Since the shipping fleet takes decades to turn over, energy efficiency first movers will retain a long term advantage, even if other firms belatedly wake up to the advantages.
The Energy Bill that President Bush signed into law Wednesday mandates an increase in automotive fuel efficiency for the first time in 32 years.
My first encounter with the concept of market efficiency dates back to my first course in economics.
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Change is finally doing something about our addiction to oil and raising fuel-efficiency standards for the first time in 30 years.
The unit's efficiency ranked ninth, first and second in the NFL, respectively in 2008, 2009 and 2010, according to analysis site Pro Football Focus.
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The second reason for building the open cloud centers around the same motivators that bring enterprises to the cloud in the first place: cost efficiency, range of service delivery options, reduced overhead and better asset utilization.
With respect to transportation sector, one of the things that we did without legislation -- nobody has really noticed this, but this was huge -- we increased fuel-efficiency standards on cars for the first time in 30 years -- cars and trucks.
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They cite the Gershon review as evidence of their efficiency but the truth is that its first round delivered more spin than savings.
No longer in control, with your efficiency waning and frustration mounting, your first tactic might be to hide the smartphone, just put it away for hours at a time.
Now, in my first term, we doubled fuel efficiency standards on cars and trucks.
First, it increases vehicle fuel efficiency to a fleetwide average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, up from the current level of 25 mpg.
Last year, I was proud to have your support when we announced the first-ever national fuel-efficiency standards for commercial trucks, which is going to help save consumers money and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
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And we now have across the country people working in factories making advanced batteries that are going into American-made cars, because what we also did at the same time was we raised fuel-efficiency standards on cars and trucks for the first time in 30 years.
We were able, over the last two years, to increase for the first time in 30 years fuel-efficiency standards on cars and trucks.
According to data release today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), productivity (i.e. worker efficiency) rose 6.1% from the first quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2010.
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The first is a renewed emphasis on energy efficiency, whether in the established infrastructures of the U.S. and Europe, or in the ones that are now being built in China and India.
Tentative at the beginning, the Italians developed a steady efficiency two-thirds of the way through the first half and bullied the Irish until late in the second, when the Azzurri sagged back on defense to protect their lead.
There had been substantial investment in energy efficiency, the helpline and energy assistance packages replied the first minister.
That is why we are funding the highways maintenance efficiency programme which helps councils work together to deliver a first-class service to their residents, at the same time as saving money.
After our first shift, each team discussed ways to boost efficiency, safety and quality.
First Solar was mass producing panels with an average efficiency of nearly 13% by the end of 2012.
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Those teams, who all play similar styles of defense, rank sixth, fifth and first in the NBA, respectively, in defensive efficiency.
On Tuesday, August 9th, the President will travel to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Virginia, to announce first-of-their-kind fuel-efficiency standards for work trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles.
It will be the first on the market that reaches that level of efficiency and functions across a normal range of temperatures and is capable of consistently producing the same amount of warm white colored light as comparable fluorescent tubes.
First, it would sacrifice the many benefits of micro efficiency to plug an apparent macro leakage.
We learned a lot from the first generation technology and the 2nd generation further improves power efficiency.
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Rather, first and possibly foremost, reform should be directed at maximizing efficiency and minimizing costs of state pensions, health care, and nursing care.
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Building on the device momentum and industry-leading power-efficiency of the award-winning Atom processor Z2760, Intel's first quad-core Atom SoC ("Bay Trail"), will be the most powerful Atom processor to-date -- doubling the computing performance of Intel's current- generation tablet offering and providing the ecosystem with a strong technology foundation and feature set from which to innovate.
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First Solar has had a goal of reaching 12.5% efficiency by next year.
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