In the process, customers are hoping to eliminate wasted energy and utilities are aiming to get better information on fluctuating electricity demand.
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Scientists are saying that the recycling of wasted energy is a productive tool that both improves energy efficiency and minimizes the release of greenhouse emissions.
Yet the coalition has made little effort to attack corruption, and has wasted energy on bickering and back-stabbing, messily dismissing one would-be reforming prime minister, Radu Vasile, from its own ranks last December.
It's too bad, then, that so many talented actors have wasted their energy on this thing.
Ellis was an eight year guest of the North Vietnamese at the fabled Hanoi Hilton, a prison camp where the Vietnamese wasted no energy on hospitality.
By applying the brakes or reducing speed by letting off the accelerator, the electric motor acts as an electric generator, converting energy that would otherwise be wasted into battery energy.
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By contrast, CHP reduces the amount of energy wasted by an order of magnitude.
I'm also issuing a new goal for America: Let's cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next 20 years.
Google thought big when it aimed to reduce accidents, the time and energy wasted in traffic, and the number of cars on the road by 90 percent.
The fall of the Soviet Union ushered in a great expansion of the world economy as the energy wasted in Cold War posturing was redirected into opening up the economic prospects for billions.
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Another is that, until turbines are built to withstand 3, 000-degree steam, a fair amount of the fuel's energy is wasted.
With more volts you don't need as many amps, which means the system doesn't run as hot and less energy is wasted.
Although a lot less energy is wasted through heat than in the case of a traditional light bulb, some heat loss still occurs.
We can reduce wasted commute time and energy by 90%.
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Indeed, on the tiny residential scale think about how much energy is wasted when you heat up a whole kettle of water to make just one cup of tea.
In addition, the driverless car would reduce wasted commute time and energy by relieving congestion and allowing cars to go faster, operate closer together and choose more effective routes.
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People (and companies) with zero energy become wasted.
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The speaker has wasted a lot of energy on the technology, and begun to spend the goodwill that audiences have for all speakers at the start, because they want their time to be used well.
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.
But think about the enormous amount of time and energy that is wasted, the innovative activity that is prevented, by a government policy of supporting the issuance of software patents.
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"The easiest ways to get energy bills down quickly are to get people paying the lowest possible tariffs and to reduce the amount of energy that is wasted, " the statement added.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the first step businesses and households should take when trying to improve energy efficiency is performing an audit to identify where energy is being wasted.
Much energy has been wasted fussing over trivia: holding the annual conference of the non-aligned movement there last year, meddling with the selection of the national cricket team, trying to ban smoking in public places.
The small size of the LED light chip allows another advantage arising from the physics of optics: Engineers can employ collaterally small lenses making it possible to efficiently extract, direct and focus the lumens, achieving useful illumination with far fewer lumens--and far less energy--wasted.
Too much time and energy is still being wasted doling out jobs and favours to government supporters.
Exasperated by the energy he has already wasted, Mr Annan has said he will restart the process only if both sides agree to hold referendums on the settlement before May 1st.
People have wasted enormous amounts of time and energy worrying that there are too many people and that we will eventually run out of this or that scarce resource (petroleum, for example).
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The mystery remains intact, but all the available energy has long ago been wasted on stupid things.
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