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n. The real component of the power of an alternating current circuit; the product of the voltage and that part of the current that is in phase with the voltage
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Active Power designs, manufactures, sells, and services flywheel-based uninterruptible power supply (UPS) products that use kinetic energy to provide short-term power as an alternative to conventional battery-based UPS products. The company also designs and manufactures modular infrastructure solutions that integrate critical power components into a pre-packaged, purpose built enclosure that can include Active Power’s UPS products as a component.
The company’s products and solutions support and enable mission critical applications that cannot tolerate downtime due to a power disturbance across a number of industries including data centers, industrial/manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, broadcast, government, and casino/ gaming. To date, Active Power has shipped more than 4,000 flywheels in UPS systems, delivering more than 1 gigawatt of critical backup power to customers in more than 50 countries around the world.
Usage examples of "active power".
Passive scanners detect very few active power sources, and even with fold-space scanners, the range remains very long for active systems, but I would estimate that many of them are weapon systems.
Age brings other obvious changes besides the loss of active power.
Seurat detected excessive radioactivity, but no machine signals, no active power grids, no response to any of his inquiries on standard Omnius channels.
We'd have to coordinate a shutdown of the active power systems that we've established.