Imagine the efficiency gains if the ethanol produced in Iowa was consumed in Iowa.
There would be efficiency gains from keeping ethanol in the region while backing out petroleum imports.
But as input costs rise, the utilities grow more aggressive in seeking efficiency gains.
Big efficiency gains will come only if Europe's carbon cap includes housing and transport.
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And, finally, the nuclear option's efficiency gains would be minimal or perhaps even negative.
The problem with efficiency gains is that we inevitably reinvest them in additional consumption.
Leaving train operations under public control is also most unlikely to result in efficiency gains.
It's ironic, given that rising energy prices automatically make efficiency gains more valuable, and cheaper to attain.
It often increases it as the efficiency gains and resource savings get quickly re-purposed to other uses.
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Efficiency gains could translate into an annual CO2e reduction of upwards of 250 million tons annually consumption by 2020.
And, efficiency gains that raise income would lead to some additional private saving.
Intel is counting on efficiency gains from squeezing transistors together so tightly that a billion fit on a fingernail-size chip.
Consuming the ethanol near the source of production would generate efficiency gains on both the exported ethanol and the imported oil.
It sets the stage for what we expect would be some major efficiency gains as volumes come back on the rails.
Requests for permission to hike rates increasingly meet stiff political resistance, with demands for efficiency gains in exchange for smaller-than-requested rate increases.
Overseeing such efficiency gains and other issues are the 300 employees sitting in the holding company, many working out of glorified cubbyholes.
Dell is focused on the development and acquisition of storage intellectual property that delivers productivity and efficiency gains for highly-virtualized data centers.
They could, however, offer huge efficiency gains, in particular deals between the large public-sector banks (the so-called Landesbanken) and smaller savings banks.
This brings efficiency gains but means that trade with others becomes necessary.
Base broadening proposals show up so frequently because there appears to be both efficiency gains and equity gains from scaling back these deductions.
Needless to say, even modest efficiency gains in the built environment typically translate into massive energy savings and emissions reductions in the aggregate.
Mr Llewellyn also questions the theory that building-society conversions will herald a wave of takeovers, leading to efficiency gains as overcapacity is cut.
It does not accept the claims of efficiency gains, saying it's very difficult in Scotland or elsewhere to prove they're anything other than cuts.
Although there have been some efficiency gains of late, reporting lines are evidently muddled and there is still wasteful duplication between the different subsidiaries and brands.
And over the coming two decades, where we can expect even more ICT-driven efficiency gains, the EIA still forecasts a 16% aggregate rise in electric demand.
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Whether to allow this to happen, or to prop hospitals up and thus reduce the possible efficiency gains, will be a hard test for the next government.
The winding down of the Iraq war also will save money, Orszag says, adding that the administration is poring over the budget in search of efficiency gains.
Mr Atkins also said: "Existing building stock is not being sweated enough" and great energy efficiency gains could be made by looking at the buildings already constructed.
Efficiency gains importance over many other criteria in these cases.
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What is set to happen in this parliament is that the output of the health and education services will continue to grow, though the efficiency gains will be smaller.
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