Way back in 1978, Schneider National, the largest truckload carrier in the land, began offering drivers incentives for fuel management.
With about 1, 000 power plants in China, the potential demand of software that linked equipment, materials and fuel management software was huge.
The turbos, smaller engine blocks and advanced fuel-management systems available on the Cruze and others may not be as sexy as lithium-ion batteries.
Creating international nuclear fuel banks and shared management of enrichment, reprocessing and spent fuel storage facilities would make nonproliferation sense as well as supporting civil nuclear power in energy-thirsty Asia.
Once they know where they stand, some companies use cloud computing to empower their fuel buyers with powerful, automated fuel purchasing and management software.
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Goldman conceived and sold derivatives to Fannie to fool investors, fight off regulators and fuel bonuses to top management.
Benson Lee has spent two decades developing working fuel cells at his company, Technology Management Inc.
More 'wild' fish could be nurtured and caught with much less effort (fuel, time, stress) through collaborative management and working.
"I had a meeting with Oldbury site management who said they said they had enough fuel to run to December 2012, " he said.
But he goes on to say that Burns is the perfect guy for pushing radical technology--and has given him uncommon institutional support, by promoting him to vice president and putting him on GM's most senior management team in 1998, about the time fuel cells were starting to show promise.
For example, large fleet-based businesses such as Waste Management and Werner Enterprises Inc. recently cited high fuel costs as one reason for lower-than-expected earnings.
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In short, it should establish a carbon management paradigm that provides incentives to minimize emissions from both fuel production and fuel consumption regardless of what the fuel is called.
Our dependence on foreign oil is at its lowest point in 16 years. (Applause.) As I said, we doubled fuel-efficiency standards on cars, with cooperation from workers and management, which is why our cars will average nearly 55 miles per gallon.
Management points out that the baggage fee actually saves the company fuel and labor fees because it discourages passengers from bringing on the extra weight.
The shift to the cloud and the smartphone also gives Intuit a big opportunity to mine all that online spending and hiring data that can fuel new products and service ideas, and sell customers upgrades like payroll management and online banking.
The Fukushima disaster along with the need to find a home for used nuclear fuel is pushing the Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to better their emergency responses in case of radiation leaks.
Advances in fuel cell technologies are critical in supporting the integrated grid systems, with their peak-load management and mitigation capabilities, and without which integrating renewables into the energy mix will be a much more expensive and painful affair than often supposed.
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So, they essentially proposed building a new facility for uranium enrichment in Russia with Iranian management, Iranian financial participation, that would be devoted exclusively to producing highly enriched uranium nuclear fuel for the Iranians.
Now it seems that the company and management are running out of time and losing the remaining shreds of investor confidence and giving plenty of fuel to short sellers.
Mr Brown also said that he hoped that the dispute between management and workers at the Grangemouth refinery - which has led to fears of panic-buying and fuel shortages - could be settled by arbitration.
But the authors are persuasive that some things can be done just as well with less fuel or material: drip irrigation, for example, superwindows, innovative cooling and ventilation systems, integrated fish management, and economic incentives that reward efficiency rather than waste.
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