Water users, from residential to commercial, to even industrial sites could dramatically reduce their water-energy by using the sun.
You know, for you to think about how are you using energy at home, how are you using energy in your businesses -- are you buying long-lasting lights?
Voltaic was founded in 2004 to develop energy solutions using environmentally-intelligent designs.
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And by the way, using energy-efficient cars and trucks can also make economic sense because transportation is one of the biggest costs for many businesses and certainly for many families.
McDonald was also the third physician in the world to perform a procedure called conductive keratoplasty -- a noninvasive surgery for farsightedness that involves using radio-frequency energy to heat small spots around the cornea.
This torch works by storing energy in a hand-wound spring, and then using that energy to drive a dynamo.
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At the same time, he was aggressively buying Chesapeake Energy shares on margin--using borrowed money for the purchases.
Morgan was, rather, buying that energy from itself--and using the ruse as an excuse to make apparent loans to Enron.
The winner in that category: Pasteurization Technology Group, a San Leandro, Calif. startup that treats wastewater using an energy-efficient process that recycles the methane produced by wastewater treatment.
Dr. Sen Kim claims to have achieved the separation of Hydrogen using just 0.1kwh of energy compared to the traditional 4 - 4.5kwh required using the ol' electrolytic method.
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McLaren, one of only two teams still using the energy power-boost system, suffered a poor start to 2009.
"The reality of using high-energy lasers in killing systems has finally come of age, " he wrote in a 2000 Army magazine article.
Responsible individuals across our country are taking action by using low-energy light bulbs, purchasing fuel-efficient and hybrid vehicles, and trying to live their own lives more sustainably.
Helsinki Airport, for example, has cut its carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 2, 500 tonnes compared to 2011, by making heating, ventilation and lighting more energy-efficient, as well as using electrically-operated vehicles.
In the U.K.'s North Sea fields, for example, Apache (nyse: APA - news - people ) Energy is using new recovery techniques to revive production in a basin thought to be in terminal decline.
The hub is piloting a portfolio of advanced energy-efficient building technologies and designs using sophisticated sensors and modeling equipment with the goal of creating technologies capable of reducing energy use in existing buildings by 50% by 2015.
Going deeper down the rabbit hole, Radiator Labs is exploring some nifty technologies such as an Xbee mesh network, which it's using to evaluate the energy-saving benefits at play.
Everyone had to think about using oil-based energy differently.
Spacecraft assembled and provisioned on the moon could escape its far-lower gravity using far less energy and thus far less cost.
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"The process also uses less water and energy - we simply use coloured bottles to avoid using dye, " says Alex Lo, the company's managing director.
Celsion is dedicated to the development and commercialization of oncology drugs including tumor-targeting treatments using focused heat energy in combination with heat activated drug delivery systems.
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At the rolling campus on Raleigh's west side 800 undergraduate and graduate students work with companies, helping to solve everyday problems like reducing energy use, improving supply-chain management, using eco-friendly dyes and developing better fibers.
"By September next year, we will become the first nation using 100%-renewable energy, and number one in percentage greenhouse gas reduction in the Pacific and elsewhere, " Foua Toloa told a meeting on the fringes of the UN climate conference.
So we need to urgently change our policies substantially towards using energy more efficiently and fostering low-carbon technologies.
Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.
Lee Tomkins, director of Migraine Action, is urging sufferers to stockpile the old-fashioned bulbs before retailers run out, while the the Royal National Institute of Blind People suggests using tungsten halogen bulbs instead of energy-saving bulbs in hallways and stairs.
Secondly, when considering end-to-end efficiency, it is much less energy-intensive to heat water by direct use of natural gas on-site, rather than by using that natural gas to first make electricity that is used to heat water because of the large conversion losses at power plants.
"Passive solar" means using windows or other materials in an energy-conscious way, not solar panels.
ArcelorMittal Steel USA is finding an uncommon way to beat the competition: It is cutting energy consumption at one of its steel plants in Chicago by re-using heat to make electricity.
Hamilton, 24, said the Kers (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) power-boost system - which Ferrari are also using - proved "anything can happen" and the Briton is optimistic he can replicate the pace he found in Hungary.
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