He reckons Boeing has squeezed 8% better fuel consumption out of its 737s in the past decade and more will be possible.
Despite demands from airlines for better fuel consumption, the market for the existing narrow-body jets is booming again as airline profits recover and fleets age.
Also on the chopping block is PowerMeter, a free energy monitoring tool that pairs with smart power meters and other energy monitoring devices to help users better understand consumption habits and ultimately reduce costs.
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One guiding principle is that it is better to tax consumption than income, because taxing what is spent rather than what is earned does less damage to incentives to save.
Rather than relying entirely on direct stimulus of consumption, it is better to put a floor under consumption by making sure that unemployment benefits and food stamps are adequately funded.
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More investment is flowing to technologies such as upgraded power grids with smart meters that allow users to better manage their consumption of electricity, and energy-efficient buildings that reduce the cost of operations and improve human health through better air quality.
Each one of these helpful features is displayed in Count's colorful and handsome interface, which makes monitoring data consumption even better.
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This requires investment in high-end servers, but offers major benefits in terms of reduced power consumption, better performance and reduced space requirements.
No matter, argue the economists: far better to have undistorted consumption choices and to fulfil the government's redistributive aims more efficiently through the income-tax system.
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Foreigners are going the other way, recognizing that aging shifts the world's largest per capita stock of individually owned assets toward better housing, more consumption and greater risk-appetite for investment opportunities.
But the 2008-09 recession and better fuel economy have lowered consumption to an estimated 135 billion gallons.
High-end servers, mostly based on 32-nm process technology, command premium prices because they offer better performance and lower power consumption.
Taxing not corporate profits but consumption or even better land rental values.
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Intel's processors deliver better performance without increasing their consumption of power, all else being equal--a trick Advanced Micro Devices isn't expected to master until later this year.
He urged China to stimulate consumption by introducing better pensions and health care and upgrading its financial services to allow capital to flow from people who have it to people who need it.
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Intel's processors deliver better performance without increasing their consumption of power, all else being equal--a trick Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) isn't expected to master until later this year.
Additionally, due to their inherent advantages over traditional spinning hard drives, including better performance, lower power consumption, and increased reliability, drives made from solid state flash products should continue to gain in popularity as prices fall and capacities rise.
Smart meters will better inform consumers of their energy consumption and increase off-peak tariff usage.
It wants to cut spending on public works, but raise consumption taxes to fund better pensions.
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Where revenues must rise, taxes on consumption or carbon are better than those on wages or profits.
Even moderate coffee consumption was linked to better survival odds.
The digital content containers offered by aggregators like Flipboard and Zite are much more compelling than any single source alternative and fit far better with the nature of content consumption on the Web that is forming itself around streams.
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Flash memory does not have the mechanical limitations of hard drives, so an SSD has better speed, noise, and power consumption.
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Customers want better use of smart meters to reduce consumption, and cost.
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He may have read too much into better-than-expected data on consumption.
Once again, the result is better-behaved transistors and reduced power consumption as little as half that demanded by old-style transistors, says the firm, with no loss of performance.
The low power-consumption and high transmission rate can better suit the users' goals for upgrade of system performance.
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For example, we could use an average of several years' income or, better yet, scale the AMaxT limit to consumption rather than income.
"It excludes the majority of housing costs faced by homeowners and differences in calculation mean it may be considered a better representation of the way consumers change their consumption patterns in response to price changes, " the 2010 Budget document explained.
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