U. handouts that were mostly squandered on fostering unsustainable real estate bubbles and self-defeating energy policies.
And with recent natural catastrophes proving atomic energy isn't what you'd call 'safe, ' it's a good thing the researchers down at the RMIT University in Melbourne have been hard at work figuring out how to turn you into a self-sustained energy source.
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The oil find, along with a nearby natural gas discovery, has analysts contemplating the idea of an energy self-sufficient or even energy exporting Israeli state.
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The decommissioned refineries themselves, filled with clusters of these uber-green multi-unit homes, could potentially be transformed into entire self-sustaining, clean-energy generating communities.
The Isle of Wight, off the south coast in the Solent, aspires to become self-sufficient in energy over the next few decades through a combination of tidal power, a waste-to-electricity plant and efficiency savings.
The report noted that providing clear, consistent information is critical to building the foundation for a self-sustaining home energy retrofit market that will save consumers money, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create high-quality, clean energy jobs.
At a Middle Class Task Force meeting earlier this year, the Vice President asked the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to develop a proposal for Federal action to lay the groundwork for a self-sustaining home energy efficiency retrofit industry.
Traditional geopolitical relationships would be turned upside down, with such resource-poor and technology-rich countries as Israel and Japan suddenly able to achieve energy self-sufficiency, while the oil-producing dictatorships would finally have to face the consequences of decades of squandered wealth.
The report further indicates that by 2035, the US will reach energy self-sufficiency and go from being an importer of oil we currently import 20 percent of our total energy needs from other nations to a net oil exporter.
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The Midwest would become more self-sufficient in their energy production, an important factor for such an important food-producer.
His position is consistent with two key policies of the Obama Administration: a greener economy and energy self-reliance.
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Developer Infinergy says the island is "lagging behind" on renewable energy despite its aspiration to be an energy self-sufficient "eco island".
He was acquiring an offshore island across the Yangtze River from Shanghai meant to become the most fully energy self-sustaining eco-city in the world.
By 2035, the United States will be nearly energy self-sufficient.
And yet, we are no where close to being energy self-sufficient.
The good news is that we can dramatically increase our energy self-sufficiency in the transportation sector where we currently consume 70 percent of the oil, some two-thirds of which is imported.
It also wants the UK to be more self-sufficient for its energy, so it doesn't have to rely on other countries to supply our power and is less dependent on volatile and increasingly expensive global gas and oil prices.
At Tuesday's news conference in the Iranian capital, Tehran, Mehmanparast said his country needs nuclear fuel from the plants to meet its long-term energy needs, to move toward self-sufficiency.
As a result, the IEA predicts the US will become "all but self-sufficient" in its energy needs by around 2035.
In the midst of anxious executives and ambitious venture capitalists, Dr Zaffaroni is the don of drug development a mixture of courtesy, modesty, energy and self-assurance.
This refers to the "greening up" of everyday products so that they are as near to self-sufficient in terms of energy consumption as is possible.
It is a miserable existence which can sap energy and self-confidence, it can lead to exclusion from mainstream society and ordinary pursuits, to alienation and to marginalisation.
In fact, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said it expects the US to overtake Russia as the world's biggest gas producer by 2015 and to become "all but self-sufficient" in its energy needs by about 2035.
And if futuristic eco cities float your boat, check out this self-sustaining ecotopia designed to produce energy and food in the North Sea.
Patriot came in to being five years, when it was spun off from Peabody Energy, the self-professed largest private sector coal company in the world.
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Bernanke also said there is "significant" risk that inflation could become a self-fulfilling prophecy if high headline inflation--which includes volatile energy and food prices--remains high, as people will simply come to expect higher prices.
It will be completely self-sufficient, producing all its own energy and collecting all water that would otherwise be wasted.
Can they be self-sufficient, producing just as much energy as they consume?
When individuals make decisions to practice self-care behaviors as a way to increase well-being and enjoy more energy, they get immediate feedback that they achieved their goal.
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