Since utilities are in the business of generating and distributing energy and not saving it, most of the energy efficiency work in California has been outsourced to companies that specialize in that type of work.
While bacteria do most of the work, incorporating plants improves the efficiency of the system.
Our new models come from industries that have learned to increase the capabilities and efficiency of the human beings who work for them.
But the report adds it is "important to track implementation in these projects if we are to confirm that the proposals work and actually improve efficiency and effectiveness and it could be a number of years before a final judgement can be made on this".
Consider this analogy: a business process is like a carefully designed work-residential planned community, where all the streets are designed to maximize efficiency and flow, and each resident knows exactly where they work, the route to get there and back, and what to do at what point.
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For the software developer whose innovations will enhance business efficiency, or the scientist who will work enormous hours to find a cure for cancer, income tax rates are the price we charge for their efforts.
In the Middle Ages, European craftsmen refined the design, improving the efficiency and allowing pack animals to do more work with less strain.
That means that once voices, data or video streams are translated into binary computer code, the system uses available bandwidth with great efficiency, and will effortlessly work around any disruption in the system (like a car bomb).
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Thank you all for being here, and I want to thank all the people involved in the tour that we just received for their commitment to energy efficiency and all the people they put to work.
"Sequoia is an exciting achievement for the POWER architecture, not just for its speed and energy efficiency, but also for the important and complex work it can support to safeguard the nation's nuclear stockpile, " said Colin Parris, General Manager IBM Power Systems.
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It bids for jobs on a per-transaction basis and then uses computers and software to increase efficiency and its profit on the work.
Any technique that improves our understanding of spinal tissue and improves the efficiency of determining whether potential treatments work will go a long way to improving research in this area.
That is why we are funding the highways maintenance efficiency programme which helps councils work together to deliver a first-class service to their residents, at the same time as saving money.
The 2014-2018 fuel efficiency standards for trucks are designed to account for the different kind of work done by different kinds of trucks.
The firm will remain as a hierarchical bureaucracy, with the managers acting as controllers of individuals, work being coordinated by plans, rules and reports, the key value being efficiency and communications top-down.
Nancy Sutley and her staff are doing yeoman's work behind the scenes to raise the profile of energy efficiency, retrofits, and green buildings broadly, and we are thrilled to award them our 2011 Leadership Award for Organizational Leadership in the Public Sector.
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But the real efficiency comes as much from styling new ways to work with technology, from mobile workforces to using comments on the Internet to develop products faster.
These are private, Medicare-funded groups that work with medical providers and seniors in each state to improve the quality and efficiency of health care.
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"In the near future, we would like to increase the efficiency of the polarizing organic photovoltaics, and eventually we hope to work with electronic manufacturers to integrate our technology into real products", Yang said.
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Kristin Goebel, the first American ever to work for Concierge, says her clients value discretion, poise, efficiency and charm.
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They can -- he can work to do the things that I just talked about, in terms of fuel-efficiency standards or clean energy investments.
The ideal of humane efficiency, understood as social responsibility, undergirds all of Foster's work.
Regular readers of this blog will remember Petropoulos as one of 51 Climate Corp Fellows who trained with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) last summer and interned with host companies to work on energy efficiency solutions.
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"Our current system can create some serious work disincentives, particularly at low and high ends of the income distribution, so the potential efficiency gains are pretty clear, " Justin Ross, Professor of Public Finance at Indiana University, told the BBC.
With this arrangement, Samsung and Nanosys will work together to create a new generation of cost effective, higher-efficiency products in the fields of solar, LED, memory, semiconductor, and display.
The Smart Actions app helps automate everyday tasks and optimizes battery efficiency by letting customers create rules, such as automatically setting the phone to vibrate during work hours or dimming the display at a specific battery level.
Within Sony's headquarters and support operations, certain functions have been integrated and organizational structures have been streamlined, while the Company has conducted a thorough review of work content and work-flow process to ensure greater operational efficiency across these operations.
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That is a recommendation you might expect from a management consultancy, but no less valid for that: part of the recent increase in efficiency in Brazil's car plants, for example, comes from introducing work teams and re-designing production lines.
Using unique alphanumeric identifiers for financial firms would improve OTC derivatives markets, make it easier for regulators to see aggregated risk, and, once systems were changed over, would simplify record keeping, improve operational efficiency for firms and eliminate a lot of reconciliation work, according to a report the BIS issued from the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems and the Technical Committee of IOSCO.
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Thermal efficiency is how much of the potential heat energy of the fuel used is actually returned as work at the wheels.
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