Although, with plentiful oil and natural gas in the US, the pressure on energy conservation has eased a bit it is clear that there is a finite amount of accessible energy available and conservation of energy is important to preserve these assets for future generations.
It looks like the laws of gravity, and conservation of energy, have been suspended.
The law of conservation of energy means that solar heat which warms the earth has to go somewhere.
In fact, running a marathon is about the conservation of energy.
The law of the conservation of energy, so significant in science and philosophy, was formulated four times independently in 1847, by Joule, Thomson, Colding and Helmholz.
"The emerging global view that CO2 emissions are a liability will assure an international competitive edge to Japanese technology related to energy conservation and the environment, which boasts top levels of energy efficiency, " Fukuda told the Japan National Press Club in early June.
Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.
Perhaps Carter's most ignominious contribution was his now often maligned fireside sweater-wearing speech extolling energy conservation, lamenting the national "malaise" and calling for the "moral equivalent of war" on energy.
In an effort to reduce its dependence on imported energy, Hawaii has set an aggressive goal of meeting 40 percent of its energy needs through renewable sources and employing conservation measures to reduce energy demand by 30 percent by 2030.
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What about all those bureaucrats at the Department of Energy working on renewable energy and energy conservation?
Energy conservation should be encouraged, through higher excise duties on gasoline and deregulated prices.
It makes sense that Sony might take energy conservation even further with its next system.
I've proposed additional tax credits that will promote private sector hiring and energy conservation.
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Whereas energy conservation has typically been a back-burner subject, today it is up front.
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Their concern is that smart meters that can facilitate energy conservation have yet to bear fruit.
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Energy conservation, efficiency, savings--whatever you want to call it is--is a very large resource in itself.
Which makes them the most honest people you'll hear from in the whole energy conservation caper.
However, China is still reliant on imported technology to drive its energy conservation and diversification.
Congress wants broadband to promote social economic initiatives, such as smarter education, health care and energy conservation.
In a world of good economic growth, even with greater conservation, world energy demand grows by 75%.
If we increase energy conservation, we can decrease consumption by 1 billion barrels.
This would encourage energy conservation by forcing people to move into smaller houses.
The trust urged the government to produce an energy strategy which focuses on energy conservation and not just generation.
Most experts say that city dwellers should focus their energy conservation efforts on other renewable technologies or home efficiency improvements.
This money was specifically targeted for rehabilitation, energy conservation, and creating more efficiency and then, of course, ADA accessibility issues.
Some of this story is told in a patchy but useful book by Herbert Inhaber, Why Energy Conservation Fails (Quorum, 1997).
Sigmar Gabriel, the Social Democratic environment minister, insists that energy conservation and renewables can make up for the loss of nuclear power.
The compromise would include new domestic drilling to satisfy Republicans and promote conservation and alternative energy sources to satisfy Democrats, lawmakers said.
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The compromise would include new domestic drilling to satisfy Republicans and promote conservation and alternative energy sources to satisfy Democrats, several lawmakers said.
With foreign petroleum products expected to provide 70 percent of U.S. energy needs in the coming decades, energy conservation, independence and diversity have become paramount initiatives.
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