Secondly, when considering end-to-end efficiency, it is much less energy-intensive to heat water by direct use of natural gas on-site, rather than by using that natural gas to first make electricity that is used to heat water because of the large conversion losses at power plants.
Using smarter technologies, more brains and less money to wring more work from less delivered energy--what energy experts call "end-use efficiency"--is the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest, fastest, most diverse, least visible, least understood and most neglected way to provide energy services.
The eco-rating system assesses 15 specific criteria drawn from five general categories of sustainability attributes - attributes include the usage of environmentally preferable materials, minimization of hazardous substances, energy efficiency, responsible end-of-life treatment and environmentally-responsible manufacturing.
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Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.
In the old model, software was created to smooth processes and increase efficiency for back-end systems.
They hope to drive the program into a political and technological dead-end by denying it the synergy and efficiency that can come from an integrated management structure and by diverting funds from space- to ground-based defensive systems.
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It has been designed to win a chunk of the smaller end of the narrow-body market by offering 20% greater efficiency than the A320 or 737.
If nothing else, IDC's material underlines the enormous potential that exists for B2B Net use, the unfashionable business-to-business end of the market where community is less important than efficiency and delivery.
It is the kind of brutal efficiency that the 3-3-1 Red Bulls have so desperately lacked at the other end, where they have allowed 14 goals.
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