It takes four times as much energy to produce a paper bag than it does plastic, and when they're dumped away in landfills, paper bags don't biodegrade any better than plastic.
Schleswig-Holstein plans to generate three times as much renewable energy as it consumes and to export the surplus south and west.
In developing the Spark EV, Chevrolet set out to help customers conserve as much total energy as possible to maximize battery range.
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By pursuing new experiences and thinking differently about common problems, you are asking your brain to expend energy when its natural role is to conserve as much energy as possible.
What will happen as 3 billion people try to use as much energy as we do?
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And we're going to spend as much time, effort and energy as necessary to make sure that all the people in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut know that the entire country is behind them in this difficult recovery effort.
But hydrogen still has too much potential as an energy medium to shuffle quietly off the scene.
It would be nice if policymakers put as much energy into designing care systems to make that happen as into cracking down on hospice fraud.
Filmmakers should put "just as much creativity and energy and resources into making a film as to getting it out creatively into world, " says Shlain.
Alternative energy sources will become much more popular as countries are forced to move to a sustainable energy supply and as fossil fuels simply become too expensive.
And we are going to try to put as much energy as we can into it.
They're not going to use as much energy as the Empire State Building.
Being cooler means the body does not have to expend as much energy.
Officials conceded that goal may be too ambitious, but the White House wanted to set a high bar to reduce as much energy consumption as possible.
It makes business sense for the studios to focus as much energy and money as possible on the biggest films that will generate the most revenue down the line.
You need to put as much time and energy as you can on self-marketing.
In fact, government and power plant data show that burning woody biomass releases 1.5 times as much carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour generated as coal, according to the Massachusetts Environmental Energy Alliance.
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Developed countries use half as much oil per real dollar of GDP as in the mid-1970s, thanks to improved energy efficiency.
What they found was that, for their weight, gibbons manage to put more energy into their jumps than any known animal, five times as much as humans are able to muster.
I'd like to say to people look, I'll do it as long as I have the energy to do it and when I don't feel I can put as much into it as you like, then I would want to step down.
LightSail claims that allows for a much more efficient storage system as energy does not have to be expended reheating the air.
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Then again, GDP may not be the best measure for the impact on the economy, as much of the benefit from offshore production accrues to energy companies who take their profits outside Scotland.
Going back to New Orleans for a moment, consider that after Katrina, Entergy was given hundreds of millions in tax dollars and still increased consumer energy bills as much as 10%, only to provide patches to an aging electrical grid.
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In addition, hydrogen pipelines cost six times as much as natural gas conduits, according to the International Energy Agency.
The feedstock accounts for as much as three-quarters of production costs, so the price of ethylene is tied to the price of energy.
Politicians like New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer have embraced clean coal as fundamental to their energy policy, but even clean coal plants will take five to ten years to have much of an impact on the environment by reducing the level of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.
The EcoBot II powers itself in much the same way as animals feed themselves to get their energy, he said.
The calumny didn't bother Jorge much, for he saw it as a tribute to his energy and determination that his enemies took him so seriously.
The wind farm is expected to produce as much as 468 megawatts of renewable energy, which is about 3.5% of the 13, 300-megawatts total generating capacity in Massachusetts.
Nasa estimates that if Apophis were to hit Earth, it would explode with as much energy as 400 megatonnes of TNT.
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