Natural gas power emits merely 20% of the carbon monoxide of coal power, 20% of the nitrogen oxides of coal power, less than 1% of the sulfur dioxide of coal power, less than 1% of the particulate matter of coal power and less than 1% of the mercury of coal power.
For much of his life he was a passionate believer in the power of eating less.
But the more functions cell phone manufacturers add, the greater the amount of power the phones use and the less practical running them on lithium batteries becomes -- so the race to find a viable alternative is on.
But they'll have the advantage of consuming less power, extending crucial battery life and allowing the machines to run cooler.
Bloomberg reports that the trend of solar power getting steadily less expensive is set to continue over the next decade and is getting close to being competitive with coal.
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With national security policy unalterably attached to the principles of rapid deployment and the distant projection of power, the idea that our military can make due with less airlift and still complete its missions is unsustainable.
Right here in Miami. (Applause.) The modernization of your power grid so that it wastes less energy is one of the largest projects of its kind in the country.
Here in the U.S., the future of nuclear power is less certain.
Labour's tune may change after the next election, when its majority is liable to be smaller and the prospect of losing power less remote.
Enrique Pena Nieto of the PRI has been ratified as the winner of the presidential election and the transfer of power appears to be going on with much less social unrest than when Felipe Calderon was elected in 2006.
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The report cites other benefits such as the avoidance of major capital expenditures associated with new power plants and even the retirements of some older and less efficient generators.
The additional nuclear power plants would also have the advantage of being less vulnerable to fuel price changes than coal or gas-fired generation, helping to enhance the security of electricity supplies.
But the US appears to be growing as an obstacle, with campaigners acknowledging privately that the balance of power in Congress is likely to become even less favourable to carbon-cutting legislation after the next round of elections in 2012.
Consolidation in the wireless industry risks shifting the balance of power away from Silicon Valley toward the much less innovative wireless carriers.
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This is the problem that has confronted engineers trying to make America's power grid less prone to the kind of load imbalances that plunged the north-east into darkness last month.
In a 2011 article for the scholarly journal Science, researchers Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez estimated that the entire processing power of the world's stock of general-purpose computers in 2007 more or less equaled that of one human brain (about 6.4 quintillion instructions per second -- the standard measure of computer speed).
In other words, right now, some California businesses are installing solar and getting cheaper power simply because they have to buy less of the most expensive type of power from the utility.
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The state's constitution gives its governors less power than the imposing Ionic columns of the governor's mansion in Austin might lead you to think.
The DOE said presently less than 10 percent of power electronics is involved in the electric industry, from the generator to the use of the electricity.
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The European Union wants to shut the office of the high representative, a sort of governor-generalship, whose power has anyway more or less evaporated.
Admittedly, this unusual memory requires an internal light source, but the amount of illumination required is tiny and consumes less power than the logic circuits that are used to read data in and out.
Many of the less radical measures, like those strengthening the power of independent bodies such as the national electoral court and the Supreme Court, should be beneficial.
He wants to increase the purchasing power of millions of poorer Thais so as to make the economy less reliant on the vagaries of the export markets.
Indeed, what we learn is that the more power you have, the less life you actually live: everyday is a fight to maintain that large amount of power.
But the good intentions of his overstretched interim government matter less than a power struggle in the army.
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Never mind the very redundant naming scheme: there's a 789HP V12 mated with 160HP of electric power, the 949HP combination of which takes the supercar to 62MPH in less than 3 seconds and makes it the overall fastest Ferrari to date.
The Welsh will have less autonomy (see article), somewhere between the power of a French regional council and a Spanish regional government.
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What's more, LG's Wireless Ultra HD Transmission system consumes less than half the power of other similar transmission technologies.
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The clean energy investments are part of an ongoing initiative at Google to develop renewable power sources that are less expensive than coal, with the goal of converting entirely to clean energy by 2030.
HDDs provide the majority of low latency mass storage in most enterprise storage environments and a denser storage device that requires less power to run will help reduce the costs of on-line and enterprise storage even lower than it is today.
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