Bush also touched on expanded international cooperation in cleaner and more efficient energy technologies.
Nanotech holds the promise of cleaner ecosystems, more efficient energy sources and waste-minimizing manufacturing processes.
If these sectors can pump out low-cost, efficient energy, customers can be trusted to buy it.
Finally, they conclude that the notion that more efficient energy use will conserve energy is backward.
These targeted refunds would prevent high emitting foreign plants from destroying efficient energy-intensive industries in the United States.
Right now all of us would benefit if we had a cleaner, more efficient energy policy in this country.
Instead, they argue, good old human greed will move us in the direction of an increasingly efficient energy future.
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Smart grids provide real-time information on electricity use, so that consumers and businesses can make efficient energy choices on a truly reliable network.
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From water purification systems and biohazard sensors to efficient energy systems and nutritional supplements in baby food, the spinoffs from space technology are myriad.
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Supporting natural gas-but also wants to continue to find efficient energy.
The authors believe their system could combine the advantages of methanol as a hydrogen carrier and of proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells for efficient energy production.
But for a solar eternal plane to be exactly that it needs an efficient energy harvesting, conversion and storage system that will work when the Sun has set.
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Under their bill, the government would invest the money in developing renewable fuel and more efficient energy policies, including a plan to weatherize more than a million homes.
It is China's push to adopt and expand more efficient energy technologies from solar to advanced batteries for electric vehicles that has raised the most vocal concerns lately in Washington policy circles.
But we've also got to continue to figure out how we have efficient energy, because ultimately that's how we're going to reduce demand and that's what's going to keep gas prices lower.
Such a program would cap greenhouse gas emissions at certain levels, and allow more efficient energy producers to sell emissions permits to other, less efficient companies, thereby creating market-wide incentives to reduce carbon output.
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Today, three to five percent of all U.S. power usage us being drawn into data centers, which is significant enough to invite regulatory attention around the sources of energy and levels of efficient energy usage.
As part of its smart-grid activities, aimed at achieving a low-carbon society through efficient energy use, TMC is conducting trials in Japan of its Toyota Smart Center pilot program, which plans to link people, automobiles and homes for integrated control of energy consumption.
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Insurers can also encourage the transition to a low-carbon economy one built to forestall the worst effects of climate change by offering products and services that encourage clean and efficient energy, encouraging customers to adopt climate-change mitigation plans, and encouraging policymakers to act to reduce carbon pollution.
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But one of the things that's become clear is, is that we need to accelerate our basic research in ethanol and other biofuels that are made from things like woodchips and algae as opposed to just focusing on corn, which is probably the least efficient energy producer of these various other approaches.
We just have to help businesses and homeowners put in place the installation, the energy-efficient windows, the energy-efficient lighting.
Whether they are energy-efficient or energy-wasteful, cities such as New York and London are employing ambitious programs to improve efficiency.
Beware: Lots of "energy-efficient" products advertised as meeting Department of Energy standards aren't efficient enough to merit a tax credit.
We will also have to become extremely efficient in energy use and continue to advance healthcare for the good of all.
Gasoline and diesel fuel are spectacularly efficient in energy and economic terms.
Imagine energy efficient hospitals that save money on energy bills to use for critical patient care, and that promote renewable energy as a community health and resilience strategy.
First, distributed energy generation is enabling efficient, decentralized energy production close to the point of use by consumers, integrating energy generation more fully into our homes, offices, and factories.
If you are going to become more energy efficient, you need to compare energy use to GDP, and in the years 1975 to 2005, the GDP in California went up by 90%--1.9 times higher GDP.
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