The underlying fact-of-merit here is that about 5% of employed Americans work in businesses that produce energy, and 95% work in energy-consuming businesses.
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In Wisconsin, a company called Orion is putting hundreds of people to work manufacturing energy-efficient lights in a once-shuttered plant.
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As we speak, old factories are reopening to produce wind turbines, people are going back to work installing energy-efficient windows, and small businesses are making solar panels.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Mr Putin - who also met on Friday - agreed to boost joint work on energy projects, and reaffirmed the need to sign a post-World War II peace treaty.
The hope is that by making very exacting measurements, it will be possible to see gravity--and "dark energy"--at work.
The Partnership will build upon the existing energy initiatives in the region, including the ASEAN-United States Energy Cooperation Work Plan, the APEC Energy Working Group, the East Asia Summit Energy Ministers and other forums to expand practical cooperation across the region, promote greater energy connectivity and integration, and encourage collaborative work across these and other forums, including through joint capacity building efforts.
This plant is an example of how water-energy innovations work in concert to reduce cost.
Using smarter technologies, more brains and less money to wring more work from less delivered energy--what energy experts call "end-use efficiency"--is the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest, fastest, most diverse, least visible, least understood and most neglected way to provide energy services.
Beyond RE-ENERGYSE, the federal government should work to expand these programs into a clean-energy education strategy on par with the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which helped reposition the U.S. in the space race and achieve revolutions in information technology.
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Continuing to chew after the warm-up period seems to have required too much jaw-work, and burning more energy negated the benefits.
Enormous conviction is needed to resist this wasteful dissipation of energy into make-work techno-management.
And we should put Americans to work making our homes and buildings energy-efficient.
"The hydrocarbons law needs work--it's not internationally competitive, " says an expert on Latin American energy affairs in the U.S. State Department.
The local authorities are expected to work with energy companies, installers, owner-occupiers and private landlords to ensure all households in areas of high fuel poverty receive an offer to have their home made more energy efficient.
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Among those projects are the supply of manufacturing components, energy-related construction and development work and ship repair.
Today, he and his wife Angela both work at Itron, helping to forge a clean-energy future for their three daughters.
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In 1973, a three-day work week was introduced in Britain to conserve energy during a miners' strike.
For those who slept through their high-school physics classes, batteries work by converting chemical energy into electricity.
The intense interest is easily explained: money, in the form of hard-to-come-by capital for project developers and steady work for energy service companies.
While Bloom Energy (fuel cells), GM (Chevy Volt) and other large, well-financed efforts attract attention for alternative energy work, smaller businesses are also accelerating innovative approaches.
Since 1996, numerous Chinese state-controlled enterprises have been hard at work in Sudan cultivating energy relationships.
And one-third was putting people to work on infrastructure and renewable energy and medical research, and more.
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Paving roads reduces rolling friction, thereby boosting miles per gallon, but it also makes distant destinations seem closer, thereby enabling people to live in sprawling, energy-gobbling subdivisions far from where they work and shop.
Since then Steyer, who was 331 on the 2011 Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, has emerged as the anti-Koch, putting his money to work to support renewable energy and green technology.
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But what we can do -- and what we are doing -- is to work together to make unprecedented investments in clean energy, to increase energy efficiency, and to meet the commitments we made at Copenhagen and Cancun.
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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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Back when I was starting in the world of work, employers looked for energy, fresh ideas and the open-minded attitude of the young.
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The spike in prices has sent economic forecasters rushing to their calculators, to work out what damage more expensive energy might inflict on a still-tentative global economic recovery.
What we need is for the true scientists to come out and be allowed to work on these zero-point energies that will solve this scarcity of energy problem once and for all.
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Once we turn that corner, the energy-environment trade-off will start to work to our advantage, and possibly to the advantage of the whole world if we can develop low- or no-carbon energy technologies that can compete with cheap fossil fuels.
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