Reducing consumption seems intuitively to be an indispensable component of any policy response to climate change.
Of course, by reducing consumption through the Controller, they would create enormous value for someone else.
Raise the cost and the effect, in reducing consumption and boosting conservation, would be dramatic.
Five model McDonald's restaurants have been built with additional energy-saving features, reducing consumption by 10 percent to 15 percent.
Using energy to make solar cells is, accordingly, speculative, not a long term means of reducing consumption of non-renewable fuels.
"While renewables are very important, the most critical tool in the box is a focused commitment to reducing consumption, " he said.
The bottom line is that enabling climate-neutral consumption in the developing world is vastly more important than reducing consumption in developed countries.
There will be other countries reducing consumption, the Western European countries, principally.
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Reducing consumption of these commodities has proven to be one of the best ways for a company to lower its vulnerability to price volatility.
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Comprehensive bans on tobacco advertising and promotion, such as the one recently adopted by some countries in the European Union, have been effective in reducing consumption.
Energy efficiency has been touted as the low hanging fruit in reducing energy consumption.
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The US Armed Forces continue to make progress in reducing energy consumption and advancing alternative power sources.
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Energy efficiency is often touted as the low-hanging fruit in reducing energy consumption.
Broadly speaking, this means carbon footprint reporting and building energy efficiency and monitoring, analyzing, reporting and reducing energy consumption.
Dr Louise Magris, the director of environmental policy, said the plan sets out 30 actions for reducing energy consumption.
There was special emphasis on reducing energy consumption, improving conservation and solving the country's serious air, soil and water pollution.
Much of the Pentagon's fuel goes to the air force, however, and reducing the consumption of jet fuel is much more difficult.
The mayor has faced opposition for public health initiatives before, such as when he banned trans fat and called for reducing salt consumption.
In practice that generally means dramatically reducing energy consumption through passive design measures and installing a small amount of on-site energy generation, often solar.
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Improvements still have to be made to make such a product viable, he said, such as reducing the thickness of the panels and reducing power consumption.
Both cleaners capture more than four times the debris of other cleaners and cost just pennies a day to operate, reducing energy consumption up to 90 percent.
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Toshiba's new memory element advances the company's pioneering work in STT-MRAM and overcomes the longstanding operating trade-off by securing improved speed while reducing power consumption by 90 percent.
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And of course, reducing water consumption does not mitigate concerns about prolonging our reliance on fossil fuels or the inherently ugly nature of extractive industry, especially for local neighbors.
While much of today's energy discussion focuses on climate change and renewable fuels, the first step in reducing energy consumption should involve getting more out of what you have.
When used with power-saving mode, the researchers found that E-MiLi is capable of reducing energy consumption by around 44 percent for 92 percent of mobile devices in real-world wireless networks.
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This iteration seems more compelling in the sense that the chips can monitor grid conditions directly and minimizes the impact on consumer by reducing power consumption in more nuanced ways.
And deeper into the paper you find that they mean LEDs reducing electricity consumption for lighting, more efficient home heating, more insulation, better cars (perhaps electric) and so on.
You can also buy a car that shuts down one or more engine cylinders when it is coasting, or cruising under a light load, reducing fuel consumption without sacrificing performance.
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Faculty at the University of Georgia have invented an easy-to-use, GPS-based technology that allows farmers to more accurately target irrigation needs, reducing water consumption by an average of 15 percent.
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