But the major fire at RWE's Didcot gas-fired power station on Sunday evening shows that traditional energy generation is also intermittent.
There was also intermittent presence of endosulfan in the stream (G7d) feeding the Theewaterskloof Dam supplying drinking water to Metropolitan Cape Town.
Methods to evaluate ventilation include arterial blood gas analysis (ABG), which is invasive and intermittent, and transcutaneous carbon dioxide monitoring (PtcCO2), which, while non-invasive, is also intermittent.
Mootha and his colleagues are also studying whether intermittent hypoxia has the same effects as the continuous version; this would be easier to test in humans, for example by putting people in a low-oxygen tent at night.
There are also late-onset and intermittent forms.
They are also used to obtain an intermittent feeding motion (workpiece movement) on machine-tool worktables; the ratchet wheel is attached to the screw that moves the table, and the arm is driven by a crank, the throw of which can be varied to change α.
Apart from the modifications of system design, operation-modified solutions, like seasonal and intermittent operations, are also helpful to maintain better soil thermal balance.
