Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity consumed in the US. Since lighting is often far removed from the power source—such as the distance from a power plant to street lamps on a remote highway—a lot of energy is lost during transmission.
在美国，照明约占总耗电量的7%。由于照明通常远离电源——例如从发电厂到偏远公路上的路灯——因此大量的能源在传输过程中会损失掉。
Whatever its pros and cons as an energy source, one thing that's non-negotiable about nuclear power is the construction it necessitates.
无论赞成或是反对，核能作为一种能源，有一点是不可议付的，那就是它对人类世界的建设不可或缺。
Increased energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy would provide a roadmap to reduce fossil fuel demand, thereby reducing CO2 emissions from the largest us source: Electrical Power Plants.
提高能源的利用效率和使用可再生能源将提供一个可以减少化石燃料需求的路线图，从而来自美国最大能源公司：electricalPower Plants的二氧化碳排放。
Wind power has emerged as a viable renewable energy source in recent years - one that proponents say could lessen the threat of global warming.
风能是近几年呼声最高的可再生资源——其中一个原因在于，支持者们认为风能可以降低全球变暖的威胁。
But instead of going for solar power or some other renewable source of energy, they decided bugs and rodents could do the job.
不过他们没有使用太阳能或其他再生能源，而是决定利用虫子和啮齿类动物作为能源。
About 80% of Americans say they think nuclear power will be "an important future source of energy".
大约80%的美国人说他们认为核能将是一种“重要的未来能源”。
Countries including Indonesia and Malaysia have been looking into nuclear energy as a source of power for years.
在未来一些年中，包括印尼和马来西亚等国正在把原子能作为他们能源来源的一部分。
Fossil fuels will still be the dominant source of energy in 2035, though their share in the energy mix will fall in favour of renewable energy sources and nuclear power.
2035年，化石燃料仍然是主要的能源，不过，由于再生能源和核能受到青睐，其在能源组成中的比重将有所下降。
The aquarium's director thinks that a lot of eels could power an even bigger tree, although I'm not sure that eels are the most energy efficient alternative source for electricity.
水族馆的负责人称，尽管我还不能确定电鳗是最有效的替代电源，但我想如果有许多条电鳗，将会点亮一棵更大的树。
Nuclear power is the only abundant energy source we have that emits nearly no greenhouse gases.
核能是已知的充足无污染的能源，几乎没有任何温室气体排放。
The goal prompting Britain's drive to increase its renewables comes from the EU, which believes that power from this source should account for 20% of Europe's energy needs in 2020.
驱使英国增加其可再生能源使用的动力来自于欧盟，欧盟认为到2020年可再生能源供能应占欧盟能源需求的20%。
Wind power is widely seen as the source of renewable energy with the best chance of competing with fossil-fuel power stations in the near term.
近期，风力被广泛认为是有最好机会可以和化石资源发电站抗衡的可再生能源资源。
But some researchers, including the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, still believe that low-energy nuclear reactions have a future as a power source.
但是一些像美国空间和海战系统司令部这样的研究机构仍然相信低能核反应是一种非常有前途的能源。
Another use could be to provide cooling for giant concentrated solar power plants, which are gaining credibility as a future large-scale energy source.
这项技术的其他用途还有为大型集光型太阳能发电站提供冷却，这种未来大规模能源正越来越受到人们的青睐。
One of the technologies he mentioned was solar shingles, a lesser-known photovoltaic energy source that looks like regular roofing shingles but could power homes more cheaply than common solar panels.
其中提到的一项技术就是太阳瓦，一种较少人知道的观点能源，类似于常规的瓦片但是却能用笔通常的太阳能板更廉价的条件为家庭供电。
Scientists are still trying to find ways to make solar power a more widely used energy source.
科学家们至今仍在设法充分利用太阳能。
The study, carried out by Mark Jacobson of the atmosphere and energy programme at Stanford University, found wind power to be by far the most desirable source of energy.
这项研究是由斯坦福大学气象和能源项目的MarkJacobson主持进行的，研究表明，截至目前，风力是最合适的能量来源。
Nocera's discovery — a cheap and easy way to store energy that he thinks will be used to change solar power into a mainstream energy source — will be published in the journal Science on Friday.
纳舍埃(Nocera)的发现将发表在星期五的《科学》杂志上，这是一种廉价且方便的储存能源的方法，他认为用这一方法可以把太阳能变成主要的能源来源。
Once completed, the clean air power plant, called "Bright Source" will use the sun to provide energy for up to 140,000 homes and provide jobs for about 1,000 people.
这家名为“光明之源”的不污染空气的发电厂一旦落成，将利用太阳来为多达14万的住户提供能源，并且为大约1千人提供就业机会。
While Google does use renewable energy to power their facilities, these sources are not currently used in Google's data centers as any meaningful power source.
虽然Google确实使用可再生能源来给许多设备供电，但这些设备目前没有任何迹象表明这些设备是大量用在Google的数据中心里的。
In November the International energy Agency predicted that renewable energy would overtake natural gas to become the second largest source of power generation worldwide within two years.
11月，国际能源机构预测，在两年内，可再生能源将取代天然气成为世界第二大发电能源。
The cynical attitude of the nuclear lobby extends far into the future, strangling at birth the Japanese archipelagos only viable source of alternative energy—offshore wind power.
核能游说团体的极端利己不讲道义扩展至未来，日本列岛唯一渴望实现的可替代能源资源被扼杀在了摇篮中—近海风力发电。
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy without pollution or global warming.
我期望聚变可以成为实用的能源。聚变将提供永不枯竭的能源，没有传染，也不会造成全球变暖。
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy without pollution or global warming.
我期望聚变可以成为实用的能源。聚变将提供永不枯竭的能源，没有传染，也不会造成全球变暖。
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