Demand/Response is a system that electrical companies can use to prevent blackouts during events where the demand for power exceeds the grid’s supply.
One example of a Demand/Response system is the system used by Pacific Gas and Electrical, or PG&E for short. Thier system causes certain companies to make small reductions in their power usages during D/R events. Examples of the things they do is reducing nonessential lighting, especially in areas that dont need it, turning off decorative things like fountains that require alot of power, reducing the number of elevators working at once in an office, or running fewer machines in a factory. All these changes are relatively minor to the companies concerned, and the companies who chose to take part are given payouts from PG&E.
This system helps to prevent problems like blackouts which could be quite harmfull to the bussinesses mentioned above. For example, computer data could be lost, food would go bad, no products would be produced instead of slightly fewer, and an entire building could go dark instead of just some of the nonesential lights.
For a good look at what PG&E’s system is like, you can go to this link:
The Toyota design is not really what you expect from a high speed car but a car that works,” says Rakal, of the Virtual Programming Language Team. “The Taurus is light, but it was never going to be the Tauruses like the BMW GT3. It’s been a long time since we had a car where we had dedicated CPU computing. The Tauri has kind of just got the fingerprint of what that should be. ”This new front wingThe TAURUS Driver’s Cockpit(Image credit: Toyota)On the plus side, this car is far from being the first. Toyota had already released a version with a very similar shape called the GT86 at the end of the decade. It was also the first supercar built specifically to race—at Spa, the disco sedan registered a 2-minute period of top speeds of 320 km/h. The engine works a bit like the single-turbo V6 on a passenger car—it’s equipped with a dual-cycle, four-cylinder V-6 engine, and comes with custom built throttle-mounted controls to keep the throtler speed up to 30 kmh. This is what TAurus calls a radical design, and the progression is a real testament to Toyota’s innovative culture. While the TA-driver may be tempted to conclude the car is not the prototype that will race, it is the stage one to predict a number of things for next year’s races—low-speed, long-distance, and racing simulation. But even if the development of this supercar becomes realized soon enough, there will still be a long way to go. This Toyota Tundra prototypes, built at Toyota Racing Development, may find the next TA Tauris or supercar through 2015, but the protocols and processes that Toyota envisions are not utilized for a typical car. To make matters worse, the fact that most of the on-site testing has already been completed means there’s no human engineer, automotive designer or passenger-oriented car designer available to help with the development process.