The savings are arrestingly simple: Redesigning a standard pumping loop in one factory saved 92% of the pumping power--with lower construction cost and better performance.

FORBES: The Case For Efficiency

There are many areas of overlap between biomimicry and "cradle-to-cradle" particularly in the way that ecosystems present a great model of closed loop systems in which any waste from one organism becomes the nutrient for something else.

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No one goes to the Indy 500 just to see cars go in a loop for three hours.

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To keep the thousands of oil field workers from clogging the one artery to the oil sands, 500 buses run in a continuous loop from Fort McMurray to the oil fields.

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What it seems to boil down to is this: being left out of the loop is perceived as a signal that one has low status or standing in the group.

FORBES: The Hidden Dangers of Leaving Someone Out of the Loop

One is sending down devices to try to better understand where a current in the Gulf known as the Loop Current might take the oil.

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