To the extent that this equation (energy return on energy invested, or EROI) is deteriorating, that must surely have an effect on economic growth.
He signed the letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning that it may be possible to build an atom bomb, and the letters of his famed equation relating energy to mass hover in our minds when we picture the resulting mushroom cloud.
To make this happen, data centers must consider all sides of the energy equation: from the intelligent procurement of clean, affordable energy to the installation of energy efficient technologies enabling every watt used to meet its fullest potential.
By doing that, the plug-in hybrid has the potential to radically alter the energy equation that currently favors gasoline.
Fourth, we should seize the opportunities of advanced manufacturing to help change the cost equation for new energy technologies.
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We know what it takes to change the energy equation in this country and free ourselves from dependence on foreign oil.
Wherever elevators enter this equation, renewable energy may soon follow.
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Despite the ambiguous attitudes toward alternative energy technologies, their development has altered the energy security equation.
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Some forward-looking cities are leading on solving the energy-nexus equation, some out of necessity.
This is bringing people back into the equation, not something most energy companies consider to be their responsibility.
Meanwhile, although overall inflation is ticking higher, when you remove food and energy costs from the equation, the number just isn't too bad.
Lithium battery chemistry, commercialized in 1991, changes this equation with a four-fold gain in energy stored per pound.
If the full economic benefits, externalities included, of energy independence are also taken into the equation, then we could well see CO2 go from a despised and destructive waste product to a valuable commodity.
In order for countries to make dramatic reductions for a greener future, energy efficiency will likely be a big part of the equation.
The prospect of severe global energy disruptions, the further nationalization of existing energy resources and the formation of energy-based, anti-American alliances present a threat to the global competitive equation.
You have just got to show energy and try to pick the team up, which is what I bring to the equation and what I thought I was doing, but I have since been told I am not, so I have got to look at that.
This notion of personal currencies and my mental equation in which writing a magazine column pays for Spanish lessons is another way to look at life energy, which many of you will know from the classic Your Money or Your Life.
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