An autonomous building is a building designed to be operated independently from infrastructural support services such as the electric power grid, gas grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, and in some cases, public roads.

For example, eliminating dependence on the electrical grid is relatively simple but growing all necessary food is a more demanding and time-consuming proposition.

The points, which can be galaxies, stars, or other objects, themselves are specified using a coordinate chart or " grid " that is laid down over all spacetime.

There is also a variant in Bolivia when it is played in a Chakana or Inca Cross grid, which adds more complications to the game.

Some important Roman ruins are exposed under the Plaça del Rei, its entrance located by the city museum ( Museu d ' Història de la Ciutat ); the typically Roman grid plan is still visible today in the layout of the historical centre, the Barri Gòtic (" Gothic Quarter ").

Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.

The tube is wider and its top is covered with a wire grid.

The grid separates the flame into an array of smaller flames with a common external envelope, and also prevents flashback to the bottom of the tube, which is a risk at high air-to-fuel ratios and limits the maximum rate of air intake in a conventional Bunsen burner.

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.

The most commonly seen pattern is the grid, used for thousands of years in China, independently invented by Alexander the Great's city-planner Dinocrates of Rhodes and favoured by the Romans, while almost a rule in parts of pre-Columbian America.

The T-number is calculated by ( 1 ) applying a grid to the surface of the virus with coordinates h and k, ( 2 ) counting the number of steps between successive pentagons on the virus surface, ( 3 ) applying the formula:

Aliasing typically manifests itself as jaggies, or jagged edges on objects where the pixel grid is visible.

The current in a beam of cathode rays through a tube can be controlled by passing it through a metal screen of wires ( a grid ) to which a small voltage is applied.

Until recently, photovoltaics were most commonly used in remote sites where there is no access to a commercial power grid, or as a supplemental electricity source for individual homes and businesses.

This mixture is applied to a suitably coated EM grid, blotted, then allowed to dry.

While De Forest's addition of a third element to the Audion ( the grid ) and the subsequent move to modulated ( voice ) radio is not disputed, De Forest did not put his device to work.

The sides of the rectangle can be divided into segments of length c, which divides the rectangle into a grid of squares of side length c. The greatest common divisor g is the largest value of c for which this is possible.

As Fair Isle is not connected to the national grid, electricity is provided by the Fair Isle Electricity Company.

A grid network is a kind of computer network consisting of a number of ( computer ) systems connected in a grid topology.

Renewable energy sources such as solar photovoltaics, wind, wave, and tidal are, due to their intermittency, not considered " base load " but can still add power to the grid.

In this model, the grid behaves like a torus of finite size with respect to wrapping, while still allowing itself to be extended indefinitely.

alt = A halved, inside-out mango is cut in a grid pattern, still attached to the peel.

Newer satellite towns such as North Dagon and South Dagon are still essentially slums in a grid layout.

The current spelling of the name is a corruption: the street appears as Houstoun in the city's Common Council minutes for 1808 and the official map drawn in 1811 to establish the street grid that is still current.

Concessions were granted to settlers, who drained the bogs by digging dividing ditches beginning from rivers and streams and stretching about ¾ mile inland, thus creating the characteristic grid of fields still seen today.

The residential center of Woodbine still uses the same grid that was originally laid out in 1891.

Many cities, especially in Latin America, still successfully retain their grid plans.

This section of the city still roughly follows a grid plan laid out in the 1890s.

These were generally characterised by a grid of streets and a planned water-supply ; and many modern European towns of originally Roman foundation still retain part of the original street-grid.

US 12 is now the only U. S. highway route still serving downtown Detroit, whose street grid was laid by Augustus B. Woodward, to have a five-way intersection of the roads that would become US 12, US 10, US 16, US 112 and US 25.

Additionally the majority of settlements in South Africa were planned in their early stages and the original town centres still lie in a grid street fashion.

These were generally characterised by a grid of streets and a planned water-supply ; and many modern European towns of originally Roman foundation still retain part of the original street-grid.

This is accomplished by either or both of two techniques: the diaphragm's conductive coating is chosen and applied in a manner to give it a very high surface resistivity, and / or a large value resistor is placed in series between the EHT ( Extra High Tension or Voltage ) power supply and the diaphragm ( resistor not shown in the diagram here ). However the latter technique will still allow distortion as the charge will migrate across the diaphragm to the point closest to the " grid " or electrode thereby increasing the force moving the diaphragm, this will occur at audio frequency so the diaphragm requires a high resistance ( megohms ) to slow the movement of charge for a practical speaker.

But it is a physical impossibility to meet this condition and still maintain a rectangular land grid, because such lines converge on the north pole — they are meridians.

In some units the alternator is essentially the same as that used in portable generating sets used to supply mains power, modified to produce a higher current at a lower voltage but still at the 50 or 60 Hz grid frequency.

The street grid pattern and the temples and shrines from times past still exist.

They include the CME-owned SPAN ( a grid simulation method used by the CME and about 70 other exchanges ), STANS ( a Monte Carlo simulation based methodology used by the OCC ), TIMS ( earlier used by the OCC, and still being used by a few other exchanges like the Bursa Malaysia ).

Many old-time TBM map book users can still tell you what page and grid they live on even though they stopped using the map books years ago.

This grid plan still forms the basis of the city center.

He was reassigned to the Ministry of Electricity and Water in 1996, a period which saw massive power projects in Baddawi and Zahrani, Zouk and Baalbeck, and massive electrical grid installation and distribution throughout Lebanon, including the outlying areas still in turmoil with Israeli Forces in the south, hence the progress was too slow compared to the massive increase in the Megawatts needed, since little electricity projects were accomplished over 18 years of civil unrest, mainly because of the Israeli Operation Grapes of Wrath.

The Normans laid out the streets of Yarmouth on the grid system, a plan which can still be seen in the layout today.

Whereas electricity had long developed a national distribution grid, which enabled supplies to reach even small new housing developments, gas was still distributed only locally.

This established the grid system of small lots and narrow streets and alleys that still exists today.