Large losses in efficiency come when people are limited in their ability to finance good investment opportunities.
While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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As much as it saves money and creates efficiency for large business, the benefits for small businesses are and will be much greater.
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There are very large opportunities for high-efficiency vehicles, which include electric, hybrid, high-efficiency diesel and high-efficiency gasoline.
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Growth based only on increased inputs of capital rather than on efficiency gains will eventually be subject to diminishing returns, so in developed economies, where the capital stock is already large, technological advances and efficiency gains are the keys.
Today even small companies can achieve 95% scale efficiency by outsourcing to large vendors, either domestically or offshore.
Twelve nonprofits list 100% fundraising efficiency, some because of large amounts of donated material, which require relatively little solicitation.
Portman said he finds it hard to believe that a couple of "rogue agents" in Cincinnati were responsible for the conservative targeting and that it was done as an efficiency measure to handle a large number of applications, as was initially suggested.
The roll-up of energy-efficiency start-up companies by large energy services companies like Schneider Electric is largely resulting from the structure of the market more than anything else.
Up to now, those scale economies of fuel efficiency and of capital cost in these large generating units have been so great as to be able to absorb the additional cost of transmission and distribution and still be lower than any competing form of electrical generation (except of course where plentiful hydroelectric generation could be built).
They could, however, offer huge efficiency gains, in particular deals between the large public-sector banks (the so-called Landesbanken) and smaller savings banks.
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Our estimates suggest that the combined impact of greater efficiency in health care and greater investment is very large.
After the previous enlargement there was talk of splitting the large internal-market portfolio, but this was resisted on efficiency grounds.
Tax reform done right should be revenue neutral using standard CBO static analysis, but a dynamic model would predict a large revenue windfall from the overall increase in investment and economic efficiency.
Success in this new world of manufacturing will require management that is radically different from the hierarchical bureaucracy focused on efficiency and shareholder value that is now prevalent in large firms like GE.
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Skyline Solar has come up with a solar system that incorporates large amounts of reflective metal that focus the sun on high-efficiency silicon solar cells.
And thanks to a clutch of cleantech start-up companies like Gotham 360 and well-established mega-companies like Kimberly Clark bringing the benefits of CHP to large hospitals, the still better news is that the economic and energy efficiency results for those hospitals that have taken the plunge on CHP have been tremendous virtually across the board.
By capturing a large share of this wasted heat for end users, CHP can achieve an efficiency of as much as 90%.
Other CIGS makers have run into trouble trying translate the high efficiency and low cost promised by small lab samples of CIGS into large sheets of high-quality, durable and uniform thin films.
Considering the seemingly settled logic which says small businesses create the vast majority of jobs, it's a fair bet that this statistic is highly skewed given the certainty that large businesses, by virtue of being that way, are constantly destroying jobs through efficiency gains meant to drive profits, and which in time allow them to expand their hiring mandates.
Efficiency offers another timely benefit: after several years of sluggishness, the VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) repair market is on an upswing due to rebounding freight rates.
Energy conservation, efficiency, savings--whatever you want to call it is--is a very large resource in itself.
Large firms will probably be able to cope with these laws, albeit at a cost in time and efficiency.
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Bolick also cited the example of specialty-gas supplier Air Products, which has been able to save large amounts of energy by using analytics tools to monitor and predict consumer demand and thereby optimize timing and efficiency of delivery routes.
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Everywhere I go, I see it with my own eyes -- like energy-efficiency and high-speed rail, relatively small amounts of recovery dollars will leverage very, very large investments in those areas.
The 80% efficiency seen in combined heat and power plants, known as cogeneration plants, is ideally suited for large institutions--universities, hospitals, airports--that have extensive electricity and thermal energy demand in a concentrated area.
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