能源支出本质上是一个预算编制的过程，就像财务预算一样。
The expenditure of energy is essentially a process of budgeting, just as finances are budgeted.
对投资者来说，像这样的绿色建筑不一定具有成本效益，但它产生的污染确实比通过化石燃料产生能源的过程少得多。
Green buildings like this aren't necessarily cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy production through fossil fuels.
萨多维鼓吹在通往更清洁、高效、公平的能源未来的过程中，能源储存是一个缺失环节。而他不是唯一持这种观点的人。
Sadoway isn't alone in trumpeting energy storage as a missing link to a cleaner, more efficient, and more equitable energy future.
通用电气的目标是到2015年将其运作过程中的能源强度降低50%。
General Electric aims to reduce the energy intensity of its operations by 50% by 2015.
此外，这一数字并没有反映出一个事实，即大量的土地、能源、化肥和水也在食品生产过程中流失了，而这些食品最终只是被浪费掉了。
Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste.
因此，当前化石燃料价格较低的环境必然会推迟从化石燃料向清洁能源转型的过程。
The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources.
有了正确的技术，世界各地的汽车可以在行驶过程中产生能源。
With the right technologies, cars around the world could be producing energy as they go.
在美国，照明约占总耗电量的7%。由于照明通常远离电源——例如从发电厂到偏远公路上的路灯——因此大量的能源在传输过程中会损失掉。
Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity consumed in the US. Since lighting is often far removed from the power source—such as the distance from a power plant to street lamps on a remote highway—a lot of energy is lost during transmission.
这是地球上最有效的太阳能转化过程，如果将太阳光照射地球表面一个小时产生的所有能量聚积起来，就足以满足人类整整一年的能源需求。
It is the most effective solar energy conversion process on Earth and all power needs for a year could be met by the energy contained in the sunlight hitting the Earth in one hour.
但它们的间接影响：与粮食作物的竞争，额外开垦荒地种植的需要，还有在提炼过程中的消耗能源——所有都会造成影响。
But their indirect environmental "bads" -competition with food crops, the need to clear virgin land to grow them, and the energy costs of processing them-all cause anguish.
为了改变这种情况，他正在开发一种只使用再生能源的过程。
To change this, he is developing a process using only renewable energy.
但使用可再生能源为电动汽车提供动力，将减少汽车行驶过程中产生的碳排放。
But using renewable energy to power electric vehicles will cut down on the carbon emissions created in the process.
对沃克斯薯片量定碳足迹的过程出其不意地显示出一个节约能源的有利可能。
The process of calculating the carbon footprint for Walkers crisps revealed an unexpected opportunity to save energy.
海洋热能转换(otec)过程利用了旋转涡轮中大体积的水体的温差，来产生连续不断的再生能源。
The Ocean Thermal energy Conversion (OTEC) process utilizes temperate differences in large bodies of water to spin turbines, creating a steady source of renewable energy.
这个过程叫做化能合成，并且很多不同的微生物都能利用这种能源，比如世界各地生活在岩石和土壤中的微生物。
This process is called chemosynthesis, and a lot of different microbes can do it, microbes living in rocks and soils all over the world.
像道路、铁路、能源和水等一系列重要基础设施的缺乏，以及获取采矿执照的超长过程，都会使得的开采成本较以往高许多。
The lack of vital infrastructure such as roads, railways, power and water, and the ever-lengthening process of getting mining permits, will make the newer mines far more costly.
关注能源部如何运行它的核武基地的“核设施安全防卫委员会”，目前这在考察处理废料过程本身的安全性。
The Defence nuclear Facilities safety Board, which watches how the Department of Energy runs its nuclear-weapons sites, is currently investigating the safety of the waste-treatment process itself.
看似荒谬，但研究人员确实已经发明出了一种由奶酪作为能源的燃料电池，或者更确切的说，是奶酪制作过程中的副产品——乳清。
It MAY seem ridiculous, but in the hunt for sources of alternative energy researchers have come up with fuel cells which are powered by cheese-or at least whey, a by-product in cheese making.
很明显这个过程，合成燃料的过程，随着能源危机的到来，变得又时髦起来了。
And obviously this process, the syn-fuel process, is coming back in vogue with the energy crisis around now.
他应该告诉美国人，停止全球变暖就意味着更高的能源价格，遏制健康医疗方面的通胀就意味着要削减人们想要但未必是必须的医疗过程。
He would tell Americans that stopping global warming means higher energy prices, and that arresting health-care inflation means cutting back on medical procedures that people want but don't need.
其生产过程需要耗掉大量的电，但在山城华盛顿，水利电气能源很便宜。
The manufacturing process consumes an enormous amount of electricity, but hydroelectric power is cheap in the mountainous state of Washington.
绿色和平的一项报告指出：计算机公司在储存数据并且将其上传到网络的过程中，产生的能源消耗将对环境造成较大的威胁。
The energy that technology companies use storing and transmitting our data is becoming more of an environmental risk, according to a report from environmental group Greenpeace.
通过颇有争议的提取过程从岩石中提取出来的页岩气，到2035年将构成第五大供给能源。
Shale gas, extracted from rock by the controversial process of fracking, will make up a fifth of supplies by that date.
但是，液晶电视的尺寸较小，更小的尺寸消耗更少的能源（包括生产和使用的过程中）而且和大屏幕的等离子电视比，液晶电视内部的有毒化学物质也少。
But LCDs come in smaller sizes, and those small screens use less energy (both in production and at your house) and contain fewer hazardous chemicals than larger plasma screens.
如果希望某种技术在商业利用方面切实可行，首先在物料的预处理方面要求所得到的中间产品必须是容易发酵的糖份，产量高，浓度也较高，而且技术的实施成本还不能过高，还有生产过程中更不能使用有毒物质，不可以耗费太多能源，最后，所生产出来的草料油在价格方面必须能够与传统汽油一争高下。
They should not use toxic materials or require too much energy input to work. They must also be able to produce grassoline at a price that can compete with gasoline.
原因有好几个：一些人怀疑生物燃料到底是不是所谓的绿色能源，有人说生产过程中耗费的能源就已经跟这些产品燃料能产生的能量差不多了。
There are doubts about how green ethanol really is (some say the production process uses almost as much energy as it produces).
原因有好几个：一些人怀疑生物燃料到底是不是所谓的绿色能源，有人说生产过程中耗费的能源就已经跟这些产品燃料能产生的能量差不多了。
There are doubts about how green ethanol really is (some say the production process uses almost as much energy as it produces).
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