Under the less rigorous scenario with higher infiltration, gross electric energy needed would rise to 60 TWh, and the net to about 49 TWh.
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The country is now reinvesting 2 percent of its gross domestic product in energy infrastructure while China is plowing back 9 percent, Kearney adds.
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Single-use zoning and planning for different functions was thought to be efficient, but we now know that most office buildings are grossly underoccupied, with only 30% to 40% of their workspace used in a typical work day, never mind the gross inefficiencies of time and energy spent on large scale mass commuting.
Dave Roberts over at Grist points out the gross inefficiencies built into our current energy delivery systems.
U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, import and export prices, gross domestic product, and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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"That said, we feel there is going to be an awful lot of organic growth in public places, " said Britta Gross, General Motors' director of global energy systems and infrastructure commercialization.
The island nation uses 4, 500 BTUs per U.S. dollar of gross domestic product, a measure known as "energy intensity, " the world standard for measuring how efficient an economy is at using energy.
It has adjusted UK gross value added, a measure of economic output, to exclude energy extraction and use, and also financial and insurance activities.
New York City can get by on slightly more electric energy than it is using now, about 57 TWh gross and 46 TWh net of PV production on buildings.
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First, gross margins are likely to come down more than expected due to rising energy and transportation costs and increasing wage pressures in China.
He says, we're putting aside 5 percent of our gross domestic product in research and development -- 3 percent of it in clean energy.
Rob Gross from Imperial College London, head of policy and technology assessment at the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), believes Inenco is presenting a worst-case scenario.
"This is a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of the fact, " said Dingell, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Thanks largely to energy revenue, Russia this summer paid off debts to foreign creditors well ahead of schedule, economists expect gross domestic product growth of 6.5% for 2006, and the market is up 35% this year.
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