
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The best way forward would be to accept the facts and begin to power-down in an orderly fashion but this goes against the very nature of western capitalistic beliefs.
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"MX3 pilot, power-down now, have your crew step out or we will kill you."
Filmstalker: Transformers latest full screen trailer online 2006
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