Research energy efficiency and the open sharing of that technology through the Open Compute Project.

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As work sponsored by the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research Program has shown quite well, boosting energy efficiency in high-tech industries offers huge economic side benefits in terms of increased reliability and productivity.

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He is head of the Energy and Climate Change Research Division at the university and will provide the council with expertise on the energy efficiency of new buildings.

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All of the technology required to produce alternative forms of energy will need further research and development to ensure greater efficiency and economic viability.

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Our joint Clean Energy Research Center is funding new approaches to energy efficiency, clean coal -- which we both need to deal with -- and clean vehicles.

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"Faced with constraints for energy efficiency and analytic compute capacity to support world-leading geosciences research, we absolutely require technological innovations from leading companies like HP, " said Chris Hill, principal research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-chair, Research and Education Subcommittee, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing.

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Applied research solves practical problems, such as improving the energy efficiency of vehicles.

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The conference aims to produce a set of recommendations for further research activities and networking on access to energy services, energy efficiency and renewable energies beyond 2012.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

Back at the sandpit they are focused instead on appropriate technologies and energy efficiency, trying to refine their ideas and create a workable project that would not only provide solid research but also be sustainable after the funding runs out.

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