Understanding this could lead, it's hoped, to an entirely new way of powering energy-hungry supercomputer systems.
Then along came cell phones which need lots of electricity, relatively speaking, to power their energy-hungry radio connections.
Power is a big source of profits, which is why the city is keen to lure energy-hungry firms.
Multinationals, America and the World Bank all want Bangladesh to export some of its gas to energy-hungry India.
But it's not just alternative gas supplies that the energy-hungry nation of 44.8 million residents has in its sights.
It would like to see Bangladesh, whose reserves of natural gas are said to be as big as Indonesia's, export gas to energy-hungry India.
Edwin Lau, director of Friends of the Earth in Hong Kong, said the move to clean up Hong Kong's energy-hungry buildings was long overdue.
Mr Harper has now committed himself to a stronger policy on climate change, which will not be easy to achieve in such an energy-hungry country.
Mercosur has already stimulated efforts to improve transport and energy links a pipeline from Bolivia's ample gas fields to energy-hungry Brazil was completed last year, for example.
It's a 1, 270-kilometer conduit, 1.2 meters in diameter, that would snake across Afghanistan to carry natural gas from eastern Turkmenistan--with 700 billion cubic meters of proven reserves--to energy-hungry Pakistan and beyond.
The Department of Energy will soon dispatch teams of energy engineers to the nation's 200 most energy-hungry factories and encourage their owners to follow the engineers' recommendations on reducing juice use.
All the vitriol thrown at these fossil fuels by the environmental community notwithstanding, it is a simple fact that our prosperous, modern, energy-hungry society was made possible by the existence of these fuels.
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Some, however, accuse Livingstone of selective radicalism, pointing to his eagerness to see the city's skyline crowned by a series of energy-hungry skyscrapers and the expanding airports at London's perimeter as evidence that his green credentials may not be all they seem.
It is a catch-all, dealing with technology, energy, competition and small business, often alongside other power-hungry agencies, such as the environment ministry or the European Commission.
Renewable energy remains too expensive, too land-hungry, too unreliable and too small-scale to take up much slack, so cheap coal and newly abundant natural gas will do the job.
His vision includes making the power-hungry Sun Belt city into a leader in the new energy economy through initiatives like the largest municipally owned mega solar project and the Decade of Downtown inner-city revitalization program.
In practice, people "can't be bothered" in the UK to make changes, says Prof Anderson, partly because energy is too cheap, and partly because we don't use as much power-hungry air conditioning equipment as other countries.
But for the time being, Iceland is a world leader in developing new sources of geothermal energy, and the government is taking advantage of that head-start by inviting new power-hungry industries to its shores.
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