And it's estimated that we could probably lop off 30 percent of our energy consumption just on efficiency without changing our lifestyles significantly.
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Every single recommendation the OIG made will likely require more contractors to do more, not just more efficiency in the existing workers, to effectively carry out.
Even just putting efficiency and alternatives on an equal footing with heavily subsidized fossil fuels would level the market enough to turn the corner and create local jobs and component manufacturing here in the United States.
But the cost of going slow on privatisation is not just revenue and efficiency forgone.
Let's have the SEC mandate a cost disclosure just like the efficiency sticker you get on an air conditioner.
Van der Hoeven says countries can achieve energy savings equivalent to nearly a fifth of global demand in 2010, making energy efficiency just as important as energy supply.
This is not just about energy efficiency for the sake of the environment, but about bettering the daily lives of people around the world by launching new companies and job creation.
The implications are bigger than just convenience and efficiency.
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By the same token, a 30 percent decline in newsroom staff might just reflect increased journalistic efficiency.
They also agree that social media is an unstoppable force that adds speed and efficiency to just about everything.
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Harnessing the awesome power of the Sun isn't just dependent on the efficiency of solar cells, but also on making them affordable.
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If anything, smart tech lends speed and efficiency not just to the good that people do, but to the evil as well.
For example, supply chain managers are accountable for more than just delivering economy and efficiency to the sourcing of products and logistics of delivery.
Union bosses assume that efficiency is just a fancy way of saying that some workers will be canned and the rest made to work harder.
The biggest difference between this microm induction heating pressure rice cooker and your average kitchen gadget is that it is not just about convenience and efficiency, it is also about quality.
Value charging is just one example of the efficiency Ford's new electrified vehicles can provide owners.
Beyond that, the Knicks' defense, just 18th in terms of efficiency, wasn't strong from a historical standpoint.
Cameras become connected, cars become connected, everything will just be running at higher efficiency and there will be less waste.
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New technologies promise not just big improvements in local efficiency, but also the further and potentially bigger gains that flow from an infinitely denser network of connections, electronic and otherwise, with the developed world.
According to the National Audit Office only a quarter of the claimed savings were fairly represented while the second efficiency programme launched just last year is "cutting services to claim efficiencies" - and has "acute" measurement problems.
The important measure of success is the internal quantum efficiency, which shows just how good an LED is at making light.
Chu, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, has been an evangelist for energy efficiency, and not just for vehicles.
"In terms of energy efficiency and conservation, just installing a smart meter isn't going to have much effect, " says Greg Guthridge, a smart-grid consultant with Accenture.
Don't get us wrong -- we applaud RIM's efforts to officially enter into the dangerous world of 140-character social networking -- but when it comes to a integrating a service that can dominate your life with a device that's intended to simplify it, efficiency isn't just important, it's vital.
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"The efficiency of law practice has just changed dramatically in the past five years, " says Bill Dantzler, a hiring partner and head of the firm's tax practice.
Thank you all for being here, and I want to thank all the people involved in the tour that we just received for their commitment to energy efficiency and all the people they put to work.
The transportation bill, now in its ninth extension, is a critical piece of infrastructure legislation that consolidates more than 100 separate programs into just five major investment categories (for efficiency) and establishes performance standards for these investments (no more "Bridges to Nowhere").
From a time-saving and efficiency point of view, that just makes good business sense.
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They can -- he can work to do the things that I just talked about, in terms of fuel-efficiency standards or clean energy investments.
Without drowning you in technobabble, let's just say that said tech has seen 50 percent efficiency gains in the lab, which is more than enough to please even the most outspoken tree hugger in Washington.
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