Hovering close to the ground, each of these thin-shell dwellings is made entirely out of a single concrete slab stretched out to create an energy efficient structure that is environmentally greener than traditional construction methods and cheaper and faster to produce.
Brad Wurtz, CEO of Power Assure, an energy and data structure infrastructure management vendor, foresees a day when data centers move workloads around the country to take advantage of energy price differences between regions.
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One reason is that MLPs allow some energy companies to structure themselves in a way that attracts conservative, long-term investors rather than speculators that is, as income investments rather than capital-gains plays leveraged on commodity prices.
While Williams claimed it was providing an 18% premium over the original bidding price, Energy Transfer returned the punch, highlighting the advantages of its MLP (master limited partnership) structure. (Read Energy Transfer Buys Southern Union: The Beauty Of Nat Gas MLPs).
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Like Moscow's two-strand Siberian gas pipeline deal in the early 1980's, the Cienfuegos complex is an unprecedented "national project" with potentially decisive implications for the country's long-term energy viability, hard currency earnings structure, attraction of other foreign direct investment, access to international financial institutions and, of course, nationalistic pride.
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Players are presented with a protein and given the task of finding its most energy-efficient shape by fiddling with its structure.
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Scientists say there are temperature variations in this ancient heat energy that can give them insights into the early structure of the Universe.
One is that the MLP tax structure helps to more quickly build the energy infrastructure needed in the U.S. Second, MLPs are largely held by individual investors, not institutions, and many older and retired individuals depend on their distributions.
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Imagine a lowly rated energy bond and top-notch bank paper in the same structure.
The roll-up of energy-efficiency start-up companies by large energy services companies like Schneider Electric is largely resulting from the structure of the market more than anything else.
Both came to Washington full of rhetorical energy about the changes to be wrought in the social and economic structure of the nation.
This weakness is caused by defects forming in their crystal-lattice structure, which in turn are caused by high-energy particles such as neutrons bumping into individual atoms and knocking them out of place.
Senior aides say the first two are within reach and energy will be the first big test of Washington's new power structure.
It would seem that the various tectonic collapses deep in the structure of our economic and political systems have triggered waves of kinetic energy which are rolling through human populations rather than through their usual medium of seawater.
First, however, scientists will have to demonstrate the technology on a larger structure, of course, and they'll explore the possibility of other energy sources, like heat, sound and vibration.
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Using four different probes of dark energy, Annis says the idea is that dark energy should reveal itself, in part, by just how it affects the growth of structure in the cosmos.
For all the energy Cisco is devoting to seeking new markets, the changes it is making to its institutional structure are equally important.
"The Gospel According to the Other Mary" by John Adams and Peter Sellars, recently given its New York premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, approximates the structure of Bach's Passions but has neither the devotional fervor nor the narrative energy that make those works unforgettable.
Michael Heben of America's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a pioneer in the field, believes that it is something to do with the structure of the nanomaterials' surfaces.
The question is whether the regulatory structure of an economy as a whole allows, let alone encourages, business to make efficient decisions about energy usage and by extension emissions.
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