In order to create a real-world model, MyEnergi Lifestyle is planning to launch a contest awarding one lucky family an energy efficient home makeover.
Steven Nadell, executive director of the nonprofit American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, counters that CEA member firms are resistant to changing DTA designs already in place.
The bulb triumphed in the Bright Tomorrow competition run by the US Department of Energy that aimed to find an energy efficient alternative to the 60-watt incandescent light bulb.
Despite strong support from groups like the American Council on An Energy Efficient Economy, the Obama administration has tended to treat CHP like the necessary evil of clean energy.
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Leading companies like Starbucks, which enrolled all its US retail stores in the Challenge, and SUPERVALU, which is building an energy efficient grocery store of the future, are showing that better buildings mean better businesses.
The Pulse is the world's first ION PC that can be upgraded with a GeForce GPU, offering consumers the flexibility to choose an economical, low power ION solution or an energy efficient, high performance configuration with GeForce.
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That furnace would save a typical homeowner 16% off his heating bill, compared to an 80% efficient unit, the new minimum standard put out by the DOE, says Steven Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.
Hovering close to the ground, each of these thin-shell dwellings is made entirely out of a single concrete slab stretched out to create an energy efficient structure that is environmentally greener than traditional construction methods and cheaper and faster to produce.
Rosenfeld, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and California Institute for Energy and Environment and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
On a tour of the family home, Crawford-Brown takes note of low-flow showerheads and an energy-efficient refrigerator.
Ken Yeang's "bio-climatic" office buildings provide an energy-efficient alternative to traditional towers by taking into account tropical conditions.
Festo has thus succeeded for the first time in creating an energy-efficient technical adaptation of this model from nature.
It's very hard to ship an energy-efficient window across an ocean.
The Cortex-A50 processor series is designed with this new era of 'transformational computing' in mind, as well as providing an energy-efficient solution to future infrastructure needs.
In other green transportation news, a team from MIT is working on developing ionic wind thrusters that would serve as an energy-efficient, low-emission alternative to jet engines.
The potential efficiency savings from such projects are immense, says Neal Elliott, an expert on combined heat and power (CHP) systems with the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
The winner in that category: Pasteurization Technology Group, a San Leandro, Calif. startup that treats wastewater using an energy-efficient process that recycles the methane produced by wastewater treatment.
But the slow decay in radiation intensity from a tabletop pulsar would make possible extremely long-range transmitters, giving far-off space probes an energy-efficient way to beam information back to earth.
"The most simple definition is: achieving the same energy service with less energy commodity, " says Bill Prindle, deputy director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), an independent nonprofit organization.
Many people could not get jobs because they struggled to read graphs and interpret documents, while plumbers unable to do the calculations required to install an energy-efficient boiler might lose income, he suggested.
When you need to take a break, close the lid and VAIO goes into an energy-efficient deep sleep, keeping your data stored safely for up to 90 days1 without running out of power.
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The Green Book, produced by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), says that in evaluating plug-in hybrids, it considers both the emissions from the gas engine and from the power plants that feed the grid.
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Ford and its business associates worked with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology to create a computer model that calculates the electricity usage of a typical single family in their home for one year and the associated savings with moving to an energy-efficient lifestyle.
As a co-architect of the federal Cash for Clunkers program with the Center for American Progress and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and adviser to various congressional offices on the issue, it is gratifying to see how quickly it has been adopted by the American people.
Instead, they argue, good old human greed will move us in the direction of an increasingly efficient energy future.
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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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They are passing costs on to the consumer, but what we are now seeing in Europe is an increasing demand for energy efficient products.
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He enjoys stripping down forms, emphasizing silhouette or material, as with the voluptuous Plump sofa (2008), a streamlined, space-age version of the classic Chesterfield, or Bulb (2011), an overscaled, energy-efficient lightbulb designed to challenge the aesthetics of most CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) replacements.
The island nation uses 4, 500 BTUs per U.S. dollar of gross domestic product, a measure known as "energy intensity, " the world standard for measuring how efficient an economy is at using energy.
The next is that run through a fuel cell, hydrogen is an efficient source of energy.
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