Although forward-looking companies like Facebook and Google have implemented better cooling systems and software that saves on wasted power, most corporate datacenters, which constitute the bulk of total usage, are woefully behind in putting more efficient systems into practice.
Mr Blair comes close to conceding that he wasted his early years in power, imagining the public sector could be reformed from the centre: he cites inexperience in his defence (astonishingly, being prime minister was his first and only job in government).
This development will be a foundation for the realization of a system for capturing and converting wasted carbon dioxide from incinerators, power plants or industrial activities.
In the 1970s, some pumped hydropower storage was built at existing dam reservoirs to store nuclear power that otherwise went largely wasted at night.
After taking power, Putin and his KGB colleagues wasted little time bringing such oligarchs to heel.
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Then the U.S. airforce wasted the embassy of China, the one big power besides Russia that has been firmly opposed to the NATO campaign.
It broke the power of a bank oligopoly that had wasted Israel's savings on reckless loans to cronies in big business while starving small- and medium-sized enterprises of credit.
With a combined heat and power plant, some of those 76 wasted BTUs that were going out the stack are captured, generally as steam or hot water that can get piped around and used for heat.
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Full of steely resolve, power, and glory, not one word was wasted, not one word unclear, not one emotion trivial.
Kempton realized that most of the power available from electric cars' large batteries was being wasted, because the cars sit parked 95% of the time.
Jeanne Campbell was among those who got power back and then lost it again -- meaning more wasted money and more wasted food.
For every two units of electricity provided to consumers through the conventional power generation and delivery system, as much as 98 units are wasted along the way.
The Kers system stores energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat during braking, then reapplies it during acceleration to provide a boost in power, controlled from the cockpit by the driver.
Put another way, residential heating and air conditioning constitute 11.88 percent of the U.S. energy budget: cars only account for 8.9 percent. (see spread sheets 2.2 and 2.6) Worse, a good portion of that energy is wasted: lights get left on, air conditioners churn when you are on vacation, sleeping notebooks suck vampire power.
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