In China, wind energy has surpassed nuclear power to become the third largest energy source in the country.
During the LEED certification process, it was estimated that the building would use approximately one-third less energy than comparable buildings.
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The balancing figure is that everyone will be using one third less energy (and 5% less natural gas) than they do now.
The third, energy, industrial materials and food, came both from new demanders in the emerging world but also because not much capital had been invested the preceding 20 years.
Since nuclear energy still accounts for a third of its energy production, some rapid substitution is going to have to take place.
Dana Myers of the electric car company Myers Motors was the third alternative-energy entrepreneur presenting at the TEDxCLE session and the third to praise "disruptive" technologies.
So despite the fact that our homes have become remarkably more energy efficient with a nearly one-third drop in total energy per square foot, residential energy demand didn't go down--it went up about a third over the two-decade period.
The higher cost is often justified by claims that energy-efficient choices can save a family about one-third on their energy bills.
The remaining two-third of the energy contained in the fuel is lost as waste heat.
Before the quake and tsunami, Japan had relied on nuclear power for almost one-third of its energy supplies.
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For simplicity, let's imagine getting one-third of the energy supply from each.
The third problem is energy policy and its environmental impact.
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Counting both private and public sources, investment in infrastructure totals only around 2-3% of GDP, of which a third is in energy and much of the rest in transport, according to Jordan Schwartz of the World Bank.
Third, developing fusion energy will lead to countless spinoff innovations in robotics, supercomputing, and superconducting materials.
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Chevron, like rivals Exxon Mobil, had a really strong third quarter on rising energy prices.
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In fact, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), nearly one third of teenagers consume energy drinks.
Japan has 51 nuclear reactors producing about a third of its electrical energy.
"We have a nice team - a veteran team - and obviously we're getting the results right now, " said Nurse, in his third season with the Energy.
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Two years ago, the government required China's 1, 000 largest industrial consumers--which account for about a third of all Chinese energy demand--to establish their own programs and auditing systems to meet efficiency standards.
Two House committees have passed a bill drafted by Democrats, but a third -- the Energy and Commerce Committee -- has been delayed by cost concerns raised by the Blue Dogs, who hold enough seats on the panel to block passage of the measure.
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The increase for a coming year is based on inflation between the third quarter of the prior year and the third quarter of the current year, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W. In the third quarter of 2008 energy prices and the CPI-W spiked, giving beneficiaries a hefty 5.8 % COLA for 2009.
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Energy costs took THIRD place, sensitive to the cost of gas and power at the time of the survey.
In conventional electricity generation, roughly one third or so of the energy potential contained in the fuel is converted into electricity.
There was even an agreement in 2006 to work together to avoid bidding up the prices of energy resources in third countries.
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But the company's California offices use power from wind and nuclear power sources as well--and consequently get the same amount of energy for a third of the carbon emissions.
The third thing you said, energy efficiency.
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One item that's dropped off the agenda is the Report and Third Reading stages of the Energy Bill - the "green deal" which will allow people to fund energy saving home improvements from the savings to their gas and electricity bills.
Exxon Mobil, Chevon and ConocoPhillips are the second-, third- and fourth-largest companies in the Fortune 500, respectively, and the energy industry as a whole is the third-largest in the United States.
The pipeline is the third most strategically important piece of energy infrastructure in Egypt after the Suez Canal and the Sumed Pipeline.
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