So as your house gets bigger, it has to be more energy efficient and at some point, it has to actually have on-site renewables.
But Lampetra's unique propulsion system could also have useful applications, as it has proved an efficient way to move a machine through water.
But it would be foolish to underestimate the ability of the world's biggest carmaker to put its house in order: it still has the most efficient system for product development and manufacturing, even if it must focus for the moment on quality control.
Apple has also been cash tax efficient since it has paid 13% in cash vs. a reported 25%. eBay has the lowest reported tax rate at 17% and the closest difference between its cash tax rate to its reported.
Watson says his company can afford to offer financial incentives, because it has newer and more efficient information technology systems than established insurance companies, and lower administrative expenses.
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Though it is more a product of tradition than design, it has turned into an efficient system for consolidating the power of the pope and the Church's other elites, he says.
Mr Persson concedes that perhaps the Nice method is not terribly efficient but it has other virtues, he maintains.
If Congress wants GM to make more fuel-efficient cars it has a far better remedy at hand: raising taxes on petrol, which is once again absurdly cheap.
It has a highly fuel-efficient gasoline engine that gives Volt drivers a peace of mind and a confidence about not being stranded that drivers of Nissan Leaf and other EVs can only envy coupled with most of the advantages of being able to drive Volt in electric-only mode when desired.
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One particular example has it guiding users though an efficient power nap, by starting a timer once they've started dozing and only waking them once they've come out of a deeper sleep state.
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It first flew in 1989 and went on to become the best selling 30-seater plane ever made - in part because it is very fuel efficient and has half the running costs of a regional jet.
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Beijing also requires government agencies to buy energy-efficient products, and it has focused on improving building efficiency in hotels in the China's cold northern regions.
For more than a decade the FAA has promised to modernize and make the civil aviation system more efficient and reliable, but the only things it has reliably generated are delays or cost overruns or usually both.
Visualize a way to make it better: more efficient, more useful, more powerful, than anything else like it has ever been.
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As a tennis player, I've traveled all over the world and flying has become so efficient and comfortable that it's really now taken for granted.
Because Clearwire has such a fat spectrum position, it can optimize the use of the channels it has been allotted to carry traffic in the most efficient possible way.
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Mr. ROHATYN: I'm not sure it's so efficient, but it is also, in some ways, is sort of - it has a tendency to drag you over the edge.
But a London technology start-up called Believe.in says it has a plan to make the whole process even more efficient.
Far from saving money, as the act intended, it has pushed costs up, since local authorities are less efficient than the Benefits Agency.
It has trimmed its retail-branch staff by one-fifth since 1992, and has replaced traditional branches with more efficient mini-branches in shopping malls.
Airbus has said it will delay the introduction of its fuel-efficient A350 XWB to fix a glitch related to its wings.
Royal Philips NV, the Dutch consumer appliances giant, said Thursday that it has developed an LED light that will soon be far more efficient than the best fluorescents on the market.
Replacing outmoded radar-based air traffic control with more efficient systems has been possible for decades, but it has not happened.
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Even if you forget the ideology, that status quo cannot be very efficient and it is efficiency that the U.S. has lost.
"Never has it been more essential to find collective solutions to ensure stable and efficient financial markets and restore the health of the world economy, " U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in remarks following the meeting with his counterparts.
It, like eBay, has turned an archaic paper-based industry into an efficient digital marketplace.
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The U.S. Post Office returned all ten letters and they did it the fastest, which has caused some to claim that they are the most efficient.
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Mr Franzia's firm, the Bronco Wine Company, brings California's excess grapes to its plant in Napa Valley from all over the state. (The firm's use of the Napa name on its labels is, as a result, currently the subject of a lawsuit.) Bronco owns an efficient modern plant and has its own distribution network, so it can deliver wine directly to Trader Joe's warehouses, which keeps costs down.
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And yet it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient.
Transport for London said it has recently started replacing all its older wet film safety cameras with modern and more efficient digital safety cameras.
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