Natural gas emits 29% less carbon dioxide than oil and 45% less than coal, and it can be used in high-efficiency combined cycle power stations.
In spite of its high efficiency panels, SunPower has come under serious criticism for high manufacturing cost.
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.
We've got to push hard this year so that we are once again the leaders in solar and wind and high-efficiency batteries that can lead to the plug-in automobiles of the future.
Some of the new industrial policies of China, such as in the high-fuel-efficiency automobile arena, should be of major concern to the U.S., European, Japanese, South Korean, and Indian automobile companies.
Higher as in 1, 200 degrees Celsius, which would heat air hot enough to run a high efficiency turbine like those used in fossil fuel power plants.
CHP, or cogeneration, is not a single technology but rather a suite of technologies that can be mixed and matched in many ways to provide high-efficiency, low-emissions source of heat and power from a single process.
This high efficiency PV technology allows Suntech to achieve conversion efficiency rates in the range of 18% to 19% on PV cells manufactured with monocrystalline silicon wafers and 16.5% to 17.5% on PV cells manufactured with multicrystalline silicon wafers.
If you want to run not one query but a thousand per second, you need very high throughput and higher efficiency in data processing.
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The massive shale gas resource in America, coupled with the high-efficiency and low emissions of modern gas power plants, gives us a handy solution to future power needs.
The Department of Documentation and Information maintains cooperation and coordination with the Arab countries in the domain of information processing and exchange, in order to guarantee easy flow and high efficiency.
This is a company that is specializing in LED lighting, has been extraordinarily effective in driving down the costs of high-efficiency lighting that is, over time, I think going to make a huge difference, not just for businesses who use the technology, but also for a country that needs to figure out how do we operate in a more energy-efficient way.
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Another team from a public high school in one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia successfully created a low carbon emissions and ultra-high efficiency alternative fuel vehicle which competed against collegiate and corporate teams.
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The Hong Kong metro, which opened in 1975, receives high praise from riders for efficiency as well as safety.
That along with a high-efficiency cooling system resulted in a 34% energy savings compared to a typical building.
Microturbines provide high electrical efficiency compared with traditional gas turbines in the same size class.
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Also, as part of the lifecycle design process, the laptops meet Energy Star 5.0 for high energy efficiency and are rated EPEAT Gold in the U.S. for their environmental attributes.
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He leads a committee of supply-chain executives, currently focused on 18 "high-impact" opportunities to improve efficiency in making major products, including respiratory face masks, stethoscopes and reflective material for highway signs.
Some silicon solar cell makers have been able to hit 21% on their best days, but doing so consistently and in high volumes are far more difficult. (Panel efficiency is usually a bit lower than cell efficiency).
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In addition, the system has recorded high standards with a computing efficiency ratio of 93.0%.
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Orion is an energy management company with a focus on high efficiency lighting systems and alternative energy system integration in commercial buildings.
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But that leaves another 28m-odd waiting to register, out of a population probably twice that size, most of it in places without the relative efficiency of Kinshasa for running a high-tech electoral system.
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The valuation of Japanese companies given their extremely high levels of efficiency mean that one should jump in and pick up stock in the world class names such as Honda and Toyota, Komatsu or Sony and Fujitsu.
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We used the Recovery Act to provide seed money that sparked private investment -- private investment in new industries like solar and wind, advanced batteries, high-efficiency lighting, high-speed rail.
"The installation of Panasonic's high-efficiency solar panels and board is a major milestone in Infineon Raceway's Accelerating Sustainable Performance program, " said Steve Page, president and general manager of Infineon Raceway.
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The GF6 records 1920 x 1080 at 60i (60 Hz) full HD video with full-time AF and high quality stereo sound in the AVCHD format which excels in both compression efficiency and compatibility with AV equipment for playback.
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Standard green features in each home include LED lighting, recycled glass countertops, a high-efficiency water heater, water-conserving fixtures including dual-flush toilets, FSC-certified bamboo flooring, EnergyStar appliances, zero-VOC paints, finishes, and adhesives, a whole-house ventilation system, low-E windows, high levels of insulation, a fully recyclable, heat-deflecting cool roof, exterior wood siding and decking made from FSC-certified cedar, and much more.
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Gift-in-kind charities don't have to work too hard to deliver high efficiency numbers.
The leaps and bounds in clean, distributed generation have reduced costs, raised efficiency and demonstrated increasingly high levels of reliability.
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High-efficiency internal combustion engines combined with lightweight materials can dramatically increase fuel efficiency in cars and trucks.
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