Only this week, France unveiled a tax on energy-consuming industries as part of a ten-year plan to curb emissions.
The conventional energy-consuming systems in those buildings--lighting, heating, cooling--have become much more efficient.
Or Michael Cadieux, whose gorgeous obsessive-compulsive paintings reflect our energy-consuming culture and its inevitable role in the degradation of once pristine landscapes.
The underlying fact-of-merit here is that about 5% of employed Americans work in businesses that produce energy, and 95% work in energy-consuming businesses.
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They assumed energy costs would remain high permanently and thus sank billions of dollars of scarce capital into developing new low-energy-consuming vehicles such as the hybrids.
"Designers have an obligation to explore solutions which are by nature less energy-consuming and non-polluting, " says Clive van Heerden, senior director of design-led innovation at Philips Design.
In particular, E Source identified the 10 largest power-drawing plug loads while in active mode and the five largest energy-consuming plug loads over the course of an entire year.
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Developed by researchers at RIKEN and Tokai Rubber Industries (TRI), the new robot can lift a patient up to 80kg in weight off floor-level bedding and into a wheelchair, freeing care facility personnel of one of their most difficult and energy-consuming tasks.
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My assumption was that Sandberg wanted women to tough it out and push ahead with their careers while their kids were young, and to put success in the office ahead of the time-consuming, energy-sapping but ultimately deeply rewarding demands of parenting.
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High-energy cosmic rays are caused by black holes consuming stars.
Search has also replaced the time and energy we once used to find resources with the time-consuming task of evaluating all the sources that are out there.
Energy cost savings could be substantially realized once the lower power-consuming power supplies became available.
"There is almost no regulation concerning water or power use, no minimum standards for water-consuming appliances ... and very few energy requirements for buildings, " he laments.
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In its current form, the PaveGen paving slab contains a low-energy LED which lights up, expressing the energy transfer idea to the user but only consuming around 5% of the energy from each footstep.
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