Facilities that achieve 60 percent efficiency will be eligible for a full REC per megawatt-hour.
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The process works at 90 percent efficiency, and it can be used on a variety of plant waste beyond orange peels.
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The best cells operate at about 33 percent efficiency, but the ones used on vehicles are only about 18 percent efficient, he said.
Currently the best vertical-axis turbines around achieve 39 percent efficiency.
Its flexible durability aside, the cells currently operate at only one percent efficiency -- so you might want to buy those drapes in bulk to see a real bottom line kickback.
Special teams have also been a problem for Buffalo, which ranks second to last in the league on the power play (12.3-percent efficiency) and 20th on the penalty kill (79.4 percent).
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.
But unlike that seemingly identical solution from Murata, this version supports much greater power efficiency -- something in the 92 to 93 percent range (compared to the competing pad's 70-percent efficiency rating).
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Were he to have used the conventional generators found in regular windmills, his minimills would only achieve one percent efficiency, as opposed to the 18 percent they can reach using the piezoelectric materials.
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In addition to the oversized globe, Broessel has cooked up a mobile version of the contraption for domestic use and an array of much smaller ball lenses with dual-axis tracking that offers 40 percent efficiency.
The bq500410A achieves greater than 70-percent efficiency, and relies on a unique parasitic metal and foreign object detection feature to safely protect the system and stop delivering power if a metal object is detected between the transmitter and receiver.
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By optimizing the split-cycle concept, the Scuderi engine is expected to reduce NOx emissions up to 80 percent and improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent, compared to a conventional gasoline engine.
People with a sleep efficiency of less than 92 percent had a 5.5-times greater risk of developing a cold than those with a 98 percent or more sleep efficiency.
In March of this year, the company set a goal of 30 percent improvement in fuel efficiency for its global vehicle fleet by 2020.
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Ninety percent of the states with efficiency policies are meeting or exceeding their targets.
But consider that fuel efficiency improves 2 percent for every 100 pounds shed from a vehicle, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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As a student at Princeton, Eden had been studying the feasibility of installing a solar panel she had invented that rotates with the sun, increasing solar efficiency by 40 percent.
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In our experience, colleges generally have higher fundraising efficiency--the percent of gifts left after subtracting the cost of generating them--than public charities but lower donor dependency--the percent of gifts less surplus--often thanks to large endowments.
The prototype only touts a "laboratory efficiency of less than 1 percent, " so it can't compete with traditional solar cells just yet.
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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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Scuderi says its split-cycle engine increases overall efficiency by up to 50 percent and cuts down on NOx gases at the same time by changing the way air gets channeled through an engine.
Additionally, its chief financial officer, Tim Sloan, said that the performance reflected its steady concentration on long-term metrics, such as ROA and ROE, as it improved its efficiency ratio of 57.1 percent, well within its target range of 55 to 59.
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The inductor-free, single-stage design delivers the industry's highest system efficiency and saves up to 60-percent board space compared to a multi-stage implementation.
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Typically the efficiency is considerably less than half a percent.
Capacity factors now hit 50 percent, thanks to better site selection and improved turbine efficiency.
By the same token, a 30 percent decline in newsroom staff might just reflect increased journalistic efficiency.
Efficiency tweaks allow the 7790 to offer almost 50 percent more processing power than the 7770 while only demanding a smidgen of extra wattage (85 W instead of 80 W), which bodes well for cooling and decibels.
Speaking of solar efficiency, this week solar manufacturer Amonix announced that its concentrated photovoltaic technology has set a new efficiency record with a conversion rate of 33.5 percent.
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Existing techniques and technologies in energy efficiency retrofitting can reduce energy use by up to 40 percent per home and lower total associated greenhouse gas emissions by up to 160 million metric tons annually.
The research project, which was recently launched, aims to improve generator efficiency by 0.5 percentage points to 99.5 percent.
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